Spring Boot Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Spring Boot
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 185 148
Rank change year-on-year +5 -37 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 124 166 434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.08% 1.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.84% 4.53% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 135 354
10th Percentile £390 £400 £450
25th Percentile £441 £450 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -12.00% +4.07%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £730
90th Percentile £688 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £92.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring Boot
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Spring Boot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spring Boot trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Spring Boot.

Spring Boot daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Spring Boot over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Spring Boot daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Spring Boot.

Spring Boot hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spring Boot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (8.87%) Confluence
2 6 (4.84%) JBoss
3 5 (4.03%) Camunda
4 4 (3.23%) Apache
4 4 (3.23%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.61%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.81%) CICS
6 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.00%) AWS
2 14 (11.29%) Azure
2 14 (11.29%) Serverless
3 10 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (7.26%) Amazon S3
4 9 (7.26%) GCP
5 8 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.84%) PaaS
6 6 (4.84%) SaaS
6 6 (4.84%) Slack
7 5 (4.03%) GitHub
8 4 (3.23%) IaaS
9 3 (2.42%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.42%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.42%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) HTTP
2 4 (3.23%) SSL
3 3 (2.42%) IPsec
3 3 (2.42%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.81%) FTP
4 1 (0.81%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.84%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.16%) Relational Database
3 23 (18.55%) MongoDB
4 19 (15.32%) MySQL
5 12 (9.68%) NoSQL
6 9 (7.26%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (5.65%) RDBMS
7 7 (5.65%) Redis
8 6 (4.84%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (4.03%) DB2
9 5 (4.03%) SQL Server
10 4 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.23%) GIS
10 4 (3.23%) Metadata
11 3 (2.42%) Neo4j
11 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.81%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (29.84%) JUnit
2 33 (26.61%) Jenkins
3 29 (23.39%) Maven
4 23 (18.55%) Git
5 22 (17.74%) JIRA
6 20 (16.13%) Gradle
7 17 (13.71%) Mockito
8 14 (11.29%) GitLab
9 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
10 9 (7.26%) Cucumber
10 9 (7.26%) Liquibase
11 8 (6.45%) Selenium
12 6 (4.84%) CA Release Automation
12 6 (4.84%) IntelliJ
12 6 (4.84%) Jasmine
12 6 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (4.03%) Subversion
14 3 (2.42%) Ant
14 3 (2.42%) HP UFT
14 3 (2.42%) NetBeans
General
1 20 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 19 (15.32%) Finance
2 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.29%) Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Retail
5 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Military
7 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 73 (58.87%) Developer
2 56 (45.16%) Java Developer
3 29 (23.39%) Lead
4 19 (15.32%) Senior
5 18 (14.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (12.90%) Lead Developer
7 14 (11.29%) Java Engineer
7 14 (11.29%) Lead Java Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Architect
8 12 (9.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (8.87%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (8.06%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Technical Architect
12 6 (4.84%) Senior Java Engineer
13 5 (4.03%) Java Architect
13 5 (4.03%) React Developer
13 5 (4.03%) Team Leader
14 4 (3.23%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (85.48%) Spring
2 42 (33.87%) Kafka
3 31 (25.00%) React
4 24 (19.35%) Swagger
5 22 (17.74%) OpenAPI
6 21 (16.94%) AngularJS
7 20 (16.13%) REST
7 20 (16.13%) RESTful
8 19 (15.32%) HTML
9 18 (14.52%) Node.js
10 16 (12.90%) CSS
11 14 (11.29%) Hibernate
12 12 (9.68%) OAuth
13 9 (7.26%) J2EE
13 9 (7.26%) Spring Batch
13 9 (7.26%) Web Services
14 8 (6.45%) AWS CDK
14 8 (6.45%) HTML5
14 8 (6.45%) JWT
14 8 (6.45%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.42%) PKI
6 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.52%) Linux
2 9 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.65%) Unix
4 6 (4.84%) Windows
5 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) Microservices
2 62 (50.00%) Agile
3 59 (47.58%) CI/CD
4 40 (32.26%) TDD
5 37 (29.84%) DevOps
6 33 (26.61%) Software Engineering
7 30 (24.19%) Containerisation
8 24 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (19.35%) Migration
9 23 (18.55%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.13%) Scrum
11 16 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (11.29%) API Design
12 14 (11.29%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.48%) Code Quality
13 13 (10.48%) Event-Driven
14 10 (8.06%) BDD
14 10 (8.06%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (8.06%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 120 (96.77%) Java
2 43 (34.68%) SQL
3 31 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 29 (23.39%) TypeScript
5 16 (12.90%) Python
6 7 (5.65%) Bash
6 7 (5.65%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.84%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.42%) Groovy
8 3 (2.42%) Perl
9 2 (1.61%) C#
9 2 (1.61%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) COBOL
10 1 (0.81%) JCL
10 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (28.23%) SC Cleared
1 35 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.23%) Degree
3 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.42%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.42%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) NCSC
3 2 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (47.58%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.42%) RACF
4 2 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (27.42%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.74%) Terraform
3 6 (4.84%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (4.03%) Ansible
4 5 (4.03%) Grafana
5 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.23%) Puppet
6 3 (2.42%) Istio
6 3 (2.42%) Kibana
6 3 (2.42%) Packer
7 1 (0.81%) Argo
7 1 (0.81%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) Oracle
2 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.65%) Splunk
3 6 (4.84%) Google
4 5 (4.03%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.23%) Sybase
6 3 (2.42%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.42%) IBM
6 3 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.81%) Databricks
7 1 (0.81%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.81%) Okta
7 1 (0.81%) Talend
7 1 (0.81%) Veracode
7 1 (0.81%) WSO2