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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 96 124
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 -71
Contract jobs citing Spring 37 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.07% 1.54% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.20% 6.39% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 36
10th Percentile £428 £405 £486
25th Percentile £450 £480 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £596 £713 £797
90th Percentile £740 £830 £1,019
Central London median daily rate £475 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -24.00% -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 451 501 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.28% 24.06% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 328 555
10th Percentile £401 £425 £413
25th Percentile £449 £504 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £609
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £762 £829 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £25.79 £53.00
% change year-on-year +142.34% -51.34% +11.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring 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 2 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Camunda
2 1 (2.70%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) GCP
3 6 (16.22%) Azure
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Run
4 1 (2.70%) Firebase
4 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) MongoDB
1 11 (29.73%) NoSQL
2 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (21.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.81%) KDB
5 3 (8.11%) Big Data
5 3 (8.11%) MySQL
6 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.70%) DB2
7 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) Maven
4 2 (5.41%) Eclipse
4 2 (5.41%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 2 (5.41%) JUnit
4 2 (5.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.70%) GitLab
5 1 (2.70%) Gradle
5 1 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Banking
3 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Back Office
6 2 (5.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Developer
2 22 (59.46%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (16.22%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Angular Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Senior
8 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.41%) GCP Architect
8 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (5.41%) KDB Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Principal Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (75.68%) Spring Boot
2 13 (35.14%) React
3 10 (27.03%) AngularJS
4 9 (24.32%) Kafka
5 7 (18.92%) Hibernate
6 6 (16.22%) RESTful
7 5 (13.51%) JPA
7 5 (13.51%) REST
8 3 (8.11%) Web Services
9 2 (5.41%) Middleware
9 2 (5.41%) Node.js
9 2 (5.41%) ZK
10 1 (2.70%) CSS
10 1 (2.70%) HTML
10 1 (2.70%) OAuth
10 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
10 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.70%) React Native
10 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
10 1 (2.70%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.41%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.70%) Derivative
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Android
3 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Microservices
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
3 12 (32.43%) DevOps
4 10 (27.03%) Event-Driven
4 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (24.32%) API Development
5 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 9 (24.32%) Clean Code
6 8 (21.62%) Roadmaps
7 7 (18.92%) SOLID
8 6 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.51%) SDLC
10 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
10 4 (10.81%) Containerisation
10 4 (10.81%) Multithreading
10 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) Java
2 20 (54.05%) SQL
3 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
4 10 (27.03%) Python
5 9 (24.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.41%) C++
7 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.70%) Perl
7 1 (2.70%) Scala
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 2 (5.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) IBM
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) Sybase