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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 212 257
Rank change year-on-year +25 +45 -113
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 581 389 394
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.24% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.77% 5.51% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 232 285
10th Percentile £351 £356 £404
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.50%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £625
90th Percentile £630 £744 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £500
% change year-on-year +7.71% -11.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 1
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
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 - - +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 8,579 7,062 9,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.29% 22.43% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,709 4,476 6,516
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £772 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 89 188
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.47 £25.93
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £69.25 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.90 £77.45 £76.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +36 487 £488 -15.22% 148
UK excluding London +29 311 £475 +7.71% 121
London +4 218 £525 -10.87% 62
North of England +29 174 £475 +5.56% 26
Work from Home +29 147 £500 +5.26% 89
North West +54 120 £475 +13.43% 20
Scotland -12 53 £600 +36.36% 11
South East +2 38 £450 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire -35 35 £500 -4.76% 6
Midlands -33 27 £469 - 9
West Midlands -13 26 £470 - 8
North East -4 21 £476 +7.02%
South West -17 17 £409 -25.64% 26
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 +54.55%
East of England -19 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £220 - 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 19 (3.27%) Confluence
2 11 (1.89%) Camunda
3 8 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.03%) Ethereum
4 6 (1.03%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.86%) Apache
5 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 4 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.69%) Drupal
6 4 (0.69%) WordPress
7 3 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 317 (54.56%) AWS
2 178 (30.64%) Azure
3 107 (18.42%) GitHub
4 92 (15.83%) GCP
5 68 (11.70%) Serverless
6 59 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 34 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.82%) OpenShift
12 24 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (3.44%) Azure AKS
14 18 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.93%) Datadog
16 16 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
17 15 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.72%) HTTP
1 10 (1.72%) SSL
2 9 (1.55%) Firewall
3 5 (0.86%) DNS
3 5 (0.86%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.69%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.52%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (19.45%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (15.49%) NoSQL
3 81 (13.94%) MongoDB
4 69 (11.88%) Relational Database
5 57 (9.81%) MySQL
6 43 (7.40%) DynamoDB
7 31 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.79%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.27%) Redis
10 18 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (3.10%) SQL Server
11 15 (2.58%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (2.24%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.38%) DB2
15 8 (1.38%) HBase
15 8 (1.38%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.20%) Big Data
17 4 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 133 (22.89%) Git
2 129 (22.20%) Jenkins
3 114 (19.62%) GitLab
4 98 (16.87%) JUnit
5 52 (8.95%) Gradle
6 47 (8.09%) Maven
7 45 (7.75%) Cucumber
8 44 (7.57%) Mockito
9 43 (7.40%) JIRA
10 24 (4.13%) Selenium
11 21 (3.61%) Cypress.io
12 18 (3.10%) Postman
13 14 (2.41%) REST Assured
13 14 (2.41%) SonarQube
14 13 (2.24%) IntelliJ
15 12 (2.07%) Gatling
15 12 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
16 11 (1.89%) Artifactory
16 11 (1.89%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.55%) Jaeger
General
1 144 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.34%) Finance
3 104 (17.90%) Public Sector
4 88 (15.15%) Banking
5 21 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.38%) Retail
9 6 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.52%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.52%) Electronics
12 3 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.52%) Marketing
12 3 (0.52%) Military
13 2 (0.34%) Law
13 2 (0.34%) Legal
14 1 (0.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 332 (57.14%) Developer
2 246 (42.34%) Java Developer
3 136 (23.41%) Senior
4 89 (15.32%) Senior Developer
5 87 (14.97%) Java Engineer
6 75 (12.91%) Full-Stack Developer
7 73 (12.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 61 (10.50%) Software Engineer
9 54 (9.29%) Lead
10 34 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 31 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 29 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 27 (4.65%) Architect
14 26 (4.48%) Lead Developer
15 21 (3.61%) Backend Developer
16 19 (3.27%) AWS Developer
17 17 (2.93%) Lead Java Developer
18 15 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (2.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 15 (2.58%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 516 (88.81%) Spring
2 175 (30.12%) Kafka
2 175 (30.12%) RESTful
3 140 (24.10%) React
4 133 (22.89%) REST
5 109 (18.76%) AngularJS
6 65 (11.19%) Node.js
7 59 (10.15%) HTML
8 53 (9.12%) Hibernate
9 41 (7.06%) CSS
10 40 (6.88%) JPA
10 40 (6.88%) OAuth
11 38 (6.54%) OAuth2
12 37 (6.37%) OpenTelemetry
13 35 (6.02%) JSON
14 31 (5.34%) Spring Cloud
15 30 (5.16%) Spring MVC
16 26 (4.48%) Jest
16 26 (4.48%) Playwright
17 24 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 96 (16.52%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 10 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.03%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.69%) NHS
12 3 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.51%) Linux
2 9 (1.55%) Unix
3 5 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
4 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (65.58%) Microservices
2 330 (56.80%) CI/CD
3 250 (43.03%) Agile
4 215 (37.01%) DevOps
5 192 (33.05%) Containerisation
6 158 (27.19%) Full-Stack Development
7 126 (21.69%) Test Automation
8 123 (21.17%) Software Engineering
9 122 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (18.59%) TDD
11 106 (18.24%) Event-Driven
12 77 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
13 76 (13.08%) Scrum
14 72 (12.39%) SDLC
15 70 (12.05%) Observability
16 66 (11.36%) API Design
17 64 (11.02%) Mentoring
18 61 (10.50%) BDD
19 60 (10.33%) Code Quality
20 56 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 543 (93.46%) Java
2 140 (24.10%) SQL
3 89 (15.32%) JavaScript
4 75 (12.91%) TypeScript
5 48 (8.26%) Python
6 25 (4.30%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.24%) Go
8 12 (2.07%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.72%) Rust
10 7 (1.20%) C#
11 4 (0.69%) Bash
11 4 (0.69%) PHP
11 4 (0.69%) Scala
12 3 (0.52%) Groovy
13 2 (0.34%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) COBOL
14 1 (0.17%) JCL
14 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 132 (22.72%) Security Cleared
2 106 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.13%) Degree
4 18 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.89%) OCP
5 11 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (11.53%) QA
2 49 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.30%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.10%) WCAG
5 16 (2.75%) PSD2
5 16 (2.75%) SEPA
6 8 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.69%) NIST
8 3 (0.52%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.52%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 261 (44.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.52%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 280 (48.19%) Kubernetes
2 101 (17.38%) Terraform
3 63 (10.84%) Grafana
4 34 (5.85%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.79%) Ansible
6 14 (2.41%) Argo
7 12 (2.07%) Kibana
8 9 (1.55%) Kiali
9 6 (1.03%) Istio
10 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) Consul
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (10.50%) Oracle
2 29 (4.99%) Splunk
3 25 (4.30%) Google
4 19 (3.27%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.03%) Confluent
7 6 (1.03%) Sybase
7 6 (1.03%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.86%) Adobe
8 5 (0.86%) Gigya
8 5 (0.86%) PagerDuty
9 4 (0.69%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (0.69%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.69%) IBM
9 4 (0.69%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.69%) VMware
10 3 (0.52%) Informatica
10 3 (0.52%) Qualys
10 3 (0.52%) SAP