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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 197 290
Rank change year-on-year -12 +93 -144
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 484 442 381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.38% 1.22% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.00% 5.62% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 301 293
10th Percentile £314 £368 £425
25th Percentile £413 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £675
90th Percentile £618 £756 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £45.00 - £74.15
25th Percentile £48.75 - £76.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 8,066 7,866 10,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.71% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,965 7,443
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £657
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 110 189
10th Percentile £29.10 £21.93 £36.13
25th Percentile £42.19 £36.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 12 November 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
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 12 November 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 +4 383 £488 -15.22% 245
UK excluding London +12 253 £475 +5.56% 146
London -28 185 £509 -13.33% 126
Work from Home -12 135 £525 +0.10% 168
North of England +13 103 £488 +11.43% 44
North West +14 72 £460 +14.94% 28
Scotland -9 55 £550 +29.41% 14
Midlands - 38 £423 - 19
South East +14 30 £450 -28.00% 41
West Midlands - 27 £475 - 14
North East -1 16 £494 +10.96% 6
Yorkshire -22 15 £525 -8.70% 10
Wales +9 13 £475 +13.43% 4
South West -2 12 £500 -9.09% 17
East Midlands - 11 £270 - 5
Northern Ireland -12 2 £425 -32.00% 5
East of England -23 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 18 (3.72%) Confluence
2 14 (2.89%) JBoss
3 10 (2.07%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.65%) Camunda
4 8 (1.65%) CMS
5 5 (1.03%) Apache
5 5 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.83%) Drupal
6 4 (0.83%) Mule
6 4 (0.83%) WordPress
7 3 (0.62%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.62%) SAS
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.41%) CICS
8 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 259 (53.51%) AWS
2 147 (30.37%) Azure
3 78 (16.12%) GCP
4 65 (13.43%) GitHub
5 44 (9.09%) Serverless
6 37 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
7 36 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 36 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (7.44%) OpenShift
8 35 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
9 28 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (3.31%) Azure AKS
14 16 (3.31%) Datadog
15 12 (2.48%) Apigee
16 11 (2.27%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.03%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.83%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.62%) HTTP
4 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (22.52%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.67%) Relational Database
3 64 (13.22%) NoSQL
4 61 (12.60%) MongoDB
5 50 (10.33%) MySQL
6 36 (7.44%) DynamoDB
7 31 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (5.58%) RDBMS
9 23 (4.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.93%) SQL Server
11 15 (3.10%) Redis
12 13 (2.69%) Oracle Database
13 11 (2.27%) DB2
14 10 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.24%) BigQuery
17 5 (1.03%) HBase
18 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.62%) Big Data
19 2 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 141 (29.13%) Git
2 118 (24.38%) Jenkins
3 115 (23.76%) JUnit
4 68 (14.05%) Maven
5 64 (13.22%) GitLab
6 59 (12.19%) Mockito
7 57 (11.78%) Cucumber
8 54 (11.16%) JIRA
9 52 (10.74%) SonarQube
10 36 (7.44%) Gradle
11 32 (6.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (4.75%) Bitbucket
13 20 (4.13%) Selenium
14 17 (3.51%) Postman
15 12 (2.48%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.48%) REST Assured
16 11 (2.27%) Cypress.io
17 10 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
17 10 (2.07%) Subversion
17 10 (2.07%) TeamCity
General
1 125 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.52%) Finance
3 82 (16.94%) Banking
4 72 (14.88%) Public Sector
5 34 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.62%) Automotive
11 3 (0.62%) Electronics
11 3 (0.62%) Front Office
11 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.62%) Marketing
11 3 (0.62%) Retail
11 3 (0.62%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.21%) German Language
12 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 309 (63.84%) Developer
2 259 (53.51%) Java Developer
3 86 (17.77%) Senior
4 70 (14.46%) Senior Developer
5 67 (13.84%) Senior Java Developer
6 58 (11.98%) Lead
7 50 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 42 (8.68%) Software Engineer
9 41 (8.47%) Java Engineer
10 34 (7.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 31 (6.40%) Lead Developer
12 29 (5.99%) Architect
13 25 (5.17%) AWS Developer
13 25 (5.17%) Lead Java Developer
14 17 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (3.31%) Technical Architect
16 14 (2.89%) Backend Developer
17 12 (2.48%) Software Developer
18 11 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
18 11 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (83.06%) Spring
2 140 (28.93%) RESTful
3 129 (26.65%) Kafka
3 129 (26.65%) REST
4 123 (25.41%) React
5 83 (17.15%) AngularJS
6 69 (14.26%) Hibernate
7 60 (12.40%) JPA
8 49 (10.12%) HTML
9 41 (8.47%) Node.js
10 39 (8.06%) CSS
10 39 (8.06%) SOAP
10 39 (8.06%) Spring Cloud
11 37 (7.64%) JSON
11 37 (7.64%) Web Services
12 29 (5.99%) J2EE
13 26 (5.37%) OAuth
14 25 (5.17%) OAuth2
15 24 (4.96%) Spring Batch
15 24 (4.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.05%) Cloud Native
2 54 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.89%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.24%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.83%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.41%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.20%) Linux
2 22 (4.55%) Unix
3 9 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.45%) Windows
5 3 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (70.45%) Microservices
2 260 (53.72%) CI/CD
3 249 (51.45%) Agile
4 170 (35.12%) DevOps
5 133 (27.48%) Containerisation
6 115 (23.76%) TDD
7 113 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (21.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 95 (19.63%) Test Automation
10 92 (19.01%) Software Engineering
11 75 (15.50%) Scrum
12 65 (13.43%) Event-Driven
13 61 (12.60%) SDLC
14 59 (12.19%) Mentoring
15 57 (11.78%) BDD
16 53 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
17 47 (9.71%) Code Quality
17 47 (9.71%) Unit Testing
18 45 (9.30%) Design Patterns
19 42 (8.68%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 462 (95.45%) Java
2 135 (27.89%) SQL
3 81 (16.74%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 55 (11.36%) Python
6 24 (4.96%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.48%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.27%) Ruby
9 9 (1.86%) Bash
9 9 (1.86%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.45%) Groovy
11 6 (1.24%) Perl
12 5 (1.03%) C#
12 5 (1.03%) Scala
13 3 (0.62%) PHP
14 2 (0.41%) C
14 2 (0.41%) C++
14 2 (0.41%) Korn
14 2 (0.41%) Rust
15 1 (0.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 94 (19.42%) Security Cleared
2 81 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.48%) Degree
4 10 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.65%) OCP
5 8 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (13.84%) QA
2 25 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.10%) ISO 20022
4 13 (2.69%) WCAG
5 8 (1.65%) PSD2
5 8 (1.65%) SEPA
6 5 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 204 (42.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.83%) Postfix
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 185 (38.22%) Kubernetes
2 72 (14.88%) Terraform
3 30 (6.20%) Grafana
4 18 (3.72%) Ansible
4 18 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.69%) Kibana
6 6 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.62%) Argo
8 1 (0.21%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.21%) Consul
8 1 (0.21%) Control-M
8 1 (0.21%) logstash
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (11.98%) Oracle
2 31 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 19 (3.93%) Google
3 19 (3.93%) Splunk
4 13 (2.69%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.07%) CA Agile Central
5 10 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.45%) AppDynamics
7 6 (1.24%) Sybase
7 6 (1.24%) Veracode
8 5 (1.03%) Gigya
8 5 (1.03%) IBM
8 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 4 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (0.83%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.62%) Cisco
10 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.62%) SAP