Spring Boot Development in the UK

For most business-to-business services supplied from outside the UK, the reverse charge applies: you account for the VAT in your own return rather than paying it to us, and it is typically neutral if you are fully recoverable. Our invoices state the position clearly so your accountant is not guessing. If your situation is unusual, for example partial exemption, we would rather your accountant confirms the treatment before we invoice than after.

We build to it rather than claiming a certificate. In practice that means data minimisation designed in rather than bolted on, a documented lawful basis for each processing activity, retention periods that actually delete, subject access and erasure handled as features rather than manual database work, and hosting in a region you approve. Where we process personal data on your behalf we sign a processor agreement setting out exactly that.

Yes, and it is scoped from the start because retrofitting accessibility is considerably more expensive than building it in. We work to WCAG 2.2 AA, test with a screen reader rather than relying on an automated scan, and produce the accessibility statement the regulations require. Automated tools catch perhaps a third of real issues, which is why the manual pass is not optional.

We are happy to contract under English law with the courts of England and Wales, and most UK clients prefer that. IR35 does not apply to us: it governs individuals working through an intermediary, and you are engaging a company for a defined deliverable rather than a person for their time. Your accountant will want to see that the contract reflects that, and ours does.

We will be straight with you: Spring Boot is a newer service line for us, not a ten-year track record, and we are not going to invent case studies to look otherwise. What we bring is senior backend engineering that transfers directly. In production we build APIs and services on Node.js and Laravel, design relational schemas, and ship auth, integrations, tests, and CI on AWS. The framework is different, the job of building a clean, tested, well-documented backend is the same, and we hold Spring Boot to that standard.

Choose Spring Boot when you are already on the JVM, an existing Java team will maintain the code, or your organization values the mature Java ecosystem for integrations, hiring, or compliance. For a typical web app, SaaS MVP, or commerce build with no specific Java reason, the Node.js or Laravel stack we run daily will usually ship faster and cost less to run, and we will say so. The right reason to pick Spring Boot is that it genuinely fits, not that it sounds enterprise.

We build on Spring Boot 3.x with a current long-term-support Java, either 17 or 21, using Maven or Gradle. We avoid starting new work on Java or Spring versions that are already near end-of-life. On top of that we use Spring Web, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security, with PostgreSQL or MySQL, Flyway or Liquibase for migrations, and Redis where caching or rate limiting helps.

Whichever your problem actually calls for. Plenty of systems are better as one well-structured Spring Boot service, and we will not split it into microservices just to look modern, because that trades a clear codebase for network calls and operational overhead. When you have real reasons to separate services, independent deploys, different scaling needs, or team boundaries, we design them along those lines and use Spring Cloud where it earns its keep.

Yes to both. Modernization is one of the clearest reasons to hire us for Spring Boot: we can pull an aging Spring MVC or legacy Java monolith into cleaner services, add the tests and versioned migrations it never had, and get it into CI. We also work staff-augmentation style, reading your repo and shipping alongside your team for a defined period, with the same senior people throughout rather than a rotating bench of contractors.