Bootstrap Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Bootstrap
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Bootstrap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 114 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing Bootstrap 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.20% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 0.83% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £569 - -
25th Percentile £578 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.84%
75th Percentile £653 - £619
90th Percentile £666 - -
Central London median daily rate £613 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +60.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

Bootstrap 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 446 482 506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.43% 26.22% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 305 347
10th Percentile £363 £409 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%

Bootstrap
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bootstrap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Bootstrap job vacancy trend in the City of London

Bootstrap
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bootstrap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Bootstrap

Bootstrap
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Shopify Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) Backbone.js
2 3 (75.00%) Ember.js
2 3 (75.00%) Hugging Face
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Keras
2 3 (75.00%) PyTorch
2 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Development
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Image Processing
1 3 (75.00%) LLM
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Video Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) PhD
2 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM