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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 90 104
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 26 28 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.23% 1.58% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.66% 5.82% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 26
10th Percentile £163 £413 £372
25th Percentile - £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% -21.43%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £713
90th Percentile £608 - £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -28.57%

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 459 481 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.73% 27.08% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 307 345
10th Percentile £363 £413 £397
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £551
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.54% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 - £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.17%

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 22 March 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 2 (7.69%) Ethereum
1 2 (7.69%) Hyperledger
2 1 (3.85%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
1 14 (53.85%) GitHub
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (19.23%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (19.23%) DynamoDB
2 5 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.69%) Redis
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) DB2
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
2 9 (34.62%) JUnit
3 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (23.08%) Mockito
5 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
5 5 (19.23%) GitLab
5 5 (19.23%) JIRA
6 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
6 3 (11.54%) Postman
7 2 (7.69%) Gatling
7 2 (7.69%) Maven
8 1 (3.85%) Gradle
8 1 (3.85%) jMock
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 16 (61.54%) Java Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Senior
3 7 (26.92%) Senior Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Angular Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Platform Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Software Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (84.62%) Spring
2 11 (42.31%) Kafka
3 10 (38.46%) REST
4 9 (34.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (30.77%) React
5 8 (30.77%) RESTful
6 4 (15.38%) JSON
6 4 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (15.38%) SOAP
7 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
7 3 (11.54%) WireMock
7 3 (11.54%) YAML
8 2 (7.69%) Apache Avro
8 2 (7.69%) CSS
8 2 (7.69%) HTML
8 2 (7.69%) J2EE
8 2 (7.69%) OAuth
8 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.69%) OpenID
8 2 (7.69%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) Microservices
2 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 12 (46.15%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 7 (26.92%) BDD
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (26.92%) Scrum
6 6 (23.08%) Event-Driven
7 5 (19.23%) Observability
7 5 (19.23%) TDD
8 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
8 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
8 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
8 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (15.38%) Kanban
8 4 (15.38%) OOP
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 2 (7.69%) ISO 8583
2 2 (7.69%) PSD2
2 2 (7.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Argo
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Confluent
1 2 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.85%) Sybase