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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 80 92
Rank change year-on-year -19 +12 -43
Contract jobs citing Spring 24 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.27% 1.93% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.70% 7.27% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 32
10th Percentile £310 £463 £402
25th Percentile £500 £550 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £594
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.47% -15.18%
75th Percentile £695 £588 £781
90th Percentile - £638 £890
Central London median daily rate £581 £585 £613
% change year-on-year -0.64% -4.49% -12.50%

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 421 495 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.29% 26.60% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 301 380
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £434 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +0.87% -7.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.30% - -5.93%
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 5 February 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) Ethereum
2 2 (8.33%) Hyperledger
3 1 (4.17%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (4.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) GitHub
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Run
5 2 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) PaaS
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.50%) Tick Data
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.33%) Hazelcast
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Redis
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (29.17%) Git
3 6 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (20.83%) JUnit
4 5 (20.83%) Maven
5 3 (12.50%) GitLab
5 3 (12.50%) Mockito
5 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (8.33%) Gatling
7 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.17%) jMock
7 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Developer
2 16 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Fidessa Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Architect
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (58.33%) Spring Boot
2 7 (29.17%) Kafka
3 6 (25.00%) REST
4 5 (20.83%) React
4 5 (20.83%) RESTful
5 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 4 (16.67%) JSON
6 3 (12.50%) CSS
6 3 (12.50%) HTML
6 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (8.33%) Apache Avro
7 2 (8.33%) gRPC
7 2 (8.33%) J2EE
7 2 (8.33%) Micronaut
7 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
7 2 (8.33%) Quarkus
7 2 (8.33%) SOAP
7 2 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (8.33%) WireMock
7 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Order Management
3 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Observability
6 3 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) CCSP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
2 1 (4.17%) OSCP
2 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 20022
1 2 (8.33%) ISO 8583
1 2 (8.33%) PSD2
1 2 (8.33%) QA
1 2 (8.33%) SEPA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (12.50%) Argo
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Solace
3 2 (8.33%) Confluent
4 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.17%) Tradeweb