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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 220 271
Rank change year-on-year +20 +51 -128
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 527 400 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.35% 5.38% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 249 268
10th Percentile £343 £356 £424
25th Percentile £418 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £625 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £425 £508
% change year-on-year +10.94% -16.34% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £62.13 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.00%

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 8,305 7,429 9,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.92% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 4,710 6,717
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 92 173
10th Percentile £31.10 £21.33 £32.60
25th Percentile £44.01 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 17 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 25 December 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
England +34 422 £475 -17.39% 212
UK excluding London +28 277 £472 +10.94% 154
London -5 199 £525 -10.87% 88
Work from Home +21 140 £504 +8.16% 110
North of England +27 137 £465 +5.68% 67
North West +36 96 £450 +7.46% 39
Scotland -12 56 £588 +38.24% 5
South East 0 36 £450 +15.38% 47
Midlands -12 28 £449 - 8
West Midlands -8 24 £469 - 6
Yorkshire -28 24 £500 -35.90% 20
North East -1 17 £475 +6.74% 9
Wales +7 10 £475 +18.75% 6
South West -23 8 £405 -26.45% 22
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 2
Northern Ireland -7 2 £425 +54.55% 1
East of England -29 1 - - 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 19 (3.61%) Confluence
2 7 (1.33%) Apache
2 7 (1.33%) CMS
3 6 (1.14%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.76%) Drupal
4 4 (0.76%) Mule
4 4 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.76%) WordPress
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.57%) Camunda
5 3 (0.57%) CICS
5 3 (0.57%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 280 (53.13%) AWS
2 172 (32.64%) Azure
3 92 (17.46%) GitHub
4 90 (17.08%) GCP
5 55 (10.44%) Serverless
6 46 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 31 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (5.50%) OpenShift
11 24 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (4.36%) Azure AKS
12 23 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (3.42%) Datadog
15 16 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.66%) Apigee
17 13 (2.47%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.71%) SSL
2 5 (0.95%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.76%) Firewall
3 4 (0.76%) HTTP
3 4 (0.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (18.79%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (14.61%) MongoDB
3 75 (14.23%) NoSQL
4 66 (12.52%) Relational Database
5 48 (9.11%) MySQL
6 36 (6.83%) DynamoDB
7 24 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.23%) Redis
10 16 (3.04%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.28%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.90%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.71%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.52%) DB2
15 8 (1.52%) HBase
16 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (24.10%) Git
2 116 (22.01%) Jenkins
3 92 (17.46%) GitLab
4 87 (16.51%) JUnit
5 48 (9.11%) Mockito
6 47 (8.92%) Cucumber
7 45 (8.54%) Maven
8 43 (8.16%) Gradle
9 41 (7.78%) JIRA
10 30 (5.69%) SonarQube
11 20 (3.80%) Bitbucket
12 19 (3.61%) Selenium
13 18 (3.42%) Postman
13 18 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
14 14 (2.66%) Cypress.io
15 13 (2.47%) REST Assured
16 12 (2.28%) Artifactory
17 11 (2.09%) IntelliJ
18 10 (1.90%) Gatling
19 9 (1.71%) Subversion
General
1 133 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 117 (22.20%) Finance
3 92 (17.46%) Public Sector
4 86 (16.32%) Banking
5 20 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.33%) Retail
8 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.95%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.57%) Electronics
10 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.19%) Automotive
12 1 (0.19%) Front Office
12 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 319 (60.53%) Developer
2 248 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 105 (19.92%) Senior
4 76 (14.42%) Senior Developer
5 65 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 65 (12.33%) Java Engineer
6 64 (12.14%) Senior Java Developer
7 51 (9.68%) Lead
8 47 (8.92%) Software Engineer
9 35 (6.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 26 (4.93%) Architect
10 26 (4.93%) Lead Developer
11 23 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 20 (3.80%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.61%) Lead Java Developer
14 18 (3.42%) Backend Developer
14 18 (3.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (2.66%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (87.10%) Spring
2 149 (28.27%) Kafka
3 144 (27.32%) RESTful
4 121 (22.96%) React
5 117 (22.20%) REST
6 97 (18.41%) AngularJS
7 57 (10.82%) Hibernate
7 57 (10.82%) HTML
8 56 (10.63%) Node.js
9 42 (7.97%) JSON
10 41 (7.78%) CSS
11 37 (7.02%) JPA
12 36 (6.83%) OAuth
13 34 (6.45%) OAuth2
14 30 (5.69%) Spring Cloud
15 24 (4.55%) Spring MVC
16 23 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
16 23 (4.36%) Swagger
17 22 (4.17%) J2EE
17 22 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.37%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.28%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.14%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.76%) NHS
12 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.55%) Linux
2 9 (1.71%) Unix
3 8 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.52%) Windows
4 3 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (68.88%) Microservices
2 297 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 227 (43.07%) Agile
4 189 (35.86%) DevOps
5 169 (32.07%) Containerisation
6 123 (23.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 116 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (21.63%) Test Automation
9 105 (19.92%) Software Engineering
10 101 (19.17%) TDD
11 95 (18.03%) Event-Driven
12 76 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 68 (12.90%) SDLC
14 63 (11.95%) API Design
15 62 (11.76%) Scrum
16 58 (11.01%) Mentoring
17 56 (10.63%) Observability
18 55 (10.44%) BDD
18 55 (10.44%) Code Quality
19 51 (9.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 488 (92.60%) Java
2 122 (23.15%) SQL
3 85 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 67 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 55 (10.44%) Python
6 30 (5.69%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.28%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.71%) Bash
9 8 (1.52%) Ruby
10 7 (1.33%) Groovy
11 6 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.95%) C#
12 5 (0.95%) Go
12 5 (0.95%) Perl
12 5 (0.95%) Rust
13 4 (0.76%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) Korn
15 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (20.87%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.70%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.17%) Degree
4 13 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.09%) OCP
5 11 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.76%) QA
2 37 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.17%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.85%) WCAG
5 12 (2.28%) PSD2
5 12 (2.28%) SEPA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 231 (43.83%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 250 (47.44%) Kubernetes
2 96 (18.22%) Terraform
3 46 (8.73%) Grafana
4 23 (4.36%) Ansible
5 22 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.85%) Kibana
7 12 (2.28%) Argo
8 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.95%) Istio
10 4 (0.76%) Kiali
11 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Control-M
12 1 (0.19%) logstash
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (11.01%) Oracle
2 28 (5.31%) Splunk
3 26 (4.93%) Google
4 22 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.33%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (1.33%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.95%) Confluent
8 5 (0.95%) Gigya
9 4 (0.76%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.76%) IBM
9 4 (0.76%) Sybase
9 4 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.57%) Adobe
10 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.57%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.57%) Qualys
10 3 (0.57%) SAP