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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 86 98
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 39 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.72% 1.77% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 6.35% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 22
10th Percentile £312 £413 £402
25th Percentile £466 £435 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £613 £585 £729
90th Percentile £737 £594 £814
Central London median daily rate £543 £450 £638
% change year-on-year +20.56% -29.41% -2.07%
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 553 488 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.46% 27.84% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 330 366
10th Percentile £417 £400 £414
25th Percentile £475 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £709
90th Percentile £771 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -32.80% +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 19 September 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Camunda
3 1 (2.56%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 24 (61.54%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) GitHub
3 12 (30.77%) Azure
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.26%) Serverless
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.13%) dbt
8 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (12.82%) DynamoDB
4 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.13%) Big Data
7 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.56%) Db2
7 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) Redis
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) JUnit
2 11 (28.21%) Git
3 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (20.51%) Gradle
5 7 (17.95%) Maven
5 7 (17.95%) Mockito
6 5 (12.82%) JIRA
7 4 (10.26%) GitLab
8 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
8 2 (5.13%) Postman
8 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.56%) Claude Code
9 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.56%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 18 (46.15%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
1 16 (41.03%) Senior
2 13 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Senior Developer
4 8 (20.51%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Architect
5 6 (15.38%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Java Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (97.44%) Spring
2 18 (46.15%) Kafka
3 16 (41.03%) REST
4 11 (28.21%) RESTful
5 7 (17.95%) Terraform
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) SOAP
6 5 (12.82%) Web Services
7 4 (10.26%) HTML
7 4 (10.26%) React
8 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.69%) Node.js
8 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.13%) .NET
9 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
9 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
9 2 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (5.13%) Swagger
9 2 (5.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 13 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (5.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Equities
5 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Linux
1 5 (12.82%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 23 (58.97%) Microservices
3 21 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 19 (48.72%) DevOps
5 17 (43.59%) Agile
6 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
7 13 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 9 (23.08%) Observability
9 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (20.51%) Front End Development
9 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (17.95%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
11 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (12.82%) API Design
12 5 (12.82%) Scrum
12 5 (12.82%) SDLC
12 5 (12.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 12 (30.77%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.95%) Python
5 3 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) EMIR
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.13%) MiFID
2 2 (5.13%) SEPA
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (61.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.56%) Calypso
3 1 (2.56%) FIS
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Murex
3 1 (2.56%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Sybase
3 1 (2.56%) Temenos