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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -50
Contract jobs citing Spring 24 31 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 1.64% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.81% 6.28% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 30
10th Percentile £469 £506 £418
25th Percentile £500 £559 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £695 £588 £800
90th Percentile - £641 £924
Central London median daily rate £581 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -0.64% +1.74% -17.86%

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 413 494 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.46% 26.08% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 301 392
10th Percentile £361 £413 £406
25th Percentile £440 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.60%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%

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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 18 January 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
1 9 (37.50%) GCP
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Run
4 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Google Gemini
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.50%) Tick Data
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (8.33%) Hazelcast
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Redis
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (20.83%) Maven
4 4 (16.67%) JIRA
5 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (8.33%) Gatling
6 2 (8.33%) GitLab
6 2 (8.33%) Mockito
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.17%) jMock
7 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Fidessa Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) GCP Developer
7 1 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (25.00%) React
3 5 (20.83%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 4 (16.67%) CSS
4 4 (16.67%) HTML
4 4 (16.67%) JSON
4 4 (16.67%) Kafka
5 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
6 2 (8.33%) Apache Avro
6 2 (8.33%) Micronaut
6 2 (8.33%) Node.js
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth
6 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (8.33%) OpenID
6 2 (8.33%) Quarkus
6 2 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Microservices
2 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (25.00%) Order Management
3 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Clean Code
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Front End Development
6 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) OSCP
2 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 8583
1 2 (8.33%) PSD2
1 2 (8.33%) QA
1 2 (8.33%) SEPA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (12.50%) Argo
4 3 (12.50%) Grafana
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Solace
3 2 (8.33%) Confluent
4 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Tradeweb