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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 34 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.55% 2.01% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.44% 7.23% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 23
10th Percentile £178 £417 £370
25th Percentile £500 £449 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -20.78%
75th Percentile £548 £585 £628
90th Percentile £638 - £800
Central London median daily rate £523 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +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 457 484 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.83% 27.83% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 312 345
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £670 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £551
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.77% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - £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 5 April 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 (5.88%) Camunda
1 2 (5.88%) Ethereum
1 2 (5.88%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) GitHub
3 10 (29.41%) Azure
4 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
5 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 6 (17.65%) Serverless
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (8.82%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.94%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.94%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) NoSQL
2 7 (20.59%) DynamoDB
2 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (14.71%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.88%) Hazelcast
7 2 (5.88%) Redis
7 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.94%) DB2
8 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Git
2 10 (29.41%) JUnit
3 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
4 7 (20.59%) Mockito
5 5 (14.71%) GitLab
5 5 (14.71%) JIRA
6 4 (11.76%) Bitbucket
6 4 (11.76%) Gradle
6 4 (11.76%) Maven
7 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.82%) Postman
8 2 (5.88%) Gatling
9 1 (2.94%) jMock
9 1 (2.94%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Developer
2 18 (52.94%) Java Developer
3 10 (29.41%) Senior
4 9 (26.47%) Senior Developer
5 8 (23.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Angular Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Lead
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Junior
9 1 (2.94%) Software Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (88.24%) Spring
2 16 (47.06%) Kafka
3 12 (35.29%) REST
4 10 (29.41%) RESTful
5 9 (26.47%) React
6 8 (23.53%) AngularJS
7 6 (17.65%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (11.76%) JSON
8 4 (11.76%) SOAP
9 3 (8.82%) Gherkin
9 3 (8.82%) WireMock
9 3 (8.82%) YAML
10 2 (5.88%) Apache Avro
10 2 (5.88%) gRPC
10 2 (5.88%) Micronaut
10 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
10 2 (5.88%) OpenID
10 2 (5.88%) Quarkus
10 2 (5.88%) Spring Batch
10 2 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) Microservices
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
5 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Event-Driven
6 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 9 (26.47%) Observability
8 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) BDD
9 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
9 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
10 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (14.71%) TDD
11 4 (11.76%) API Design
11 4 (11.76%) Clean Code
11 4 (11.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
3 6 (17.65%) SQL
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.88%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.88%) PSD2
2 2 (5.88%) SEPA
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) Grafana
2 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.82%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Argo
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Confluent
1 2 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (2.94%) IBM
2 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) Pega
2 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.94%) Sybase