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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 97 98
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 31 24 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 1.39% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 4.99% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 20
10th Percentile £331 £413 £416
25th Percentile £466 £424 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £669 £585 £755
90th Percentile £720 £600 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +27.78% -30.77% -7.14%

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 547 481 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.45% 27.93% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 331 351
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%

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 10 October 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 (9.68%) Apache Spark
1 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) GitHub
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (12.90%) Serverless
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.45%) dbt
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) Db2
6 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) JUnit
2 10 (32.26%) Git
2 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) Mockito
4 5 (16.13%) Gradle
4 5 (16.13%) Maven
5 4 (12.90%) GitLab
6 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.45%) Postman
6 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.23%) Claude Code
7 1 (3.23%) Jasmine
7 1 (3.23%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (3.23%) Liquibase
General
1 19 (61.29%) Finance
2 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
3 9 (29.03%) Banking
4 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (9.68%) Back Office
7 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.23%) Front Office
8 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (3.23%) Military
8 1 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
1 14 (45.16%) Senior
2 12 (38.71%) Java Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Senior Developer
4 7 (22.58%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (19.35%) Java Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Java Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (100.00%) Spring
2 13 (41.94%) REST
3 12 (38.71%) Kafka
4 9 (29.03%) RESTful
4 9 (29.03%) Terraform
5 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
6 5 (16.13%) SOAP
6 5 (16.13%) Web Services
7 4 (12.90%) HTML
8 3 (9.68%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (9.68%) Hibernate
8 3 (9.68%) JPA
8 3 (9.68%) Spring Security
9 2 (6.45%) .NET
9 2 (6.45%) CSS
9 2 (6.45%) JSF
9 2 (6.45%) JSP
9 2 (6.45%) Node.js
9 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Cloud Native
2 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.45%) Reference Data
4 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Equities
5 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
1 5 (16.13%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) CI/CD
2 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
2 15 (48.39%) Microservices
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
4 13 (41.94%) DevOps
5 11 (35.48%) Test Automation
6 9 (29.03%) Front End Development
6 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
7 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven
8 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (19.35%) Scrum
10 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
10 5 (16.13%) OOP
10 5 (16.13%) SDLC
10 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (16.13%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
10 5 (16.13%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) Python
4 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.68%) C#
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.23%) Bash
7 1 (3.23%) Korn
7 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) EMIR
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) ISO 20022
2 2 (6.45%) MiFID
2 2 (6.45%) SEPA
3 1 (3.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 18 (58.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
2 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Bosun
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Calypso
3 1 (3.23%) FIS
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) Murex
3 1 (3.23%) New Relic
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Sybase
3 1 (3.23%) Temenos