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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 88 91
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Spring 50 42 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.00% 2.12% 1.69%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 7.98% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 23 30
10th Percentile £358 £359 £416
25th Percentile £500 £413 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.57% -8.93%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £850
90th Percentile £727 £649 -
London median daily rate £535 £528 £570
% change year-on-year +1.42% -7.46% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +46.15% - -

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 617 526 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.67% 26.55% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 353 409
10th Percentile £419 £385 £425
25th Percentile £493 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £580 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -0.08%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £719
90th Percentile £760 £773 £838
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £25.35 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £33.64 £55.99 £25.40
Median hourly rate £42.00 £62.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% +142.34% -49.92%
75th Percentile £69.38 £76.25 £26.19
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.37% +15.49% -28.57%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -18 41 £528 -6.64% 25
City of Westminster - 7 £606 - 5
West End of London - 5 £600 - 4
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 (6.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Camunda
3 1 (2.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 31 (62.00%) AWS
2 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) GitHub
3 10 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (18.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (10.00%) Serverless
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) NoSQL
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (12.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.00%) Redis
4 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.00%) Big Data
7 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.00%) Db2
7 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) JUnit
2 15 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (26.00%) Git
4 11 (22.00%) Mockito
5 10 (20.00%) GitLab
6 7 (14.00%) Gradle
6 7 (14.00%) Maven
7 6 (12.00%) JIRA
8 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (6.00%) Postman
9 2 (4.00%) Liquibase
9 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (2.00%) Claude Code
10 1 (2.00%) IntelliJ
10 1 (2.00%) Jasmine
10 1 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (6.00%) Police
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Developer
2 18 (36.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (32.00%) Senior
4 11 (22.00%) Senior Developer
5 9 (18.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Java Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Architect
8 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Lead
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Java Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (98.00%) Spring Boot
2 21 (42.00%) Kafka
3 17 (34.00%) REST
3 17 (34.00%) RESTful
4 10 (20.00%) Terraform
5 7 (14.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (14.00%) React
6 6 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (12.00%) SOAP
7 5 (10.00%) Node.js
7 5 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (10.00%) Web Services
8 4 (8.00%) HTML
9 3 (6.00%) .NET
9 3 (6.00%) Gherkin
9 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
9 3 (6.00%) Next.js
9 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (6.00%) WireMock
9 3 (6.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (46.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (64.00%) Microservices
3 29 (58.00%) DevOps
4 24 (48.00%) Containerisation
5 21 (42.00%) Agile
6 20 (40.00%) Event-Driven
7 16 (32.00%) Software Engineering
7 16 (32.00%) Test Automation
8 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (26.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (24.00%) Observability
11 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (16.00%) Front End Development
12 8 (16.00%) Scrum
13 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (14.00%) Integration Patterns
13 7 (14.00%) OOP
14 6 (12.00%) Clean Code
14 6 (12.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 49 (98.00%) Java
2 12 (24.00%) TypeScript
3 11 (22.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) Python
5 5 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) Korn
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) EMIR
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.00%) MiFID
2 2 (4.00%) SEPA
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.00%) Grafana
2 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) Bosun
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (6.00%) Oracle
2 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.00%) IBM
2 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.00%) Calypso
3 1 (2.00%) FIS
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Murex
3 1 (2.00%) New Relic
3 1 (2.00%) Pega
3 1 (2.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) Sybase
3 1 (2.00%) Temenos