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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 91 93
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +37
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 42 34 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.73% 1.83% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.64% 7.14% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 18 26
10th Percentile £266 £411 £381
25th Percentile £463 £421 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -22.45% -12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £585 £659
90th Percentile £732 - £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +16.67% -26.53% -5.84%
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 486 476 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.97% 25.55% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 306 335
10th Percentile £413 £404 £409
25th Percentile £475 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £761 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +3.14% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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 18 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 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) Camunda
2 2 (4.76%) Ethereum
2 2 (4.76%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) AWS
2 15 (35.71%) GitHub
3 11 (26.19%) Azure
4 9 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (19.05%) Serverless
6 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (11.90%) GCP
9 4 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.76%) dbt
11 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) NoSQL
2 9 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 8 (19.05%) MongoDB
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (9.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.76%) Db2
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.38%) Big Data
8 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.38%) MySQL
8 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) JUnit
2 12 (28.57%) Git
2 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (21.43%) Mockito
4 8 (19.05%) JIRA
5 7 (16.67%) GitLab
6 6 (14.29%) Gradle
7 5 (11.90%) Cucumber
7 5 (11.90%) Postman
8 3 (7.14%) Maven
9 2 (4.76%) Liquibase
10 1 (2.38%) Jasmine
10 1 (2.38%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 19 (45.24%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Developer
2 16 (38.10%) Senior
3 13 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 13 (30.95%) Senior Developer
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Java Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (97.62%) Spring
2 22 (52.38%) Kafka
3 13 (30.95%) RESTful
4 11 (26.19%) REST
5 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 5 (11.90%) Gherkin
5 5 (11.90%) React
5 5 (11.90%) SOAP
5 5 (11.90%) WireMock
5 5 (11.90%) YAML
6 3 (7.14%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.14%) HTML
6 3 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (7.14%) Spring Batch
7 2 (4.76%) NgRx
7 2 (4.76%) Node.js
7 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.76%) Spring Security
7 2 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 25 (59.52%) Microservices
3 17 (40.48%) Agile
4 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 16 (38.10%) DevOps
5 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
6 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) Observability
8 7 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 7 (16.67%) Design Patterns
8 7 (16.67%) OOP
9 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.90%) API Testing
10 5 (11.90%) BDD
10 5 (11.90%) Integration Patterns
10 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.90%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 40 (95.24%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) TypeScript
4 6 (14.29%) C#
4 6 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) EMIR
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) MiFID
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.38%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Grafana
2 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.76%) IBM
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Sybase
3 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.38%) Pega
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow