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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 72 99
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 -31
Contract jobs citing Spring 43 49 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.96% 2.82% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.47% 10.12% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 31 25
10th Percentile £457 £425 £378
25th Percentile £500 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £632 £585 £640
90th Percentile £695 £625 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -22.22%

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 454 484 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.71% 27.82% 21.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 312 342
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.00% -9.80%
75th Percentile £669 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £555 £551
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.77% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - £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 6 April 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 (4.65%) Camunda
1 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) Ethereum
1 2 (4.65%) Hyperledger
2 1 (2.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) GitHub
3 13 (30.23%) Azure
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (16.28%) GCP
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (13.95%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) NoSQL
2 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
3 7 (16.28%) DynamoDB
4 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (11.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.65%) Hazelcast
7 2 (4.65%) Redis
7 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.65%) Tick Data
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.33%) DB2
8 1 (2.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) Git
2 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (25.58%) JUnit
4 8 (18.60%) JIRA
5 7 (16.28%) Maven
5 7 (16.28%) Mockito
6 6 (13.95%) GitLab
7 4 (9.30%) Gradle
8 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
8 3 (6.98%) Postman
9 2 (4.65%) Gatling
9 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.33%) jMock
10 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
General
1 12 (27.91%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Legal
4 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Developer
2 22 (51.16%) Java Developer
3 10 (23.26%) Senior
4 9 (20.93%) Senior Developer
5 8 (18.60%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (13.95%) Architect
7 5 (11.63%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Junior
8 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Java Technical Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Junior Technical Architect
9 2 (4.65%) Senior Backend Developer
9 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (69.77%) Spring Boot
2 17 (39.53%) Kafka
3 11 (25.58%) REST
3 11 (25.58%) RESTful
4 9 (20.93%) React
5 6 (13.95%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (11.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.63%) WireMock
7 4 (9.30%) JSON
7 4 (9.30%) Node.js
7 4 (9.30%) SOAP
8 3 (6.98%) CSS
8 3 (6.98%) Gherkin
8 3 (6.98%) HTML
8 3 (6.98%) J2EE
8 3 (6.98%) YAML
9 2 (4.65%) JMS
9 2 (4.65%) OAuth
9 2 (4.65%) OpenID
9 2 (4.65%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.63%) Equities
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.33%) Derivative
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Microservices
2 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 16 (37.21%) Agile
4 15 (34.88%) DevOps
5 14 (32.56%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.91%) Observability
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.26%) Event-Driven
9 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.28%) Code Quality
11 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (13.95%) Translating Business Requirements
12 5 (11.63%) Design Patterns
12 5 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 5 (11.63%) Order Management
13 4 (9.30%) API Design
13 4 (9.30%) Clean Code
13 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (93.02%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) SQL
3 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.98%) C#
4 3 (6.98%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.33%) CCSP
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) OSCP
3 1 (2.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.65%) ISO 8583
2 2 (4.65%) PSD2
2 2 (4.65%) SEPA
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
3 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.33%) NCSC
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (51.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.28%) Grafana
2 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
3 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) Argo
5 1 (2.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) Confluent
2 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Solace
3 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.33%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Pega
3 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.33%) Sybase
3 1 (2.33%) Tradeweb