Spring Boot Contract Job Trends

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 203 245
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 -87
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 645 381 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.30% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 5.72% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 240 315
10th Percentile £350 £356 £390
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -16.74%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £616
90th Percentile £632 £688 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £490
% change year-on-year +7.71% -9.91% -8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Boot falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,352 6,661 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 22.71% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,252 4,486 6,245
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.91% +0.10% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 203
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Boot within the UK over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +38 543 £483 -9.14% 137
UK excluding London +24 354 £475 +7.71% 96
London -1 225 £525 -8.70% 59
North of England +19 166 £475 +5.56% 47
Work from Home +13 152 £488 -6.25% 115
North West +37 116 £475 +13.16% 27
Midlands -25 52 £469 +11.67% 5
West Midlands -21 51 £470 +11.79% 3
South East -8 50 £450 -16.20% 14
Scotland -12 45 £600 +37.14% 6
Yorkshire -41 33 £500 -4.76% 12
South West -6 30 £384 -26.86% 16
North East -6 19 £475 +7.95% 8
East of England -8 14 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -37 1 £220 -32.52% 2

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (4.19%) Confluence
2 23 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.86%) Camunda
4 9 (1.40%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.24%) Apache
6 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 2 (0.31%) CMS
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 363 (56.28%) AWS
2 184 (28.53%) Azure
3 118 (18.29%) GitHub
4 97 (15.04%) GCP
5 84 (13.02%) Serverless
6 81 (12.56%) Amazon S3
7 71 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.65%) OpenShift
16 23 (3.57%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (2.64%) Datadog
19 16 (2.48%) AWS Fargate
20 14 (2.17%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) HTTP
2 10 (1.55%) SSL
3 9 (1.40%) Firewall
4 7 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.78%) DNS
5 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (20.78%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.42%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.94%) MongoDB
4 72 (11.16%) Relational Database
5 52 (8.06%) DynamoDB
6 48 (7.44%) MySQL
7 41 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.33%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.17%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.02%) Redis
13 10 (1.55%) DB2
14 9 (1.40%) Big Data
15 8 (1.24%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.24%) HBase
16 7 (1.09%) Flink
16 7 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 146 (22.64%) Jenkins
2 145 (22.48%) Git
3 114 (17.67%) GitLab
4 113 (17.52%) JUnit
5 57 (8.84%) Mockito
6 51 (7.91%) JIRA
6 51 (7.91%) Maven
7 49 (7.60%) Gradle
8 43 (6.67%) Cucumber
9 21 (3.26%) Selenium
10 19 (2.95%) SonarQube
11 15 (2.33%) Cypress.io
11 15 (2.33%) Postman
12 14 (2.17%) IntelliJ
13 13 (2.02%) Gatling
14 12 (1.86%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.71%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.55%) Mocha
17 9 (1.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 147 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.22%) Finance
3 113 (17.52%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.70%) Banking
5 27 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.02%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.86%) Retail
8 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.78%) Law
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.62%) Automotive
10 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.62%) Military
10 4 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.62%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.47%) Electronics
11 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 381 (59.07%) Developer
2 272 (42.17%) Java Developer
3 131 (20.31%) Senior
4 108 (16.74%) Java Engineer
5 80 (12.40%) Senior Developer
6 78 (12.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (11.32%) Software Engineer
8 63 (9.77%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (8.84%) Lead
10 43 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (6.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (4.34%) Backend Developer
13 27 (4.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 24 (3.72%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 24 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 20 (3.10%) Architect
15 20 (3.10%) AWS Developer
16 19 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
17 14 (2.17%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (90.85%) Spring
2 190 (29.46%) Kafka
3 188 (29.15%) RESTful
4 155 (24.03%) REST
5 140 (21.71%) React
6 109 (16.90%) AngularJS
7 84 (13.02%) Node.js
8 64 (9.92%) Hibernate
9 60 (9.30%) HTML
10 48 (7.44%) JPA
11 43 (6.67%) CSS
12 41 (6.36%) OAuth
13 38 (5.89%) OAuth2
13 38 (5.89%) OpenTelemetry
14 35 (5.43%) Spring MVC
15 33 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
16 29 (4.50%) JSON
17 28 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (4.19%) Jest
19 26 (4.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.61%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.79%) Mobile App
5 17 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 10 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.78%) NHS
13 4 (0.62%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.36%) Linux
2 10 (1.55%) Unix
3 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.47%) Windows
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (62.64%) Microservices
2 365 (56.59%) CI/CD
3 264 (40.93%) Agile
4 245 (37.98%) DevOps
5 200 (31.01%) Containerisation
6 166 (25.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 136 (21.09%) Software Engineering
8 125 (19.38%) TDD
9 119 (18.45%) Test Automation
10 116 (17.98%) Event-Driven
11 114 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (14.26%) Scrum
13 89 (13.80%) Observability
14 81 (12.56%) Code Quality
15 77 (11.94%) Infrastructure as Code
16 71 (11.01%) API Design
17 69 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (10.70%) Mentoring
18 66 (10.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (10.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 608 (94.26%) Java
2 163 (25.27%) SQL
3 90 (13.95%) JavaScript
3 90 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 57 (8.84%) Python
5 47 (7.29%) Kotlin
6 18 (2.79%) Go
7 15 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.40%) Rust
9 8 (1.24%) C#
10 7 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.93%) Perl
12 4 (0.62%) Scala
13 3 (0.47%) PHP
14 2 (0.31%) Bash
14 2 (0.31%) Groovy
14 2 (0.31%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) JCL
15 1 (0.16%) Korn
15 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 170 (26.36%) Security Cleared
2 138 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.12%) Degree
4 22 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.71%) OCP
6 11 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.39%) QA
2 49 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.95%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.64%) WCAG
5 9 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.40%) PSD2
5 9 (1.40%) SEPA
6 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) NIST
7 3 (0.47%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) HL7
7 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 266 (41.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.93%) Postfix
3 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 301 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 87 (13.49%) Terraform
3 85 (13.18%) Grafana
4 45 (6.98%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.26%) Ansible
6 14 (2.17%) Argo
7 11 (1.71%) Kibana
8 9 (1.40%) Kiali
9 7 (1.09%) Istio
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (8.53%) Oracle
2 38 (5.89%) Splunk
3 32 (4.96%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.50%) Google
5 11 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.40%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.40%) Sybase
7 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.09%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.93%) Adobe
9 6 (0.93%) Databricks
9 6 (0.93%) IBM
9 6 (0.93%) PagerDuty
9 6 (0.93%) SAP
9 6 (0.93%) Virgin Media
10 5 (0.78%) Solace
11 4 (0.62%) Confluent
11 4 (0.62%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.62%) VMware