Spring Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Pivotal Spring Framework
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 69 99
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 -35
Contract jobs citing Spring 48 47 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.11% 2.66% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.67% 9.69% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 26
10th Percentile £459 £425 £381
25th Percentile £500 £461 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -20.37%
75th Percentile £656 £585 £619
90th Percentile £695 £588 £731
Central London median daily rate £528 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.09% +7.32% -24.07%
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 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 450 485 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.79% 27.42% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 316 345
10th Percentile £363 £413 £402
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.50% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - -
Median hourly rate £44.92 - -
75th Percentile £63.54 - -
90th Percentile £70.42 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Spring

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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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) Camunda
2 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Ethereum
2 2 (4.17%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.08%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) AWS
2 18 (37.50%) GitHub
3 14 (29.17%) Azure
4 9 (18.75%) GCP
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.50%) Serverless
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 8 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.58%) DynamoDB
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (10.42%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.17%) Hazelcast
7 2 (4.17%) Redis
7 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.17%) Tick Data
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.08%) Big Data
8 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.08%) DB2
8 1 (2.08%) MySQL
8 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Git
2 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (22.92%) JUnit
4 8 (16.67%) JIRA
5 7 (14.58%) Mockito
6 6 (12.50%) GitLab
6 6 (12.50%) Maven
7 5 (10.42%) Gradle
8 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 3 (6.25%) Postman
9 2 (4.17%) Gatling
9 2 (4.17%) Liquibase
9 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Developer
2 21 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 10 (20.83%) Senior Developer
5 8 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Architect
7 5 (10.42%) Fidessa Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Junior
9 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Architect
10 2 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (72.92%) Spring Boot
2 20 (41.67%) Kafka
3 12 (25.00%) RESTful
4 11 (22.92%) React
4 11 (22.92%) REST
5 6 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.42%) WireMock
7 4 (8.33%) Node.js
8 3 (6.25%) Gherkin
8 3 (6.25%) HTML
8 3 (6.25%) J2EE
8 3 (6.25%) JSON
8 3 (6.25%) SOAP
8 3 (6.25%) YAML
9 2 (4.17%) Apache Avro
9 2 (4.17%) gRPC
9 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
9 2 (4.17%) Spring Batch
9 2 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Equities
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (60.42%) Microservices
2 28 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (37.50%) Agile
4 17 (35.42%) Containerisation
4 17 (35.42%) DevOps
5 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 13 (27.08%) Observability
7 10 (20.83%) Event-Driven
8 8 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.58%) Code Quality
9 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
11 5 (10.42%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (10.42%) OOP
11 5 (10.42%) Order Management
11 5 (10.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 45 (93.75%) Java
2 11 (22.92%) SQL
3 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.58%) Python
5 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) C#
7 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.08%) CCSP
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.08%) CISSP
3 1 (2.08%) OSCP
3 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (4.17%) EMIR
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 8583
3 2 (4.17%) MiFID
3 2 (4.17%) PSD2
3 2 (4.17%) SEPA
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) GRC
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Grafana
2 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
5 1 (2.08%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (6.25%) Google
2 2 (4.17%) Confluent
2 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.17%) Solace
3 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.08%) IBM
3 1 (2.08%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Pega
3 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.08%) Sybase
3 1 (2.08%) Tradeweb