Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in England

Spring Boot
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 214 222 287
Rank change year-on-year +8 +65 -129
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 365 353 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 1.12% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.64% 5.06% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 244 262
10th Percentile £312 £377 £430
25th Percentile £400 £452 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £551 £650 £734
90th Percentile £616 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile £44.75 - £74.70
25th Percentile £48.13 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £72.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% -7.69% +5.99%
75th Percentile £55.00 £74.50 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £72.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -27.08% -7.69% +6.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,474 6,971 9,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.80% 22.08% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,455 6,693
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 139 187
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £37.67
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £71.95 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.07% -13.85%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in England

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in England over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in England

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. 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
London -31 179 £509 -13.62% 115
North of England +15 95 £473 +6.18% 38
North West +11 68 £438 +9.38% 24
Midlands - 39 £364 - 14
South East +3 23 £450 -27.42% 100
West Midlands - 23 £500 - 6
East Midlands - 16 £276 - 7
North East +3 15 £500 +13.64% 5
South West +3 13 £503 -6.51% 23
Yorkshire -26 12 £525 -8.70% 10
East of England -10 1 - - 3
Spring Boot
UK

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 17 (4.66%) Confluence
1 17 (4.66%) JBoss
2 11 (3.01%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.19%) Camunda
4 5 (1.37%) Mule
5 4 (1.10%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.82%) Alfresco
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) CICS
6 3 (0.82%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.55%) CMS
7 2 (0.55%) Drupal
7 2 (0.55%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.55%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 193 (52.88%) AWS
2 95 (26.03%) Azure
3 56 (15.34%) GCP
4 37 (10.14%) GitHub
5 32 (8.77%) OpenShift
6 28 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (7.67%) Serverless
7 27 (7.40%) Amazon SQS
8 26 (7.12%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (3.84%) Datadog
12 13 (3.56%) Route 53
13 11 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.74%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (2.47%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.64%) HTTPS
1 6 (1.64%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.82%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) SSL
3 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 2 (0.55%) LAN
3 2 (0.55%) SMS
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (22.19%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.33%) NoSQL
2 45 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 36 (9.86%) MongoDB
4 32 (8.77%) MySQL
5 26 (7.12%) DynamoDB
6 25 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (5.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 19 (5.21%) RDBMS
9 16 (4.38%) Oracle Database
9 16 (4.38%) SQL Server
10 14 (3.84%) Redis
11 10 (2.74%) DB2
12 7 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.10%) HBase
15 3 (0.82%) Big Data
15 3 (0.82%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.55%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 116 (31.78%) Git
2 88 (24.11%) Jenkins
3 87 (23.84%) JUnit
4 66 (18.08%) Maven
5 52 (14.25%) JIRA
6 51 (13.97%) Mockito
7 49 (13.42%) SonarQube
8 44 (12.05%) GitLab
9 43 (11.78%) Cucumber
10 32 (8.77%) Gradle
10 32 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 23 (6.30%) Bitbucket
12 16 (4.38%) Selenium
13 13 (3.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 13 (3.56%) Postman
14 12 (3.29%) Artifactory
14 12 (3.29%) REST Assured
15 10 (2.74%) TeamCity
16 9 (2.47%) IntelliJ
17 8 (2.19%) Subversion
General
1 98 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 83 (22.74%) Finance
3 67 (18.36%) Banking
4 47 (12.88%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Front Office
10 3 (0.82%) Automotive
11 2 (0.55%) Retail
12 1 (0.27%) Back Office
12 1 (0.27%) German Language
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Military
12 1 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 235 (64.38%) Developer
2 200 (54.79%) Java Developer
3 65 (17.81%) Senior
4 55 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 54 (14.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 48 (13.15%) Lead
7 28 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 27 (7.40%) Lead Developer
9 26 (7.12%) Java Engineer
9 26 (7.12%) Software Engineer
10 25 (6.85%) Architect
11 24 (6.58%) Lead Java Developer
12 22 (6.03%) AWS Developer
13 17 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 13 (3.56%) Technical Architect
15 12 (3.29%) Backend Developer
15 12 (3.29%) Java Software Engineer
15 12 (3.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 10 (2.74%) Java Architect
17 8 (2.19%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (80.82%) Spring
2 118 (32.33%) REST
3 104 (28.49%) RESTful
4 97 (26.58%) Kafka
5 84 (23.01%) React
6 59 (16.16%) AngularJS
7 52 (14.25%) JPA
8 51 (13.97%) Hibernate
9 44 (12.05%) SOAP
9 44 (12.05%) Web Services
10 43 (11.78%) HTML
11 36 (9.86%) Node.js
12 34 (9.32%) CSS
12 34 (9.32%) Spring Cloud
13 28 (7.67%) Spring Batch
14 27 (7.40%) J2EE
15 25 (6.85%) JSON
16 20 (5.48%) OAuth
17 18 (4.93%) OAuth2
17 18 (4.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 53 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 7 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.64%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.82%) State Machine
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.55%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.55%) Online Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.77%) Linux
2 22 (6.03%) Unix
3 9 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.64%) Windows
5 3 (0.82%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) zOS
7 1 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (70.14%) Microservices
2 188 (51.51%) Agile
3 184 (50.41%) CI/CD
4 113 (30.96%) DevOps
5 100 (27.40%) Containerisation
6 98 (26.85%) TDD
7 88 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (17.81%) Test Automation
9 62 (16.99%) Software Engineering
10 61 (16.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 55 (15.07%) Scrum
12 53 (14.52%) BDD
12 53 (14.52%) Event-Driven
13 48 (13.15%) SDLC
14 45 (12.33%) Mentoring
15 42 (11.51%) Design Patterns
16 39 (10.68%) API Development
17 35 (9.59%) Unit Testing
18 34 (9.32%) Migration
19 32 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 355 (97.26%) Java
2 107 (29.32%) SQL
3 67 (18.36%) JavaScript
4 46 (12.60%) Python
5 37 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 23 (6.30%) Shell Script
7 9 (2.47%) Kotlin
7 9 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.19%) Bash
9 7 (1.92%) Groovy
9 7 (1.92%) Scala
10 5 (1.37%) C#
10 5 (1.37%) Perl
11 4 (1.10%) Ruby
12 3 (0.82%) C
12 3 (0.82%) C++
12 3 (0.82%) Go
12 3 (0.82%) Rust
13 2 (0.55%) Korn
13 2 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (18.90%) Security Cleared
2 63 (17.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (1.92%) Degree
4 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.64%) OCP
4 6 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.33%) QA
2 18 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.01%) ISO 20022
4 10 (2.74%) WCAG
5 8 (2.19%) PSD2
5 8 (2.19%) SEPA
6 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.82%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 152 (41.64%) Docker
2 6 (1.64%) Postfix
3 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (37.26%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.23%) Terraform
3 27 (7.40%) Grafana
4 18 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.56%) Ansible
6 11 (3.01%) Kibana
7 6 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.55%) Argo
8 2 (0.55%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.27%) Consul
9 1 (0.27%) Control-M
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
9 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (12.60%) Oracle
2 23 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.93%) Splunk
4 14 (3.84%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.29%) Google
6 11 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.19%) CA Agile Central
8 7 (1.92%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.92%) Veracode
9 6 (1.64%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (1.64%) Virgin Media
10 5 (1.37%) Gigya
10 5 (1.37%) IBM
11 4 (1.10%) Checkmarx
11 4 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.82%) Confluent
12 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.82%) VMware
13 2 (0.55%) Cisco