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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 212 295
Rank change year-on-year +13 +83 -152
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 512 433 377
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.19% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 5.49% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 273 283
10th Percentile £327 £363 £421
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £625 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £440 £506
% change year-on-year +6.59% -13.04% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £40.25 - £73.05
25th Percentile £40.63 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £76.50
75th Percentile £45.63 - £77.88
90th Percentile £46.75 - £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 8,116 7,886 10,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.64% 21.75% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,381 4,967 7,238
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 117 183
10th Percentile £30.55 £22.00 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +19.27% -13.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.90 £74.18 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +16 406 £475 -18.10% 96
UK excluding London +43 267 £469 +6.59% 99
London -15 195 £520 -12.61% 40
Work from Home +9 139 £516 +7.83% 52
North of England +20 120 £465 +4.49% 20
North West +36 86 £447 +11.75% 13
Scotland -12 58 £581 +36.76% 10
South East +14 33 £450 -19.64% 39
Midlands - 32 £338 - 10
West Midlands - 21 £475 - 9
Yorkshire -28 18 £538 -28.33% 6
North East 0 16 £488 +9.55% 1
Wales +10 12 £475 +13.43% 1
East Midlands - 11 £270 - 1
South West +2 10 £488 -21.21% 16
Northern Ireland -3 2 £425 - 3
East of England -19 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 (4.10%) Confluence
2 12 (2.34%) JBoss
3 9 (1.76%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.37%) Apache
4 7 (1.37%) Camunda
4 7 (1.37%) CMS
5 5 (0.98%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.78%) Drupal
6 4 (0.78%) Mule
6 4 (0.78%) WordPress
7 3 (0.59%) CICS
7 3 (0.59%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.39%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.39%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 281 (54.88%) AWS
2 165 (32.23%) Azure
3 84 (16.41%) GitHub
4 82 (16.02%) GCP
5 56 (10.94%) Serverless
6 47 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
7 37 (7.23%) Amazon S3
7 37 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 27 (5.27%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
11 25 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (4.49%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (3.52%) Datadog
15 16 (3.13%) Apigee
16 11 (2.15%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.98%) HTTP
1 5 (0.98%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.78%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.78%) SSL
3 2 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (14.06%) NoSQL
2 72 (14.06%) Relational Database
3 68 (13.28%) MongoDB
4 50 (9.77%) MySQL
5 36 (7.03%) DynamoDB
6 26 (5.08%) RDBMS
7 22 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 15 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (2.93%) Redis
10 13 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.34%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.15%) DB2
13 8 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.37%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.37%) HBase
15 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.78%) DocumentDB
16 2 (0.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 138 (26.95%) Git
2 120 (23.44%) Jenkins
3 114 (22.27%) JUnit
4 82 (16.02%) GitLab
5 58 (11.33%) Cucumber
5 58 (11.33%) Maven
6 57 (11.13%) Mockito
7 55 (10.74%) JIRA
8 37 (7.23%) Gradle
8 37 (7.23%) SonarQube
9 27 (5.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (5.08%) Bitbucket
11 22 (4.30%) Selenium
12 18 (3.52%) Postman
13 13 (2.54%) Artifactory
14 11 (2.15%) Cypress.io
14 11 (2.15%) REST Assured
15 9 (1.76%) Subversion
16 8 (1.56%) Gatling
17 7 (1.37%) JMeter
General
1 132 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 109 (21.29%) Finance
3 85 (16.60%) Banking
4 80 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.78%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.59%) Automotive
10 3 (0.59%) Electronics
10 3 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.59%) Marketing
10 3 (0.59%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.39%) Front Office
11 2 (0.39%) Law
11 2 (0.39%) Retail
12 1 (0.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 326 (63.67%) Developer
2 266 (51.95%) Java Developer
3 95 (18.55%) Senior
4 74 (14.45%) Senior Developer
5 69 (13.48%) Senior Java Developer
6 55 (10.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 53 (10.35%) Lead
8 47 (9.18%) Java Engineer
9 39 (7.62%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (5.27%) Architect
12 26 (5.08%) Lead Developer
13 25 (4.88%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.91%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (2.93%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.73%) Java Software Engineer
16 14 (2.73%) Technical Architect
17 13 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 12 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (85.55%) Spring
2 156 (30.47%) RESTful
3 146 (28.52%) Kafka
4 131 (25.59%) REST
5 121 (23.63%) React
6 92 (17.97%) AngularJS
7 67 (13.09%) Hibernate
8 54 (10.55%) HTML
9 48 (9.38%) JPA
10 44 (8.59%) Node.js
11 42 (8.20%) CSS
12 40 (7.81%) JSON
13 35 (6.84%) OAuth
14 34 (6.64%) OAuth2
14 34 (6.64%) Spring Cloud
15 29 (5.66%) SOAP
16 26 (5.08%) J2EE
16 26 (5.08%) Swagger
17 24 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (4.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (14.65%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (2.15%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.17%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.78%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.78%) NHS
12 4 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.88%) Linux
2 16 (3.13%) Unix
3 8 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.17%) Windows
5 3 (0.59%) Android
6 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (71.09%) Microservices
2 298 (58.20%) CI/CD
3 256 (50.00%) Agile
4 190 (37.11%) DevOps
5 155 (30.27%) Containerisation
6 125 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (23.05%) TDD
8 115 (22.46%) Test Automation
9 110 (21.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 91 (17.77%) Software Engineering
11 87 (16.99%) Event-Driven
12 69 (13.48%) Scrum
13 65 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 65 (12.70%) SDLC
14 55 (10.74%) BDD
14 55 (10.74%) Mentoring
15 51 (9.96%) API Design
15 51 (9.96%) Unit Testing
16 50 (9.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 49 (9.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 482 (94.14%) Java
2 134 (26.17%) SQL
3 81 (15.82%) JavaScript
4 64 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 61 (11.91%) Python
6 19 (3.71%) Shell Script
7 17 (3.32%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.15%) Ruby
9 10 (1.95%) Bash
10 8 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.37%) Groovy
12 5 (0.98%) C#
12 5 (0.98%) Perl
13 4 (0.78%) Go
13 4 (0.78%) PHP
13 4 (0.78%) Scala
14 2 (0.39%) JCL
14 2 (0.39%) Korn
14 2 (0.39%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 103 (20.12%) Security Cleared
2 82 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (3.32%) Degree
4 13 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.95%) OCP
6 10 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.45%) QA
2 26 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.91%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.73%) WCAG
5 11 (2.15%) PSD2
5 11 (2.15%) SEPA
6 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.59%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 219 (42.77%) Docker
2 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 216 (42.19%) Kubernetes
2 87 (16.99%) Terraform
3 30 (5.86%) Grafana
4 20 (3.91%) Ansible
5 15 (2.93%) Kibana
5 15 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.17%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.98%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.39%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.20%) Consul
9 1 (0.20%) Control-M
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (12.70%) Oracle
2 29 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.49%) Google
4 21 (4.10%) Splunk
5 12 (2.34%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.76%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.37%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.37%) Veracode
8 6 (1.17%) Sybase
9 5 (0.98%) Gigya
9 5 (0.98%) IBM
9 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.78%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.78%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.78%) VMware
11 3 (0.59%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.59%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.59%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.59%) SAP