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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 92 94
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +34
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 40 34 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.66% 1.82% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.28% 7.22% 6.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 24
10th Percentile £285 £410 £374
25th Percentile £472 £420 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -14.88%
75th Percentile £598 £585 £685
90th Percentile £737 - £807
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% -11.54%
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 483 471 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.10% 25.23% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 303 324
10th Percentile £413 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £443 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -2.54% -5.60%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £714
90th Percentile £775 £762 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% -7.20%
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 25 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 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Camunda
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Ethereum
3 1 (2.50%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) GitHub
3 11 (27.50%) Azure
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (17.50%) Serverless
6 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (12.50%) GCP
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (5.00%) dbt
10 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.00%) Db2
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data
6 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) JUnit
2 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.00%) Git
4 8 (20.00%) Mockito
5 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 6 (15.00%) Gradle
5 6 (15.00%) JIRA
6 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.00%) Postman
7 3 (7.50%) Maven
8 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) Senior
3 13 (32.50%) Java Developer
3 13 (32.50%) Senior Developer
4 10 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (97.50%) Spring
2 21 (52.50%) Kafka
3 13 (32.50%) RESTful
4 11 (27.50%) REST
5 5 (12.50%) React
6 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (10.00%) Gherkin
6 4 (10.00%) SOAP
6 4 (10.00%) WireMock
6 4 (10.00%) YAML
7 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
7 3 (7.50%) HTML
7 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.00%) NgRx
8 2 (5.00%) Node.js
8 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
8 2 (5.00%) Spring Batch
8 2 (5.00%) Spring Security
8 2 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (62.50%) Microservices
3 17 (42.50%) Containerisation
3 17 (42.50%) DevOps
4 16 (40.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
7 9 (22.50%) Observability
8 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
8 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
9 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.00%) OOP
10 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (12.50%) Scrum
11 4 (10.00%) BDD
11 4 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
11 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.00%) Python
5 5 (12.50%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) EMIR
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) MiFID
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Grafana
3 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) Sybase
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) New Relic
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow