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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 89 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -26
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 24 34 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.38% 1.61% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.63% 6.63% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 21
10th Percentile £386 £479 £413
25th Percentile £413 £567 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 £725
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -14.66% +0.69%
75th Percentile £600 £729 £800
90th Percentile £642 £814 £1,138
Central London median daily rate £425 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -32.00% -13.79% -2.52%

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 426 513 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.48% 24.23% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 307 463
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £713
90th Percentile £738 £838 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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 8 November 2025.

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 1 (4.17%) Camunda
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) GCP
3 8 (33.33%) Azure
4 7 (29.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.17%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.50%) MySQL
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Git
2 8 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 3 (12.50%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) Mockito
5 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) JIRA
5 1 (4.17%) jMock
5 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 14 (58.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Angular Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Principal Java Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (8.33%) GCP Architect
6 2 (8.33%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) Spring
2 12 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 12 (50.00%) React
3 11 (45.83%) REST
4 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 3 (12.50%) JPA
4 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
6 1 (4.17%) CSS
6 1 (4.17%) HTML
6 1 (4.17%) jQuery
6 1 (4.17%) JSON
6 1 (4.17%) MyBatis
6 1 (4.17%) OAuth
6 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (4.17%) React Native
6 1 (4.17%) Spring Batch
6 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Android
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Microservices
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (33.33%) Scrum
3 8 (33.33%) TDD
4 7 (29.17%) BDD
4 7 (29.17%) Kanban
4 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) SDLC
8 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) TypeScript
3 10 (41.67%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft