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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 84 98
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Spring 43 42 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.80% 2.24% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.83% 9.05% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 21 27
10th Percentile £425 £413 £385
25th Percentile £486 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% -10.14%
75th Percentile £601 £585 £713
90th Percentile £728 £660 £810
Central London median daily rate £528 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +17.22% -28.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 487 464 481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.36% 24.77% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 299 323
10th Percentile £413 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £436 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £686 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £596
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.72% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £23.93 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £32.34 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.54 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £67.36 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -36.40% - -

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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 31 July 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 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Camunda
3 1 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 28 (65.12%) AWS
2 17 (39.53%) GitHub
3 13 (30.23%) Azure
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (16.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (16.28%) Serverless
6 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (11.63%) GCP
8 4 (9.30%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.65%) dbt
10 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) NoSQL
2 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (18.60%) DynamoDB
4 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (9.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.65%) Db2
7 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.33%) Big Data
8 1 (2.33%) MySQL
8 1 (2.33%) Redis
8 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) JUnit
2 13 (30.23%) Git
3 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (18.60%) Mockito
5 7 (16.28%) GitLab
6 6 (13.95%) Gradle
6 6 (13.95%) JIRA
7 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
7 4 (9.30%) Maven
7 4 (9.30%) Postman
8 2 (4.65%) Liquibase
9 1 (2.33%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 17 (39.53%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Java Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Senior
3 12 (27.91%) Senior Developer
4 10 (23.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Architect
5 5 (11.63%) Java Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Junior
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Junior Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (88.37%) Spring Boot
2 20 (46.51%) Kafka
3 12 (27.91%) RESTful
4 11 (25.58%) REST
5 6 (13.95%) React
6 5 (11.63%) WireMock
7 4 (9.30%) Gherkin
7 4 (9.30%) SOAP
7 4 (9.30%) YAML
8 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.98%) HTML
8 3 (6.98%) Node.js
8 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.98%) Web Services
9 2 (4.65%) JMS
9 2 (4.65%) OpenAPI
9 2 (4.65%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (27.91%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) CI/CD
2 26 (60.47%) Microservices
3 21 (48.84%) DevOps
4 18 (41.86%) Agile
4 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
5 14 (32.56%) Software Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Event-Driven
6 12 (27.91%) Observability
6 12 (27.91%) Test Automation
7 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (16.28%) Design Patterns
8 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (16.28%) OOP
9 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (11.63%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
10 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.63%) Scrum
11 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (97.67%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) Python
3 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) EMIR
2 2 (4.65%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) MiFID
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (60.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 5 (11.63%) Grafana
3 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Bosun
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) IBM
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle
2 2 (4.65%) Sybase
3 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.33%) New Relic
3 1 (2.33%) Pega
3 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow