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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 205 257
Rank change year-on-year +18 +52 -113
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 627 399 411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.47% 1.31% 0.93%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 5.76% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 247 296
10th Percentile £350 £354 £388
25th Percentile £415 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £524 £506
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +3.56% -19.04%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £625
90th Percentile £638 £714 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £500
% change year-on-year +7.71% -11.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 9,313 6,923 9,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.83% 22.71% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,221 4,544 6,332
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 87 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +46 527 £485 -9.68% 128
UK excluding London +16 344 £475 +7.71% 97
London -8 219 £525 -8.70% 50
North of England +17 163 £475 +5.56% 43
Work from Home +12 150 £490 -2.00% 109
North West +47 109 £458 +4.57% 21
Midlands -20 51 £469 +11.67% 14
West Midlands -10 50 £469 +11.67% 13
South East -4 49 £450 -5.21% 21
Scotland -14 45 £600 +39.53% 6
Yorkshire -42 36 £500 -4.76% 14
South West -11 29 £386 -31.42% 8
North East -5 20 £478 +6.11% 8
East of England -16 10 £600 - 2
East Midlands -27 1 £220 -32.52% 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 27 (4.31%) Confluence
2 20 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.07%) Camunda
4 9 (1.44%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.96%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.80%) Apache
7 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) CMS
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.32%) WordPress
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 353 (56.30%) AWS
2 182 (29.03%) Azure
3 112 (17.86%) GitHub
4 94 (14.99%) GCP
5 80 (12.76%) Amazon S3
5 80 (12.76%) Serverless
6 68 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
6 68 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
8 39 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
10 31 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.78%) OpenShift
12 28 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (3.51%) Azure AKS
14 17 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.71%) Datadog
15 15 (2.39%) Cloud Run
16 14 (2.23%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.75%) HTTP
2 10 (1.59%) SSL
3 9 (1.44%) Firewall
4 7 (1.12%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.80%) DNS
5 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
6 3 (0.48%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (19.78%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (14.83%) NoSQL
3 79 (12.60%) MongoDB
4 71 (11.32%) Relational Database
5 49 (7.81%) DynamoDB
6 47 (7.50%) MySQL
7 40 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.39%) DocumentDB
11 15 (2.39%) RDBMS
12 14 (2.23%) Redis
13 13 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.44%) Big Data
14 9 (1.44%) DB2
15 8 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.28%) HBase
16 7 (1.12%) Flink
16 7 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 143 (22.81%) Jenkins
2 138 (22.01%) Git
3 115 (18.34%) GitLab
4 106 (16.91%) JUnit
5 54 (8.61%) Mockito
6 53 (8.45%) Maven
7 49 (7.81%) JIRA
8 47 (7.50%) Gradle
9 45 (7.18%) Cucumber
10 22 (3.51%) Selenium
11 17 (2.71%) Cypress.io
12 15 (2.39%) SonarQube
13 13 (2.07%) Gatling
13 13 (2.07%) IntelliJ
13 13 (2.07%) Postman
13 13 (2.07%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.75%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.59%) Mocha
17 9 (1.44%) Jaeger
General
1 146 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 120 (19.14%) Finance
3 112 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 71 (11.32%) Banking
5 26 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.07%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.07%) Retail
7 11 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.64%) Military
9 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.48%) Electronics
10 3 (0.48%) Marketing
11 2 (0.32%) Automotive
11 2 (0.32%) Law
11 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 372 (59.33%) Developer
2 273 (43.54%) Java Developer
3 132 (21.05%) Senior
4 99 (15.79%) Java Engineer
5 82 (13.08%) Senior Developer
6 77 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 66 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 59 (9.41%) Lead
9 39 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 36 (5.74%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 25 (3.99%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.83%) Backend Developer
14 23 (3.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 22 (3.51%) AWS Developer
16 20 (3.19%) Architect
16 20 (3.19%) Software Developer
17 19 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (2.39%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (90.59%) Spring
2 191 (30.46%) Kafka
3 184 (29.35%) RESTful
4 152 (24.24%) REST
5 138 (22.01%) React
6 110 (17.54%) AngularJS
7 77 (12.28%) Node.js
8 66 (10.53%) Hibernate
9 60 (9.57%) HTML
10 47 (7.50%) JPA
11 42 (6.70%) CSS
12 39 (6.22%) OAuth
13 38 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
14 36 (5.74%) OAuth2
15 35 (5.58%) Spring Cloud
16 31 (4.94%) Spring MVC
17 30 (4.78%) JSON
18 28 (4.47%) Jest
19 27 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
20 26 (4.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 97 (15.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.23%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.80%) NHS
14 4 (0.64%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.86%) Linux
2 9 (1.44%) Unix
3 7 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.48%) Windows
5 2 (0.32%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (63.96%) Microservices
2 355 (56.62%) CI/CD
3 261 (41.63%) Agile
4 236 (37.64%) DevOps
5 196 (31.26%) Containerisation
6 158 (25.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 134 (21.37%) Software Engineering
8 119 (18.98%) Test Automation
9 117 (18.66%) TDD
10 116 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (18.02%) Event-Driven
12 93 (14.83%) Scrum
13 83 (13.24%) Observability
14 77 (12.28%) Code Quality
14 77 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (10.85%) API Design
16 67 (10.69%) Mentoring
17 64 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (10.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 62 (9.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 592 (94.42%) Java
2 159 (25.36%) SQL
3 90 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 80 (12.76%) TypeScript
5 51 (8.13%) Python
6 41 (6.54%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.71%) Go
8 15 (2.39%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.44%) Rust
10 7 (1.12%) C#
10 7 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.96%) Perl
12 4 (0.64%) Scala
13 3 (0.48%) PHP
14 2 (0.32%) Bash
14 2 (0.32%) Groovy
15 1 (0.16%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) REXX
15 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 162 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 134 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.78%) Degree
4 23 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.75%) OCP
6 11 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.21%) QA
2 46 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.19%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.71%) WCAG
5 10 (1.59%) PSD2
5 10 (1.59%) SEPA
6 9 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.64%) NIST
8 3 (0.48%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.48%) HL7
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.32%) 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%) SLA
System Software
1 263 (41.95%) Docker
2 6 (0.96%) Postfix
3 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 294 (46.89%) Kubernetes
2 91 (14.51%) Terraform
3 85 (13.56%) Grafana
4 45 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.35%) Ansible
6 14 (2.23%) Argo
7 12 (1.91%) Kibana
8 9 (1.44%) Kiali
9 6 (0.96%) Istio
10 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (8.61%) Oracle
2 38 (6.06%) Splunk
3 28 (4.47%) Microsoft
4 27 (4.31%) Google
5 12 (1.91%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.44%) Sybase
7 8 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.12%) ForgeRock
8 7 (1.12%) Virgin Media
9 6 (0.96%) Adobe
9 6 (0.96%) Databricks
9 6 (0.96%) IBM
9 6 (0.96%) PagerDuty
10 4 (0.64%) Confluent
10 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.64%) SAP
10 4 (0.64%) VMware
11 3 (0.48%) Teradata
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