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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 190 191
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 751 424 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.50% 1.43% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 6.27% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 289 405
10th Percentile £385 £325 £375
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -1.20% -13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £615 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +6.53% -6.83% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 1
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% -23.61% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +33.64% -23.61% +15.20%

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 9,793 6,763 9,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.83% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,430 4,617 6,310
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 125 272
10th Percentile £30.40 £29.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.88 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.89 £81.22 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 16 June 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 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 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 +34 627 £521 +4.20% 301
UK excluding London -4 353 £479 +6.53% 303
London +30 311 £525 +5.00% 82
Work from Home -7 173 £490 -5.77% 257
North of England +2 153 £500 +8.11% 81
North West +2 96 £518 +31.68% 39
South West +13 53 £409 -25.64% 37
Midlands -48 48 £475 +15.57% 27
West Midlands -35 45 £475 - 12
Scotland -26 41 £405 -6.69% 35
Yorkshire -25 39 £475 -9.52% 31
East of England +1 32 £504 +7.70% 30
South East -47 27 £500 -6.89% 52
North East -20 21 £450 -8.16% 13
Wales -12 2 - - 22
East Midlands -38 2 £401 +12.01% 15
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 20

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 43 (5.73%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.80%) Confluence
3 18 (2.40%) Apache
4 16 (2.13%) Camunda
5 11 (1.46%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.33%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.33%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.27%) Drupal
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.53%) Quorum
2 4 (0.53%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.27%) Shopify
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 401 (53.40%) AWS
2 178 (23.70%) Azure
3 129 (17.18%) GCP
4 118 (15.71%) GitHub
5 80 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (9.85%) Amazon S3
7 72 (9.59%) Serverless
8 66 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.13%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.79%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
15 22 (2.93%) Route 53
16 20 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (2.66%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.53%) Azure AKS
18 18 (2.40%) AWS KMS
19 16 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.46%) HTTP
2 9 (1.20%) Firewall
3 4 (0.53%) DNS
3 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.27%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (20.37%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (12.52%) NoSQL
3 84 (11.19%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.39%) MongoDB
5 61 (8.12%) MySQL
6 52 (6.92%) DynamoDB
7 50 (6.66%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.73%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.93%) Redis
11 20 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (2.53%) Big Data
13 17 (2.26%) Flink
14 14 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.60%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.07%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.07%) Db2
17 7 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.93%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 176 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 170 (22.64%) Git
3 120 (15.98%) JUnit
4 111 (14.78%) GitLab
5 71 (9.45%) Gradle
6 69 (9.19%) Mockito
7 61 (8.12%) Maven
8 48 (6.39%) JIRA
9 36 (4.79%) SonarQube
10 24 (3.20%) Selenium
11 21 (2.80%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.66%) Cucumber
12 20 (2.66%) IntelliJ
13 18 (2.40%) Liquibase
14 17 (2.26%) Gatling
15 14 (1.86%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.73%) jMock
17 12 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
17 12 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
18 10 (1.33%) Mocha
General
1 160 (21.30%) Finance
2 139 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 121 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 83 (11.05%) Banking
5 41 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.80%) Retail
7 17 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.60%) Law
9 9 (1.20%) Military
10 6 (0.80%) Publishing
11 5 (0.67%) Automotive
11 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.40%) Police
13 2 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.27%) Legal
13 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 416 (55.39%) Developer
2 320 (42.61%) Java Developer
3 162 (21.57%) Senior
4 129 (17.18%) Java Engineer
5 103 (13.72%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.05%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.85%) Lead
8 66 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 53 (7.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.66%) Backend Developer
12 35 (4.66%) Software Developer
13 32 (4.26%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (3.60%) Senior Java Engineer
15 23 (3.06%) Data Engineer
16 22 (2.93%) Lead Java Developer
16 22 (2.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.53%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 696 (92.68%) Spring
2 225 (29.96%) Kafka
3 196 (26.10%) RESTful
4 184 (24.50%) REST
5 151 (20.11%) React
6 110 (14.65%) Node.js
7 79 (10.52%) AngularJS
8 64 (8.52%) Hibernate
9 62 (8.26%) JPA
10 55 (7.32%) HTML
11 51 (6.79%) Spring Cloud
12 45 (5.99%) CSS
12 45 (5.99%) Spring MVC
13 43 (5.73%) Web Services
14 38 (5.06%) OAuth
14 38 (5.06%) OpenTelemetry
15 36 (4.79%) OAuth2
16 33 (4.39%) SOAP
17 32 (4.26%) Jest
18 31 (4.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 143 (19.04%) Cloud Native
2 86 (11.45%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.86%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.60%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
14 7 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.80%) Blockchain
15 6 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.79%) Linux
2 22 (2.93%) Unix
3 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Windows
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (58.99%) Microservices
2 432 (57.52%) CI/CD
3 311 (41.41%) Agile
4 295 (39.28%) DevOps
5 252 (33.56%) Containerisation
6 193 (25.70%) Software Engineering
7 158 (21.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 156 (20.77%) TDD
9 135 (17.98%) Event-Driven
10 128 (17.04%) Test Automation
11 118 (15.71%) Scrum
12 112 (14.91%) Observability
13 106 (14.11%) Code Quality
13 106 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 102 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
15 89 (11.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 87 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (9.45%) BDD
17 71 (9.45%) Mentoring
18 63 (8.39%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 727 (96.80%) Java
2 239 (31.82%) SQL
3 110 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 95 (12.65%) TypeScript
5 87 (11.58%) Python
6 38 (5.06%) Kotlin
7 24 (3.20%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.13%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.00%) Go
10 12 (1.60%) C#
11 7 (0.93%) Scala
12 6 (0.80%) Ruby
12 6 (0.80%) Rust
13 5 (0.67%) Bash
13 5 (0.67%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) Solidity
14 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.27%) Korn
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 207 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 169 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.99%) Degree
5 19 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.79%) QA
2 67 (8.92%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.86%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.60%) WCAG
5 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.33%) SEPA
6 8 (1.07%) GDPR
7 7 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.80%) PSD2
9 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.53%) NIST
11 3 (0.40%) EMIR
11 3 (0.40%) MiFID
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) ITGC
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 328 (43.68%) Docker
2 11 (1.46%) Postfix
3 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 314 (41.81%) Kubernetes
2 85 (11.32%) Terraform
3 81 (10.79%) Grafana
4 58 (7.72%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.19%) Ansible
6 15 (2.00%) Argo
7 11 (1.46%) Istio
8 10 (1.33%) Kibana
9 7 (0.93%) Kiali
10 6 (0.80%) Control-M
11 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.27%) Consul
12 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 74 (9.85%) Oracle
2 39 (5.19%) Google
3 33 (4.39%) Splunk
4 28 (3.73%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.26%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.13%) IBM
7 14 (1.86%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.46%) Sybase
10 10 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.20%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.20%) Databricks
11 9 (1.20%) Solace
12 6 (0.80%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.80%) Okta
13 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.67%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.67%) New Relic
13 5 (0.67%) Teradata
13 5 (0.67%) TikTok