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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 89 109
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 23 30 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 1.46% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.42% 5.68% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 21
10th Percentile £399 £473 £420
25th Percentile £488 £549 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +1.74% -19.30%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £800
90th Percentile £644 £653 £1,138
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 424 528 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.03% 25.68% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 320 408
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -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 23 December 2025.

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) GCP
2 9 (39.13%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Run
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (4.35%) Firebase
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Google Gemini
4 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) Bitbucket
3 4 (17.39%) JUnit
4 3 (13.04%) Mockito
5 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 2 (8.70%) Maven
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) jMock
6 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (82.61%) Developer
2 17 (73.91%) Java Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Angular Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Lead
4 5 (21.74%) Lead Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Principal Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Principal Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Mobile Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Spring
2 11 (47.83%) AngularJS
2 11 (47.83%) React
3 10 (43.48%) REST
4 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
4 4 (17.39%) RESTful
5 2 (8.70%) CSS
5 2 (8.70%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) JPA
5 2 (8.70%) JSON
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 2 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
6 1 (4.35%) JWT
6 1 (4.35%) LangChain
6 1 (4.35%) Mongoose
6 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.35%) Redux
6 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Microservices
2 11 (47.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (39.13%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) Scrum
4 8 (34.78%) TDD
5 7 (30.43%) BDD
5 7 (30.43%) Kanban
5 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
7 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (17.39%) Clean Code
8 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
10 2 (8.70%) API Design
10 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (8.70%) High Availability
10 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) TypeScript
3 8 (34.78%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.35%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.35%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Argo
3 1 (4.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft