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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 75 92
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing Spring 27 40 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.38% 2.19% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.07% 8.51% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 32
10th Percentile £420 £422 £383
25th Percentile £497 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% - -17.86%
75th Percentile £695 £585 £775
90th Percentile - £610 £800
Central London median daily rate £561 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -2.39% - -17.86%

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 445 470 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.80% 25.78% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 293 354
10th Percentile £362 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £756 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -8.00%
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 £45.00 £40.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 19 February 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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Ethereum
2 2 (7.41%) Hyperledger
3 1 (3.70%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.70%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) GitHub
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Run
5 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Tick Data
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
3 6 (22.22%) JIRA
4 5 (18.52%) JUnit
4 5 (18.52%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) GitLab
5 3 (11.11%) Mockito
5 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.41%) Gatling
7 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.70%) jMock
7 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Developer
2 16 (59.26%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Fidessa Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Backend Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Junior Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Principal Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (55.56%) Spring Boot
2 8 (29.63%) Kafka
3 7 (25.93%) REST
4 6 (22.22%) React
5 5 (18.52%) RESTful
6 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
6 4 (14.81%) JSON
7 3 (11.11%) CSS
7 3 (11.11%) HTML
7 3 (11.11%) Node.js
7 3 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (11.11%) WireMock
8 2 (7.41%) Apache Avro
8 2 (7.41%) gRPC
8 2 (7.41%) Micronaut
8 2 (7.41%) OAuth
8 2 (7.41%) OpenID
8 2 (7.41%) Quarkus
8 2 (7.41%) Spring Batch
8 2 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Equities
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Microservices
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 6 (22.22%) Observability
5 6 (22.22%) Order Management
5 6 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
7 4 (14.81%) Code Quality
7 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 3 (11.11%) Front End Development
8 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (11.11%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
8 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) OSCP
2 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 20022
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 8583
1 2 (7.41%) PSD2
1 2 (7.41%) QA
1 2 (7.41%) SEPA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Grafana
3 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Solace
3 2 (7.41%) Confluent
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.70%) Tradeweb