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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 221 275
Rank change year-on-year +21 +54 -131
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 530 396 373
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.43% 1.18% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 5.37% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 243 267
10th Percentile £343 £356 £423
25th Percentile £419 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £625
90th Percentile £625 £754 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £431 £510
% change year-on-year +9.68% -15.44% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £40.00 - £73.05
25th Percentile £52.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £61.25 - £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 8,322 7,379 9,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.93% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,694 6,770
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -1.82% -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 90 173
10th Percentile £31.25 £21.25 £31.40
25th Percentile £44.88 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -3.08% +25.26% -20.17%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +34 424 £480 -16.52% 327
UK excluding London +27 282 £473 +9.68% 182
London -8 197 £525 -10.87% 170
North of England +32 140 £470 +5.62% 82
Work from Home +26 139 £508 +8.96% 176
North West +49 98 £450 +2.86% 45
Scotland -12 57 £588 +38.24% 5
South East +12 36 £450 +15.38% 47
Midlands -14 28 £449 - 13
Yorkshire -29 25 £500 -35.90% 27
West Midlands -4 24 £469 - 10
North East 0 17 £475 +6.74% 11
Wales +8 10 £475 +18.75% 7
South West -14 9 £405 -26.45% 28
East Midlands - 4 £268 - 3
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 +54.55% 2
East of England -29 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 19 (3.58%) Confluence
2 7 (1.32%) Apache
2 7 (1.32%) CMS
3 5 (0.94%) 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%) WordPress
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.57%) CICS
5 3 (0.57%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) Mule ESB
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.19%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 281 (53.02%) AWS
2 172 (32.45%) Azure
3 92 (17.36%) GitHub
4 90 (16.98%) GCP
5 55 (10.38%) Serverless
6 46 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 31 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (5.47%) OpenShift
11 24 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (4.34%) Azure AKS
12 23 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (3.40%) Datadog
15 16 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.64%) Apigee
17 13 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.70%) SSL
2 5 (0.94%) Firewall
2 5 (0.94%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.75%) HTTP
3 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (19.06%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (14.53%) MongoDB
3 76 (14.34%) NoSQL
4 66 (12.45%) Relational Database
5 49 (9.25%) MySQL
6 36 (6.79%) DynamoDB
7 23 (4.34%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.21%) Redis
10 16 (3.02%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.89%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.70%) DocumentDB
15 8 (1.51%) DB2
15 8 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.51%) HBase
16 4 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
17 3 (0.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 127 (23.96%) Git
2 115 (21.70%) Jenkins
3 92 (17.36%) GitLab
4 88 (16.60%) JUnit
5 49 (9.25%) Cucumber
6 48 (9.06%) Mockito
7 46 (8.68%) Maven
8 45 (8.49%) Gradle
9 40 (7.55%) JIRA
10 29 (5.47%) SonarQube
11 20 (3.77%) Bitbucket
12 19 (3.58%) Selenium
13 18 (3.40%) Postman
14 17 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
15 16 (3.02%) Cypress.io
16 13 (2.45%) REST Assured
17 12 (2.26%) Artifactory
17 12 (2.26%) IntelliJ
18 10 (1.89%) Gatling
19 9 (1.70%) Subversion
General
1 135 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 118 (22.26%) Finance
3 92 (17.36%) Public Sector
4 87 (16.42%) Banking
5 19 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (1.32%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 7 (1.32%) Retail
8 5 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.57%) Electronics
10 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.57%) Marketing
11 2 (0.38%) Law
12 1 (0.19%) Automotive
12 1 (0.19%) Back Office
12 1 (0.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 318 (60.00%) Developer
2 247 (46.60%) Java Developer
3 108 (20.38%) Senior
4 77 (14.53%) Senior Developer
5 66 (12.45%) Java Engineer
6 65 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
7 63 (11.89%) Full-Stack Developer
8 51 (9.62%) Lead
9 49 (9.25%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (4.91%) Architect
11 26 (4.91%) Lead Developer
12 23 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
13 20 (3.77%) AWS Developer
13 20 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.58%) Lead Java Developer
15 18 (3.40%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.64%) Technical Architect
17 13 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
18 12 (2.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (86.79%) Spring
2 150 (28.30%) Kafka
3 146 (27.55%) RESTful
4 122 (23.02%) React
5 116 (21.89%) REST
6 99 (18.68%) AngularJS
7 58 (10.94%) HTML
8 57 (10.75%) Hibernate
9 54 (10.19%) Node.js
10 42 (7.92%) CSS
10 42 (7.92%) JSON
11 37 (6.98%) JPA
12 36 (6.79%) OAuth
13 34 (6.42%) OAuth2
14 31 (5.85%) Spring Cloud
15 25 (4.72%) OpenTelemetry
16 24 (4.53%) Spring MVC
17 23 (4.34%) Swagger
18 22 (4.15%) J2EE
18 22 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 81 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.13%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.13%) N-Tier
10 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.75%) NHS
12 3 (0.57%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.72%) Linux
2 10 (1.89%) Unix
3 7 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.32%) Windows
4 3 (0.57%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (68.68%) Microservices
2 297 (56.04%) CI/CD
3 231 (43.58%) Agile
4 192 (36.23%) DevOps
5 172 (32.45%) Containerisation
6 124 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 115 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (21.70%) Test Automation
8 108 (20.38%) Software Engineering
9 104 (19.62%) TDD
10 95 (17.92%) Event-Driven
11 77 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 68 (12.83%) SDLC
13 64 (12.08%) API Design
14 62 (11.70%) Scrum
15 60 (11.32%) Mentoring
16 57 (10.75%) Observability
17 56 (10.57%) BDD
18 54 (10.19%) Code Quality
19 51 (9.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 490 (92.45%) Java
2 125 (23.58%) SQL
3 85 (16.04%) JavaScript
4 67 (12.64%) TypeScript
5 54 (10.19%) Python
6 31 (5.85%) Kotlin
7 12 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.70%) Bash
9 8 (1.51%) Ruby
10 7 (1.32%) Groovy
11 6 (1.13%) Go
11 6 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.13%) Rust
12 5 (0.94%) C#
13 4 (0.75%) Perl
13 4 (0.75%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) COBOL
15 2 (0.38%) JCL
15 2 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 110 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 88 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.34%) Degree
4 13 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.08%) OCP
5 11 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.89%) QA
2 38 (7.17%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.15%) ISO 20022
4 15 (2.83%) WCAG
5 12 (2.26%) PSD2
5 12 (2.26%) SEPA
6 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 235 (44.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.57%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 254 (47.92%) Kubernetes
2 97 (18.30%) Terraform
3 48 (9.06%) Grafana
4 24 (4.53%) Ansible
5 23 (4.34%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.64%) Kibana
7 12 (2.26%) Argo
8 5 (0.94%) Istio
8 5 (0.94%) Kiali
8 5 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.38%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.19%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.19%) Consul
10 1 (0.19%) Control-M
10 1 (0.19%) logstash
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (10.94%) Oracle
2 28 (5.28%) Splunk
3 26 (4.91%) Google
4 21 (3.96%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.64%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (1.13%) AppDynamics
8 6 (1.13%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.94%) Confluent
9 5 (0.94%) Gigya
10 4 (0.75%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.75%) IBM
10 4 (0.75%) Sybase
10 4 (0.75%) VMware
11 3 (0.57%) Adobe
11 3 (0.57%) Checkmarx
11 3 (0.57%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.57%) Qualys
11 3 (0.57%) SAP