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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +26
Contract jobs citing Spring 39 36 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.72% 2.04% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.13% 7.30% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 24
10th Percentile £370 £428 £405
25th Percentile £495 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -9.60% -10.71%
75th Percentile £644 £596 £713
90th Percentile £737 £740 £830
Central London median daily rate £545 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +14.74% -24.00% -10.71%
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 547 493 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.08% 27.95% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 325 363
10th Percentile £419 £404 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £710
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
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 4 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) GitHub
3 11 (28.21%) Azure
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) Serverless
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.13%) dbt
8 2 (5.13%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.56%) Big Data
6 1 (2.56%) Db2
6 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.56%) MySQL
6 1 (2.56%) Redis
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) JUnit
2 10 (25.64%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.51%) Mockito
4 6 (15.38%) GitLab
4 6 (15.38%) Gradle
4 6 (15.38%) JIRA
4 6 (15.38%) Maven
5 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.69%) Postman
6 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
6 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.56%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.56%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 14 (35.90%) Senior
4 12 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Architect
7 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Lead
8 2 (5.13%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Angular Developer
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Architect
9 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (97.44%) Spring Boot
2 16 (41.03%) Kafka
3 13 (33.33%) RESTful
4 12 (30.77%) REST
5 7 (17.95%) Terraform
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) SOAP
6 5 (12.82%) Web Services
7 4 (10.26%) HTML
7 4 (10.26%) React
8 3 (7.69%) Gherkin
8 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.69%) WireMock
8 3 (7.69%) YAML
9 2 (5.13%) CSS
9 2 (5.13%) JPA
9 2 (5.13%) Node.js
9 2 (5.13%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 17 (43.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (25.64%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) CI/CD
2 23 (58.97%) Microservices
3 19 (48.72%) DevOps
4 18 (46.15%) Containerisation
5 16 (41.03%) Agile
6 14 (35.90%) Test Automation
7 12 (30.77%) Event-Driven
7 12 (30.77%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (23.08%) Observability
9 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (17.95%) OOP
9 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.38%) Code Quality
10 6 (15.38%) Design Patterns
10 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
10 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (12.82%) API Design
11 5 (12.82%) Integration Patterns
11 5 (12.82%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 8 (20.51%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.26%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) Bash
7 1 (2.56%) Korn
7 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) EMIR
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) MiFID
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (56.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (51.28%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) IBM
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.56%) New Relic
3 1 (2.56%) Pega
3 1 (2.56%) Sybase