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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 95 96
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +35
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 40 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.64% 1.60% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.42% 6.18% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 23
10th Percentile £250 £410 £370
25th Percentile £456 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -26.53% -12.50%
75th Percentile £592 £585 £707
90th Percentile £689 - £811
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £569
% change year-on-year +16.67% -20.88% -12.63%
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 475 469 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.46% 25.88% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 304 348
10th Percentile £410 £404 £411
25th Percentile £475 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £706
90th Percentile £775 £762 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% -9.60%
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 4 July 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 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) Camunda
2 2 (5.00%) Ethereum
2 2 (5.00%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) GitHub
3 10 (25.00%) Azure
4 9 (22.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (20.00%) Serverless
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
6 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (10.00%) GCP
10 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (5.00%) dbt
11 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
11 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
12 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 9 (22.50%) DynamoDB
3 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (5.00%) Db2
8 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.50%) Big Data
8 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.50%) MySQL
8 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) JUnit
2 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (27.50%) Git
4 9 (22.50%) Mockito
5 8 (20.00%) JIRA
6 7 (17.50%) GitLab
7 6 (15.00%) Gradle
8 5 (12.50%) Cucumber
8 5 (12.50%) Postman
9 3 (7.50%) Maven
10 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
11 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
11 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) Senior
3 12 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 9 (22.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Software Architect
9 1 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (97.50%) Spring
2 21 (52.50%) Kafka
3 12 (30.00%) RESTful
4 9 (22.50%) REST
5 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 5 (12.50%) Gherkin
5 5 (12.50%) React
5 5 (12.50%) SOAP
5 5 (12.50%) WireMock
5 5 (12.50%) YAML
6 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.50%) HTML
6 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (5.00%) gRPC
7 2 (5.00%) NgRx
7 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.00%) Spring Batch
7 2 (5.00%) Spring Security
7 2 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 23 (57.50%) Microservices
3 17 (42.50%) Agile
4 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (40.00%) DevOps
5 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
6 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
7 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 9 (22.50%) Observability
9 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
9 7 (17.50%) OOP
10 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
10 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (12.50%) BDD
11 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
11 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (12.50%) Scrum
11 5 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 38 (95.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.00%) Python
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.50%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) EMIR
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) MiFID
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
2 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) Sybase
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow