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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 92 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 +25 -68
Contract jobs citing Spring 25 39 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.39% 1.82% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.98% 7.50% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 28
10th Percentile £460 £513 £425
25th Percentile £519 £581 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £670
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -8.58% -5.96%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £806
90th Percentile - £768 £1,138
Central London median daily rate £571 £625 £670
% change year-on-year -8.60% -6.72% -5.96%

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 418 520 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.29% 24.33% 23.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 314 430
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £740 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £46.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -18.95% -6.86%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +47.97% -18.95% -6.86%

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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 3 December 2025.

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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Camunda
2 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (36.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Run
5 1 (4.00%) Firebase
5 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (12.00%) KDB
3 3 (12.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) Tick Data
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) JUnit
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
3 3 (12.00%) Mockito
4 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) Gradle
5 1 (4.00%) jMock
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Front Office
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) Developer
2 16 (64.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Lead
4 5 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Fidessa Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Principal Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Angular Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) KDB Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) GCP Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
7 1 (4.00%) Senior
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (20.00%) REST
2 5 (20.00%) RESTful
3 4 (16.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) CSS
4 3 (12.00%) HTML
4 3 (12.00%) JPA
5 2 (8.00%) Kafka
5 2 (8.00%) Middleware
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
5 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) MyBatis
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.00%) Spring Batch
6 1 (4.00%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Android
3 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Microservices
2 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.00%) Multithreading
6 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) OO
7 3 (12.00%) Order Management
7 3 (12.00%) TDD
7 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) Python
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (8.00%) C++
7 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
7 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (4.00%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.00%) CCSP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
2 1 (4.00%) OSCP
2 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) GRC
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) ION Trading
3 2 (8.00%) Solace
4 1 (4.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Tradeweb