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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 92 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -28
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 23 29 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.25% 1.43% 1.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.39% 5.61% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 22
10th Percentile £480 £471 £402
25th Percentile £500 £542 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £585 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £800
90th Percentile £647 £646 £1,104
Central London median daily rate £500 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -14.53% +4.00% -25.00%

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 427 517 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.23% 25.52% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 314 398
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £591 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -1.13% -0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
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 30 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) GCP
2 10 (43.48%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Run
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
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%) Google Gemini
4 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
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%) Hazelcast
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) Bitbucket
3 4 (17.39%) JUnit
4 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.04%) Mockito
5 2 (8.70%) Maven
6 1 (4.35%) Gatling
6 1 (4.35%) GitLab
6 1 (4.35%) jMock
6 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.04%) Banking
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 18 (78.26%) 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%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Developer
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Mobile Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (69.57%) 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 3 (13.04%) JSON
5 3 (13.04%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) CSS
6 2 (8.70%) HTML
6 2 (8.70%) JPA
6 2 (8.70%) Node.js
6 2 (8.70%) OAuth
6 2 (8.70%) OAuth2
6 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
7 1 (4.35%) Micronaut
7 1 (4.35%) Mongoose
7 1 (4.35%) MyBatis
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
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 20 (86.96%) 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%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Kanban
5 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
6 6 (26.09%) DevOps
6 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
7 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
10 2 (8.70%) API Design
10 2 (8.70%) High Availability
10 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
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%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
1 1 (4.35%) PSD2
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Argo
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) IBM