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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 93 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 -23
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 22 25 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.17% 1.33% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.19% 5.08% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 22
10th Percentile £88 £440 £402
25th Percentile £450 £549 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +1.74% -23.33%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £800
90th Percentile £628 £641 £901
Central London median daily rate £500 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.74% -23.33%

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 424 492 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.60% 26.18% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 300 392
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £435 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +0.87% -7.26%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -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 29 January 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 (9.09%) Ethereum
1 2 (9.09%) Hyperledger
2 1 (4.55%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) GitHub
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) GCP
3 7 (31.82%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Run
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Google Gemini
6 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.55%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (9.09%) Hazelcast
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) Redis
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Git
2 7 (31.82%) Bitbucket
3 6 (27.27%) JUnit
4 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (13.64%) JIRA
5 3 (13.64%) Mockito
6 2 (9.09%) Gatling
6 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.55%) jMock
7 1 (4.55%) Maven
7 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 16 (72.73%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Angular Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Developer
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) Spring
2 11 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (50.00%) REST
3 10 (45.45%) React
4 6 (27.27%) Kafka
5 4 (18.18%) JSON
5 4 (18.18%) RESTful
6 3 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (13.64%) Spring Batch
7 2 (9.09%) Apache Avro
7 2 (9.09%) gRPC
7 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.09%) HTML
7 2 (9.09%) Micronaut
7 2 (9.09%) OAuth
7 2 (9.09%) OAuth2
7 2 (9.09%) OpenID
7 2 (9.09%) Quarkus
7 2 (9.09%) SOAP
7 2 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Microservices
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (40.91%) Scrum
5 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
6 7 (31.82%) BDD
7 6 (27.27%) Kanban
7 6 (27.27%) TDD
8 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
8 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 5 (22.73%) DevOps
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (18.18%) Observability
10 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
10 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
10 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (13.64%) SDLC
10 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 2 (9.09%) Anti-Money Laundering
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 2 (9.09%) ISO 8583
1 2 (9.09%) PSD2
1 2 (9.09%) QA
1 2 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Argo
4 2 (9.09%) Grafana
4 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Confluent
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle