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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 99 95
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing Spring 41 29 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.71% 1.52% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.54% 5.73% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 17 28
10th Percentile £339 £359 £418
25th Percentile £481 £413 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -30.77% -7.14%
75th Percentile £663 £605 £850
90th Percentile £726 £674 -
London median daily rate £545 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +3.81% -7.08% -5.83%

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 627 506 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.22% 26.55% 26.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 356 393
10th Percentile £413 £386 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £708
90th Percentile £750 £775 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £37.68 £52.83 £27.67
25th Percentile £39.81 £55.99 £31.07
Median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.25 £41.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £83.75 £41.45
London median hourly rate £50.00 £51.44 £42.50
% change year-on-year -2.80% +21.04% -32.00%

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 16 October 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 October 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 -9 34 £535 -7.76% 9
City of Westminster - 5 £600 - 2
West End of London - 4 £600 - 2
Southwark - 1 £650 -
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 (7.32%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) GitHub
3 12 (29.27%) Azure
4 8 (19.51%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (12.20%) Serverless
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.88%) dbt
8 2 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
3 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
5 3 (7.32%) Redis
6 2 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (4.88%) Big Data
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.44%) Db2
7 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
1 13 (31.71%) JUnit
2 12 (29.27%) Git
3 8 (19.51%) GitLab
3 8 (19.51%) Mockito
4 6 (14.63%) JIRA
4 6 (14.63%) Maven
5 5 (12.20%) Gradle
6 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.88%) Postman
6 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.44%) Claude Code
7 1 (2.44%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.44%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (2.44%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (53.66%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Banking
4 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Back Office
6 3 (7.32%) Retail
7 2 (4.88%) Front Office
7 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.88%) Law
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Police
8 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.44%) Military
8 1 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 15 (36.59%) Java Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Senior
4 9 (21.95%) Senior Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Java Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (95.12%) Spring Boot
2 16 (39.02%) REST
3 14 (34.15%) Kafka
4 13 (31.71%) RESTful
4 13 (31.71%) Terraform
5 7 (17.07%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.20%) SOAP
6 5 (12.20%) Web Services
7 4 (9.76%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.76%) HTML
7 4 (9.76%) JPA
7 4 (9.76%) Node.js
7 4 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (9.76%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (7.32%) .NET
8 3 (7.32%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (7.32%) React
8 3 (7.32%) Spring Security
9 2 (4.88%) CSS
9 2 (4.88%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (41.46%) Cloud Native
2 14 (34.15%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Derivative
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.44%) Equities
5 1 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
1 5 (12.20%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) CI/CD
2 23 (56.10%) Microservices
3 21 (51.22%) DevOps
4 18 (43.90%) Containerisation
5 17 (41.46%) Agile
6 15 (36.59%) Event-Driven
7 14 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
9 12 (29.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
10 10 (24.39%) Front End Development
11 8 (19.51%) Scrum
12 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
12 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (17.07%) Observability
12 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (14.63%) API Development
13 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (14.63%) OOP
13 6 (14.63%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (36.59%) SQL
3 9 (21.95%) Python
3 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.76%) C#
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) Korn
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) EMIR
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
2 2 (4.88%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.88%) MiFID
2 2 (4.88%) SEPA
3 1 (2.44%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (56.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (51.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Bosun
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Calypso
4 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.44%) FIS
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Murex
4 1 (2.44%) New Relic
4 1 (2.44%) SAP
4 1 (2.44%) Sybase
4 1 (2.44%) Temenos
4 1 (2.44%) TIBCO