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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 213 286
Rank change year-on-year +2 +73 -140
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 496 436 378
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.39% 1.20% 0.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.09% 5.52% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 276 284
10th Percentile £329 £365 £422
25th Percentile £413 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £624 £771 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £40.50 - £73.60
25th Percentile £41.25 - £75.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 8,148 7,895 10,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 21.74% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,407 4,968 7,275
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 121 188
10th Percentile £30.75 £22.00 £35.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.75 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -1.92% +19.13% -16.06%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +3 393 £485 -15.65% 128
UK excluding London +26 258 £475 +8.57% 116
London -27 189 £520 -11.71% 50
Work from Home +7 136 £525 +9.95% 84
North of England +5 110 £469 +7.20% 26
North West +25 79 £449 +16.57% 18
Scotland -18 56 £581 +36.76% 13
Midlands - 34 £390 - 14
South East +14 33 £450 -27.71% 40
West Midlands - 23 £488 - 12
Yorkshire -31 16 £550 -26.67% 7
North East 0 15 £488 +9.55% 1
Wales +11 12 £475 +13.43% 3
South West -8 11 £500 -19.19% 17
East Midlands - 11 £270 - 2
Northern Ireland -3 2 £425 - 3
East of England -23 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 17 (3.43%) Confluence
2 14 (2.82%) JBoss
3 10 (2.02%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.61%) Camunda
5 7 (1.41%) Apache
5 7 (1.41%) CMS
6 5 (1.01%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.81%) Drupal
7 4 (0.81%) Mule
7 4 (0.81%) WordPress
8 3 (0.60%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.60%) SAS
9 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.40%) CICS
9 2 (0.40%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 269 (54.23%) AWS
2 163 (32.86%) Azure
3 81 (16.33%) GCP
4 76 (15.32%) GitHub
5 50 (10.08%) Serverless
6 42 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (7.26%) Amazon S3
8 34 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (6.65%) OpenShift
10 31 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (4.64%) Azure AKS
13 22 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (3.63%) Datadog
16 14 (2.82%) Apigee
17 11 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.81%) HTTP
2 4 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) LAN
3 1 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (21.98%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (14.72%) Relational Database
3 64 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 63 (12.70%) NoSQL
5 51 (10.28%) MySQL
6 36 (7.26%) DynamoDB
7 27 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (5.44%) RDBMS
8 20 (4.03%) SQL Server
9 18 (3.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 13 (2.62%) Redis
11 12 (2.42%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.22%) DB2
13 8 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.41%) HBase
15 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.40%) Big Data
16 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 140 (28.23%) Git
2 124 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 117 (23.59%) JUnit
4 77 (15.52%) GitLab
5 61 (12.30%) Maven
6 59 (11.90%) Mockito
7 57 (11.49%) Cucumber
8 53 (10.69%) JIRA
9 42 (8.47%) SonarQube
10 39 (7.86%) Gradle
11 29 (5.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (5.24%) Bitbucket
13 21 (4.23%) Selenium
14 17 (3.43%) Postman
15 13 (2.62%) Artifactory
16 11 (2.22%) REST Assured
17 10 (2.02%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.81%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.81%) Subversion
19 8 (1.61%) Gatling
General
1 132 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.17%) Finance
3 84 (16.94%) Banking
4 79 (15.93%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
9 4 (0.81%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.60%) Automotive
10 3 (0.60%) Electronics
10 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.60%) Marketing
10 3 (0.60%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.40%) Front Office
11 2 (0.40%) Law
11 2 (0.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 317 (63.91%) Developer
2 267 (53.83%) Java Developer
3 93 (18.75%) Senior
4 74 (14.92%) Senior Developer
5 70 (14.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 54 (10.89%) Lead
7 50 (10.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 46 (9.27%) Java Engineer
9 39 (7.86%) Software Engineer
10 34 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (5.65%) Architect
12 27 (5.44%) Lead Developer
13 26 (5.24%) AWS Developer
14 22 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (3.02%) Technical Architect
16 14 (2.82%) Backend Developer
17 13 (2.62%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 12 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (85.28%) Spring
2 146 (29.44%) RESTful
3 137 (27.62%) Kafka
4 128 (25.81%) REST
5 120 (24.19%) React
6 92 (18.55%) AngularJS
7 72 (14.52%) Hibernate
8 53 (10.69%) JPA
9 51 (10.28%) HTML
10 41 (8.27%) CSS
11 40 (8.06%) Node.js
12 39 (7.86%) JSON
13 35 (7.06%) Spring Cloud
14 33 (6.65%) SOAP
15 29 (5.85%) OAuth
16 28 (5.65%) OAuth2
17 27 (5.44%) Web Services
18 26 (5.24%) Swagger
19 25 (5.04%) J2EE
20 23 (4.64%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 52 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 8 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.21%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.40%) PKI
12 2 (0.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.05%) Linux
2 18 (3.63%) Unix
3 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.41%) Windows
5 3 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (71.17%) Microservices
2 286 (57.66%) CI/CD
3 254 (51.21%) Agile
4 184 (37.10%) DevOps
5 148 (29.84%) Containerisation
6 118 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (23.19%) TDD
8 107 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 104 (20.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 94 (18.95%) Software Engineering
11 78 (15.73%) Event-Driven
12 73 (14.72%) Scrum
13 62 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
14 61 (12.30%) SDLC
15 54 (10.89%) BDD
16 53 (10.69%) Mentoring
17 50 (10.08%) Code Quality
17 50 (10.08%) Unit Testing
18 47 (9.48%) API Development
19 46 (9.27%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 473 (95.36%) Java
2 135 (27.22%) SQL
3 73 (14.72%) JavaScript
4 64 (12.90%) TypeScript
5 61 (12.30%) Python
6 21 (4.23%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.62%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.22%) Ruby
9 10 (2.02%) Bash
10 8 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.41%) Groovy
12 6 (1.21%) Perl
13 5 (1.01%) C#
14 4 (0.81%) PHP
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 3 (0.60%) Go
16 2 (0.40%) C++
16 2 (0.40%) Korn
16 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 101 (20.36%) Security Cleared
2 83 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.02%) Degree
4 12 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.02%) OCP
6 10 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (14.92%) QA
2 25 (5.04%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.63%) ISO 20022
4 13 (2.62%) WCAG
5 10 (2.02%) PSD2
5 10 (2.02%) SEPA
6 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.60%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 212 (42.74%) Docker
2 5 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) Postfix
4 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 210 (42.34%) Kubernetes
2 85 (17.14%) Terraform
3 31 (6.25%) Grafana
4 19 (3.83%) Ansible
5 17 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.02%) Kibana
7 7 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.01%) Argo
9 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.20%) Consul
10 1 (0.20%) Control-M
10 1 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.20%) logstash
10 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (12.90%) Oracle
2 31 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.64%) Google
4 22 (4.44%) Splunk
5 13 (2.62%) Dynatrace
6 10 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.81%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.61%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.41%) Veracode
10 6 (1.21%) Sybase
11 5 (1.01%) Gigya
11 5 (1.01%) IBM
11 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.81%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.81%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.81%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.81%) VMware
13 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.60%) Jaspersoft
13 3 (0.60%) SAP