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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 217 254
Rank change year-on-year +28 +37 -112
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 590 381 416
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.51% 1.22% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 5.46% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 225 302
10th Percentile £350 £352 £403
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £630 £763 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 8,680 6,977 9,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.17% 22.40% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,773 4,435 6,507
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 88 188
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.35 £24.95
25th Percentile £50.06 £39.06 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £66.94
90th Percentile £82.35 £77.57 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +40 496 £489 -15.00% 155
UK excluding London +36 323 £475 +8.57% 118
London -11 213 £525 -10.26% 70
North of England +35 176 £475 +5.56% 25
Work from Home +31 146 £500 +3.09% 83
North West +52 123 £475 +13.43% 20
Scotland 0 52 £600 +51.61% 12
South East +8 43 £450 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire -39 35 £500 -4.76% 5
Midlands -32 28 £469 - 11
West Midlands -18 27 £470 - 10
South West -12 22 £400 -27.27% 24
North East -3 20 £478 +7.30%
East of England -25 4 £675 +80.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £220 -

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 20 (3.39%) Confluence
2 11 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.86%) Camunda
3 6 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.02%) Hyperledger
4 5 (0.85%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.68%) CMS
6 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.51%) Drupal
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.51%) WordPress
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 321 (54.41%) AWS
2 179 (30.34%) Azure
3 109 (18.47%) GitHub
4 95 (16.10%) GCP
5 71 (12.03%) Serverless
6 62 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (9.83%) Amazon S3
9 35 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (4.58%) OpenShift
14 25 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (3.05%) Azure AKS
16 18 (3.05%) Datadog
17 17 (2.88%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
18 15 (2.54%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.86%) HTTP
2 10 (1.69%) SSL
3 9 (1.53%) Firewall
4 5 (0.85%) DNS
4 5 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.51%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (19.66%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (15.76%) NoSQL
3 78 (13.22%) MongoDB
4 68 (11.53%) Relational Database
5 54 (9.15%) MySQL
6 43 (7.29%) DynamoDB
7 31 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (3.39%) RDBMS
8 20 (3.39%) Redis
9 18 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 18 (3.05%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.54%) DocumentDB
11 13 (2.20%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.53%) DB2
13 9 (1.53%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.36%) Big Data
14 8 (1.36%) HBase
15 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 132 (22.37%) Git
2 131 (22.20%) Jenkins
3 117 (19.83%) GitLab
4 96 (16.27%) JUnit
5 53 (8.98%) Gradle
6 48 (8.14%) Maven
7 45 (7.63%) Cucumber
7 45 (7.63%) Mockito
8 44 (7.46%) JIRA
9 23 (3.90%) Selenium
10 20 (3.39%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.88%) Postman
12 15 (2.54%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.20%) IntelliJ
13 13 (2.20%) SonarQube
14 12 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.86%) Artifactory
15 11 (1.86%) Gatling
16 10 (1.69%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.69%) Mocha
General
1 144 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.53%) Finance
3 106 (17.97%) Public Sector
4 81 (13.73%) Banking
5 21 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 11 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.36%) Retail
9 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (0.85%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.51%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.51%) Electronics
11 3 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.51%) Marketing
11 3 (0.51%) Military
12 2 (0.34%) Law
12 2 (0.34%) Legal
13 1 (0.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 340 (57.63%) Developer
2 250 (42.37%) Java Developer
3 134 (22.71%) Senior
4 88 (14.92%) Java Engineer
4 88 (14.92%) Senior Developer
5 77 (13.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 59 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 57 (9.66%) Lead
9 35 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 31 (5.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (5.08%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.75%) Lead Developer
13 27 (4.58%) Architect
14 20 (3.39%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.39%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.22%) Lead Java Developer
16 16 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (2.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 16 (2.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 525 (88.98%) Spring
2 179 (30.34%) RESTful
3 177 (30.00%) Kafka
4 138 (23.39%) React
5 136 (23.05%) REST
6 107 (18.14%) AngularJS
7 64 (10.85%) Node.js
8 57 (9.66%) HTML
9 53 (8.98%) Hibernate
10 40 (6.78%) JPA
10 40 (6.78%) OAuth
11 39 (6.61%) CSS
12 37 (6.27%) OAuth2
12 37 (6.27%) OpenTelemetry
13 34 (5.76%) JSON
14 29 (4.92%) Spring Cloud
14 29 (4.92%) Spring MVC
15 27 (4.58%) Jest
16 26 (4.41%) Playwright
17 25 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 100 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.02%) N-Tier
11 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.68%) NHS
13 3 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.51%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.42%) Linux
2 7 (1.19%) Unix
3 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (65.42%) Microservices
2 335 (56.78%) CI/CD
3 256 (43.39%) Agile
4 220 (37.29%) DevOps
5 195 (33.05%) Containerisation
6 160 (27.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 125 (21.19%) Software Engineering
8 124 (21.02%) Test Automation
9 122 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (17.97%) TDD
11 105 (17.80%) Event-Driven
12 82 (13.90%) Scrum
13 73 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (11.86%) SDLC
15 69 (11.69%) Observability
16 66 (11.19%) API Design
16 66 (11.19%) Code Quality
17 64 (10.85%) Mentoring
18 62 (10.51%) BDD
19 58 (9.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 553 (93.73%) Java
2 138 (23.39%) SQL
3 89 (15.08%) JavaScript
4 75 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 49 (8.31%) Python
6 28 (4.75%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.71%) Go
8 12 (2.03%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.69%) Rust
10 7 (1.19%) C#
11 4 (0.68%) Bash
11 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 4 (0.68%) Scala
12 3 (0.51%) Groovy
13 2 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) COBOL
14 1 (0.17%) JCL
14 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 108 (18.31%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.24%) Degree
4 20 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.86%) OCP
6 11 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.51%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.85%) QA
2 49 (8.31%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.07%) ISO 20022
4 18 (3.05%) WCAG
5 15 (2.54%) PSD2
5 15 (2.54%) SEPA
6 9 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.68%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.51%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 260 (44.07%) Docker
2 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 287 (48.64%) Kubernetes
2 100 (16.95%) Terraform
3 65 (11.02%) Grafana
4 36 (6.10%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.56%) Ansible
6 14 (2.37%) Argo
7 12 (2.03%) Kibana
8 9 (1.53%) Kiali
9 6 (1.02%) Istio
10 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.17%) Consul
11 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (10.00%) Oracle
2 30 (5.08%) Splunk
3 24 (4.07%) Google
4 22 (3.73%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.53%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.19%) Sybase
8 6 (1.02%) Confluent
8 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.02%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.85%) Adobe
9 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.85%) Gigya
9 5 (0.85%) IBM
10 4 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.68%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.68%) VMware
11 3 (0.51%) Informatica
11 3 (0.51%) Qualys
11 3 (0.51%) SAP