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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Spring 40 40 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 2.18% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 7.68% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 25
10th Percentile £397 £426 £407
25th Percentile £490 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £638 £585 £700
90th Percentile £732 £766 £823
Central London median daily rate £528 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +17.22% -28.00% -7.41%
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 555 521 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.76% 28.42% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 334 373
10th Percentile £419 £401 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -3.75% -1.76%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £710
90th Percentile £775 £763 £825
Central London median daily rate £567 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.35% -4.09% -2.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £22.51 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £31.03 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £62.20 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
% change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%

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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 21 August 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 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) Camunda
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) GitHub
3 12 (30.00%) Azure
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (15.00%) Serverless
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.50%) GCP
6 5 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) dbt
9 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
3 7 (17.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.50%) Big Data
7 1 (2.50%) Db2
7 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) JUnit
2 11 (27.50%) Git
2 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.00%) Mockito
4 7 (17.50%) GitLab
5 6 (15.00%) Gradle
5 6 (15.00%) JIRA
6 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.00%) Maven
6 4 (10.00%) Postman
7 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
8 1 (2.50%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.50%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 16 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Developer
2 14 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (32.50%) Senior
4 11 (27.50%) Senior Developer
5 9 (22.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Junior
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 1 (2.50%) Lead
10 1 (2.50%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (92.50%) Spring Boot
2 18 (45.00%) Kafka
3 12 (30.00%) RESTful
4 10 (25.00%) REST
5 6 (15.00%) Terraform
6 5 (12.50%) React
7 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (10.00%) Gherkin
7 4 (10.00%) HTML
7 4 (10.00%) SOAP
7 4 (10.00%) Web Services
7 4 (10.00%) WireMock
7 4 (10.00%) YAML
8 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
8 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (5.00%) NgRx
9 2 (5.00%) Node.js
9 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
9 2 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (27.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (55.00%) Microservices
3 20 (50.00%) DevOps
4 17 (42.50%) Agile
5 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 13 (32.50%) Software Engineering
6 13 (32.50%) Test Automation
7 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven
8 10 (25.00%) Observability
9 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (20.00%) OOP
10 7 (17.50%) Design Patterns
10 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (12.50%) BDD
12 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
13 4 (10.00%) API Design
13 4 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
13 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (97.50%) Java
2 11 (27.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Python
3 7 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) EMIR
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) MiFID
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Grafana
2 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.50%) Bosun
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) New Relic
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) Sybase