Hybrid/Remote Spring Boot Contract Job Trends

Spring Boot
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 175 269
Rank change year-on-year +5 +94 -146
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 142 164 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.30% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.40% 5.01% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 108 109
10th Percentile £316 £374 £400
25th Percentile £413 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +2.93% -12.95%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £599 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £87.50 £69.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £72.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.00% +13.21%
75th Percentile £92.50 £74.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% -7.69% +7.96%

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 2,632 3,276 5,035
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.12% 25.87% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,793 2,202 3,745
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 62 56
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.30 £38.25
25th Percentile £41.13 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.33% +1.98%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.13
UK median hourly rate £54.70 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.20% +2.67% -4.13%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spring Boot

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 21 September 2025.

Spring Boot daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Spring Boot

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 6 (4.23%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) Apache
2 4 (2.82%) JBoss
3 3 (2.11%) Alfresco
3 3 (2.11%) Camunda
3 3 (2.11%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.41%) Mule
4 2 (1.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) CICS
5 1 (0.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Drupal
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.66%) AWS
2 38 (26.76%) Azure
3 17 (11.97%) Amazon SQS
3 17 (11.97%) GCP
4 16 (11.27%) GitHub
5 13 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (7.75%) Serverless
7 10 (7.04%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.04%) OpenShift
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.93%) Route 53
10 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.23%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.52%) AWS KMS
11 5 (3.52%) Cloud Functions
11 5 (3.52%) Cloud Run
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.76%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (16.90%) Relational Database
3 15 (10.56%) DynamoDB
3 15 (10.56%) NoSQL
4 14 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (9.15%) MongoDB
5 13 (9.15%) MySQL
6 10 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (6.34%) Redis
8 7 (4.93%) Oracle Database
8 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.23%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.82%) DB2
11 3 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.41%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.41%) Metadata
12 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.70%) Big Data
13 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 48 (33.80%) Git
1 48 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 47 (33.10%) JUnit
3 38 (26.76%) Maven
4 30 (21.13%) Mockito
5 29 (20.42%) SonarQube
6 21 (14.79%) GitLab
6 21 (14.79%) JIRA
7 19 (13.38%) Gradle
8 12 (8.45%) Cucumber
9 10 (7.04%) Bitbucket
10 9 (6.34%) Liquibase
10 9 (6.34%) Selenium
10 9 (6.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (6.34%) Subversion
11 8 (5.63%) REST Assured
12 7 (4.93%) IntelliJ
12 7 (4.93%) Postman
13 6 (4.23%) SoapUI
13 6 (4.23%) Xcode
General
1 34 (23.94%) Finance
2 33 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 30 (21.13%) Banking
4 17 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.11%) Front Office
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 92 (64.79%) Developer
2 77 (54.23%) Java Developer
3 31 (21.83%) Lead
4 27 (19.01%) Senior
5 25 (17.61%) Senior Developer
5 25 (17.61%) Senior Java Developer
6 19 (13.38%) Java Engineer
6 19 (13.38%) Lead Developer
7 17 (11.97%) Lead Java Developer
8 15 (10.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (9.86%) Software Engineer
10 11 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (6.34%) Java Software Engineer
11 9 (6.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (4.23%) AWS Developer
13 5 (3.52%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.52%) Technical Leader
14 4 (2.82%) Architect
15 3 (2.11%) Team Leader
15 3 (2.11%) Technical Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (79.58%) Spring
2 48 (33.80%) Kafka
3 44 (30.99%) REST
3 44 (30.99%) RESTful
4 31 (21.83%) AngularJS
5 29 (20.42%) React
6 28 (19.72%) JPA
7 23 (16.20%) Hibernate
7 23 (16.20%) HTML
8 22 (15.49%) Spring Cloud
9 20 (14.08%) SOAP
10 19 (13.38%) CSS
10 19 (13.38%) Swagger
11 18 (12.68%) Web Services
12 16 (11.27%) J2EE
13 15 (10.56%) Node.js
14 12 (8.45%) Bootstrap
15 9 (6.34%) ActiveMQ
15 9 (6.34%) Jest
15 9 (6.34%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.38%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.52%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.11%) PKI
6 2 (1.41%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.41%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.41%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.70%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Unix
2 9 (6.34%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (70.42%) Microservices
2 86 (60.56%) Agile
3 72 (50.70%) CI/CD
4 54 (38.03%) DevOps
5 53 (37.32%) Containerisation
6 49 (34.51%) TDD
7 32 (22.54%) Scrum
8 27 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.01%) Software Engineering
9 26 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (17.61%) Mentoring
11 22 (15.49%) Event-Driven
11 22 (15.49%) Test Automation
12 21 (14.79%) Unit Testing
13 20 (14.08%) Code Quality
14 19 (13.38%) BDD
14 19 (13.38%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (12.68%) Front End Development
16 17 (11.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 139 (97.89%) Java
2 47 (33.10%) SQL
3 32 (22.54%) JavaScript
4 28 (19.72%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.27%) Python
6 12 (8.45%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.23%) Groovy
8 5 (3.52%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.41%) Bash
9 2 (1.41%) C#
9 2 (1.41%) COBOL
9 2 (1.41%) JCL
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) Perl
10 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.41%) Degree
4 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.90%) QA
2 9 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) GDPR
3 2 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.41%) WCAG
4 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.70%) PSD2
4 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 79 (55.63%) Docker
2 3 (2.11%) Postfix
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.15%) Terraform
3 7 (4.93%) Ansible
4 6 (4.23%) Grafana
4 6 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.70%) Control-M
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Oracle
2 10 (7.04%) Splunk
3 9 (6.34%) Google
4 8 (5.63%) CA Agile Central
5 7 (4.93%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.11%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.11%) IBM
6 3 (2.11%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.11%) Veracode
6 3 (2.11%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.41%) Checkmarx
7 2 (1.41%) Gigya
7 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.41%) Sybase
8 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.70%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.70%) Red Hat