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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 98 100
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 39 34 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.65% 1.83% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.01% 7.28% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 22
10th Percentile £356 £413 £402
25th Percentile £493 £428 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £619
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -27.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £618 £585 £659
90th Percentile £739 - £781
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% -3.85%
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 487 467 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.64% 25.09% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 299 336
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £740 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +3.14% -8.33% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -36.40% +142.34% -51.34%

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 15 August 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Camunda
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) GitHub
3 11 (28.21%) Azure
4 8 (20.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (17.95%) Serverless
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.82%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (12.82%) GCP
8 4 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (10.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.13%) dbt
10 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.51%) DynamoDB
2 8 (20.51%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.13%) Db2
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.56%) Big Data
7 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) Redis
7 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) JUnit
2 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (23.08%) Git
4 8 (20.51%) Mockito
5 6 (15.38%) GitLab
5 6 (15.38%) Gradle
6 5 (12.82%) JIRA
7 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (10.26%) Postman
8 3 (7.69%) Maven
9 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
10 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
10 1 (2.56%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 15 (38.46%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Senior
3 14 (35.90%) Java Developer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Java Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Lead
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Angular Developer
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (97.44%) Spring
2 20 (51.28%) Kafka
3 13 (33.33%) RESTful
4 10 (25.64%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) React
6 4 (10.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.26%) Gherkin
6 4 (10.26%) HTML
6 4 (10.26%) SOAP
6 4 (10.26%) WireMock
6 4 (10.26%) YAML
7 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (7.69%) Web Services
8 2 (5.13%) NgRx
8 2 (5.13%) Node.js
8 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
8 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 23 (58.97%) Microservices
3 18 (46.15%) DevOps
4 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
5 16 (41.03%) Agile
6 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 12 (30.77%) Event-Driven
7 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Observability
9 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
10 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (17.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (17.95%) OOP
11 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (12.82%) BDD
12 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
13 4 (10.26%) Integration Patterns
13 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
13 4 (10.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 11 (28.21%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) C#
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) EMIR
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) MiFID
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (58.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (56.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Sybase
3 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.56%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow