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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 211 261
Rank change year-on-year +10 +50 -120
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 555 383 396
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.21% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.57% 5.41% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 227 287
10th Percentile £351 £354 £413
25th Percentile £424 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £628 £757 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £503
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.52% -8.55%
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 - - +5.76%

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 8,446 7,076 9,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.38% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,623 4,495 6,655
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.47% -5.57%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 92 187
10th Percentile £34.80 £22.31 £26.47
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.97 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.15% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +32 465 £492 -14.43% 262
UK excluding London +25 293 £475 +7.95% 251
London +4 211 £525 -11.76% 52
North of England +29 164 £475 +5.56% 55
Work from Home +11 143 £500 +7.35% 132
North West +42 113 £475 +13.43% 31
Scotland -18 49 £600 +41.18% 16
South East +7 37 £450 +15.38% 68
Yorkshire -45 31 £500 -4.76% 17
Midlands -25 26 £469 - 28
West Midlands -28 25 £470 - 14
North East -3 20 £476 +7.02% 7
South West -20 15 £409 -25.64% 46
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55% 5
East of England -23 1 - - 26
East Midlands - 1 £220 - 14

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 (3.24%) Confluence
2 11 (1.98%) Camunda
3 8 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.26%) Apache
5 6 (1.08%) CMS
6 5 (0.90%) Ethereum
6 5 (0.90%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.72%) Drupal
7 4 (0.72%) WordPress
8 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.54%) SAS
9 2 (0.36%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) Mule
9 2 (0.36%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.36%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.18%) CICS
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 305 (54.95%) AWS
2 177 (31.89%) Azure
3 100 (18.02%) GitHub
4 89 (16.04%) GCP
5 64 (11.53%) Serverless
6 54 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (9.01%) Amazon S3
9 32 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 29 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.96%) Azure AKS
15 20 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.06%) Datadog
17 15 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.52%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.80%) SSL
2 9 (1.62%) HTTP
3 8 (1.44%) Firewall
4 5 (0.90%) DNS
4 5 (0.90%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.72%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.54%) VPN
7 1 (0.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (19.82%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (16.22%) NoSQL
3 75 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 62 (11.17%) Relational Database
5 52 (9.37%) MySQL
6 40 (7.21%) DynamoDB
7 25 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.96%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.42%) Redis
10 18 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.06%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.70%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.16%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.44%) DB2
15 8 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.44%) HBase
16 7 (1.26%) Big Data
16 7 (1.26%) Oracle Database
17 4 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 130 (23.42%) Git
2 120 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 109 (19.64%) GitLab
4 96 (17.30%) JUnit
5 48 (8.65%) Gradle
6 45 (8.11%) Cucumber
6 45 (8.11%) Mockito
7 43 (7.75%) Maven
8 40 (7.21%) JIRA
9 21 (3.78%) Cypress.io
10 20 (3.60%) Selenium
11 18 (3.24%) Postman
12 14 (2.52%) SonarQube
13 13 (2.34%) IntelliJ
14 12 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.98%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.98%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.80%) REST Assured
17 8 (1.44%) Gatling
17 8 (1.44%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 120 (21.62%) Finance
3 102 (18.38%) Public Sector
4 88 (15.86%) Banking
5 20 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.62%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.26%) Retail
9 6 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Electronics
12 3 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.54%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Law
13 2 (0.36%) Military
14 1 (0.18%) Legal
14 1 (0.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 321 (57.84%) Developer
2 243 (43.78%) Java Developer
3 126 (22.70%) Senior
4 84 (15.14%) Senior Developer
5 80 (14.41%) Java Engineer
6 71 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (12.61%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (10.63%) Software Engineer
9 52 (9.37%) Lead
10 31 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.05%) Architect
12 27 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (4.50%) Lead Developer
14 24 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (3.60%) Backend Developer
16 19 (3.42%) AWS Developer
17 17 (3.06%) Lead Java Developer
18 15 (2.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 15 (2.70%) Software Developer
19 13 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (88.47%) Spring
2 170 (30.63%) RESTful
3 169 (30.45%) Kafka
4 132 (23.78%) React
5 128 (23.06%) REST
6 105 (18.92%) AngularJS
7 62 (11.17%) Node.js
8 55 (9.91%) HTML
9 54 (9.73%) Hibernate
10 41 (7.39%) OAuth
11 39 (7.03%) OAuth2
12 38 (6.85%) CSS
12 38 (6.85%) JPA
13 36 (6.49%) JSON
14 35 (6.31%) OpenTelemetry
15 27 (4.86%) Spring Cloud
15 27 (4.86%) Spring MVC
16 24 (4.32%) Jest
16 24 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (3.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 92 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 56 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 12 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.08%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.72%) NHS
12 3 (0.54%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.23%) Linux
2 9 (1.62%) Unix
3 5 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.72%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (66.85%) Microservices
2 318 (57.30%) CI/CD
3 246 (44.32%) Agile
4 204 (36.76%) DevOps
5 193 (34.77%) Containerisation
6 141 (25.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 121 (21.80%) Software Engineering
8 119 (21.44%) Test Automation
9 117 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (19.28%) Event-Driven
10 107 (19.28%) TDD
11 77 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 76 (13.69%) Scrum
13 68 (12.25%) SDLC
14 66 (11.89%) Observability
15 63 (11.35%) API Design
16 61 (10.99%) Mentoring
17 58 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 55 (9.91%) Code Quality
19 54 (9.73%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 520 (93.69%) Java
2 138 (24.86%) SQL
3 87 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 73 (13.15%) TypeScript
5 46 (8.29%) Python
6 25 (4.50%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.16%) Go
7 12 (2.16%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.62%) Rust
9 7 (1.26%) C#
10 6 (1.08%) Bash
11 4 (0.72%) PHP
11 4 (0.72%) Scala
12 3 (0.54%) Groovy
13 2 (0.36%) Perl
13 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) C++
14 1 (0.18%) COBOL
14 1 (0.18%) JCL
14 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 126 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 101 (18.20%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.32%) Degree
4 18 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.98%) OCP
5 11 (1.98%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.72%) 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 (12.25%) QA
2 45 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.32%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.24%) WCAG
5 15 (2.70%) PSD2
5 15 (2.70%) SEPA
6 8 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.72%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.54%) 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 (45.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 280 (50.45%) Kubernetes
2 97 (17.48%) Terraform
3 58 (10.45%) Grafana
4 29 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.32%) Ansible
6 13 (2.34%) Argo
7 12 (2.16%) Kibana
8 8 (1.44%) Kiali
9 5 (0.90%) Istio
10 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (10.45%) Oracle
2 25 (4.50%) Splunk
3 24 (4.32%) Google
4 19 (3.42%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.80%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.08%) Confluent
6 6 (1.08%) Sybase
6 6 (1.08%) Virgin Media
7 5 (0.90%) Adobe
7 5 (0.90%) Gigya
7 5 (0.90%) PagerDuty
8 4 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (0.72%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.72%) IBM
8 4 (0.72%) VMware
9 3 (0.54%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.54%) Informatica
9 3 (0.54%) Qualys
9 3 (0.54%) SAP