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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 204 289
Rank change year-on-year +5 +85 -149
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 481 446 397
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.21% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.10% 5.51% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 306 306
10th Percentile £316 £366 £420
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £564 £631 £713
90th Percentile £616 £754 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.11% -10.00% -7.41%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +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 7,889 8,088 10,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.08% 21.98% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,222 5,124 7,557
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 131 190
10th Percentile £30.08 £25.09 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 29 October 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 29 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
England -2 375 £488 -15.22% 217
UK excluding London +14 244 £473 +5.11% 177
London -32 185 £513 -13.87% 97
Work from Home -1 134 £519 +1.47% 126
North of England +15 98 £475 +8.57% 35
North West +11 70 £448 +11.88% 22
Scotland -12 55 £500 +17.65% 9
Midlands - 40 £368 - 18
South East +3 25 £450 -27.71% 83
West Midlands - 25 £500 - 12
North East +1 15 £500 +12.36% 2
East Midlands - 15 £290 - 5
Wales +12 13 £475 +13.43% 2
Yorkshire -20 13 £538 -8.51% 11
South West +2 12 £500 -6.98% 29
Northern Ireland -16 2 £425 -29.17%
East of England -21 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 (3.74%) JBoss
2 17 (3.53%) Confluence
3 13 (2.70%) Tomcat
4 10 (2.08%) Camunda
5 8 (1.66%) CMS
6 6 (1.25%) Apache
6 6 (1.25%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.04%) Alfresco
7 5 (1.04%) Mule
8 4 (0.83%) Drupal
8 4 (0.83%) WordPress
9 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.62%) SAS
9 3 (0.62%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.42%) CICS
10 2 (0.42%) Mule ESB
10 2 (0.42%) nginx
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 249 (51.77%) AWS
2 137 (28.48%) Azure
3 72 (14.97%) GCP
4 56 (11.64%) GitHub
5 42 (8.73%) Serverless
6 41 (8.52%) OpenShift
7 35 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
7 35 (7.28%) Amazon SQS
7 35 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 24 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (3.33%) Datadog
14 15 (3.12%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (2.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.25%) HTTPS
1 6 (1.25%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.62%) SSL
4 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.42%) Internet
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) SMS
5 1 (0.21%) DNS
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (22.87%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (14.35%) NoSQL
3 67 (13.93%) Relational Database
4 66 (13.72%) MongoDB
5 48 (9.98%) MySQL
6 36 (7.48%) DynamoDB
7 31 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (5.41%) RDBMS
9 23 (4.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.95%) SQL Server
11 17 (3.53%) Oracle Database
12 16 (3.33%) Redis
13 14 (2.91%) DB2
14 10 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (1.25%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.04%) HBase
17 4 (0.83%) Big Data
18 3 (0.62%) MariaDB
19 2 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 148 (30.77%) Git
2 121 (25.16%) Jenkins
3 118 (24.53%) JUnit
4 73 (15.18%) Maven
5 66 (13.72%) Mockito
6 62 (12.89%) GitLab
7 57 (11.85%) Cucumber
8 56 (11.64%) JIRA
9 52 (10.81%) SonarQube
10 41 (8.52%) Gradle
11 35 (7.28%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (5.41%) Bitbucket
13 18 (3.74%) Selenium
14 13 (2.70%) Artifactory
14 13 (2.70%) Postman
15 12 (2.49%) REST Assured
16 11 (2.29%) Bitbucket Server
16 11 (2.29%) Cypress.io
16 11 (2.29%) TeamCity
17 10 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 122 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 109 (22.66%) Finance
3 83 (17.26%) Banking
4 68 (14.14%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.66%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.83%) Front Office
11 3 (0.62%) Automotive
11 3 (0.62%) Retail
12 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.21%) German Language
13 1 (0.21%) Law
13 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.21%) Marketing
13 1 (0.21%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 316 (65.70%) Developer
2 261 (54.26%) Java Developer
3 84 (17.46%) Senior
4 70 (14.55%) Senior Developer
5 67 (13.93%) Senior Java Developer
6 58 (12.06%) Lead
7 49 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (8.11%) Software Engineer
9 36 (7.48%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.86%) Lead Developer
11 32 (6.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 28 (5.82%) Lead Java Developer
13 27 (5.61%) Architect
13 27 (5.61%) AWS Developer
14 17 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
15 14 (2.91%) Backend Developer
16 13 (2.70%) Technical Architect
17 12 (2.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 12 (2.49%) Software Developer
18 11 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (82.74%) Spring
2 140 (29.11%) REST
3 134 (27.86%) Kafka
3 134 (27.86%) RESTful
4 128 (26.61%) React
5 80 (16.63%) AngularJS
6 66 (13.72%) Hibernate
7 64 (13.31%) JPA
8 52 (10.81%) HTML
9 45 (9.36%) SOAP
9 45 (9.36%) Web Services
10 41 (8.52%) Spring Cloud
11 40 (8.32%) Node.js
12 39 (8.11%) CSS
13 34 (7.07%) JSON
14 32 (6.65%) J2EE
15 29 (6.03%) Swagger
16 28 (5.82%) Spring Batch
17 25 (5.20%) OAuth
18 22 (4.57%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 53 (11.02%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.25%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (0.62%) State Machine
13 2 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.07%) Linux
2 24 (4.99%) Unix
3 9 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.46%) Windows
5 3 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (69.44%) Microservices
2 253 (52.60%) CI/CD
3 248 (51.56%) Agile
4 165 (34.30%) DevOps
5 130 (27.03%) Containerisation
6 114 (23.70%) TDD
7 112 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (20.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 91 (18.92%) Software Engineering
9 91 (18.92%) Test Automation
10 72 (14.97%) Scrum
11 66 (13.72%) SDLC
12 65 (13.51%) Event-Driven
13 58 (12.06%) Mentoring
14 54 (11.23%) BDD
15 51 (10.60%) Design Patterns
16 49 (10.19%) Unit Testing
17 46 (9.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (9.36%) Front End Development
18 45 (9.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 459 (95.43%) Java
2 137 (28.48%) SQL
3 84 (17.46%) JavaScript
4 57 (11.85%) Python
4 57 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 24 (4.99%) Shell Script
6 12 (2.49%) PL/SQL
7 11 (2.29%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.29%) Ruby
8 9 (1.87%) Bash
9 7 (1.46%) C#
9 7 (1.46%) Groovy
9 7 (1.46%) Scala
10 5 (1.04%) Perl
11 3 (0.62%) C
11 3 (0.62%) C++
11 3 (0.62%) Go
11 3 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.42%) Korn
12 2 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 91 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 79 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (2.08%) Degree
5 7 (1.46%) OCP
5 7 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (13.10%) QA
2 26 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.91%) WCAG
4 12 (2.49%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.66%) PSD2
5 8 (1.66%) SEPA
6 4 (0.83%) 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
1 205 (42.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.83%) Postfix
4 2 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 186 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 64 (13.31%) Terraform
3 30 (6.24%) Grafana
4 18 (3.74%) Ansible
4 18 (3.74%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.70%) Kibana
6 6 (1.25%) 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 63 (13.10%) Oracle
2 31 (6.44%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.74%) Splunk
4 16 (3.33%) Google
5 14 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 10 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.66%) Virgin Media
9 7 (1.46%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.25%) IBM
10 6 (1.25%) Veracode
11 5 (1.04%) Gigya
11 5 (1.04%) Sybase
12 4 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.83%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.83%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.83%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.62%) Cisco