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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 75 94
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Spring 46 43 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.90% 2.45% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.77% 9.51% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 27 28
10th Percentile £311 £417 £363
25th Percentile £483 £430 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -15.45%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £731
90th Percentile £695 £613 £850
Central London median daily rate £530 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -15.38%
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 471 452 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.45% 25.80% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 293 347
10th Percentile £412 £404 £404
25th Percentile £475 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -2.30% -9.60%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £762 £785
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £23.93 - -
25th Percentile £32.34 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.57% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £67.36 - -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
% change year-on-year -42.78% - -

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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 26 June 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 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.35%) Camunda
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Ethereum
2 2 (4.35%) Hyperledger
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) AWS
2 18 (39.13%) GitHub
3 12 (26.09%) Azure
4 9 (19.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (17.39%) Serverless
6 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.22%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (13.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (10.87%) GCP
9 4 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
10 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (6.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (4.35%) dbt
11 2 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) NoSQL
2 9 (19.57%) DynamoDB
2 9 (19.57%) MongoDB
3 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (8.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.35%) Db2
8 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.17%) Big Data
8 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.17%) Hazelcast
8 1 (2.17%) MySQL
8 1 (2.17%) Redis
8 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Git
1 15 (32.61%) Jenkins
1 15 (32.61%) JUnit
2 10 (21.74%) JIRA
3 9 (19.57%) Mockito
4 8 (17.39%) GitLab
5 6 (13.04%) Gradle
6 5 (10.87%) Cucumber
6 5 (10.87%) Maven
6 5 (10.87%) Postman
7 2 (4.35%) Liquibase
8 1 (2.17%) Gatling
8 1 (2.17%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.17%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Developer
2 17 (36.96%) Java Developer
3 14 (30.43%) Senior
4 12 (26.09%) Senior Developer
5 9 (19.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (13.04%) Architect
7 5 (10.87%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Java Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Junior
9 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (6.52%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Backend Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Backend Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (82.61%) Spring Boot
2 22 (47.83%) Kafka
3 12 (26.09%) RESTful
4 9 (19.57%) REST
5 7 (15.22%) React
6 6 (13.04%) WireMock
7 5 (10.87%) Gherkin
7 5 (10.87%) SOAP
7 5 (10.87%) YAML
8 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.70%) HTML
8 4 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (6.52%) J2EE
9 3 (6.52%) Node.js
9 3 (6.52%) Web Services
10 2 (4.35%) CSS
10 2 (4.35%) JMS
10 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
10 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (4.35%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Equities
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) CI/CD
2 25 (54.35%) Microservices
3 20 (43.48%) Agile
4 18 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 17 (36.96%) DevOps
6 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
7 12 (26.09%) Observability
7 12 (26.09%) Test Automation
8 10 (21.74%) Event-Driven
9 7 (15.22%) Code Quality
9 7 (15.22%) Design Patterns
9 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (15.22%) OOP
9 7 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (13.04%) Scrum
11 5 (10.87%) API Testing
11 5 (10.87%) Data Engineering
11 5 (10.87%) Issue Tracking
11 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) Java
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
4 7 (15.22%) Python
5 5 (10.87%) C#
6 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.17%) Scala
7 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) EMIR
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.35%) MiFID
2 2 (4.35%) SEPA
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 8583
3 1 (2.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 26 (56.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (58.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.04%) Grafana
2 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.87%) Terraform
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) IBM
2 2 (4.35%) Sybase
3 1 (2.17%) Confluent
3 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.17%) Pega
3 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.17%) Solace