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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 216 267
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 -128
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 519 370 372
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.17% 0.87%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.41% 5.34% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 223 260
10th Percentile £349 £356 £420
25th Percentile £420 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £625
90th Percentile £625 £769 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £440 £523
% change year-on-year +7.50% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £42.50 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £60.50 - £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 8,101 6,934 9,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.35% 22.00% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,405 6,555
10th Percentile £356 £353 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £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 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.36 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +16.82% -17.69%

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 January 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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 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 +40 431 £488 -15.22% 245
UK excluding London +31 279 £473 +7.50% 215
London 0 195 £525 -10.87% 64
North of England +37 147 £475 +6.74% 49
Work from Home +13 130 £525 +13.51% 112
North West +44 101 £450 +2.86% 24
Scotland -13 52 £588 +38.24% 13
South East +11 35 £450 +15.38% 65
Midlands -19 28 £449 - 25
Yorkshire -24 27 £500 -35.90% 20
West Midlands -13 24 £469 - 13
North East +1 19 £475 +6.74% 5
South West -22 14 £409 -25.64% 33
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 11
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55% 4
East of England -27 1 - - 21
Wales - 1 £475 - 10

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 17 (3.28%) Confluence
2 7 (1.35%) Apache
3 6 (1.16%) CMS
4 5 (0.96%) Camunda
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.77%) Drupal
5 4 (0.77%) Mule
5 4 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.77%) WordPress
6 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.58%) CICS
6 3 (0.58%) JBoss
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.39%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 278 (53.56%) AWS
2 160 (30.83%) Azure
3 94 (18.11%) GitHub
4 83 (15.99%) GCP
5 59 (11.37%) Serverless
6 50 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (8.09%) Amazon S3
9 32 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (5.39%) OpenShift
11 27 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
11 27 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (4.24%) Azure AKS
14 22 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (3.28%) Datadog
17 15 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.70%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) SSL
2 7 (1.35%) Firewall
3 5 (0.96%) DNS
3 5 (0.96%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.77%) HTTP
4 4 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.58%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (19.46%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (15.61%) NoSQL
3 69 (13.29%) MongoDB
4 61 (11.75%) Relational Database
5 50 (9.63%) MySQL
6 40 (7.71%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (4.05%) RDBMS
8 20 (3.85%) Redis
9 18 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.50%) DocumentDB
11 13 (2.50%) SQL Server
12 12 (2.31%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.54%) DB2
13 8 (1.54%) HBase
13 8 (1.54%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 119 (22.93%) Git
2 111 (21.39%) Jenkins
3 95 (18.30%) GitLab
4 83 (15.99%) JUnit
5 47 (9.06%) Gradle
6 43 (8.29%) Cucumber
7 42 (8.09%) Mockito
8 41 (7.90%) Maven
9 35 (6.74%) JIRA
10 21 (4.05%) SonarQube
11 18 (3.47%) Cypress.io
12 16 (3.08%) Bitbucket
12 16 (3.08%) Selenium
13 15 (2.89%) Postman
14 13 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (2.31%) IntelliJ
16 11 (2.12%) Artifactory
16 11 (2.12%) REST Assured
17 10 (1.93%) Gatling
18 7 (1.35%) Jaeger
General
1 131 (25.24%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.16%) Finance
3 89 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 82 (15.80%) Banking
5 19 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.73%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.35%) Retail
9 6 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Electronics
11 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.39%) Law
13 1 (0.19%) Front Office
13 1 (0.19%) Military
13 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 304 (58.57%) Developer
2 236 (45.47%) Java Developer
3 111 (21.39%) Senior
4 77 (14.84%) Senior Developer
5 67 (12.91%) Java Engineer
6 64 (12.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 63 (12.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 55 (10.60%) Software Engineer
9 52 (10.02%) Lead
10 30 (5.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.39%) Architect
12 27 (5.20%) Lead Developer
13 25 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (3.47%) Lead Java Developer
16 16 (3.08%) AWS Developer
16 16 (3.08%) Backend Developer
17 13 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (2.50%) Java Architect
17 13 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (86.32%) Spring
2 150 (28.90%) Kafka
3 147 (28.32%) RESTful
4 121 (23.31%) React
5 115 (22.16%) REST
6 97 (18.69%) AngularJS
7 54 (10.40%) Hibernate
8 53 (10.21%) HTML
9 51 (9.83%) Node.js
10 41 (7.90%) OAuth
11 40 (7.71%) JSON
12 39 (7.51%) OAuth2
13 37 (7.13%) CSS
14 36 (6.94%) JPA
15 34 (6.55%) OpenTelemetry
16 31 (5.97%) Spring Cloud
17 23 (4.43%) Spring MVC
18 21 (4.05%) Swagger
19 20 (3.85%) OpenID
19 20 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (15.99%) Cloud Native
2 52 (10.02%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.47%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.16%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.77%) NHS
12 3 (0.58%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.01%) Linux
2 9 (1.73%) Unix
3 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.96%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (67.05%) Microservices
2 283 (54.53%) CI/CD
3 219 (42.20%) Agile
4 189 (36.42%) DevOps
5 170 (32.76%) Containerisation
6 131 (25.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (21.77%) Software Engineering
8 108 (20.81%) Test Automation
9 107 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
10 100 (19.27%) TDD
11 95 (18.30%) Event-Driven
12 81 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (12.72%) SDLC
14 62 (11.95%) API Design
14 62 (11.95%) Observability
15 59 (11.37%) Mentoring
16 58 (11.18%) Scrum
17 54 (10.40%) BDD
18 53 (10.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 48 (9.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 486 (93.64%) Java
2 128 (24.66%) SQL
3 79 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 68 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 49 (9.44%) Python
6 31 (5.97%) Kotlin
7 10 (1.93%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.54%) Bash
8 8 (1.54%) Rust
9 7 (1.35%) Go
10 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.77%) C#
11 4 (0.77%) Groovy
11 4 (0.77%) PHP
12 3 (0.58%) Ruby
12 3 (0.58%) Scala
13 2 (0.39%) COBOL
13 2 (0.39%) JCL
13 2 (0.39%) Korn
13 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.43%) Degree
4 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.12%) OCP
5 11 (2.12%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.91%) QA
2 39 (7.51%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.43%) ISO 20022
4 16 (3.08%) WCAG
5 13 (2.50%) PSD2
5 13 (2.50%) SEPA
6 8 (1.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.77%) NIST
8 3 (0.58%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.58%) HL7
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.19%) GDPR
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 230 (44.32%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 249 (47.98%) Kubernetes
2 99 (19.08%) Terraform
3 53 (10.21%) Grafana
4 25 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.62%) Ansible
6 13 (2.50%) Argo
7 11 (2.12%) Kibana
8 7 (1.35%) Kiali
9 5 (0.96%) Istio
10 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.39%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Control-M
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (10.21%) Oracle
2 26 (5.01%) Splunk
3 23 (4.43%) Google
4 21 (4.05%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.16%) Confluent
7 6 (1.16%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (0.96%) Gigya
9 4 (0.77%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.77%) Sybase
9 4 (0.77%) VMware
10 3 (0.58%) Adobe
10 3 (0.58%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.58%) IBM
10 3 (0.58%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.58%) Qualys
10 3 (0.58%) SAP