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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 81 96
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring 53 44 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.03% 2.29% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.10% 9.21% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 36
10th Percentile £354 £402 £381
25th Percentile £486 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £641 £585 £741
90th Percentile £695 £593 £850
London median daily rate £525 £525 £565
% change year-on-year - -7.08% -13.08%
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 £90.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +38.46% - -

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 525 478 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.10% 24.91% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 316 400
10th Percentile £410 £402 £413
25th Percentile £477 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.48% -10.68%
75th Percentile £671 £671 £691
90th Percentile £775 £761 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £54.27 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £59.60 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £69.47 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.78% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £79.60 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £85.09 -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 46 £525 -1.18% 2
City of Westminster - 7 £606 -
West End of London - 5 £600 -
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 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.77%) Camunda
2 2 (3.77%) Confluence
2 2 (3.77%) Ethereum
2 2 (3.77%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.89%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 31 (58.49%) AWS
2 23 (43.40%) GitHub
3 19 (35.85%) Azure
4 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (16.98%) GCP
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
6 7 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 6 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (9.43%) Azure AKS
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.66%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.77%) dbt
11 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (30.19%) NoSQL
2 10 (18.87%) MongoDB
3 9 (16.98%) DynamoDB
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (7.55%) Redis
7 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.77%) Db2
8 2 (3.77%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.89%) Big Data
9 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.89%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.08%) JUnit
3 16 (30.19%) Git
4 12 (22.64%) Mockito
5 11 (20.75%) GitLab
6 10 (18.87%) JIRA
7 6 (11.32%) Gradle
8 5 (9.43%) Cucumber
8 5 (9.43%) Maven
8 5 (9.43%) Postman
9 2 (3.77%) Gatling
9 2 (3.77%) Liquibase
9 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (35.85%) Finance
2 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Law
5 3 (5.66%) Police
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Developer
2 20 (37.74%) Java Developer
3 14 (26.42%) Senior
4 12 (22.64%) Senior Developer
5 9 (16.98%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Architect
6 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (9.43%) Java Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Junior
9 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (5.66%) Technical Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (84.91%) Spring Boot
2 26 (49.06%) Kafka
3 16 (30.19%) RESTful
4 10 (18.87%) React
4 10 (18.87%) REST
5 6 (11.32%) WireMock
6 5 (9.43%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.43%) Gherkin
6 5 (9.43%) Node.js
6 5 (9.43%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (9.43%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (9.43%) SOAP
6 5 (9.43%) YAML
7 4 (7.55%) Micronaut
8 3 (5.66%) HTML
8 3 (5.66%) J2EE
8 3 (5.66%) Next.js
8 3 (5.66%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (5.66%) Web Services
9 2 (3.77%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Equities
4 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Unix
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (71.70%) CI/CD
2 32 (60.38%) Microservices
3 23 (43.40%) DevOps
4 22 (41.51%) Agile
5 21 (39.62%) Containerisation
6 17 (32.08%) Software Engineering
7 16 (30.19%) Event-Driven
8 15 (28.30%) Observability
9 13 (24.53%) Test Automation
10 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (15.09%) Scrum
13 7 (13.21%) Code Quality
13 7 (13.21%) Design Patterns
13 7 (13.21%) OOP
14 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (9.43%) Clean Code
15 5 (9.43%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 51 (96.23%) Java
2 12 (22.64%) TypeScript
3 11 (20.75%) SQL
4 7 (13.21%) Python
5 6 (11.32%) C#
5 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
2 3 (5.66%) ISO 20022
2 3 (5.66%) SEPA
3 2 (3.77%) EMIR
3 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) ISO 8583
3 2 (3.77%) MiFID
3 2 (3.77%) PSD2
4 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (58.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (64.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.21%) Grafana
2 7 (13.21%) Prometheus
2 7 (13.21%) Terraform
3 6 (11.32%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Confluent
2 2 (3.77%) IBM
2 2 (3.77%) Sybase
3 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.89%) Pega
3 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.89%) Solace