Spring Contracts in the City of London

Pivotal Spring Framework
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 93 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 -31
Contract jobs citing Spring 43 32 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.39% 1.50% 2.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.31% 6.30% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 62
10th Percentile £417 £389 £461
25th Percentile £430 £451 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £568 £651
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -12.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £585 £731 £775
90th Percentile £613 £850 £823
Central London median daily rate £513 £568 £650
% change year-on-year -9.69% -12.69% -3.70%

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 462 508 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.71% 23.79% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 350 588
10th Percentile £404 £412 £425
25th Percentile £452 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £763 £788 £827
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £625
% change year-on-year -2.65% -9.60% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £69.47 - £53.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the City of London

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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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Apache
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) Camunda
3 1 (2.33%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (53.49%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) GitHub
4 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.88%) MongoDB
2 11 (25.58%) NoSQL
3 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (11.63%) Big Data
4 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.30%) MySQL
6 3 (6.98%) DB2
6 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.98%) KDB
6 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) Maven
2 6 (13.95%) IntelliJ
2 6 (13.95%) JUnit
3 5 (11.63%) Gradle
4 4 (9.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (9.30%) Git
4 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.30%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.65%) Eclipse
5 2 (4.65%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 15 (34.88%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Public Sector
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (69.77%) Developer
2 27 (62.79%) Java Developer
3 10 (23.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Senior
5 5 (11.63%) Angular Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Architect
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.65%) KDB Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (65.12%) Spring Boot
2 16 (37.21%) React
3 12 (27.91%) Kafka
4 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
5 7 (16.28%) JPA
6 5 (11.63%) REST
6 5 (11.63%) RESTful
6 5 (11.63%) Web Services
7 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.30%) JMS
8 3 (6.98%) HTML
9 2 (4.65%) Apache Camel
9 2 (4.65%) Middleware
9 2 (4.65%) ZK
10 1 (2.33%) Node.js
10 1 (2.33%) OpenAPI
10 1 (2.33%) Quarkus
10 1 (2.33%) Spring MVC
10 1 (2.33%) Swagger
10 1 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.33%) Derivative
3 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.33%) PKI
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 6 (13.95%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Android
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) Microservices
2 21 (48.84%) Agile
2 21 (48.84%) DevOps
3 12 (27.91%) CI/CD
4 11 (25.58%) API Development
4 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
5 9 (20.93%) Clean Code
5 9 (20.93%) SOLID
6 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
6 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (13.95%) SDLC
9 5 (11.63%) Unit Testing
10 4 (9.30%) API Integration
10 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (9.30%) Line Management
10 4 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) Java
2 17 (39.53%) SQL
3 15 (34.88%) JavaScript
4 12 (27.91%) Python
5 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) Perl
6 3 (6.98%) Scala
6 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.33%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kibana
4 1 (2.33%) Argo
4 1 (2.33%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Karpenter
4 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) Sybase
4 2 (4.65%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) WSO2