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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 212 289
Rank change year-on-year +13 +77 -147
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 517 437 381
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.20% 0.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.29% 5.52% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 277 286
10th Percentile £327 £363 £418
25th Percentile £413 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £625 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £438 £503
% change year-on-year +7.20% -13.02% -8.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £40.50 - £73.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £75.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 8,218 7,916 10,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.80% 21.72% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,453 4,972 7,245
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 120 187
10th Percentile £30.75 £22.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.00 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +19.13% -12.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 29 November 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 29 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 +25 410 £475 -18.10% 100
UK excluding London +30 268 £469 +7.20% 100
London -16 198 £520 -12.61% 40
Work from Home +7 140 £508 +6.01% 52
North of England +15 120 £465 +5.98% 21
North West +32 86 £447 +11.75% 14
Scotland -11 58 £581 +36.76% 10
South East +22 34 £450 -27.71% 38
Midlands - 32 £338 - 10
West Midlands - 21 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -25 18 £538 -28.33% 6
North East +1 16 £488 +9.55% 1
Wales +11 12 £475 +13.43% 1
East Midlands - 11 £270 - 1
South West +2 10 £488 -21.21% 18
Northern Ireland -2 2 £425 - 3
East of England -23 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 21 (4.06%) Confluence
2 12 (2.32%) JBoss
3 9 (1.74%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.35%) Apache
4 7 (1.35%) Camunda
4 7 (1.35%) CMS
5 5 (0.97%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.77%) Drupal
6 4 (0.77%) Mule
6 4 (0.77%) WordPress
7 3 (0.58%) CICS
7 3 (0.58%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.39%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 285 (55.13%) AWS
2 165 (31.91%) Azure
3 84 (16.25%) GitHub
4 82 (15.86%) GCP
5 56 (10.83%) Serverless
6 47 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (7.16%) Amazon S3
7 37 (7.16%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (6.19%) OpenShift
9 28 (5.42%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.45%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (3.48%) Datadog
15 16 (3.09%) Apigee
16 11 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) HTTP
1 5 (0.97%) HTTPS
1 5 (0.97%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.77%) SSL
3 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (21.08%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (13.93%) NoSQL
2 72 (13.93%) Relational Database
3 68 (13.15%) MongoDB
4 51 (9.86%) MySQL
5 36 (6.96%) DynamoDB
6 26 (5.03%) RDBMS
7 24 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 17 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.90%) Redis
11 13 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.32%) Oracle Database
13 11 (2.13%) DB2
14 8 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.35%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.35%) HBase
16 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.77%) DocumentDB
17 2 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 141 (27.27%) Git
2 123 (23.79%) Jenkins
3 114 (22.05%) JUnit
4 82 (15.86%) GitLab
5 58 (11.22%) Cucumber
5 58 (11.22%) Maven
6 57 (11.03%) Mockito
7 56 (10.83%) JIRA
8 39 (7.54%) SonarQube
9 37 (7.16%) Gradle
10 27 (5.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (5.03%) Bitbucket
12 22 (4.26%) Selenium
13 18 (3.48%) Postman
14 13 (2.51%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.13%) Cypress.io
15 11 (2.13%) REST Assured
16 9 (1.74%) Subversion
17 8 (1.55%) Gatling
18 7 (1.35%) JMeter
General
1 133 (25.73%) Social Skills
2 109 (21.08%) Finance
3 85 (16.44%) Banking
4 82 (15.86%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.58%) Automotive
10 3 (0.58%) Electronics
10 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.58%) Marketing
10 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.39%) Front Office
11 2 (0.39%) Law
11 2 (0.39%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 329 (63.64%) Developer
2 268 (51.84%) Java Developer
3 95 (18.38%) Senior
4 74 (14.31%) Senior Developer
5 69 (13.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 55 (10.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (10.25%) Lead
8 49 (9.48%) Java Engineer
9 40 (7.74%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (5.22%) Architect
12 26 (5.03%) Lead Developer
13 25 (4.84%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.87%) Lead Java Developer
15 16 (3.09%) Backend Developer
16 15 (2.90%) Java Software Engineer
17 14 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 14 (2.71%) Technical Architect
18 12 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 443 (85.69%) Spring
2 157 (30.37%) RESTful
3 146 (28.24%) Kafka
4 133 (25.73%) REST
5 123 (23.79%) React
6 93 (17.99%) AngularJS
7 71 (13.73%) Hibernate
8 54 (10.44%) HTML
9 49 (9.48%) JPA
10 45 (8.70%) Node.js
11 42 (8.12%) CSS
12 40 (7.74%) JSON
13 35 (6.77%) OAuth
14 34 (6.58%) OAuth2
14 34 (6.58%) Spring Cloud
15 29 (5.61%) SOAP
16 26 (5.03%) J2EE
16 26 (5.03%) Swagger
17 25 (4.84%) Web Services
18 24 (4.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 76 (14.70%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.67%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.16%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.97%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.77%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.77%) NHS
11 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.84%) Linux
2 16 (3.09%) Unix
3 8 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.16%) Windows
5 3 (0.58%) Android
6 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (71.18%) Microservices
2 299 (57.83%) CI/CD
3 257 (49.71%) Agile
4 190 (36.75%) DevOps
5 156 (30.17%) Containerisation
6 125 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (22.82%) TDD
8 115 (22.24%) Test Automation
9 112 (21.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 93 (17.99%) Software Engineering
11 87 (16.83%) Event-Driven
12 70 (13.54%) Scrum
13 65 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 65 (12.57%) SDLC
14 55 (10.64%) BDD
14 55 (10.64%) Mentoring
15 51 (9.86%) API Design
15 51 (9.86%) Unit Testing
16 50 (9.67%) Code Quality
16 50 (9.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 487 (94.20%) Java
2 135 (26.11%) SQL
3 81 (15.67%) JavaScript
4 66 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 61 (11.80%) Python
6 19 (3.68%) Shell Script
7 17 (3.29%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.13%) Ruby
9 10 (1.93%) Bash
10 8 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.35%) Groovy
12 5 (0.97%) C#
12 5 (0.97%) Perl
13 4 (0.77%) Go
13 4 (0.77%) PHP
13 4 (0.77%) Scala
14 2 (0.39%) JCL
14 2 (0.39%) Korn
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 106 (20.50%) Security Cleared
2 85 (16.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.29%) Degree
4 13 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.93%) OCP
6 10 (1.93%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.77%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (14.70%) QA
2 26 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.87%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.71%) WCAG
5 11 (2.13%) PSD2
5 11 (2.13%) SEPA
6 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.58%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 220 (42.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.19%) Postfix
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 219 (42.36%) Kubernetes
2 87 (16.83%) Terraform
3 30 (5.80%) Grafana
4 20 (3.87%) Ansible
5 15 (2.90%) Kibana
5 15 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.97%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.39%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.19%) Consul
9 1 (0.19%) Control-M
9 1 (0.19%) logstash
9 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (12.57%) Oracle
2 30 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.45%) Google
4 21 (4.06%) Splunk
5 12 (2.32%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.74%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.35%) Veracode
8 6 (1.16%) Sybase
9 5 (0.97%) Gigya
9 5 (0.97%) IBM
9 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.77%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.77%) VMware
11 3 (0.58%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.58%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.58%) SAP