Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Spring Boot
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 89 99
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 38 33 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.68% 1.85% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.44% 6.79% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 23
10th Percentile £253 £417 £370
25th Percentile £500 £435 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -25.00%
75th Percentile £632 - £619
90th Percentile £715 - £720
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 450 486 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.84% 27.32% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 316 344
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £784
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in the City of London

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Boot in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Boot in the City of London

Spring Boot
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring Boot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.26%) Camunda
2 2 (5.26%) Ethereum
2 2 (5.26%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 24 (63.16%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) GitHub
3 11 (28.95%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) GCP
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (15.79%) Serverless
7 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (10.53%) OpenShift
9 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.26%) dbt
10 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.63%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) NoSQL
2 7 (18.42%) DynamoDB
2 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (13.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.26%) Hazelcast
6 2 (5.26%) Redis
6 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.63%) Big Data
7 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.63%) DB2
7 1 (2.63%) MySQL
7 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Git
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) JUnit
3 7 (18.42%) Mockito
4 5 (13.16%) GitLab
4 5 (13.16%) Gradle
4 5 (13.16%) JIRA
5 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket
5 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.89%) Maven
5 3 (7.89%) Postman
6 2 (5.26%) Gatling
6 2 (5.26%) Liquibase
General
1 14 (36.84%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Developer
2 16 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Senior
4 10 (26.32%) Senior Developer
5 8 (21.05%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Architect
7 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.26%) Angular Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Lead
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
10 1 (2.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 1 (2.63%) Java Software Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (92.11%) Spring
2 19 (50.00%) Kafka
3 11 (28.95%) REST
3 11 (28.95%) RESTful
4 10 (26.32%) React
5 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
6 6 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.89%) Gherkin
7 3 (7.89%) JSON
7 3 (7.89%) SOAP
7 3 (7.89%) WireMock
7 3 (7.89%) YAML
8 2 (5.26%) Apache Avro
8 2 (5.26%) gRPC
8 2 (5.26%) HTML
8 2 (5.26%) J2EE
8 2 (5.26%) OAuth
8 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.26%) OpenID
8 2 (5.26%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Microservices
2 24 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 16 (42.11%) Agile
3 16 (42.11%) Containerisation
4 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
6 10 (26.32%) Event-Driven
6 10 (26.32%) Observability
7 9 (23.68%) Test Automation
8 7 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.79%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.79%) Scrum
10 5 (13.16%) BDD
10 5 (13.16%) Design Patterns
10 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (13.16%) OOP
10 5 (13.16%) TDD
11 4 (10.53%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) Java
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.53%) Python
5 3 (7.89%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) EMIR
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.26%) MiFID
2 2 (5.26%) PSD2
2 2 (5.26%) SEPA
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (60.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
2 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (7.89%) Argo
5 2 (5.26%) Ansible
6 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (5.26%) Confluent
1 2 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (2.63%) IBM
2 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Pega
2 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.63%) Sybase