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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -53
Contract jobs citing Spring 26 33 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.42% 1.68% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.22% 6.63% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 31
10th Percentile £466 £493 £420
25th Percentile £500 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% -19.30%
75th Percentile £695 £638 £800
90th Percentile - £670 £900
Central London median daily rate £541 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.48% +1.74% -19.30%

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 418 498 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.85% 25.34% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 303 400
10th Percentile £362 £408 £400
25th Percentile £436 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £540 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 4 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 12 (46.15%) GCP
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Run
5 2 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Firebase
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 5 (19.23%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (7.69%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (7.69%) Redis
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) Tick Data
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.85%) KDB
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) JUnit
3 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
4 3 (11.54%) Mockito
5 2 (7.69%) Gatling
5 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) jMock
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Banking
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Front Office
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 18 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 5 (19.23%) Lead Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Fidessa Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Architect
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (65.38%) Spring Boot
2 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
2 5 (19.23%) Hibernate
2 5 (19.23%) Kafka
2 5 (19.23%) React
2 5 (19.23%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 4 (15.38%) JSON
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) Node.js
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth2
4 3 (11.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Avro
5 2 (7.69%) JPA
5 2 (7.69%) Micronaut
5 2 (7.69%) OpenID
5 2 (7.69%) Quarkus
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Equities
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Microservices
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Clean Code
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Event-Driven
6 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Low Latency
7 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Observability
8 3 (11.54%) Order Management
8 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (11.54%) SDLC
8 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) TDD
8 3 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Java
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Python
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.85%) CCSP
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) OSCP
2 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 20022
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 8583
1 2 (7.69%) PSD2
1 2 (7.69%) QA
1 2 (7.69%) SEPA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Ansible
3 3 (11.54%) Argo
3 3 (11.54%) Grafana
3 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Confluent
3 2 (7.69%) ION Trading
3 2 (7.69%) Solace
4 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Tradeweb