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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 194 271
Rank change year-on-year +4 +77 -139
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 493 488 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.50% 1.27% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.53% 5.65% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 364 332
10th Percentile £313 £373 £425
25th Percentile £413 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -0.47% -10.21%
75th Percentile £553 £630 £678
90th Percentile £613 £751 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £497
% change year-on-year +4.22% -9.41% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £41.75 - £75.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83.44 £74.50 £87.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +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 7,545 8,634 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.41% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 5,617 7,893
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £72.25 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot 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 19 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 +4 370 £500 -9.09% 207
UK excluding London +22 236 £469 +4.22% 159
London -29 196 £520 -5.45% 105
Work from Home +6 142 £510 -6.21% 87
North of England +13 95 £467 -15.09% 38
North West +28 73 £430 +7.50% 29
Scotland -17 61 £463 +6.32% 14
Midlands - 37 £364 - 6
East Midlands - 20 £313 - 1
West Midlands - 17 £500 - 5
South West +13 14 £509 -5.35% 12
Wales +15 13 £475 +13.43%
North East +8 12 £484 -17.31% 1
South East +2 12 £550 -9.84% 81
Yorkshire -23 10 £550 -4.35% 8
Northern Ireland -12 4 £470 -18.26% 5
East of England -13 1 £468 +24.67% 3

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.26%) JBoss
2 17 (3.45%) Confluence
3 15 (3.04%) Tomcat
4 11 (2.23%) Apache
5 9 (1.83%) Camunda
6 8 (1.62%) WebLogic
7 7 (1.42%) CMS
8 5 (1.01%) Alfresco
8 5 (1.01%) Mule
8 5 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.81%) Drupal
9 4 (0.81%) WordPress
10 3 (0.61%) CICS
10 3 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.61%) SAS
11 2 (0.41%) GemFire
11 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
11 2 (0.41%) nginx
12 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 230 (46.65%) AWS
2 110 (22.31%) Azure
3 63 (12.78%) GCP
4 41 (8.32%) GitHub
5 39 (7.91%) Serverless
6 35 (7.10%) Amazon SQS
6 35 (7.10%) OpenShift
7 30 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.27%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.06%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.25%) Azure AKS
12 16 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.64%) Route 53
16 10 (2.03%) Apigee
16 10 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 9 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.81%) HTTP
3 3 (0.61%) SSL
4 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.41%) Internet
4 2 (0.41%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.41%) LAN
4 2 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (26.98%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 68 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 65 (13.18%) MongoDB
5 49 (9.94%) MySQL
6 29 (5.88%) DynamoDB
7 27 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.07%) SQL Server
9 24 (4.87%) RDBMS
10 22 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.45%) DB2
12 15 (3.04%) Oracle Database
13 14 (2.84%) Redis
14 7 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.22%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 3 (0.61%) Big Data
17 3 (0.61%) Flink
17 3 (0.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 147 (29.82%) Git
2 143 (29.01%) Jenkins
3 129 (26.17%) JUnit
4 84 (17.04%) Mockito
5 81 (16.43%) Maven
6 61 (12.37%) GitLab
6 61 (12.37%) Gradle
7 59 (11.97%) JIRA
7 59 (11.97%) SonarQube
8 38 (7.71%) Cucumber
9 36 (7.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 30 (6.09%) Liquibase
11 29 (5.88%) Bitbucket
12 15 (3.04%) Selenium
13 14 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
14 12 (2.43%) Postman
14 12 (2.43%) Subversion
14 12 (2.43%) TeamCity
15 10 (2.03%) Artifactory
15 10 (2.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 134 (27.18%) Finance
2 101 (20.49%) Social Skills
3 85 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 80 (16.23%) Banking
5 31 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.45%) Electronics
6 17 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 17 (3.45%) Marketing
6 17 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.42%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.22%) Front Office
11 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Back Office
12 3 (0.61%) Retail
13 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.20%) German Language
14 1 (0.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 320 (64.91%) Developer
2 264 (53.55%) Java Developer
3 72 (14.60%) Senior
4 60 (12.17%) Senior Developer
5 59 (11.97%) Lead
6 57 (11.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 51 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (9.94%) Software Engineer
9 44 (8.92%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.69%) Lead Developer
11 32 (6.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 31 (6.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 29 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
14 28 (5.68%) Architect
15 21 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
16 20 (4.06%) React Developer
17 19 (3.85%) AWS Developer
18 15 (3.04%) Software Developer
19 13 (2.64%) Technical Architect
20 11 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (84.18%) Spring
2 139 (28.19%) Kafka
2 139 (28.19%) React
3 136 (27.59%) REST
4 125 (25.35%) RESTful
5 81 (16.43%) AngularJS
6 79 (16.02%) Hibernate
7 63 (12.78%) JPA
8 55 (11.16%) Web Services
9 53 (10.75%) HTML
10 50 (10.14%) SOAP
11 49 (9.94%) Swagger
12 47 (9.53%) Node.js
13 42 (8.52%) CSS
14 41 (8.32%) Spring Cloud
15 35 (7.10%) OpenAPI
16 32 (6.49%) J2EE
17 28 (5.68%) JSON
18 26 (5.27%) OAuth
18 26 (5.27%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 63 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.04%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.62%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 7 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.22%) N-Tier
9 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.81%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.61%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.61%) PKI
12 3 (0.61%) State Machine
12 3 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.71%) Linux
2 27 (5.48%) Unix
3 10 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.42%) Windows
5 3 (0.61%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) zOS
7 1 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (67.14%) Microservices
2 257 (52.13%) Agile
3 254 (51.52%) CI/CD
4 184 (37.32%) DevOps
5 132 (26.77%) TDD
6 126 (25.56%) Containerisation
7 104 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (20.28%) Software Engineering
9 97 (19.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 75 (15.21%) Test Automation
11 72 (14.60%) Scrum
12 71 (14.40%) Event-Driven
13 61 (12.37%) Migration
14 58 (11.76%) Mentoring
15 57 (11.56%) SDLC
16 54 (10.95%) API Development
17 51 (10.34%) Clean Code
17 51 (10.34%) Design Patterns
17 51 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 47 (9.53%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 472 (95.74%) Java
2 169 (34.28%) SQL
3 97 (19.68%) JavaScript
4 81 (16.43%) TypeScript
5 66 (13.39%) Python
6 25 (5.07%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.64%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.43%) Ruby
9 9 (1.83%) Bash
9 9 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.62%) C#
11 7 (1.42%) Groovy
12 6 (1.22%) Perl
12 6 (1.22%) Scala
13 3 (0.61%) C
13 3 (0.61%) C++
13 3 (0.61%) PHP
13 3 (0.61%) Rust
14 2 (0.41%) COBOL
14 2 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 105 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 94 (19.07%) SC Cleared
3 12 (2.43%) Degree
4 11 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.20%) OCP
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.16%) QA
2 21 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.62%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.42%) PSD2
4 7 (1.42%) SEPA
5 6 (1.22%) WCAG
6 4 (0.81%) GDPR
6 4 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 208 (42.19%) Docker
2 6 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.22%) Postfix
3 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 160 (32.45%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.39%) Terraform
3 19 (3.85%) Grafana
4 17 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 14 (2.84%) Ansible
6 10 (2.03%) Kibana
7 8 (1.62%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.41%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.20%) Control-M
10 1 (0.20%) logstash
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (12.98%) Oracle
2 32 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.67%) Splunk
4 19 (3.85%) SAP
5 16 (3.25%) Dynatrace
6 15 (3.04%) Google
7 11 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.03%) CA Agile Central
8 10 (2.03%) IBM
9 8 (1.62%) AppDynamics
9 8 (1.62%) Veracode
10 7 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (1.22%) Virgin Media
12 5 (1.01%) Gigya
12 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.01%) Sybase
13 4 (0.81%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.81%) Cloudera