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

 6 months to
18 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 201 252
Rank change year-on-year +14 +51 -102
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 617 397 424
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 1.29% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.85% 5.74% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 235 304
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £520 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +0.73% -17.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £632 £730 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 9,009 6,912 9,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 22.53% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,030 4,459 6,428
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 84 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £43.81
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +19.27% -16.15%

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 18 February 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 18 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 15 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 18 February 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 +42 523 £486 -10.12% 135
UK excluding London +31 344 £475 +7.95% 106
London -16 216 £525 -8.70% 54
North of England +26 169 £475 +5.56% 30
Work from Home +20 153 £492 -1.60% 74
North West +42 115 £465 +6.29% 19
South East +10 47 £450 +15.38% 36
Scotland -15 47 £600 +48.51% 7
Midlands -18 47 £469 +25.74% 14
West Midlands -10 46 £470 +7.31% 13
Yorkshire -35 36 £500 -4.76% 9
South West -9 27 £386 -32.91% 15
North East -4 20 £478 +6.11% 2
East of England -21 9 £600 - 3
East Midlands -24 1 £220 -30.93% 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 26 (4.21%) Confluence
2 19 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.11%) Camunda
4 9 (1.46%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.97%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.97%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.81%) Apache
7 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 334 (54.13%) AWS
2 177 (28.69%) Azure
3 104 (16.86%) GitHub
4 96 (15.56%) GCP
5 71 (11.51%) Serverless
6 70 (11.35%) Amazon S3
7 62 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (5.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (4.86%) OpenShift
13 24 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.24%) Azure AKS
16 19 (3.08%) Cloud Run
17 16 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.59%) Datadog
18 12 (1.94%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.78%) HTTP
2 10 (1.62%) SSL
3 9 (1.46%) Firewall
4 7 (1.13%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.81%) DNS
5 5 (0.81%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (18.48%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.59%) NoSQL
3 81 (13.13%) MongoDB
4 66 (10.70%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.10%) MySQL
6 43 (6.97%) DynamoDB
7 33 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.43%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.43%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.27%) Redis
12 12 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.46%) Big Data
13 9 (1.46%) DB2
14 8 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.30%) HBase
15 7 (1.13%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 133 (21.56%) Git
2 129 (20.91%) Jenkins
3 114 (18.48%) GitLab
4 98 (15.88%) JUnit
5 50 (8.10%) JIRA
6 49 (7.94%) Mockito
7 47 (7.62%) Maven
8 46 (7.46%) Gradle
9 45 (7.29%) Cucumber
10 24 (3.89%) Selenium
11 19 (3.08%) Cypress.io
12 15 (2.43%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.11%) IntelliJ
13 13 (2.11%) Postman
14 12 (1.94%) Gatling
14 12 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.78%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.78%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.62%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.62%) Mocha
General
1 146 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 123 (19.94%) Finance
3 110 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 75 (12.16%) Banking
5 25 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.11%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.11%) Retail
7 11 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.81%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.65%) Military
9 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.49%) Electronics
10 3 (0.49%) Marketing
11 2 (0.32%) Automotive
11 2 (0.32%) Law
11 2 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 357 (57.86%) Developer
2 260 (42.14%) Java Developer
3 129 (20.91%) Senior
4 97 (15.72%) Java Engineer
5 80 (12.97%) Senior Developer
6 75 (12.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (10.86%) Software Engineer
8 64 (10.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 60 (9.72%) Lead
10 37 (6.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 36 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (4.38%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.57%) Backend Developer
15 21 (3.40%) Architect
16 20 (3.24%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.92%) Lead Java Developer
19 17 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
19 17 (2.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (90.44%) Spring
2 184 (29.82%) Kafka
3 175 (28.36%) RESTful
4 149 (24.15%) REST
5 134 (21.72%) React
6 106 (17.18%) AngularJS
7 71 (11.51%) Node.js
8 59 (9.56%) Hibernate
9 58 (9.40%) HTML
10 43 (6.97%) JPA
11 41 (6.65%) CSS
12 40 (6.48%) OAuth
13 37 (6.00%) OAuth2
13 37 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
14 34 (5.51%) Spring Cloud
15 30 (4.86%) JSON
15 30 (4.86%) Spring MVC
16 29 (4.70%) Jest
17 26 (4.21%) Playwright
17 26 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 98 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.43%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.81%) NHS
13 4 (0.65%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.48%) Linux
2 9 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.13%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.32%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (63.37%) Microservices
2 346 (56.08%) CI/CD
3 252 (40.84%) Agile
4 230 (37.28%) DevOps
5 193 (31.28%) Containerisation
6 155 (25.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 140 (22.69%) Software Engineering
8 123 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
9 122 (19.77%) Test Automation
10 111 (17.99%) TDD
11 105 (17.02%) Event-Driven
12 91 (14.75%) Scrum
13 82 (13.29%) Observability
14 74 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 73 (11.83%) Code Quality
16 68 (11.02%) API Design
17 67 (10.86%) SDLC
18 66 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (10.70%) Mentoring
19 63 (10.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 582 (94.33%) Java
2 152 (24.64%) SQL
3 88 (14.26%) JavaScript
4 74 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 50 (8.10%) Python
6 36 (5.83%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.59%) Go
8 14 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.62%) Rust
10 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.97%) C#
11 6 (0.97%) Perl
12 4 (0.65%) Bash
12 4 (0.65%) Scala
13 3 (0.49%) PHP
14 2 (0.32%) Groovy
15 1 (0.16%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.16%) JCL
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 150 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 124 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.54%) Degree
4 22 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.78%) OCP
6 11 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.97%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.86%) QA
2 49 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.73%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.92%) WCAG
5 14 (2.27%) PSD2
5 14 (2.27%) SEPA
6 9 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.65%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.49%) HL7
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.32%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 256 (41.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 287 (46.52%) Kubernetes
2 90 (14.59%) Terraform
3 79 (12.80%) Grafana
4 41 (6.65%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.24%) Ansible
6 14 (2.27%) Argo
7 12 (1.94%) Kibana
8 9 (1.46%) Kiali
9 6 (0.97%) Istio
10 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 57 (9.24%) Oracle
2 37 (6.00%) Splunk
3 31 (5.02%) Google
4 27 (4.38%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.13%) Sybase
8 6 (0.97%) Adobe
8 6 (0.97%) Confluent
8 6 (0.97%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.97%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.81%) Databricks
9 5 (0.81%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.81%) IBM
9 5 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.65%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.65%) SAP
10 4 (0.65%) VMware
11 3 (0.49%) Qualys
152 Spring Boot jobs Nationwide