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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 95 98
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 23 28 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.55% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.00% 5.75% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 26
10th Percentile £88 £412 £372
25th Percentile £481 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £529 £585 £713
90th Percentile £626 - £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -9.91% +11.00% -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 460 487 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.29% 26.92% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 311 335
10th Percentile £363 £406 £384
25th Percentile £459 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.68% -11.96%
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 £41.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -13.25% -12.63% -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 15 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 (8.70%) Ethereum
1 2 (8.70%) Hyperledger
2 1 (4.35%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) GitHub
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
3 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (8.70%) Hazelcast
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.70%) Redis
5 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (4.35%) DB2
6 1 (4.35%) MySQL
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Git
2 9 (39.13%) JUnit
3 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (26.09%) Mockito
5 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
5 5 (21.74%) GitLab
5 5 (21.74%) JIRA
6 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
6 3 (13.04%) Postman
7 2 (8.70%) Gatling
8 1 (4.35%) jMock
8 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 14 (60.87%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Angular Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Software Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) Spring
2 10 (43.48%) Kafka
2 10 (43.48%) REST
3 9 (39.13%) AngularJS
4 8 (34.78%) React
5 6 (26.09%) RESTful
6 4 (17.39%) JSON
6 4 (17.39%) SOAP
7 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
7 3 (13.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (13.04%) WireMock
7 3 (13.04%) YAML
8 2 (8.70%) Apache Avro
8 2 (8.70%) gRPC
8 2 (8.70%) Micronaut
8 2 (8.70%) OAuth
8 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
8 2 (8.70%) Quarkus
8 2 (8.70%) Spring Batch
8 2 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Microservices
2 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
4 7 (30.43%) BDD
4 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (30.43%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
5 5 (21.74%) DevOps
5 5 (21.74%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
6 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
6 4 (17.39%) Observability
6 4 (17.39%) OOP
7 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
7 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.04%) Secrets Management
7 3 (13.04%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.70%) ISO 8583
1 2 (8.70%) PSD2
1 2 (8.70%) QA
1 2 (8.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (52.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Argo
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
3 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Confluent
1 2 (8.70%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Sybase