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

 6 months to
12 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 207 262
Rank change year-on-year +15 +55 -114
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 624 385 412
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.46% 1.31% 0.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.73% 5.74% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 239 302
10th Percentile £350 £350 £390
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £524 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +3.56% -18.06%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £625
90th Percentile £630 £706 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 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 9,273 6,710 9,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 22.80% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 4,478 6,286
10th Percentile £358 £363 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 94 218
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +37 523 £478 -11.00% 130
UK excluding London +20 345 £475 +7.95% 107
London -9 213 £525 -8.70% 45
North of England +20 165 £475 +5.56% 49
Work from Home +9 150 £488 -6.25% 113
North West +41 113 £475 +8.57% 24
Midlands -24 51 £469 +11.67% 13
West Midlands -21 50 £469 +11.67% 12
South East -5 49 £450 -5.21% 22
Scotland -21 44 £600 +43.28% 6
Yorkshire -49 33 £500 -4.76% 13
South West -5 29 £384 -30.18% 11
North East -2 21 £476 +8.24% 12
East of England - 10 £600 - 2
East Midlands -36 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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 23 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.08%) Camunda
4 9 (1.44%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.28%) Apache
6 6 (0.96%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.96%) Hyperledger
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%) Apache Solr
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 Hybris
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 355 (56.89%) AWS
2 177 (28.37%) Azure
3 112 (17.95%) GitHub
4 90 (14.42%) GCP
5 82 (13.14%) Serverless
6 80 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 70 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (4.81%) OpenShift
14 28 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (3.37%) Azure AKS
16 17 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.72%) Datadog
17 16 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
18 14 (2.24%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.76%) HTTP
2 10 (1.60%) 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
1 126 (20.19%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (13.94%) NoSQL
3 75 (12.02%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.90%) Relational Database
5 49 (7.85%) DynamoDB
6 46 (7.37%) MySQL
7 40 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 20 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.40%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.24%) Redis
13 13 (2.08%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.44%) Big Data
15 9 (1.44%) DB2
16 8 (1.28%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.28%) HBase
17 7 (1.12%) Flink
17 7 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 140 (22.44%) Jenkins
2 139 (22.28%) Git
3 115 (18.43%) GitLab
4 104 (16.67%) JUnit
5 51 (8.17%) Mockito
6 50 (8.01%) JIRA
6 50 (8.01%) Maven
7 44 (7.05%) Cucumber
7 44 (7.05%) Gradle
8 22 (3.53%) Selenium
9 15 (2.40%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.40%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.08%) Gatling
10 13 (2.08%) IntelliJ
10 13 (2.08%) Postman
10 13 (2.08%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (1.76%) Artifactory
13 10 (1.60%) Mocha
14 9 (1.44%) Jaeger
General
1 143 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 116 (18.59%) Finance
3 113 (18.11%) Public Sector
4 69 (11.06%) Banking
5 27 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.92%) Retail
8 9 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.80%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.64%) Military
10 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.48%) Electronics
11 3 (0.48%) Law
11 3 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.32%) Legal
12 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 372 (59.62%) Developer
2 269 (43.11%) Java Developer
3 129 (20.67%) Senior
4 105 (16.83%) Java Engineer
5 79 (12.66%) Senior Developer
6 78 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 67 (10.74%) Software Engineer
8 63 (10.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.97%) Lead
10 40 (6.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 40 (6.41%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 25 (4.01%) Backend Developer
13 24 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 23 (3.69%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.53%) AWS Developer
16 20 (3.21%) Software Developer
17 19 (3.04%) Architect
17 19 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
18 13 (2.08%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (90.22%) Spring
2 184 (29.49%) Kafka
3 178 (28.53%) RESTful
4 152 (24.36%) REST
5 134 (21.47%) React
6 108 (17.31%) AngularJS
7 79 (12.66%) Node.js
8 63 (10.10%) Hibernate
9 59 (9.46%) HTML
10 46 (7.37%) JPA
11 41 (6.57%) CSS
12 39 (6.25%) OAuth
13 37 (5.93%) OpenTelemetry
14 36 (5.77%) OAuth2
15 33 (5.29%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (5.13%) Spring MVC
17 29 (4.65%) JSON
18 27 (4.33%) Jest
18 27 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
19 25 (4.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 90 (14.42%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.60%) 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%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.80%) NHS
14 4 (0.64%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.64%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.48%) Hybrid Cloud
15 3 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.73%) Linux
2 10 (1.60%) Unix
3 6 (0.96%) 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
1 390 (62.50%) Microservices
2 352 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 260 (41.67%) Agile
4 235 (37.66%) DevOps
5 195 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 159 (25.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 131 (20.99%) Software Engineering
8 120 (19.23%) TDD
9 117 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 111 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (17.63%) Event-Driven
12 91 (14.58%) Scrum
13 82 (13.14%) Observability
14 75 (12.02%) Code Quality
14 75 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 68 (10.90%) API Design
15 68 (10.90%) Mentoring
16 66 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (10.10%) SDLC
18 62 (9.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 587 (94.07%) Java
2 154 (24.68%) SQL
3 88 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 83 (13.30%) TypeScript
5 53 (8.49%) Python
6 43 (6.89%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.72%) Go
8 15 (2.40%) 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
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Bicep
15 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 163 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 133 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.81%) Degree
4 23 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.76%) OCP
6 11 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.96%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.26%) QA
2 47 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.21%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.72%) WCAG
5 10 (1.60%) PSD2
5 10 (1.60%) 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%) GDPR
8 3 (0.48%) HL7
8 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) SLA
System Software
1 261 (41.83%) Docker
2 6 (0.96%) Postfix
3 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 294 (47.12%) Kubernetes
2 87 (13.94%) Terraform
3 85 (13.62%) Grafana
4 45 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.37%) Ansible
6 14 (2.24%) Argo
7 12 (1.92%) 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 (8.65%) Oracle
2 38 (6.09%) Splunk
3 29 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 26 (4.17%) Google
5 11 (1.76%) Red Hat
6 9 (1.44%) Jaspersoft
6 9 (1.44%) Sybase
7 7 (1.12%) Atlassian
7 7 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.12%) ForgeRock
7 7 (1.12%) Virgin Media
8 6 (0.96%) Adobe
8 6 (0.96%) Databricks
8 6 (0.96%) IBM
8 6 (0.96%) PagerDuty
8 6 (0.96%) SAP
9 4 (0.64%) Confluent
9 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.64%) VMware
10 3 (0.48%) New Relic
153 Spring Boot jobs Nationwide