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

 6 months to
8 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 212 270
Rank change year-on-year +12 +58 -127
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 521 382 364
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.41% 1.18% 0.86%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.31% 5.39% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 232 258
10th Percentile £350 £356 £420
25th Percentile £420 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £578 £620 £622
90th Percentile £625 £744 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £438 £515
% change year-on-year +8.11% -15.05% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £41.25 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £60.88 - £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £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 8,253 7,085 9,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.36% 21.96% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 4,499 6,469
10th Percentile £356 £351 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 82 165
10th Percentile £32.86 £21.33 £30.33
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -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 8 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 8 January 2026.

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 8 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 +39 429 £488 -15.22% 223
UK excluding London +13 277 £473 +8.11% 188
London -3 196 £525 -10.87% 71
North of England +33 142 £475 +6.74% 40
Work from Home +16 134 £516 +11.62% 132
North West +44 98 £450 +2.86% 19
Scotland -17 53 £588 +38.24% 11
South East +6 35 £450 +15.38% 61
Midlands -13 28 £449 - 20
Yorkshire -32 26 £500 -35.90% 15
West Midlands -17 24 £469 - 13
North East -3 18 £475 +6.74% 6
South West -13 14 £409 -25.64% 27
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 7
Wales - 3 £475 - 10
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 +54.55% 3
East of England -27 1 - - 21

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 17 (3.26%) Confluence
2 7 (1.34%) Apache
3 6 (1.15%) CMS
4 5 (0.96%) Camunda
5 4 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.77%) Drupal
5 4 (0.77%) Mule
5 4 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.77%) WordPress
6 3 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.58%) CICS
6 3 (0.58%) JBoss
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 279 (53.55%) AWS
2 163 (31.29%) Azure
3 95 (18.23%) GitHub
4 86 (16.51%) GCP
5 59 (11.32%) Serverless
6 49 (9.40%) GitHub Actions
7 47 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (7.87%) Amazon S3
9 33 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.57%) OpenShift
11 27 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (4.41%) Azure AKS
14 23 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (3.26%) Datadog
16 15 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (2.69%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) SSL
2 6 (1.15%) Firewall
3 5 (0.96%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.77%) DNS
4 4 (0.77%) HTTP
4 4 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.58%) VPN
6 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (19.19%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (15.55%) NoSQL
3 72 (13.82%) MongoDB
4 62 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 50 (9.60%) MySQL
6 40 (7.68%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.03%) RDBMS
8 20 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.65%) Redis
10 17 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.50%) SQL Server
13 12 (2.30%) BigQuery
13 12 (2.30%) DocumentDB
14 8 (1.54%) DB2
14 8 (1.54%) HBase
14 8 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 6 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 120 (23.03%) Git
2 112 (21.50%) Jenkins
3 93 (17.85%) GitLab
4 83 (15.93%) JUnit
5 46 (8.83%) Gradle
6 44 (8.45%) Cucumber
7 43 (8.25%) Mockito
8 41 (7.87%) Maven
9 35 (6.72%) JIRA
10 23 (4.41%) SonarQube
11 17 (3.26%) Bitbucket
11 17 (3.26%) Cypress.io
12 16 (3.07%) Selenium
13 15 (2.88%) Postman
14 13 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 12 (2.30%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.30%) IntelliJ
16 11 (2.11%) Gatling
16 11 (2.11%) REST Assured
17 7 (1.34%) Subversion
General
1 130 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.26%) Finance
3 89 (17.08%) Public Sector
4 83 (15.93%) Banking
5 19 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.34%) Retail
9 6 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Electronics
11 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.38%) Law
13 1 (0.19%) German Language
13 1 (0.19%) Military
13 1 (0.19%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 305 (58.54%) Developer
2 237 (45.49%) Java Developer
3 110 (21.11%) Senior
4 77 (14.78%) Senior Developer
5 67 (12.86%) Java Engineer
6 64 (12.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 62 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 54 (10.36%) Software Engineer
9 51 (9.79%) Lead
10 31 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.37%) Architect
12 26 (4.99%) Lead Developer
13 24 (4.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (4.61%) Java Software Engineer
14 18 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
15 16 (3.07%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.07%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.69%) Technical Architect
17 13 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 449 (86.18%) Spring
2 149 (28.60%) Kafka
3 147 (28.21%) RESTful
4 121 (23.22%) React
5 116 (22.26%) REST
6 98 (18.81%) AngularJS
7 54 (10.36%) HTML
8 53 (10.17%) Hibernate
9 50 (9.60%) Node.js
10 41 (7.87%) JSON
10 41 (7.87%) OAuth
11 39 (7.49%) OAuth2
12 38 (7.29%) CSS
13 35 (6.72%) JPA
14 31 (5.95%) OpenTelemetry
14 31 (5.95%) Spring Cloud
15 23 (4.41%) Spring MVC
16 21 (4.03%) Swagger
17 20 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
18 19 (3.65%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 82 (15.74%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.15%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.77%) NHS
12 3 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.80%) Linux
2 9 (1.73%) Unix
3 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (0.96%) Windows
4 3 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (67.18%) Microservices
2 286 (54.89%) CI/CD
3 222 (42.61%) Agile
4 189 (36.28%) DevOps
5 173 (33.21%) Containerisation
6 130 (24.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 113 (21.69%) Software Engineering
8 110 (21.11%) Test Automation
9 108 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (19.39%) TDD
11 95 (18.23%) Event-Driven
12 81 (15.55%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (12.86%) SDLC
14 63 (12.09%) API Design
15 61 (11.71%) Observability
16 60 (11.52%) Scrum
17 58 (11.13%) Mentoring
18 55 (10.56%) BDD
19 52 (9.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 49 (9.40%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 486 (93.28%) Java
2 125 (23.99%) SQL
3 79 (15.16%) JavaScript
4 68 (13.05%) TypeScript
5 51 (9.79%) Python
6 31 (5.95%) Kotlin
7 10 (1.92%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.73%) Bash
9 7 (1.34%) Go
9 7 (1.34%) Rust
10 5 (0.96%) Groovy
10 5 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.77%) C#
11 4 (0.77%) PHP
11 4 (0.77%) Ruby
12 3 (0.58%) Scala
13 2 (0.38%) JCL
13 2 (0.38%) Korn
13 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 108 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.22%) Degree
4 12 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.11%) OCP
5 11 (2.11%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.67%) QA
2 38 (7.29%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.41%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.88%) WCAG
5 13 (2.50%) PSD2
5 13 (2.50%) SEPA
6 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.58%) HL7
7 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.58%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 231 (44.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 250 (47.98%) Kubernetes
2 100 (19.19%) Terraform
3 51 (9.79%) Grafana
4 25 (4.80%) Ansible
5 24 (4.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.50%) Argo
7 11 (2.11%) Kibana
8 6 (1.15%) Kiali
9 5 (0.96%) Istio
10 3 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.19%) Consul
12 1 (0.19%) Control-M
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (10.17%) Oracle
2 25 (4.80%) Splunk
3 24 (4.61%) Google
4 21 (4.03%) Microsoft
5 12 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.15%) Confluent
7 6 (1.15%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.96%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (0.96%) Gigya
9 4 (0.77%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.77%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.77%) Sybase
9 4 (0.77%) VMware
10 3 (0.58%) Adobe
10 3 (0.58%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.58%) IBM
10 3 (0.58%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.58%) Qualys
10 3 (0.58%) SAP
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