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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 92 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +29
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 39 34 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.62% 1.81% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.98% 7.28% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 17 23
10th Percentile £356 £410 £370
25th Percentile £483 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -19.35%
75th Percentile £618 £585 £656
90th Percentile £739 - £780
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% -11.54%
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 489 467 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.35% 24.88% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 301 325
10th Percentile £414 £404 £414
25th Percentile £475 £449 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £596
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.72% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 1 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 27 (69.23%) AWS
2 15 (38.46%) 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
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.13%) dbt
10 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.56%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
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 13 (33.33%) 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 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Senior
3 13 (33.33%) 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%) Architect
7 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Junior Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Lead Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (97.44%) Spring
2 20 (51.28%) Kafka
3 12 (30.77%) RESTful
4 10 (25.64%) REST
5 5 (12.82%) React
6 4 (10.26%) Gherkin
6 4 (10.26%) SOAP
6 4 (10.26%) WireMock
6 4 (10.26%) YAML
7 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.69%) HTML
7 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
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
8 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.64%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 24 (61.54%) Microservices
3 17 (43.59%) Containerisation
3 17 (43.59%) DevOps
4 15 (38.46%) Agile
5 12 (30.77%) Event-Driven
5 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
7 9 (23.08%) Observability
8 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
8 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.38%) OOP
10 5 (12.82%) Code Quality
10 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.26%) API Design
11 4 (10.26%) API Testing
11 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (10.26%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.82%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 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