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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 209 249
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 -107
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 586 379 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.23% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 5.47% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 219 309
10th Percentile £350 £355 £400
25th Percentile £411 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +0.96% -17.13%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £625
90th Percentile £634 £751 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 8,626 6,926 9,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.12% 22.42% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,755 4,420 6,583
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.32 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.13 £38.69 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +42 496 £488 -15.22% 144
UK excluding London +27 320 £475 +7.95% 107
London -7 214 £525 -10.26% 67
North of England +32 165 £475 +5.56% 26
Work from Home +34 145 £500 +3.09% 70
North West +48 112 £465 +11.04% 20
Scotland -6 50 £600 +50.00% 7
South East +9 43 £450 +15.38% 39
Yorkshire -42 35 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands -23 31 £469 +3.08% 11
West Midlands -25 30 £470 +3.19% 10
South West -11 24 £388 -31.11% 21
North East -6 20 £478 +6.11% 1
East of England -15 9 £600 +50.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £220 - 1

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 23 (3.92%) Confluence
2 12 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.88%) Camunda
4 6 (1.02%) Ethereum
4 6 (1.02%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.68%) CMS
7 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.51%) Drupal
7 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.51%) WordPress
8 2 (0.34%) CICS
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 318 (54.27%) AWS
2 176 (30.03%) Azure
3 104 (17.75%) GitHub
4 87 (14.85%) GCP
5 66 (11.26%) Serverless
6 61 (10.41%) Amazon S3
7 60 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.61%) OpenShift
12 20 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (3.41%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (2.22%) Datadog
16 12 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.88%) HTTP
2 10 (1.71%) SSL
3 9 (1.54%) Firewall
4 5 (0.85%) DNS
4 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (14.85%) NoSQL
3 78 (13.31%) MongoDB
4 65 (11.09%) Relational Database
5 51 (8.70%) MySQL
6 38 (6.48%) DynamoDB
7 28 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 15 (2.56%) DocumentDB
9 15 (2.56%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.56%) Redis
10 14 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.54%) DB2
12 9 (1.54%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.37%) Big Data
13 8 (1.37%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.37%) HBase
14 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 127 (21.67%) Jenkins
2 126 (21.50%) Git
3 116 (19.80%) GitLab
4 94 (16.04%) JUnit
5 48 (8.19%) Gradle
6 47 (8.02%) Mockito
7 46 (7.85%) JIRA
8 45 (7.68%) Cucumber
8 45 (7.68%) Maven
9 23 (3.92%) Selenium
10 19 (3.24%) Cypress.io
11 15 (2.56%) REST Assured
12 14 (2.39%) Postman
13 13 (2.22%) IntelliJ
14 12 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.88%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.88%) Gatling
16 10 (1.71%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.71%) Mocha
17 9 (1.54%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 126 (21.50%) Finance
3 102 (17.41%) Public Sector
4 78 (13.31%) Banking
5 21 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.37%) Retail
9 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.85%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.51%) Electronics
11 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.51%) Marketing
11 3 (0.51%) Military
12 2 (0.34%) Law
12 2 (0.34%) Legal
13 1 (0.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 338 (57.68%) Developer
2 247 (42.15%) Java Developer
3 132 (22.53%) Senior
4 87 (14.85%) Java Engineer
5 84 (14.33%) Senior Developer
6 76 (12.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 68 (11.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 60 (10.24%) Software Engineer
9 59 (10.07%) Lead
10 37 (6.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 30 (5.12%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (4.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (4.61%) Lead Developer
14 21 (3.58%) Architect
15 20 (3.41%) AWS Developer
15 20 (3.41%) Backend Developer
16 18 (3.07%) Lead Java Developer
17 16 (2.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 16 (2.73%) Software Developer
18 15 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (89.93%) Spring
2 179 (30.55%) Kafka
3 168 (28.67%) RESTful
4 139 (23.72%) React
5 137 (23.38%) REST
6 105 (17.92%) AngularJS
7 67 (11.43%) Node.js
8 60 (10.24%) HTML
9 55 (9.39%) Hibernate
10 42 (7.17%) CSS
10 42 (7.17%) JPA
11 40 (6.83%) OAuth
12 37 (6.31%) OAuth2
12 37 (6.31%) OpenTelemetry
13 31 (5.29%) JSON
13 31 (5.29%) Spring MVC
14 30 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
15 28 (4.78%) Jest
16 26 (4.44%) Playwright
16 26 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 51 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.68%) NHS
13 3 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.51%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.97%) Linux
2 7 (1.19%) Unix
3 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (65.19%) Microservices
2 331 (56.48%) CI/CD
3 247 (42.15%) Agile
4 219 (37.37%) DevOps
5 190 (32.42%) Containerisation
6 159 (27.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 128 (21.84%) Software Engineering
8 121 (20.65%) Test Automation
9 118 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (17.75%) Event-Driven
11 102 (17.41%) TDD
12 83 (14.16%) Scrum
13 74 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
14 71 (12.12%) Code Quality
14 71 (12.12%) Observability
15 67 (11.43%) SDLC
16 63 (10.75%) Mentoring
17 60 (10.24%) API Design
17 60 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 58 (9.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 549 (93.69%) Java
2 140 (23.89%) SQL
3 92 (15.70%) JavaScript
4 77 (13.14%) TypeScript
5 43 (7.34%) Python
6 28 (4.78%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.73%) Go
8 13 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.71%) Rust
10 7 (1.19%) C#
11 4 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 4 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Groovy
12 3 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) C++
13 1 (0.17%) COBOL
13 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 136 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.95%) Degree
4 19 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.88%) OCP
6 11 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (10.58%) QA
2 48 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.92%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.07%) WCAG
5 14 (2.39%) PSD2
5 14 (2.39%) SEPA
6 9 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.68%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 251 (42.83%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.34%) Postfix
4 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 279 (47.61%) Kubernetes
2 91 (15.53%) Terraform
3 66 (11.26%) Grafana
4 36 (6.14%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.41%) Ansible
6 14 (2.39%) Argo
7 12 (2.05%) Kibana
8 9 (1.54%) Kiali
9 6 (1.02%) Istio
10 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.17%) Consul
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (10.07%) Oracle
2 30 (5.12%) Splunk
3 26 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 23 (3.92%) Google
5 11 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.54%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.19%) Sybase
8 6 (1.02%) Adobe
8 6 (1.02%) Confluent
8 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.02%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.85%) IBM
10 4 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.68%) VMware
11 3 (0.51%) Informatica
11 3 (0.51%) Qualys
11 3 (0.51%) SAP
11 3 (0.51%) Solace