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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 77 97
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring 40 46 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.75% 2.33% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.15% 8.91% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 33
10th Percentile £354 £402 £389
25th Percentile £494 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -20.12%
75th Percentile £629 £585 £725
90th Percentile £695 £640 £800
London median daily rate £525 £570 £581
% change year-on-year -7.89% -1.94% -10.58%

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 491 516 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.47% 26.17% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 343 379
10th Percentile £363 £409 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.18% -11.84%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
London median daily rate £544 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.39% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £24.60 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £32.07 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £54.83 - -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £55.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -19.82% +31.55% -35.09%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -19 38 £523 -9.13% 19
City of Westminster - 2 £613 -
West End of London - 1 - -
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 2 (5.00%) Camunda
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (5.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.50%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) GitHub
3 12 (30.00%) Azure
4 7 (17.50%) GCP
5 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.50%) Serverless
7 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 7 (17.50%) MongoDB
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.50%) Redis
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.00%) Hazelcast
5 2 (5.00%) Tick Data
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.50%) DB2
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Git
2 12 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (27.50%) JUnit
4 8 (20.00%) JIRA
5 7 (17.50%) GitLab
5 7 (17.50%) Mockito
6 5 (12.50%) Maven
7 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
7 3 (7.50%) Postman
8 2 (5.00%) Gatling
8 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.50%) Gradle
9 1 (2.50%) jMock
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Police
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Developer
2 20 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.00%) Senior
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Architect
6 5 (12.50%) Fidessa Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Junior
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Junior Technical Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (67.50%) Spring Boot
2 15 (37.50%) Kafka
3 10 (25.00%) REST
3 10 (25.00%) RESTful
4 8 (20.00%) React
5 6 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.50%) WireMock
7 4 (10.00%) JSON
7 4 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (10.00%) SOAP
8 3 (7.50%) CSS
8 3 (7.50%) Gherkin
8 3 (7.50%) HTML
8 3 (7.50%) J2EE
8 3 (7.50%) Micronaut
8 3 (7.50%) Node.js
8 3 (7.50%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (7.50%) YAML
9 2 (5.00%) Apache Avro
9 2 (5.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.50%) Equities
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Microservices
2 21 (52.50%) CI/CD
3 15 (37.50%) Agile
4 13 (32.50%) DevOps
5 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
6 10 (25.00%) Observability
6 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 5 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 5 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 5 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 5 (12.50%) Order Management
10 5 (12.50%) Scrum
11 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 37 (92.50%) Java
2 7 (17.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.50%) C#
4 3 (7.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) OSCP
3 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.00%) PSD2
2 2 (5.00%) SEPA
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) GRC
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
2 5 (12.50%) Grafana
2 5 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (7.50%) Argo
5 1 (2.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Dynatrace
1 3 (7.50%) Google
2 2 (5.00%) Confluent
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Solace
3 1 (2.50%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.50%) IBM
3 1 (2.50%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Pega
3 1 (2.50%) Rapid7
3 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.50%) Sybase
3 1 (2.50%) Tradeweb