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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 74 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -26
Contract jobs citing Spring 38 42 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.78% 2.43% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.37% 8.86% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 28
10th Percentile £329 £423 £376
25th Percentile £491 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +2.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £585 £747
90th Percentile £695 £655 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -20.12%

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 454 474 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.32% 27.40% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 310 345
10th Percentile £363 £413 £389
25th Percentile £460 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £669 £683 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £551
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.18% -11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £33.33 - -
25th Percentile £36.77 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £48.75
90th Percentile £57.28 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -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 27 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 2 (5.26%) Camunda
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) Ethereum
1 2 (5.26%) Hyperledger
2 1 (2.63%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.63%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) AWS
2 15 (39.47%) GitHub
3 10 (26.32%) Azure
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.16%) Serverless
6 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.16%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (13.16%) DynamoDB
3 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.26%) Hazelcast
5 2 (5.26%) Redis
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.26%) Tick Data
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.63%) DB2
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Git
2 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
3 10 (26.32%) JUnit
4 8 (21.05%) JIRA
5 6 (15.79%) GitLab
5 6 (15.79%) Mockito
6 5 (13.16%) Maven
7 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
7 3 (7.89%) Postman
8 2 (5.26%) Gatling
8 2 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.63%) Gradle
9 1 (2.63%) jMock
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Legal
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Developer
2 19 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Senior
4 7 (18.42%) Senior Developer
5 6 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Architect
6 5 (13.16%) Fidessa Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Junior
7 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Junior Technical Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (65.79%) Spring Boot
2 14 (36.84%) Kafka
3 10 (26.32%) REST
4 9 (23.68%) RESTful
5 7 (18.42%) React
6 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 5 (13.16%) WireMock
7 4 (10.53%) JSON
7 4 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (10.53%) SOAP
8 3 (7.89%) CSS
8 3 (7.89%) Gherkin
8 3 (7.89%) HTML
8 3 (7.89%) J2EE
8 3 (7.89%) Node.js
8 3 (7.89%) YAML
9 2 (5.26%) JMS
9 2 (5.26%) OAuth
9 2 (5.26%) OpenID
9 2 (5.26%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Equities
3 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.63%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Microservices
2 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (36.84%) Agile
4 11 (28.95%) DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 9 (23.68%) Observability
6 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven
8 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
9 5 (13.16%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.16%) Order Management
10 4 (10.53%) AI
10 4 (10.53%) Clean Code
10 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
10 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (92.11%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) C#
4 3 (7.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.63%) CCSP
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CISSP
3 1 (2.63%) OSCP
3 1 (2.63%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.26%) PSD2
2 2 (5.26%) SEPA
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) GRC
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
3 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (52.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Grafana
2 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
3 4 (10.53%) Terraform
4 3 (7.89%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Google
2 2 (5.26%) Confluent
2 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) Solace
3 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.63%) IBM
3 1 (2.63%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Pega
3 1 (2.63%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Sybase
3 1 (2.63%) Tradeweb