Spring Boot Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Spring Boot
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Spring Boot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 21 15
Rank change year-on-year -15 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring Boot 8 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.26% 9.00% 12.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.33% 24.32% 44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £466 £447 -
25th Percentile £481 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £474 £481
Median % change year-on-year +9.97% -1.56% -1.28%
75th Percentile £535 £500 £531
90th Percentile £555 £500 £564
South London median daily rate £521 £474 £488
% change year-on-year +9.97% -2.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 60 37 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 31.91% 37.00% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 23 22
10th Percentile £489 £389 -
25th Percentile £500 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £490 £510
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -3.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £550
90th Percentile £608 £732 £600
South London median daily rate £521 £498 £532
% change year-on-year +4.62% -6.40% +6.30%

Spring Boot
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Boot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Spring Boot job vacancy trend in Croydon

Spring Boot
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Spring Boot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Spring Boot

Spring Boot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS KMS
2 3 (37.50%) Route 53
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
3 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
1 3 (37.50%) DbUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) jMock
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) RESTful
4 4 (50.00%) Node.js
5 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (37.50%) Bootstrap
5 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
5 3 (37.50%) JPA
5 3 (37.50%) Next.js
5 3 (37.50%) PowerMock
5 3 (37.50%) SOAP
5 3 (37.50%) Spring Batch
5 3 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (37.50%) Spring Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) Kafka
6 2 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Open Source
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) BPMN
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Biometrics
6 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) Jaspersoft