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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -24
Contract jobs citing Spring 32 40 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.57% 2.24% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 8.30% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 32
10th Percentile £459 £422 £383
25th Percentile £497 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £652 £585 £747
90th Percentile £695 £610 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -21.43%

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 455 482 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.34% 26.97% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 304 336
10th Percentile £363 £406 £384
25th Percentile £463 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -9.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £551
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.77% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.46% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -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 12 March 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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Ethereum
2 2 (6.25%) Hyperledger
3 1 (3.13%) Camunda
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) GitHub
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (9.38%) Tick Data
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.25%) Hazelcast
5 2 (6.25%) Redis
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.13%) DB2
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Git
2 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (28.13%) JUnit
4 8 (25.00%) JIRA
5 5 (15.63%) GitLab
5 5 (15.63%) Maven
5 5 (15.63%) Mockito
6 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (6.25%) Gatling
7 2 (6.25%) Postman
8 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.13%) jMock
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Developer
2 18 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Fidessa Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Junior
6 2 (6.25%) Junior Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Junior Java Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Junior Java Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Junior Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) Spring Boot
2 11 (34.38%) Kafka
3 8 (25.00%) REST
4 7 (21.88%) React
4 7 (21.88%) RESTful
5 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 4 (12.50%) JSON
6 4 (12.50%) WireMock
7 3 (9.38%) CSS
7 3 (9.38%) HTML
7 3 (9.38%) J2EE
7 3 (9.38%) Node.js
7 3 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (9.38%) SOAP
8 2 (6.25%) Apache Avro
8 2 (6.25%) OAuth
8 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
8 2 (6.25%) OpenID
8 2 (6.25%) XML
8 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Equities
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Microservices
2 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) Observability
5 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
6 6 (18.75%) Order Management
6 6 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) AI
8 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.50%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
8 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (93.75%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) CCSP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) OSCP
3 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) ISO 20022
1 2 (6.25%) ISO 8583
1 2 (6.25%) PSD2
1 2 (6.25%) QA
1 2 (6.25%) SEPA
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) GRC
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Grafana
2 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Google
1 3 (9.38%) Solace
2 2 (6.25%) Confluent
2 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.13%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Sybase
3 1 (3.13%) Tradeweb