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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 215 252
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 -110
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 550 383 388
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.21% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.53% 5.42% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 228 281
10th Percentile £350 £354 £413
25th Percentile £420 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £626 £754 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £508
% change year-on-year +7.95% -13.39% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 8,429 7,067 9,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.30% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,618 4,497 6,583
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -1.38% -5.22%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 91 182
10th Percentile £33.20 £22.00 £26.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.19 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 23 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 23 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 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 23 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 +35 461 £491 -14.61% 236
UK excluding London +22 290 £475 +7.95% 225
London -5 210 £525 -10.87% 48
North of England +34 161 £475 +5.56% 54
Work from Home +25 139 £500 +6.61% 104
North West +46 110 £465 +11.04% 31
Scotland -10 49 £600 +41.18% 14
South East +8 37 £450 +15.38% 60
Yorkshire -35 31 £500 -21.57% 18
Midlands -26 27 £469 - 26
West Midlands -26 25 £470 - 13
North East -3 20 £476 +7.02% 5
South West -13 14 £409 -25.64% 41
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55% 4
East Midlands - 2 £245 - 13
East of England -29 1 - - 20

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 (3.27%) Confluence
2 11 (2.00%) Camunda
3 8 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.27%) Apache
5 6 (1.09%) CMS
6 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.73%) Drupal
6 4 (0.73%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.73%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.73%) WordPress
7 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.55%) SAS
8 2 (0.36%) JBoss
8 2 (0.36%) Mule
8 2 (0.36%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 303 (55.09%) AWS
2 174 (31.64%) Azure
3 97 (17.64%) GitHub
4 86 (15.64%) GCP
5 64 (11.64%) Serverless
6 53 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 32 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (5.45%) OpenShift
10 29 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 20 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (3.09%) Datadog
16 15 (2.73%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (2.55%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) SSL
2 8 (1.45%) Firewall
2 8 (1.45%) HTTP
3 5 (0.91%) DNS
3 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.73%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (19.82%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 73 (13.27%) MongoDB
4 61 (11.09%) Relational Database
5 50 (9.09%) MySQL
6 40 (7.27%) DynamoDB
7 25 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (4.00%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.45%) Redis
10 18 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 16 (2.91%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.73%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.18%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.45%) DB2
15 8 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.45%) HBase
16 7 (1.27%) Big Data
16 7 (1.27%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 125 (22.73%) Git
2 120 (21.82%) Jenkins
3 106 (19.27%) GitLab
4 94 (17.09%) JUnit
5 49 (8.91%) Gradle
6 45 (8.18%) Cucumber
6 45 (8.18%) Mockito
7 43 (7.82%) Maven
8 39 (7.09%) JIRA
9 20 (3.64%) Cypress.io
10 17 (3.09%) Selenium
11 15 (2.73%) Postman
11 15 (2.73%) SonarQube
12 13 (2.36%) IntelliJ
13 12 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (2.00%) Artifactory
14 11 (2.00%) Bitbucket
15 10 (1.82%) REST Assured
16 8 (1.45%) Gatling
16 8 (1.45%) Jaeger
General
1 141 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.82%) Finance
3 100 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 88 (16.00%) Banking
5 19 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.64%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.27%) Retail
9 5 (0.91%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.55%) Electronics
11 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 2 (0.36%) Law
12 2 (0.36%) Military
13 1 (0.18%) Legal
13 1 (0.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 321 (58.36%) Developer
2 244 (44.36%) Java Developer
3 122 (22.18%) Senior
4 84 (15.27%) Senior Developer
5 78 (14.18%) Java Engineer
6 70 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 70 (12.73%) Senior Java Developer
7 56 (10.18%) Software Engineer
8 52 (9.45%) Lead
9 31 (5.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 28 (5.09%) Architect
11 27 (4.91%) Java Software Engineer
12 25 (4.55%) Lead Developer
13 24 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (3.64%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.45%) AWS Developer
16 17 (3.09%) Lead Java Developer
17 15 (2.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 15 (2.73%) Software Developer
18 13 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 486 (88.36%) Spring
2 167 (30.36%) Kafka
3 165 (30.00%) RESTful
4 128 (23.27%) React
5 126 (22.91%) REST
6 104 (18.91%) AngularJS
7 61 (11.09%) Node.js
8 55 (10.00%) HTML
9 54 (9.82%) Hibernate
10 40 (7.27%) OAuth
11 38 (6.91%) CSS
11 38 (6.91%) OAuth2
12 37 (6.73%) JPA
13 36 (6.55%) JSON
14 35 (6.36%) OpenTelemetry
15 27 (4.91%) Spring Cloud
16 26 (4.73%) Spring MVC
17 23 (4.18%) Jest
18 21 (3.82%) JMS
18 21 (3.82%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 12 (2.18%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.09%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.91%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.73%) NHS
12 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.27%) Linux
2 9 (1.64%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.73%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (66.36%) Microservices
2 312 (56.73%) CI/CD
3 241 (43.82%) Agile
4 203 (36.91%) DevOps
5 193 (35.09%) Containerisation
6 141 (25.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 118 (21.45%) Software Engineering
8 115 (20.91%) Test Automation
9 114 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (19.09%) Event-Driven
10 105 (19.09%) TDD
11 77 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (13.09%) Scrum
13 68 (12.36%) SDLC
14 64 (11.64%) API Design
14 64 (11.64%) Observability
15 62 (11.27%) Mentoring
16 57 (10.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 54 (9.82%) BDD
17 54 (9.82%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 515 (93.64%) Java
2 138 (25.09%) SQL
3 83 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 68 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.36%) Python
6 25 (4.55%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.18%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.64%) Rust
9 8 (1.45%) Go
10 7 (1.27%) C#
11 6 (1.09%) Bash
12 4 (0.73%) PHP
12 4 (0.73%) Scala
13 3 (0.55%) Groovy
14 2 (0.36%) Perl
14 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.18%) JCL
15 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.18%) REXX
Qualifications
1 125 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 101 (18.36%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.36%) Degree
4 18 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.00%) OCP
5 11 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (12.36%) QA
2 44 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.36%) ISO 20022
4 17 (3.09%) WCAG
5 15 (2.73%) PSD2
5 15 (2.73%) SEPA
6 8 (1.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.73%) NIST
8 3 (0.55%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.55%) HL7
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.36%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) GDPR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 255 (46.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 277 (50.36%) Kubernetes
2 97 (17.64%) Terraform
3 56 (10.18%) Grafana
4 27 (4.91%) Prometheus
5 25 (4.55%) Ansible
6 13 (2.36%) Argo
7 12 (2.18%) Kibana
8 8 (1.45%) Kiali
9 5 (0.91%) Istio
10 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 57 (10.36%) Oracle
2 25 (4.55%) Splunk
3 23 (4.18%) Google
4 20 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.09%) Confluent
6 6 (1.09%) Sybase
6 6 (1.09%) Virgin Media
7 5 (0.91%) Adobe
7 5 (0.91%) Gigya
8 4 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (0.73%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.73%) IBM
8 4 (0.73%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) PagerDuty
9 3 (0.55%) Qualys
9 3 (0.55%) SAP