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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 209 249
Rank change year-on-year +15 +40 -103
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 607 385 427
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.24% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.79% 5.51% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 227 308
10th Percentile £350 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -17.73%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £625
90th Percentile £638 £738 £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 22 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 8,936 6,984 9,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.27% 22.56% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,978 4,502 6,552
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -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 - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 84 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £44.70
Median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +43 518 £489 -15.00% 133
UK excluding London +30 334 £475 +7.95% 103
London -11 218 £525 -10.26% 47
North of England +32 168 £475 +5.56% 25
Work from Home +21 149 £500 - 68
North West +42 114 £465 +16.25% 18
South East +13 46 £450 +15.38% 34
Scotland -16 46 £600 +47.06% 9
Midlands -22 40 £473 +26.68% 12
West Midlands -16 39 £475 +8.57% 11
Yorkshire -40 36 £500 -4.76% 5
South West -5 27 £386 -29.86% 19
North East -5 20 £478 +6.11% 2
East of England -18 9 £600 - 3
East Midlands -27 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 25 (4.12%) Confluence
2 18 (2.97%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.98%) Camunda
4 6 (0.99%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.99%) Hyperledger
5 5 (0.82%) Apache
6 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.66%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.49%) CMS
7 3 (0.49%) Drupal
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.49%) WordPress
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 329 (54.20%) AWS
2 177 (29.16%) Azure
3 104 (17.13%) GitHub
4 95 (15.65%) GCP
5 70 (11.53%) Serverless
6 68 (11.20%) Amazon S3
7 61 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
9 34 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (4.94%) OpenShift
13 23 (3.79%) Amazon SQS
14 21 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (3.29%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.97%) Cloud Run
17 16 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.64%) Datadog
18 12 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.81%) HTTP
2 10 (1.65%) SSL
3 9 (1.48%) Firewall
4 6 (0.99%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.82%) DNS
5 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.83%) NoSQL
3 79 (13.01%) MongoDB
4 68 (11.20%) Relational Database
5 50 (8.24%) MySQL
6 42 (6.92%) DynamoDB
7 31 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (2.97%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.47%) DocumentDB
10 15 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 15 (2.47%) Redis
11 14 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.98%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.48%) Big Data
13 9 (1.48%) DB2
13 9 (1.48%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.32%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.32%) HBase
15 6 (0.99%) Flink
Development Applications
1 133 (21.91%) Git
2 129 (21.25%) Jenkins
3 114 (18.78%) GitLab
4 100 (16.47%) JUnit
5 50 (8.24%) Mockito
6 49 (8.07%) JIRA
7 48 (7.91%) Gradle
7 48 (7.91%) Maven
8 45 (7.41%) Cucumber
9 23 (3.79%) Selenium
10 19 (3.13%) Cypress.io
11 15 (2.47%) REST Assured
12 14 (2.31%) Postman
13 13 (2.14%) IntelliJ
14 12 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.81%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.81%) Gatling
15 11 (1.81%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.65%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.65%) Mocha
General
1 146 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 126 (20.76%) Finance
3 105 (17.30%) Public Sector
4 77 (12.69%) Banking
5 21 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.14%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.14%) Retail
7 11 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.82%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.49%) Electronics
10 3 (0.49%) Marketing
10 3 (0.49%) Military
11 2 (0.33%) Law
11 2 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 347 (57.17%) Developer
2 253 (41.68%) Java Developer
3 131 (21.58%) Senior
4 95 (15.65%) Java Engineer
5 82 (13.51%) Senior Developer
6 75 (12.36%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
8 65 (10.71%) Software Engineer
9 61 (10.05%) Lead
10 37 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 34 (5.60%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 28 (4.61%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.62%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.46%) Architect
15 20 (3.29%) AWS Developer
16 19 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
17 17 (2.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 16 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (90.28%) Spring
2 184 (30.31%) Kafka
3 173 (28.50%) RESTful
4 147 (24.22%) REST
5 135 (22.24%) React
6 106 (17.46%) AngularJS
7 70 (11.53%) Node.js
8 59 (9.72%) Hibernate
8 59 (9.72%) HTML
9 45 (7.41%) JPA
10 42 (6.92%) CSS
11 40 (6.59%) OAuth
12 37 (6.10%) OAuth2
12 37 (6.10%) OpenTelemetry
13 33 (5.44%) Spring Cloud
14 31 (5.11%) Spring MVC
15 30 (4.94%) JSON
16 29 (4.78%) Jest
17 26 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
18 25 (4.12%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.26%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 12 (1.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.82%) NHS
11 3 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.49%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.43%) Linux
2 8 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (1.32%) Unix
3 3 (0.49%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) zOS
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (64.25%) Microservices
2 344 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 251 (41.35%) Agile
4 230 (37.89%) DevOps
5 195 (32.13%) Containerisation
6 156 (25.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (22.57%) Software Engineering
8 121 (19.93%) Test Automation
9 119 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
10 113 (18.62%) TDD
11 104 (17.13%) Event-Driven
12 90 (14.83%) Scrum
13 81 (13.34%) Observability
14 74 (12.19%) Code Quality
14 74 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (11.37%) Mentoring
16 68 (11.20%) API Design
16 68 (11.20%) SDLC
17 63 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (10.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 572 (94.23%) Java
2 147 (24.22%) SQL
3 91 (14.99%) JavaScript
4 75 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 49 (8.07%) Python
6 35 (5.77%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.64%) Go
8 15 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.65%) Rust
10 7 (1.15%) C#
11 5 (0.82%) Perl
12 4 (0.66%) Bash
12 4 (0.66%) PHP
12 4 (0.66%) Scala
13 3 (0.49%) Groovy
14 1 (0.16%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.16%) JCL
14 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 142 (23.39%) Security Cleared
2 116 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.78%) Degree
4 22 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.81%) OCP
6 11 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.87%) QA
2 48 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.79%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.97%) WCAG
5 14 (2.31%) PSD2
5 14 (2.31%) SEPA
6 9 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.66%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.49%) HL7
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.33%) 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
1 257 (42.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
2 3 (0.49%) Postfix
3 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 288 (47.45%) Kubernetes
2 91 (14.99%) Terraform
3 76 (12.52%) Grafana
4 40 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 20 (3.29%) Ansible
6 14 (2.31%) Argo
7 12 (1.98%) Kibana
8 9 (1.48%) Kiali
9 6 (0.99%) Istio
10 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (9.56%) Oracle
2 37 (6.10%) Splunk
3 30 (4.94%) Google
4 27 (4.45%) Microsoft
5 13 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.15%) Sybase
8 6 (0.99%) Adobe
8 6 (0.99%) Confluent
8 6 (0.99%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.99%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.82%) Databricks
9 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.82%) IBM
10 4 (0.66%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.66%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (0.66%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.66%) VMware
11 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.49%) Solace