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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 216 271
Rank change year-on-year +21 +55 -128
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 547 386 394
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.23% 0.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 5.50% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 230 283
10th Percentile £353 £355 £405
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.33%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £625
90th Percentile £635 £775 £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 15 0 1
10th Percentile £45.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
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 8,368 7,016 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.43% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,448 6,613
10th Percentile £358 £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 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 91 189
10th Percentile £34.60 £25.09 £25.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £38.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £77.19 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +33 462 £496 -13.74% 161
UK excluding London +22 290 £475 +7.95% 133
London +8 209 £525 -10.87% 60
North of England +35 163 £475 +5.56% 29
Work from Home +23 141 £500 +6.61% 86
North West +51 113 £475 +13.43% 22
Scotland -15 47 £600 +41.18% 14
South East -2 38 £450 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire -33 30 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands -24 26 £469 - 10
West Midlands -18 25 £470 - 9
North East -5 20 £476 +7.02% 2
South West -22 14 £409 -25.64% 31
Northern Ireland -6 2 £425 +54.55%
East of England -20 1 - - 4
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 18 (3.29%) Confluence
2 11 (2.01%) Camunda
3 8 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.91%) Apache
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
4 5 (0.91%) Ethereum
4 5 (0.91%) Hyperledger
5 4 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.37%) Drupal
7 2 (0.37%) JBoss
7 2 (0.37%) Mule
7 2 (0.37%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.37%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 301 (55.03%) AWS
2 176 (32.18%) Azure
3 101 (18.46%) GitHub
4 90 (16.45%) GCP
5 61 (11.15%) Serverless
6 55 (10.05%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (9.51%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (8.96%) Amazon S3
9 32 (5.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (5.30%) OpenShift
12 28 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
14 20 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (3.66%) Azure AKS
15 18 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.11%) Datadog
17 15 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.56%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.83%) SSL
2 9 (1.65%) HTTP
3 8 (1.46%) Firewall
4 5 (0.91%) DNS
4 5 (0.91%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.73%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.55%) VPN
7 1 (0.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (19.38%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (16.09%) NoSQL
3 74 (13.53%) MongoDB
4 61 (11.15%) Relational Database
5 52 (9.51%) MySQL
6 40 (7.31%) DynamoDB
7 25 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (4.02%) RDBMS
9 19 (3.47%) Redis
10 18 (3.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (3.11%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.74%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (2.19%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.46%) DB2
15 8 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.46%) HBase
16 7 (1.28%) Big Data
17 6 (1.10%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 125 (22.85%) Git
2 121 (22.12%) Jenkins
3 109 (19.93%) GitLab
4 93 (17.00%) JUnit
5 48 (8.78%) Gradle
6 45 (8.23%) Cucumber
7 43 (7.86%) Maven
7 43 (7.86%) Mockito
8 40 (7.31%) JIRA
9 21 (3.84%) Cypress.io
10 20 (3.66%) Selenium
11 18 (3.29%) Postman
12 14 (2.56%) SonarQube
13 13 (2.38%) IntelliJ
14 12 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (2.01%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.01%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.83%) REST Assured
17 8 (1.46%) Gatling
17 8 (1.46%) Mocha
General
1 142 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 119 (21.76%) Finance
3 102 (18.65%) Public Sector
4 88 (16.09%) Banking
5 21 (3.84%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.46%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.28%) Retail
9 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 5 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.55%) Electronics
12 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
13 2 (0.37%) Law
13 2 (0.37%) Military
14 1 (0.18%) Legal
14 1 (0.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 316 (57.77%) Developer
2 237 (43.33%) Java Developer
3 125 (22.85%) Senior
4 83 (15.17%) Senior Developer
5 80 (14.63%) Java Engineer
6 71 (12.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 69 (12.61%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (10.79%) Software Engineer
9 52 (9.51%) Lead
10 30 (5.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.12%) Architect
12 27 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
13 26 (4.75%) Lead Developer
14 24 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.47%) AWS Developer
16 18 (3.29%) Backend Developer
17 17 (3.11%) Lead Java Developer
18 15 (2.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 15 (2.74%) Software Developer
19 13 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (88.67%) Spring
2 169 (30.90%) RESTful
3 168 (30.71%) Kafka
4 131 (23.95%) React
5 123 (22.49%) REST
6 105 (19.20%) AngularJS
7 62 (11.33%) Node.js
8 56 (10.24%) HTML
9 50 (9.14%) Hibernate
10 41 (7.50%) OAuth
11 39 (7.13%) CSS
11 39 (7.13%) OAuth2
12 36 (6.58%) JPA
12 36 (6.58%) JSON
13 35 (6.40%) OpenTelemetry
14 27 (4.94%) Spring Cloud
14 27 (4.94%) Spring MVC
15 24 (4.39%) Jest
15 24 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (4.02%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.27%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 11 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.10%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.10%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.73%) NHS
13 3 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.48%) Linux
2 9 (1.65%) Unix
3 5 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.91%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (66.36%) Microservices
2 315 (57.59%) CI/CD
3 242 (44.24%) Agile
4 199 (36.38%) DevOps
5 190 (34.73%) Containerisation
6 141 (25.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 120 (21.94%) Software Engineering
8 118 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 115 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (19.20%) Event-Driven
10 105 (19.20%) TDD
11 77 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (13.71%) Scrum
13 67 (12.25%) SDLC
14 64 (11.70%) Observability
15 63 (11.52%) API Design
16 61 (11.15%) Mentoring
17 57 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 54 (9.87%) API Development
18 54 (9.87%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 512 (93.60%) Java
2 134 (24.50%) SQL
3 86 (15.72%) JavaScript
4 74 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 47 (8.59%) Python
6 25 (4.57%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.19%) Go
7 12 (2.19%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.65%) Rust
9 5 (0.91%) C#
10 4 (0.73%) Bash
10 4 (0.73%) Scala
11 3 (0.55%) Groovy
12 2 (0.37%) Perl
12 2 (0.37%) PHP
12 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) C++
13 1 (0.18%) COBOL
13 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 123 (22.49%) Security Cleared
2 100 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.39%) Degree
4 16 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.01%) OCP
5 11 (2.01%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.25%) QA
2 45 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.39%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.29%) WCAG
5 15 (2.74%) PSD2
5 15 (2.74%) SEPA
6 8 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.73%) NIST
8 3 (0.55%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.55%) HL7
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.18%) GDPR
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 249 (45.52%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 272 (49.73%) Kubernetes
2 95 (17.37%) Terraform
3 58 (10.60%) Grafana
4 29 (5.30%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.39%) Ansible
6 13 (2.38%) Argo
7 12 (2.19%) Kibana
8 8 (1.46%) Kiali
9 5 (0.91%) Istio
10 2 (0.37%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.37%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.18%) Consul
11 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 56 (10.24%) Oracle
2 25 (4.57%) Splunk
3 24 (4.39%) Google
4 16 (2.93%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.83%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.10%) Confluent
6 6 (1.10%) Sybase
6 6 (1.10%) Virgin Media
7 5 (0.91%) Adobe
7 5 (0.91%) Gigya
7 5 (0.91%) PagerDuty
8 4 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (0.73%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.73%) IBM
8 4 (0.73%) VMware
9 3 (0.55%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.55%) Informatica
9 3 (0.55%) Qualys
9 3 (0.55%) SAP