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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 182 232
Rank change year-on-year -2 +50 -71
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 691 418 451
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.42% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.25% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 271 341
10th Percentile £353 £356 £375
25th Percentile £411 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.78%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £650 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £441 £480
% change year-on-year +7.71% -8.03% -8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 0
10th Percentile - £45.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £73.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% - -
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 9,401 6,689 8,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.23% 22.64% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,243 4,578 6,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 109 212
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.08 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.17 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 14 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 24 April 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 +43 582 £500 -5.66% 102
UK excluding London +11 353 £475 +7.71% 80
London +15 266 £525 -4.55% 55
Work from Home -3 162 £481 -8.33% 92
North of England +9 161 £475 +2.15% 26
North West +24 114 £475 +18.16% 15
West Midlands -18 49 £469 +11.67% 2
Midlands -29 49 £469 +16.67% 2
Scotland -16 45 £569 +30.00% 5
South East -26 40 £525 -2.23% 25
South West -5 39 £402 -22.46% 14
Yorkshire -36 34 £475 -11.63% 4
East of England -13 21 £570 +21.93% 4
North East -7 15 £475 +2.15% 7

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 34 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.76%) Confluence
3 15 (2.17%) Camunda
4 12 (1.74%) Apache
5 9 (1.30%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.87%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.87%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) Drupal
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (56.15%) AWS
2 183 (26.48%) Azure
3 124 (17.95%) GitHub
4 111 (16.06%) GCP
5 87 (12.59%) Serverless
6 84 (12.16%) Amazon S3
7 75 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (4.20%) OpenShift
16 26 (3.76%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.60%) Route 53
18 16 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
19 15 (2.17%) Cloud Run
20 14 (2.03%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.88%) HTTP
2 10 (1.45%) Firewall
2 10 (1.45%) SSL
3 8 (1.16%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) FTP
6 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (13.46%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.00%) Relational Database
4 72 (10.42%) MongoDB
5 65 (9.41%) MySQL
6 58 (8.39%) DynamoDB
7 42 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 17 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.32%) Big Data
11 15 (2.17%) DocumentDB
11 15 (2.17%) Redis
12 11 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.30%) Flink
14 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.16%) DB2
14 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
16 6 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 151 (21.85%) Git
1 151 (21.85%) Jenkins
2 107 (15.48%) JUnit
3 105 (15.20%) GitLab
4 54 (7.81%) Mockito
5 51 (7.38%) JIRA
6 50 (7.24%) Gradle
7 47 (6.80%) Maven
8 29 (4.20%) SonarQube
9 24 (3.47%) Cucumber
10 21 (3.04%) IntelliJ
11 16 (2.32%) Selenium
12 14 (2.03%) Cypress.io
13 13 (1.88%) Postman
14 12 (1.74%) Gatling
15 11 (1.59%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.59%) jMock
16 10 (1.45%) Jaeger
16 10 (1.45%) Mocha
17 9 (1.30%) REST Assured
General
1 139 (20.12%) Finance
2 137 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 122 (17.66%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.41%) Banking
5 28 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.03%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.74%) Retail
8 5 (0.72%) Automotive
8 5 (0.72%) Law
8 5 (0.72%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.58%) Publishing
10 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.43%) Electronics
10 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.43%) Marketing
10 3 (0.43%) Military
10 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 408 (59.04%) Developer
2 293 (42.40%) Java Developer
3 136 (19.68%) Senior
4 113 (16.35%) Java Engineer
5 83 (12.01%) Full-Stack Developer
5 83 (12.01%) Senior Developer
6 74 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 63 (9.12%) Lead
8 62 (8.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 44 (6.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 39 (5.64%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.63%) Backend Developer
11 32 (4.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 28 (4.05%) Lead Developer
12 28 (4.05%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.47%) Architect
13 24 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 17 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.46%) Lead Java Developer
15 15 (2.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (93.05%) Spring
2 204 (29.52%) RESTful
3 187 (27.06%) Kafka
4 163 (23.59%) REST
5 146 (21.13%) React
6 108 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 97 (14.04%) Node.js
8 67 (9.70%) Hibernate
8 67 (9.70%) HTML
9 49 (7.09%) CSS
10 48 (6.95%) Spring MVC
11 47 (6.80%) JPA
12 42 (6.08%) OpenTelemetry
13 41 (5.93%) OAuth
14 39 (5.64%) Spring Cloud
15 38 (5.50%) Jest
15 38 (5.50%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.92%) Next.js
17 32 (4.63%) Web Services
18 29 (4.20%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 115 (16.64%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.60%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.01%) NHS
12 6 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.58%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.80%) Linux
2 13 (1.88%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.43%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (61.79%) Microservices
2 394 (57.02%) CI/CD
3 265 (38.35%) Agile
4 261 (37.77%) DevOps
5 234 (33.86%) Containerisation
6 174 (25.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 142 (20.55%) Software Engineering
8 132 (19.10%) TDD
9 128 (18.52%) Event-Driven
10 119 (17.22%) Test Automation
11 110 (15.92%) Code Quality
12 106 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (13.89%) Observability
13 96 (13.89%) Scrum
14 88 (12.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 85 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 78 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (11.14%) API Design
18 71 (10.27%) Mentoring
19 63 (9.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 654 (94.65%) Java
2 190 (27.50%) SQL
3 104 (15.05%) JavaScript
4 90 (13.02%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.71%) Python
6 48 (6.95%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.75%) Go
8 13 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.30%) Rust
10 8 (1.16%) C#
10 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.87%) Perl
12 5 (0.72%) Scala
13 3 (0.43%) Bash
13 3 (0.43%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) Groovy
14 2 (0.29%) Ruby
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 186 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 151 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.21%) Degree
4 27 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.16%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.87%) OCP
7 6 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.71%) QA
2 53 (7.67%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.46%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.59%) WCAG
5 9 (1.30%) SEPA
6 8 (1.16%) PSD2
7 7 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.72%) GDPR
9 4 (0.58%) HL7
9 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
9 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.43%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) EMIR
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 297 (42.98%) Docker
2 10 (1.45%) Postfix
3 3 (0.43%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 311 (45.01%) Kubernetes
2 94 (13.60%) Terraform
3 81 (11.72%) Grafana
4 48 (6.95%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.04%) Ansible
6 13 (1.88%) Argo
7 10 (1.45%) Kiali
8 9 (1.30%) Istio
9 8 (1.16%) Kibana
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 54 (7.81%) Oracle
2 37 (5.35%) Splunk
3 33 (4.78%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.63%) Google
5 14 (2.03%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.59%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 9 (1.30%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.16%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.16%) IBM
10 7 (1.01%) Databricks
11 6 (0.87%) Adobe
11 6 (0.87%) SAP
11 6 (0.87%) Solace
11 6 (0.87%) Sybase
12 5 (0.72%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.72%) Okta
12 5 (0.72%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.72%) Teradata