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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing Spring 40 37 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 2.06% 1.58%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.27% 7.46% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 24
10th Percentile £370 £428 £405
25th Percentile £495 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -9.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £644 £596 £713
90th Percentile £737 £740 £830
Central London median daily rate £553 £475 £638
% change year-on-year +16.32% -25.49% -8.93%
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 550 496 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.09% 27.65% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 328 368
10th Percentile £419 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

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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 11 September 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 (7.50%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Camunda
3 1 (2.50%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) GitHub
3 13 (32.50%) Azure
4 6 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (12.50%) Serverless
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.00%) dbt
8 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.00%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) Db2
7 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) JUnit
2 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.00%) Git
4 8 (20.00%) Mockito
5 6 (15.00%) GitLab
5 6 (15.00%) Gradle
5 6 (15.00%) JIRA
5 6 (15.00%) Maven
6 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.50%) Postman
7 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
7 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.50%) Claude Code
8 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 18 (45.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior
3 14 (35.00%) Java Developer
4 11 (27.50%) Senior Developer
5 9 (22.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Architect
7 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead
9 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Java Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (97.50%) Spring Boot
2 18 (45.00%) Kafka
3 14 (35.00%) REST
4 12 (30.00%) RESTful
5 8 (20.00%) Terraform
6 6 (15.00%) SOAP
7 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 5 (12.50%) Web Services
8 4 (10.00%) HTML
8 4 (10.00%) React
9 3 (7.50%) Gherkin
9 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
9 3 (7.50%) Node.js
9 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (7.50%) WireMock
9 3 (7.50%) YAML
10 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
10 2 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (27.50%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 24 (60.00%) Microservices
3 21 (52.50%) DevOps
4 20 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 16 (40.00%) Agile
6 14 (35.00%) Event-Driven
6 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
7 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 9 (22.50%) Observability
10 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (17.50%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (17.50%) OOP
12 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
12 6 (15.00%) Front End Development
12 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 5 (12.50%) API Design
13 5 (12.50%) SDLC
13 5 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) Java
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (20.00%) Python
3 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
7 1 (2.50%) Korn
7 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) EMIR
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.00%) MiFID
2 2 (5.00%) SEPA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 24 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Grafana
2 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle
2 2 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) Calypso
3 1 (2.50%) FIS
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Murex
3 1 (2.50%) New Relic
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Sybase
3 1 (2.50%) Temenos