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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 90 91
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Spring 37 30 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.68% 1.72% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.70% 6.17% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 15 24
10th Percentile £336 £422 £405
25th Percentile £486 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -6.40% -10.71%
75th Percentile £669 £603 £713
90th Percentile £726 £681 £830
Central London median daily rate £575 £538 £638
% change year-on-year +6.98% -15.69% -8.93%
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 552 486 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.03% 27.93% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 331 347
10th Percentile £415 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £710
90th Percentile £768 £763 £830
Central London median daily rate £575 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -3.75% -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £22.66 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.40 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -25.24%
75th Percentile £51.00 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £65.40 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -25.24%

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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 October 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 (8.11%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 22 (59.46%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) GitHub
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) GCP
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (8.11%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.41%) dbt
7 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (37.84%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.62%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (5.41%) Big Data
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.70%) Db2
7 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.70%) MySQL
7 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) JUnit
2 11 (29.73%) Git
2 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.92%) Gradle
3 7 (18.92%) Maven
3 7 (18.92%) Mockito
4 6 (16.22%) JIRA
5 5 (13.51%) GitLab
6 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.41%) Liquibase
6 2 (5.41%) Postman
6 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.70%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.70%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.70%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 21 (56.76%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (27.03%) Banking
4 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (8.11%) Back Office
8 2 (5.41%) Front Office
8 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.70%) Military
9 1 (2.70%) Retail
9 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 15 (40.54%) Senior
3 14 (37.84%) Java Developer
4 10 (27.03%) Senior Developer
5 8 (21.62%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (16.22%) Java Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Architect
8 3 (8.11%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.41%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Java Architect
9 2 (5.41%) Lead
9 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (94.59%) Spring Boot
2 16 (43.24%) REST
3 14 (37.84%) Kafka
4 10 (27.03%) RESTful
4 10 (27.03%) Terraform
5 6 (16.22%) AngularJS
6 5 (13.51%) SOAP
6 5 (13.51%) Web Services
7 4 (10.81%) Hibernate
7 4 (10.81%) HTML
7 4 (10.81%) JPA
8 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
8 3 (8.11%) React
8 3 (8.11%) Spring Security
9 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
9 2 (5.41%) NgRx
9 2 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (5.41%) Swagger
9 2 (5.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (29.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (5.41%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.41%) Derivative
4 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
1 5 (13.51%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (81.08%) CI/CD
2 19 (51.35%) Microservices
3 18 (48.65%) Containerisation
4 17 (45.95%) DevOps
5 15 (40.54%) Agile
6 13 (35.14%) Software Engineering
7 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
8 11 (29.73%) Event-Driven
9 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (24.32%) Front End Development
11 8 (21.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (18.92%) Observability
13 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (16.22%) OOP
13 6 (16.22%) Scrum
14 5 (13.51%) Clean Code
14 5 (13.51%) Design Patterns
14 5 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
14 5 (13.51%) OO
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 8 (21.62%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) C#
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) Bash
6 1 (2.70%) Korn
6 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) EMIR
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.41%) MiFID
2 2 (5.41%) SEPA
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Bosun
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Calypso
4 1 (2.70%) FIS
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.70%) Murex
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Sybase
4 1 (2.70%) Temenos
4 1 (2.70%) TIBCO