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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 88 94
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 39 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 1.62% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 6.26% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 25
10th Percentile £225 £413 £363
25th Percentile £459 £424 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -15.45%
75th Percentile £629 £585 £738
90th Percentile £708 - £804
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +16.67% -16.28% -17.31%
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 473 447 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 25.87% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 287 356
10th Percentile £410 £404 £400
25th Percentile £475 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £696
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £558
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.48% -10.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £23.93 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.57% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
% change year-on-year -42.78% - -

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 20 June 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
2 2 (5.13%) Camunda
2 2 (5.13%) Ethereum
2 2 (5.13%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 28 (71.79%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) GitHub
3 10 (25.64%) Azure
4 9 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (17.95%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.95%) Serverless
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (15.38%) GCP
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (10.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.13%) dbt
9 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) NoSQL
2 9 (23.08%) DynamoDB
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
4 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (5.13%) Db2
7 2 (5.13%) Hazelcast
7 2 (5.13%) Redis
8 1 (2.56%) Big Data
8 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (33.33%) JUnit
3 10 (25.64%) Git
4 9 (23.08%) Mockito
5 8 (20.51%) JIRA
6 7 (17.95%) GitLab
7 6 (15.38%) Gradle
8 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
8 5 (12.82%) Postman
9 3 (7.69%) Maven
10 2 (5.13%) Gatling
10 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
General
1 19 (48.72%) Finance
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.56%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Developer
2 14 (35.90%) Senior
3 13 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 9 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Architect
6 5 (12.82%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (5.13%) Lead
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Backend Developer
10 1 (2.56%) AWS Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Blockchain Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (97.44%) Spring
2 23 (58.97%) Kafka
3 11 (28.21%) RESTful
4 7 (17.95%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) Gherkin
5 5 (12.82%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (12.82%) React
5 5 (12.82%) SOAP
5 5 (12.82%) WireMock
5 5 (12.82%) YAML
6 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.13%) Apache Avro
7 2 (5.13%) HTML
7 2 (5.13%) Node.js
7 2 (5.13%) OAuth
7 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
7 2 (5.13%) OpenID
7 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.13%) Spring Batch
7 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
2 22 (56.41%) Microservices
3 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
4 16 (41.03%) Agile
5 13 (33.33%) DevOps
6 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven
6 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
7 10 (25.64%) Observability
7 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
8 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.95%) OOP
9 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (12.82%) API Testing
10 5 (12.82%) BDD
10 5 (12.82%) Issue Tracking
10 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.82%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 37 (94.87%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) C#
6 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 3 (7.69%) SEPA
3 2 (5.13%) EMIR
3 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) ISO 8583
3 2 (5.13%) MiFID
3 2 (5.13%) PSD2
4 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (58.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.82%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Confluent
1 2 (5.13%) IBM
1 2 (5.13%) Sybase
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.56%) Pega
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow