Spring Boot Contracts

Spring Boot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Boot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Boot over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 217 174
Rank change year-on-year +20 -43 -35
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 407 480 901
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 1.11% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.15% 5.40% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 361 717
10th Percentile £350 £375 £450
25th Percentile £406 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% +1.75%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £678 £738 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £441 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.16% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 7
10th Percentile £44.00 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £90.63 - £78.00
90th Percentile £92.50 - £82.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.14%

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 6,620 8,884 13,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.77% 20.58% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 6,170 10,017
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 238 152
10th Percentile £27.22 £21.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.08 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.84 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.77% -27.94% +30.65%
75th Percentile £68.56 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.70 £74.61 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.90% +28.43%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Daily rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring Boot.

Hourly rate trend for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring Boot in the UK

Spring Boot
Top 16 Contract 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 5 May 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 +21 282 £525 - 390
UK excluding London +46 193 £441 -7.16% 332
London -5 158 £548 -0.45% 125
Work from Home +12 123 £534 +6.70% 294
Scotland +14 74 £434 -6.06% 34
North of England +36 64 £465 -11.43% 98
North West +23 40 £402 -23.43% 68
Midlands +33 22 £402 +12.92% 50
Yorkshire +14 18 £538 -2.27% 20
South East +26 13 £519 +9.16% 90
South West +29 11 £513 +28.13% 38
West Midlands +27 11 £438 +34.62% 30
East Midlands +19 11 £358 +0.56% 17
Northern Ireland 0 8 £363 -34.09% 6
North East +3 7 £465 -15.45% 10
East of England +19 1 £468 +24.67% 19

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.86%) Confluence
2 19 (4.67%) JBoss
3 15 (3.69%) Camunda
4 11 (2.70%) Apache
5 8 (1.97%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.72%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.47%) Alfresco
8 5 (1.23%) WebLogic
8 5 (1.23%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.74%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.49%) CICS
11 2 (0.49%) GemFire
11 2 (0.49%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.25%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 211 (51.84%) AWS
2 42 (10.32%) Azure
3 33 (8.11%) Serverless
4 28 (6.88%) OpenShift
5 27 (6.63%) GCP
6 25 (6.14%) Amazon S3
7 24 (5.90%) GitHub
8 21 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
8 21 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.42%) Slack
10 16 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.44%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (2.95%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.46%) AWS KMS
14 10 (2.46%) Route 53
15 8 (1.97%) Kong
15 8 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.46%) HTTP
2 4 (0.98%) SMS
2 4 (0.98%) SSL
3 3 (0.74%) IPsec
3 3 (0.74%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.25%) FTP
5 1 (0.25%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (37.35%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (23.34%) MongoDB
3 85 (20.88%) Relational Database
4 71 (17.44%) MySQL
5 61 (14.99%) NoSQL
6 24 (5.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 24 (5.90%) RDBMS
7 21 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (4.42%) DB2
9 17 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (4.18%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.95%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (2.70%) Redis
12 8 (1.97%) GIS
13 6 (1.47%) Metadata
14 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.74%) Metadata Repository
15 3 (0.74%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 115 (28.26%) JUnit
2 113 (27.76%) Jenkins
3 84 (20.64%) Git
4 66 (16.22%) Maven
5 62 (15.23%) Mockito
6 59 (14.50%) JIRA
7 57 (14.00%) Gradle
8 55 (13.51%) GitLab
9 34 (8.35%) Liquibase
10 30 (7.37%) SonarQube
11 29 (7.13%) Cucumber
12 21 (5.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 19 (4.67%) Jasmine
14 17 (4.18%) Bitbucket Server
15 16 (3.93%) Bitbucket
16 14 (3.44%) CA Release Automation
17 12 (2.95%) Artifactory
17 12 (2.95%) TeamCity
18 11 (2.70%) IntelliJ
19 10 (2.46%) Selenium
General
1 106 (26.04%) Finance
2 100 (24.57%) Public Sector
3 55 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 49 (12.04%) Banking
5 23 (5.65%) Marketing
5 23 (5.65%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.16%) Electronics
6 21 (5.16%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.70%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.46%) Retail
10 7 (1.72%) Front Office
11 6 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Back Office
12 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.49%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 266 (65.36%) Developer
2 203 (49.88%) Java Developer
3 61 (14.99%) Lead
3 61 (14.99%) Senior
4 56 (13.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 50 (12.29%) Java Engineer
6 45 (11.06%) Senior Developer
7 44 (10.81%) Software Engineer
8 43 (10.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 34 (8.35%) Lead Developer
11 28 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
12 25 (6.14%) Lead Java Developer
13 24 (5.90%) Architect
14 20 (4.91%) React Developer
15 18 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 13 (3.19%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
17 12 (2.95%) Senior Java Engineer
18 11 (2.70%) Software Developer
19 8 (1.97%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (86.98%) Spring
2 134 (32.92%) Kafka
3 113 (27.76%) React
4 76 (18.67%) RESTful
5 67 (16.46%) Swagger
6 63 (15.48%) AngularJS
6 63 (15.48%) OpenAPI
7 62 (15.23%) REST
8 58 (14.25%) Hibernate
9 49 (12.04%) HTML
10 40 (9.83%) Node.js
10 40 (9.83%) Web Services
11 30 (7.37%) JPA
11 30 (7.37%) Spring Batch
12 29 (7.13%) Spring Security
13 28 (6.88%) SOAP
14 26 (6.39%) CSS
15 23 (5.65%) J2EE
16 18 (4.42%) XML
17 15 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (4.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 17 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.19%) PKI
6 10 (2.46%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
9 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.23%) Derivative
11 5 (1.23%) Equities
11 5 (1.23%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.74%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.74%) Distributed Applications
13 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 74 (18.18%) Linux
2 36 (8.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (4.18%) Unix
4 12 (2.95%) Windows
5 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.49%) zOS
7 1 (0.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (63.64%) Microservices
2 197 (48.40%) CI/CD
3 189 (46.44%) Agile
4 150 (36.86%) DevOps
5 133 (32.68%) TDD
6 109 (26.78%) Software Engineering
7 102 (25.06%) Containerisation
8 71 (17.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 70 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
10 57 (14.00%) Migration
11 50 (12.29%) Mentoring
11 50 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 48 (11.79%) Code Quality
13 47 (11.55%) Scrum
14 46 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (11.06%) BDD
15 45 (11.06%) Clean Code
16 44 (10.81%) API Development
17 43 (10.57%) Event-Driven
18 37 (9.09%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 388 (95.33%) Java
2 163 (40.05%) SQL
3 86 (21.13%) JavaScript
4 68 (16.71%) TypeScript
5 51 (12.53%) Python
6 23 (5.65%) Bash
7 15 (3.69%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 10 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 10 (2.46%) Perl
10 9 (2.21%) Scala
11 5 (1.23%) C#
11 5 (1.23%) Ruby
12 4 (0.98%) Go
13 3 (0.74%) Groovy
13 3 (0.74%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) C++
14 1 (0.25%) JCL
14 1 (0.25%) R
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 141 (34.64%) Security Cleared
2 136 (33.42%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 12 (2.95%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.70%) Degree
6 8 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) OCP
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.69%) QA
2 10 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.47%) GDPR
4 4 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 182 (44.72%) Docker
2 13 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (1.23%) Postfix
5 3 (0.74%) RACF
Systems Management
1 146 (35.87%) Kubernetes
2 70 (17.20%) Terraform
3 18 (4.42%) Grafana
4 17 (4.18%) Kibana
4 17 (4.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.69%) Progress Chef
6 13 (3.19%) Ansible
7 11 (2.70%) Istio
8 8 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.47%) Argo
9 6 (1.47%) Puppet
10 4 (0.98%) Packer
11 2 (0.49%) Rancher
12 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 43 (10.57%) Oracle
2 26 (6.39%) SAP
3 20 (4.91%) Splunk
4 17 (4.18%) Microsoft
5 16 (3.93%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.46%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.21%) Google
8 8 (1.97%) CA Agile Central
8 8 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.72%) IBM
10 6 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.47%) Sybase
11 5 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.23%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.74%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.74%) Databricks
12 3 (0.74%) DocuSign
12 3 (0.74%) Veracode