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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 83 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Spring 49 44 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.00% 2.37% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.12% 9.22% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 29
10th Percentile £285 £417 £393
25th Percentile £483 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -12.24% -5.84%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £725
90th Percentile £707 £639 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +5.00% -18.37% -5.77%
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 484 477 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.71% 25.70% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 309 347
10th Percentile £410 £404 £410
25th Percentile £475 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £753 £778
Central London median daily rate £567 £550 £565
% change year-on-year +3.14% -2.65% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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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 10 July 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 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.08%) Camunda
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Ethereum
2 2 (4.08%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.04%) Apache
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.04%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) GitHub
3 12 (24.49%) Azure
4 9 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (16.33%) Serverless
6 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 7 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (8.16%) GCP
9 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.12%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.08%) dbt
10 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
10 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) NoSQL
2 9 (18.37%) DynamoDB
2 9 (18.37%) MongoDB
3 8 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (8.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.08%) Db2
7 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.04%) Big Data
8 1 (2.04%) MySQL
8 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.04%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) JUnit
2 15 (30.61%) Git
3 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (20.41%) JIRA
5 9 (18.37%) GitLab
5 9 (18.37%) Mockito
6 6 (12.24%) Gradle
6 6 (12.24%) Maven
7 5 (10.20%) Cucumber
7 5 (10.20%) Postman
8 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.04%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.04%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (40.82%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Developer
2 16 (32.65%) Java Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior
4 12 (24.49%) Senior Developer
5 9 (18.37%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Architect
6 6 (12.24%) Java Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Junior
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Junior Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Junior Java Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Junior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (81.63%) Spring Boot
2 21 (42.86%) Kafka
3 12 (24.49%) RESTful
4 11 (22.45%) REST
5 7 (14.29%) React
6 6 (12.24%) WireMock
7 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.20%) Gherkin
7 5 (10.20%) SOAP
7 5 (10.20%) YAML
8 4 (8.16%) HTML
9 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.12%) J2EE
9 3 (6.12%) Node.js
9 3 (6.12%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (6.12%) Web Services
10 2 (4.08%) gRPC
10 2 (4.08%) NgRx
10 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
10 2 (4.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Equities
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 27 (55.10%) Microservices
3 20 (40.82%) Agile
3 20 (40.82%) DevOps
4 17 (34.69%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
6 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
7 12 (24.49%) Observability
8 11 (22.45%) Event-Driven
9 8 (16.33%) OOP
10 7 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 7 (14.29%) Design Patterns
10 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (12.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (12.24%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (12.24%) Scrum
12 5 (10.20%) BDD
12 5 (10.20%) Data Engineering
12 5 (10.20%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 47 (95.92%) Java
2 11 (22.45%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
4 8 (16.33%) Python
5 6 (12.24%) C#
6 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) Scala
7 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.16%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) EMIR
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) MiFID
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.04%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (53.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.20%) Grafana
2 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
2 5 (10.20%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) IBM
2 2 (4.08%) Sybase
3 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Pega
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.04%) Solace