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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 215 272
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 -128
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 523 396 374
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.42% 1.16% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.32% 5.30% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 249 268
10th Percentile £336 £356 £419
25th Percentile £415 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £625 £776 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +7.77% -12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £73.05
25th Percentile £41.88 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £58.44 - £77.88
90th Percentile £63.88 - £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 8,270 7,470 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.92% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 4,753 6,888
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 96 174
10th Percentile £30.85 £21.63 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.93 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

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 20 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 +32 415 £485 -15.65% 117
UK excluding London +33 268 £472 +7.77% 106
London -3 201 £523 -11.74% 42
Work from Home +16 138 £508 +8.21% 62
North of England +27 129 £458 +3.98% 44
North West +40 91 £450 +7.46% 28
Scotland -9 56 £588 +38.24% 9
South East +9 36 £450 +15.38% 32
Midlands -9 28 £449 - 2
West Midlands -6 24 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -37 24 £500 -35.90% 11
North East -5 14 £475 +6.74% 6
Wales +12 11 £475 +13.43% 5
South West -17 6 £385 -30.00% 15
East Midlands - 4 £268 -
Northern Ireland -7 2 £425 +54.55%
East of England -30 1 - - 2

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 (3.63%) Confluence
2 7 (1.34%) Apache
2 7 (1.34%) CMS
3 6 (1.15%) JBoss
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.76%) Drupal
4 4 (0.76%) Mule
4 4 (0.76%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.76%) WordPress
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.57%) Camunda
5 3 (0.57%) CICS
5 3 (0.57%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 283 (54.11%) AWS
2 172 (32.89%) Azure
3 92 (17.59%) GitHub
4 91 (17.40%) GCP
5 57 (10.90%) Serverless
6 45 (8.60%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 33 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (5.35%) OpenShift
12 24 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (4.40%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (3.44%) Datadog
16 16 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 14 (2.68%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.72%) SSL
2 5 (0.96%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.76%) Firewall
3 4 (0.76%) HTTP
3 4 (0.76%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (18.93%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (14.53%) MongoDB
3 73 (13.96%) NoSQL
4 68 (13.00%) Relational Database
5 48 (9.18%) MySQL
6 36 (6.88%) DynamoDB
7 24 (4.59%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.25%) SQL Server
10 16 (3.06%) Redis
11 14 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.29%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.91%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.72%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.53%) DB2
15 8 (1.53%) HBase
16 4 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 128 (24.47%) Git
2 115 (21.99%) Jenkins
3 88 (16.83%) GitLab
4 87 (16.63%) JUnit
5 49 (9.37%) Cucumber
5 49 (9.37%) Mockito
6 45 (8.60%) Maven
7 41 (7.84%) JIRA
8 40 (7.65%) Gradle
9 30 (5.74%) SonarQube
10 21 (4.02%) Bitbucket
11 20 (3.82%) Selenium
12 18 (3.44%) Postman
12 18 (3.44%) Sonatype Nexus
13 13 (2.49%) Cypress.io
13 13 (2.49%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.29%) Artifactory
15 9 (1.72%) Gatling
15 9 (1.72%) Subversion
16 8 (1.53%) IntelliJ
General
1 135 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 116 (22.18%) Finance
3 91 (17.40%) Public Sector
4 83 (15.87%) Banking
5 21 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.34%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.34%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.34%) Retail
8 5 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.96%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.57%) Electronics
10 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Automotive
11 2 (0.38%) Front Office
11 2 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 314 (60.04%) Developer
2 245 (46.85%) Java Developer
3 104 (19.89%) Senior
4 74 (14.15%) Senior Developer
5 63 (12.05%) Java Engineer
5 63 (12.05%) Senior Java Developer
6 58 (11.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (9.75%) Lead
8 45 (8.60%) Software Engineer
9 31 (5.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 26 (4.97%) Architect
11 25 (4.78%) Lead Developer
12 20 (3.82%) AWS Developer
12 20 (3.82%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (3.63%) Lead Java Developer
14 18 (3.44%) Backend Developer
15 14 (2.68%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.49%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 451 (86.23%) Spring
2 150 (28.68%) Kafka
3 144 (27.53%) RESTful
4 118 (22.56%) REST
5 117 (22.37%) React
6 100 (19.12%) AngularJS
7 58 (11.09%) Hibernate
7 58 (11.09%) HTML
8 55 (10.52%) Node.js
9 42 (8.03%) CSS
9 42 (8.03%) JSON
10 37 (7.07%) JPA
11 35 (6.69%) OAuth
12 33 (6.31%) OAuth2
13 29 (5.54%) Spring Cloud
14 24 (4.59%) Swagger
15 23 (4.40%) Spring MVC
16 22 (4.21%) J2EE
16 22 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
17 19 (3.63%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.29%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.15%) N-Tier
9 5 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.76%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.76%) NHS
10 4 (0.76%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.59%) Linux
2 9 (1.72%) Unix
3 8 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.53%) Windows
4 3 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (69.79%) Microservices
2 300 (57.36%) CI/CD
3 230 (43.98%) Agile
4 191 (36.52%) DevOps
5 168 (32.12%) Containerisation
6 118 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (22.18%) Test Automation
9 103 (19.69%) Software Engineering
9 103 (19.69%) TDD
10 95 (18.16%) Event-Driven
11 75 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (13.00%) SDLC
13 63 (12.05%) API Design
13 63 (12.05%) Scrum
14 58 (11.09%) Mentoring
15 56 (10.71%) BDD
16 55 (10.52%) Observability
17 54 (10.33%) Code Quality
18 51 (9.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 483 (92.35%) Java
2 121 (23.14%) SQL
3 84 (16.06%) JavaScript
4 65 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 55 (10.52%) Python
6 27 (5.16%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.29%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.72%) Bash
8 9 (1.72%) Ruby
9 7 (1.34%) Groovy
10 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.96%) C#
11 5 (0.96%) Go
11 5 (0.96%) Perl
11 5 (0.96%) Rust
12 4 (0.76%) PHP
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.38%) JCL
14 2 (0.38%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 109 (20.84%) Security Cleared
2 87 (16.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.21%) Degree
4 13 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.29%) OCP
5 12 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (12.05%) QA
2 35 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.02%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.87%) WCAG
5 11 (2.10%) PSD2
5 11 (2.10%) SEPA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 231 (44.17%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.57%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 251 (47.99%) Kubernetes
2 95 (18.16%) Terraform
3 42 (8.03%) Grafana
4 22 (4.21%) Ansible
5 21 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.87%) Kibana
7 11 (2.10%) Argo
8 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.96%) Istio
10 4 (0.76%) Kiali
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%) logstash
12 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.47%) Oracle
2 28 (5.35%) Splunk
3 26 (4.97%) Google
4 24 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.91%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.34%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.34%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (1.34%) Virgin Media
8 5 (0.96%) Gigya
8 5 (0.96%) IBM
9 4 (0.76%) Confluent
9 4 (0.76%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.76%) Sybase
9 4 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.57%) Adobe
10 3 (0.57%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.57%) PagerDuty
10 3 (0.57%) Qualys
10 3 (0.57%) SAP