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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 89 107
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 -55
Contract jobs citing Spring 28 37 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.36% 1.73% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.13% 6.84% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 31
10th Percentile £305 £459 £420
25th Percentile £472 £548 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.49% -14.04%
75th Percentile £695 £588 £800
90th Percentile - £638 £900
London median daily rate £525 £585 £578
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.30% -14.44%

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 457 541 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.18% 25.28% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 334 418
10th Percentile £363 £413 £404
25th Percentile £436 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +0.88% -7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £688
90th Percentile £759 £794 £800
London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
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 £54.50 £52.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +3.81% +7.69% -25.00%

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 30 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 30 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 -13 27 £581 -0.64% 15
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 3 (10.71%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Ethereum
2 2 (7.14%) Hyperledger
3 1 (3.57%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.57%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
1 9 (32.14%) GCP
1 9 (32.14%) GitHub
2 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Run
3 2 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 5 (17.86%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.71%) Redis
4 3 (10.71%) Tick Data
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (7.14%) Hazelcast
5 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 7 (25.00%) JUnit
3 6 (21.43%) Maven
4 4 (14.29%) Mockito
5 3 (10.71%) GitLab
5 3 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.14%) Gatling
6 2 (7.14%) Postman
7 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.57%) jMock
7 1 (3.57%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
7 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.57%) Subversion
7 1 (3.57%) Xcode
7 1 (3.57%) XCTest
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
2 18 (64.29%) Java Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Fidessa Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Backend Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Angular Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Blockchain Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Principal Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (60.71%) Spring Boot
2 8 (28.57%) Kafka
2 8 (28.57%) REST
3 7 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 6 (21.43%) React
5 5 (17.86%) RESTful
6 4 (14.29%) CSS
6 4 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 4 (14.29%) HTML
6 4 (14.29%) JSON
7 3 (10.71%) J2EE
7 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (10.71%) SOAP
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Batch
7 3 (10.71%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (7.14%) gRPC
8 2 (7.14%) Micronaut
8 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.14%) Quarkus
8 2 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Equities
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Microservices
2 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (21.43%) Order Management
4 6 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
5 5 (17.86%) Code Quality
5 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 4 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (14.29%) SDLC
7 3 (10.71%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
7 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Java
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.57%) CCSP
2 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CISSP
2 1 (3.57%) OSCP
2 1 (3.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO 20022
1 2 (7.14%) ISO 8583
1 2 (7.14%) PSD2
1 2 (7.14%) QA
1 2 (7.14%) SEPA
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) NIST
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Argo
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Google
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Solace
3 2 (7.14%) Confluent
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.57%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.57%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Tradeweb