Spring Contracts in the City of London

Pivotal Spring Framework
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 97 72
Rank change year-on-year +19 -25 -5
Contract jobs citing Spring 46 30 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.62% 1.37% 3.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.54% 6.22% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 90
10th Percentile £425 £363 £496
25th Percentile £448 £419 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £510 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -24.44% -1.82%
75th Percentile £585 £619 £775
90th Percentile £591 £729 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £660
% change year-on-year +10.00% -24.24% -2.22%

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 482 482 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.45% 21.99% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 343 668
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the City of London

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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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) Apache
1 3 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.17%) Camunda
3 1 (2.17%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 29 (63.04%) AWS
2 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.17%) GitHub
4 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) MongoDB
2 18 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (34.78%) NoSQL
4 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
5 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.52%) Big Data
6 3 (6.52%) DB2
6 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.52%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.17%) KDB
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) JUnit
1 7 (15.22%) Maven
2 5 (10.87%) Git
3 4 (8.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (8.70%) Gradle
3 4 (8.70%) IntelliJ
3 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.17%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 15 (32.61%) Finance
3 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
4 7 (15.22%) Banking
5 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.35%) Back Office
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 36 (78.26%) Developer
2 33 (71.74%) Java Developer
3 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Angular Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Junior
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.35%) React Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (69.57%) Spring Boot
2 19 (41.30%) React
3 18 (39.13%) Kafka
4 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
5 6 (13.04%) JPA
5 6 (13.04%) RESTful
6 5 (10.87%) Web Services
7 4 (8.70%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.70%) HTML
7 4 (8.70%) JMS
8 2 (4.35%) .NET
8 2 (4.35%) Apache Camel
8 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.35%) REST
8 2 (4.35%) Swagger
8 2 (4.35%) ZK
9 1 (2.17%) Quarkus
9 1 (2.17%) Spring Batch
9 1 (2.17%) Spring Security
9 1 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Agile
2 26 (56.52%) DevOps
2 26 (56.52%) Microservices
3 17 (36.96%) API Development
4 15 (32.61%) Clean Code
4 15 (32.61%) SOLID
5 11 (23.91%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
8 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
9 4 (8.70%) API Integration
9 4 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven
9 4 (8.70%) Line Management
9 4 (8.70%) SDLC
10 3 (6.52%) BDD
10 3 (6.52%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 43 (93.48%) Java
2 22 (47.83%) SQL
3 19 (41.30%) JavaScript
4 10 (21.74%) Python
5 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.70%) Scala
7 3 (6.52%) Perl
7 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 20 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (32.61%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Lustre
3 1 (2.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) Karpenter
3 2 (4.35%) Kibana
3 2 (4.35%) Podman
4 1 (2.17%) Argo
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) Oracle
1 5 (10.87%) Splunk
2 3 (6.52%) Google
2 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.52%) Sybase
3 1 (2.17%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.17%) WSO2