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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 -63
Contract jobs citing Spring 26 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.46% 1.81% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.95% 7.54% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 29
10th Percentile £424 £514 £433
25th Percentile £467 £567 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £619 £775
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -20.16% +10.71%
75th Percentile £686 £691 £825
90th Percentile £695 £766 £1,138
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £775
% change year-on-year -10.00% -19.35% +10.71%

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 437 504 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.58% 24.01% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 308 447
10th Percentile £363 £411 £400
25th Percentile £425 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.93
25th Percentile £51.88 £36.75 £47.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -23.38% -1.47%
75th Percentile £76.25 £40.25 £51.94
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.58
Central London median hourly rate £56.97 £38.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +47.97% -23.38% -1.47%

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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 November 2025.

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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Camunda
2 1 (3.85%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) GCP
4 4 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.85%) Firebase
5 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) KDB
3 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) Tick Data
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
3 3 (11.54%) Mockito
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.69%) Eclipse
4 2 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Gradle
5 1 (3.85%) jMock
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Java Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 5 (19.23%) Lead Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Fidessa Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Java Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) KDB Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) Spring Boot
2 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
2 7 (26.92%) REST
3 6 (23.08%) React
4 5 (19.23%) Hibernate
4 5 (19.23%) RESTful
5 3 (11.54%) CSS
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) JPA
6 2 (7.69%) Kafka
6 2 (7.69%) Middleware
6 2 (7.69%) Node.js
6 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.85%) jQuery
7 1 (3.85%) MyBatis
7 1 (3.85%) OAuth
7 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.85%) Spring Batch
7 1 (3.85%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Equities
2 2 (7.69%) Derivative
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Microservices
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
6 4 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 4 (15.38%) Multithreading
7 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Data Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (11.54%) OO
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
7 3 (11.54%) TDD
7 3 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) Java
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Python
4 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) C++
6 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.85%) CCSP
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CISSP
2 1 (3.85%) OSCP
2 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) GRC
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) ION Trading
3 2 (7.69%) Solace
4 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Tradeweb