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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 219 276
Rank change year-on-year +21 +57 -137
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 532 403 369
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.45% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.42% 5.34% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 257 264
10th Percentile £332 £359 £417
25th Percentile £415 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £625 £787 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £438 £506
% change year-on-year +7.20% -13.54% -8.00%
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 8,286 7,543 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.92% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,488 4,801 6,886
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -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 200 101 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +37 424 £475 -18.80% 110
UK excluding London +21 279 £469 +7.20% 118
London -13 202 £520 -13.33% 37
Work from Home +13 141 £500 +4.44% 82
North of England +26 135 £465 +4.49% 40
North West +39 97 £450 +7.46% 22
Scotland -8 57 £581 +36.76% 23
South East +14 36 £450 +15.38% 31
Midlands - 31 £423 - 2
Yorkshire -32 24 £513 -33.01% 12
West Midlands - 24 £469 - 2
North East -4 14 £475 +6.74% 7
Wales +12 12 £475 +13.43% 3
East Midlands - 7 £273 -
South West -14 6 £385 -30.00% 15
Northern Ireland -7 2 £425 +54.55% 4
East of England -21 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 18 (3.38%) Confluence
2 7 (1.32%) Apache
2 7 (1.32%) CMS
3 6 (1.13%) JBoss
4 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.75%) Camunda
4 4 (0.75%) Drupal
4 4 (0.75%) Mule
4 4 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.75%) WebLogic
4 4 (0.75%) WordPress
5 3 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.56%) CICS
5 3 (0.56%) SAS
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 287 (53.95%) AWS
2 171 (32.14%) Azure
3 91 (17.11%) GitHub
4 84 (15.79%) GCP
5 57 (10.71%) Serverless
6 45 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 38 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
9 30 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 26 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
12 24 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (4.32%) Azure AKS
13 23 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.38%) Datadog
15 17 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.63%) Apigee
17 13 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.69%) SSL
2 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.75%) HTTP
3 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.56%) Firewall
4 3 (0.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 73 (13.72%) NoSQL
4 70 (13.16%) Relational Database
5 46 (8.65%) MySQL
6 38 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 26 (4.89%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (3.01%) Redis
9 16 (3.01%) SQL Server
10 14 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (2.07%) DB2
13 10 (1.88%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.69%) DocumentDB
15 8 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.50%) HBase
16 7 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 130 (24.44%) Git
2 117 (21.99%) Jenkins
3 98 (18.42%) JUnit
4 88 (16.54%) GitLab
5 57 (10.71%) Cucumber
6 51 (9.59%) Mockito
7 46 (8.65%) JIRA
7 46 (8.65%) Maven
8 39 (7.33%) Gradle
9 31 (5.83%) SonarQube
10 21 (3.95%) Bitbucket
11 20 (3.76%) Selenium
12 19 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (3.38%) Postman
14 13 (2.44%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.26%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.26%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.69%) Gatling
16 9 (1.69%) IntelliJ
16 9 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 134 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 120 (22.56%) Finance
3 88 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 87 (16.35%) Banking
5 28 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.94%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.56%) Automotive
11 3 (0.56%) Electronics
11 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.56%) Marketing
12 2 (0.38%) Front Office
12 2 (0.38%) Law
12 2 (0.38%) Retail
13 1 (0.19%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 329 (61.84%) Developer
2 260 (48.87%) Java Developer
3 102 (19.17%) Senior
4 76 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 65 (12.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 62 (11.65%) Java Engineer
7 57 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (9.59%) Lead
9 47 (8.83%) Software Engineer
10 31 (5.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 25 (4.70%) Architect
11 25 (4.70%) Lead Developer
12 24 (4.51%) AWS Developer
13 19 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
13 19 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
14 18 (3.38%) Backend Developer
14 18 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (2.63%) Technical Architect
16 13 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (86.09%) Spring
2 156 (29.32%) Kafka
3 153 (28.76%) RESTful
4 125 (23.50%) REST
5 117 (21.99%) React
6 96 (18.05%) AngularJS
7 58 (10.90%) Hibernate
8 57 (10.71%) HTML
9 48 (9.02%) Node.js
10 42 (7.89%) JSON
11 41 (7.71%) CSS
12 37 (6.95%) JPA
13 34 (6.39%) OAuth
14 32 (6.02%) OAuth2
15 30 (5.64%) Spring Cloud
16 25 (4.70%) J2EE
17 24 (4.51%) Swagger
18 23 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
18 23 (4.32%) Spring MVC
19 20 (3.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.13%) N-Tier
9 5 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.75%) NHS
10 4 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.51%) Linux
2 11 (2.07%) Unix
3 8 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (1.50%) Windows
4 4 (0.75%) Android
5 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (69.74%) Microservices
2 303 (56.95%) CI/CD
3 244 (45.86%) Agile
4 185 (34.77%) DevOps
5 161 (30.26%) Containerisation
6 125 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (21.80%) Test Automation
8 115 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 112 (21.05%) TDD
10 101 (18.98%) Software Engineering
11 93 (17.48%) Event-Driven
12 70 (13.16%) SDLC
13 67 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (12.41%) Scrum
15 61 (11.47%) API Design
16 57 (10.71%) BDD
17 56 (10.53%) Mentoring
18 53 (9.96%) Code Quality
19 50 (9.40%) API Development
19 50 (9.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 497 (93.42%) Java
2 130 (24.44%) SQL
3 83 (15.60%) JavaScript
4 63 (11.84%) TypeScript
5 59 (11.09%) Python
6 27 (5.08%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.88%) Bash
8 10 (1.88%) Ruby
9 8 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.32%) Groovy
11 5 (0.94%) C#
11 5 (0.94%) Go
11 5 (0.94%) Perl
12 4 (0.75%) PHP
12 4 (0.75%) Rust
12 4 (0.75%) Scala
13 2 (0.38%) COBOL
13 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 109 (20.49%) Security Cleared
2 86 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 21 (3.95%) Degree
4 13 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.26%) OCP
5 12 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.35%) QA
2 33 (6.20%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.95%) ISO 20022
4 13 (2.44%) WCAG
5 11 (2.07%) PSD2
5 11 (2.07%) SEPA
6 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.56%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.56%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 225 (42.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 243 (45.68%) Kubernetes
2 88 (16.54%) Terraform
3 39 (7.33%) Grafana
4 21 (3.95%) Ansible
5 18 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.82%) Kibana
7 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.94%) Argo
9 3 (0.56%) Kiali
10 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.19%) Consul
11 1 (0.19%) Control-M
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (11.65%) Oracle
2 27 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.08%) Splunk
3 21 (3.95%) Google
4 13 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.88%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (1.32%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.32%) Virgin Media
8 6 (1.13%) Sybase
9 5 (0.94%) Gigya
9 5 (0.94%) IBM
9 5 (0.94%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.75%) Confluent
10 4 (0.75%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.75%) VMware
11 3 (0.56%) Adobe
11 3 (0.56%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.56%) SAP
11 3 (0.56%) Veracode