Spring Contract Job Trends in Central London

Pivotal Spring Framework
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -52
Contract jobs citing Spring 27 34 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.34% 1.58% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.09% 6.30% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 31
10th Percentile £454 £515 £420
25th Percentile £500 £563 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% -19.30%
75th Percentile £695 £638 £800
90th Percentile - £760 £900
London median daily rate £530 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -9.40% +1.74% -14.81%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 443 540 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.91% 25.06% 22.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 331 418
10th Percentile £361 £407 £413
25th Percentile £440 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £530 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.67 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -23.08%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Spring job vacancy trend in Central London

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Spring

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Central London over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Central London

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -15 26 £613 +4.70% 11
Spring
London

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 (14.81%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
1 10 (37.04%) GCP
2 8 (29.63%) GitHub
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Run
4 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Redis
3 3 (11.11%) Tick Data
4 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.70%) KDB
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) Git
3 6 (22.22%) Maven
4 5 (18.52%) JIRA
5 4 (14.81%) JUnit
6 3 (11.11%) Mockito
6 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (7.41%) Gatling
7 2 (7.41%) GitLab
8 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
8 1 (3.70%) jMock
8 1 (3.70%) Postman
8 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.70%) Subversion
8 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.70%) Xcode
8 1 (3.70%) XCTest
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Front Office
3 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 19 (70.37%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Fidessa Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Lead
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Principal Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Principal Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Spring Boot
2 6 (22.22%) React
2 6 (22.22%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
3 5 (18.52%) CSS
3 5 (18.52%) HTML
3 5 (18.52%) Kafka
4 4 (14.81%) Hibernate
4 4 (14.81%) JSON
5 3 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (11.11%) RESTful
5 3 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Apache Avro
6 2 (7.41%) JPA
6 2 (7.41%) Micronaut
6 2 (7.41%) Node.js
6 2 (7.41%) OAuth
6 2 (7.41%) OAuth2
6 2 (7.41%) OpenID
6 2 (7.41%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Equities
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Derivative
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Microservices
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Order Management
3 6 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
4 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
4 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
5 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
5 4 (14.81%) Low Latency
5 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
5 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.81%) SDLC
5 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) CCSP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CISSP
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) OSCP
2 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 20022
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 8583
1 2 (7.41%) PSD2
1 2 (7.41%) QA
1 2 (7.41%) SEPA
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) NCSC
2 1 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Argo
4 3 (11.11%) Grafana
4 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Google
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Solace
3 2 (7.41%) Confluent
3 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.41%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk
4 1 (3.70%) Tradeweb