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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 212 290
Rank change year-on-year +14 +78 -149
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 520 425 364
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.19% 0.80%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.39% 5.46% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 272 269
10th Percentile £325 £363 £415
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £570 £630 £638
90th Percentile £623 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £438 £506
% change year-on-year +6.74% -13.54% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73.05
25th Percentile - - £73.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £43.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £46.00 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £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 11 December 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 11 December 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 +25 416 £475 -17.39% 109
UK excluding London +23 271 £467 +6.74% 102
London -20 201 £516 -13.24% 38
Work from Home +3 137 £508 +6.28% 77
North of England +22 122 £455 +2.13% 43
North West +41 88 £450 +12.50% 23
Scotland -16 57 £575 +35.29% 9
South East +10 35 £450 +1.12% 28
Midlands - 34 £379 - 4
West Midlands - 24 £469 - 4
Yorkshire -35 19 £525 -30.00% 15
North East +1 15 £488 +9.55% 6
Wales +12 12 £475 +13.43% 3
East Midlands - 10 £270 -
South West -20 9 £475 -13.64% 13
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 - 2
East of England -21 1 - - 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 (4.04%) Confluence
2 7 (1.35%) Apache
2 7 (1.35%) CMS
3 6 (1.15%) JBoss
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%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.77%) WordPress
6 3 (0.58%) CICS
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 284 (54.62%) AWS
2 171 (32.88%) Azure
3 86 (16.54%) GCP
4 84 (16.15%) GitHub
5 58 (11.15%) Serverless
6 47 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (7.31%) Amazon S3
8 36 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (5.00%) OpenShift
12 24 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.42%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.46%) Datadog
15 17 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (3.08%) Apigee
17 12 (2.31%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.96%) Kerberos
1 5 (0.96%) SSL
2 4 (0.77%) HTTP
2 4 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.58%) VPN
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (19.81%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (14.04%) MongoDB
3 71 (13.65%) NoSQL
4 70 (13.46%) Relational Database
5 49 (9.42%) MySQL
6 37 (7.12%) DynamoDB
7 25 (4.81%) RDBMS
8 21 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (3.85%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.08%) Redis
11 14 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (2.12%) DB2
12 11 (2.12%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.54%) HBase
14 7 (1.35%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.96%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 133 (25.58%) Git
2 116 (22.31%) Jenkins
3 106 (20.38%) JUnit
4 83 (15.96%) GitLab
5 58 (11.15%) Cucumber
6 56 (10.77%) Mockito
7 51 (9.81%) Maven
8 49 (9.42%) JIRA
9 36 (6.92%) SonarQube
10 32 (6.15%) Gradle
11 25 (4.81%) Bitbucket
12 23 (4.42%) Sonatype Nexus
13 22 (4.23%) Selenium
14 18 (3.46%) Postman
15 13 (2.50%) Artifactory
16 11 (2.12%) Cypress.io
16 11 (2.12%) REST Assured
17 9 (1.73%) Subversion
18 8 (1.54%) Gatling
19 7 (1.35%) JMeter
General
1 131 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 114 (21.92%) Finance
3 87 (16.73%) Public Sector
4 83 (15.96%) Banking
5 26 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
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 (0.38%) Front Office
11 2 (0.38%) Law
11 2 (0.38%) Retail
12 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 327 (62.88%) Developer
2 265 (50.96%) Java Developer
3 96 (18.46%) Senior
4 74 (14.23%) Senior Developer
5 67 (12.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 56 (10.77%) Lead
7 55 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (10.38%) Java Engineer
9 39 (7.50%) Software Engineer
10 32 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (5.19%) Architect
12 26 (5.00%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.23%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
15 17 (3.27%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.69%) Java Software Engineer
16 14 (2.69%) Technical Architect
17 13 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 12 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (85.77%) Spring
2 159 (30.58%) RESTful
3 146 (28.08%) Kafka
4 122 (23.46%) REST
5 121 (23.27%) React
6 94 (18.08%) AngularJS
7 65 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 56 (10.77%) HTML
9 48 (9.23%) Node.js
10 44 (8.46%) CSS
11 43 (8.27%) JPA
12 40 (7.69%) JSON
13 38 (7.31%) OAuth
14 37 (7.12%) OAuth2
15 30 (5.77%) Spring Cloud
16 26 (5.00%) Swagger
17 25 (4.81%) J2EE
17 25 (4.81%) Spring MVC
18 23 (4.42%) SOAP
18 23 (4.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 78 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (2.12%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.15%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.77%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.77%) NHS
12 4 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.65%) Linux
2 11 (2.12%) Unix
3 8 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.15%) Windows
5 3 (0.58%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (71.15%) Microservices
2 304 (58.46%) CI/CD
3 258 (49.62%) Agile
4 187 (35.96%) DevOps
5 155 (29.81%) Containerisation
6 126 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (22.31%) TDD
8 114 (21.92%) Test Automation
9 109 (20.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 92 (17.69%) Software Engineering
11 91 (17.50%) Event-Driven
12 69 (13.27%) Scrum
12 69 (13.27%) SDLC
13 66 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (10.96%) Mentoring
15 56 (10.77%) BDD
16 54 (10.38%) API Design
17 53 (10.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 51 (9.81%) Code Quality
19 50 (9.62%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 488 (93.85%) Java
2 136 (26.15%) SQL
3 83 (15.96%) JavaScript
4 63 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 58 (11.15%) Python
6 19 (3.65%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.69%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.92%) Bash
8 10 (1.92%) Ruby
9 8 (1.54%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.35%) Groovy
11 5 (0.96%) C#
11 5 (0.96%) Go
11 5 (0.96%) Perl
11 5 (0.96%) Scala
12 4 (0.77%) PHP
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) JCL
13 2 (0.38%) Korn
13 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 109 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 86 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.27%) Degree
4 13 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.31%) OCP
5 12 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.65%) QA
2 26 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.85%) ISO 20022
4 13 (2.50%) WCAG
5 11 (2.12%) PSD2
5 11 (2.12%) 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
1 221 (42.50%) Docker
2 4 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 224 (43.08%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.92%) Terraform
3 29 (5.58%) Grafana
4 20 (3.85%) Ansible
5 15 (2.88%) Kibana
5 15 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.96%) Argo
8 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.38%) 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 60 (11.54%) Oracle
2 28 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.42%) Google
4 22 (4.23%) Splunk
5 13 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.73%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.35%) Veracode
8 6 (1.15%) Sybase
8 6 (1.15%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.96%) Gigya
9 5 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.77%) IBM
10 4 (0.77%) VMware
11 3 (0.58%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.58%) Confluent
11 3 (0.58%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.58%) SAP