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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 199 207
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -30
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 708 410 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.49% 1.40% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 6.19% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 272 360
10th Percentile £356 £341 £375
25th Percentile £419 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £577 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £674 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +8.57% -7.89% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 1
10th Percentile - £44.00 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £69.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.72% +15.20%
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £74.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% -23.61% +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 9,351 6,624 8,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.69% 22.69% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,165 4,554 6,183
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 113 244
10th Percentile £34.75 £29.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £82.79 £74.85
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 12 May 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 May 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 May 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 +31 601 £500 -4.76% 128
UK excluding London +2 350 £475 +8.57% 84
London +42 285 £525 -0.94% 60
Work from Home -2 172 £485 -7.62% 60
North of England +7 164 £475 +2.15% 38
North West +25 115 £475 +20.87% 27
West Midlands -31 45 £470 +11.90% 5
Midlands -37 45 £470 +22.08% 7
South West -1 42 £409 -20.20% 12
Scotland -27 41 £438 +1.74% 3
Yorkshire -38 34 £475 -11.63% 4
South East -40 30 £461 -14.11% 19
East of England 0 29 £509 +8.77% 4
North East -7 17 £475 +2.15% 7
Wales - 1 - - 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 41 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.81%) Confluence
3 17 (2.40%) Apache
4 15 (2.12%) Camunda
5 8 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.13%) WebLogic
6 6 (0.85%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.85%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) 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 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 386 (54.52%) AWS
2 173 (24.44%) Azure
3 121 (17.09%) GitHub
4 110 (15.54%) GCP
5 83 (11.72%) Serverless
6 79 (11.16%) Amazon S3
7 75 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
8 72 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (5.65%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 38 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.38%) OpenShift
14 24 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (3.39%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.54%) Cloud Run
15 18 (2.54%) Route 53
16 14 (1.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.55%) HTTP
2 10 (1.41%) SSL
3 9 (1.27%) Firewall
4 6 (0.85%) HTTPS
5 4 (0.56%) DNS
6 3 (0.42%) VPN
6 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.14%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.57%) NoSQL
3 75 (10.59%) Relational Database
4 70 (9.89%) MongoDB
5 57 (8.05%) MySQL
6 55 (7.77%) DynamoDB
7 43 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.67%) SQL Server
9 22 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.40%) Big Data
11 16 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (2.26%) Redis
12 15 (2.12%) DocumentDB
13 14 (1.98%) Flink
14 11 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.27%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.13%) DB2
16 8 (1.13%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
18 6 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (21.75%) Git
2 148 (20.90%) Jenkins
3 114 (16.10%) GitLab
4 107 (15.11%) JUnit
5 66 (9.32%) Gradle
6 62 (8.76%) Mockito
7 52 (7.34%) JIRA
8 51 (7.20%) Maven
9 31 (4.38%) SonarQube
10 23 (3.25%) Cucumber
11 22 (3.11%) IntelliJ
12 16 (2.26%) Selenium
13 12 (1.69%) Cypress.io
13 12 (1.69%) Liquibase
14 11 (1.55%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.55%) Gatling
14 11 (1.55%) jMock
14 11 (1.55%) Mocha
14 11 (1.55%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.41%) Jaeger
General
1 142 (20.06%) Finance
2 132 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 121 (17.09%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.32%) Banking
5 30 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.54%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.84%) Retail
8 6 (0.85%) Law
8 6 (0.85%) Publishing
8 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.71%) Automotive
9 5 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.56%) Military
11 3 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.28%) Police
12 2 (0.28%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 404 (57.06%) Developer
2 290 (40.96%) Java Developer
3 149 (21.05%) Senior
4 124 (17.51%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.15%) Software Engineer
6 84 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (8.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (8.76%) Lead
10 46 (6.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (4.66%) Backend Developer
13 30 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 28 (3.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.67%) Lead Developer
16 24 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 22 (3.11%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.82%) Senior Java Engineer
19 17 (2.40%) Architect
20 16 (2.26%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 661 (93.36%) Spring
2 198 (27.97%) Kafka
3 194 (27.40%) RESTful
4 164 (23.16%) REST
5 141 (19.92%) React
6 97 (13.70%) Node.js
7 93 (13.14%) AngularJS
8 64 (9.04%) HTML
9 60 (8.47%) Hibernate
10 46 (6.50%) CSS
10 46 (6.50%) JPA
11 45 (6.36%) Spring MVC
12 44 (6.21%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (6.21%) Spring Cloud
13 41 (5.79%) OAuth
14 38 (5.37%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.94%) Jest
15 35 (4.94%) Next.js
16 34 (4.80%) Web Services
17 29 (4.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 129 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 72 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (0.99%) NHS
11 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.50%) Linux
2 14 (1.98%) Unix
3 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.42%) Windows
5 2 (0.28%) Android
5 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (59.75%) Microservices
2 403 (56.92%) CI/CD
3 267 (37.71%) Agile
4 263 (37.15%) DevOps
5 248 (35.03%) Containerisation
6 164 (23.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 164 (23.16%) Software Engineering
7 138 (19.49%) TDD
8 127 (17.94%) Event-Driven
9 124 (17.51%) Test Automation
10 109 (15.40%) Code Quality
11 102 (14.41%) Observability
12 101 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (12.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 87 (12.29%) Scrum
16 78 (11.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 73 (10.31%) API Design
18 67 (9.46%) Mentoring
19 61 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 674 (95.20%) Java
2 202 (28.53%) SQL
3 108 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 91 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 81 (11.44%) Python
6 48 (6.78%) Kotlin
7 19 (2.68%) Go
8 12 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.27%) C#
10 9 (1.27%) Rust
11 7 (0.99%) Scala
12 5 (0.71%) Perl
13 4 (0.56%) Bash
13 4 (0.56%) Ruby
14 3 (0.42%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) Groovy
15 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
16 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 201 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 161 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.08%) Degree
4 26 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.56%) OCP
9 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.46%) QA
2 54 (7.63%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.40%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.69%) SEPA
4 12 (1.69%) WCAG
5 8 (1.13%) GDPR
5 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.13%) PSD2
6 7 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.56%) HL7
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 306 (43.22%) Docker
2 10 (1.41%) Postfix
3 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 323 (45.62%) Kubernetes
2 89 (12.57%) Terraform
3 84 (11.86%) Grafana
4 52 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.95%) Ansible
6 14 (1.98%) Argo
7 10 (1.41%) Kiali
7 10 (1.41%) Kibana
8 9 (1.27%) Istio
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (7.34%) Oracle
2 36 (5.08%) Splunk
3 30 (4.24%) Google
3 30 (4.24%) Microsoft
4 14 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
5 11 (1.55%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
6 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.13%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.13%) IBM
8 7 (0.99%) Databricks
9 6 (0.85%) Adobe
9 6 (0.85%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.85%) Okta
9 6 (0.85%) Solace
9 6 (0.85%) Sybase
10 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.71%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.71%) Teradata
11 4 (0.56%) SAP