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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -42
Contract jobs citing Spring 30 41 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.39% 2.02% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.28% 7.99% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 36
10th Percentile £457 £422 £391
25th Percentile £500 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £695 £585 £728
90th Percentile - £610 £800
London median daily rate £525 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -5.83% -3.04% -14.81%

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 478 513 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.08% 25.26% 21.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 330 375
10th Percentile £363 £406 £402
25th Percentile £463 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
London median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £24.20 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £26.00 £37.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -15.79% -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 £41.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%

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 3 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 3 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 -18 30 £525 -8.70% 20
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) Ethereum
2 2 (6.67%) Hyperledger
3 1 (3.33%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (3.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) GitHub
2 12 (40.00%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 6 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (13.33%) Serverless
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (10.00%) Tick Data
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.67%) Hazelcast
5 2 (6.67%) Redis
5 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.33%) DB2
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (26.67%) JUnit
3 7 (23.33%) JIRA
4 5 (16.67%) GitLab
4 5 (16.67%) Maven
4 5 (16.67%) Mockito
5 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.67%) Gatling
6 2 (6.67%) Postman
7 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.33%) jMock
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
2 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Fidessa Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Backend Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (36.67%) Kafka
3 8 (26.67%) REST
4 7 (23.33%) React
5 6 (20.00%) RESTful
6 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 4 (13.33%) JSON
7 4 (13.33%) WireMock
8 3 (10.00%) CSS
8 3 (10.00%) HTML
8 3 (10.00%) Node.js
8 3 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (10.00%) SOAP
9 2 (6.67%) Apache Avro
9 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
9 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
9 2 (6.67%) OpenID
9 2 (6.67%) Quarkus
9 2 (6.67%) Spring Batch
9 2 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Equities
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Derivative
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Microservices
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
5 6 (20.00%) Order Management
5 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (13.33%) Clean Code
7 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
7 4 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.00%) AI
8 3 (10.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.33%) CCSP
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) OSCP
2 1 (3.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 20022
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 8583
1 2 (6.67%) PSD2
1 2 (6.67%) QA
1 2 (6.67%) SEPA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Terraform
3 4 (13.33%) Grafana
3 4 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.00%) Ansible
4 3 (10.00%) Argo
5 1 (3.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Google
1 3 (10.00%) Solace
2 2 (6.67%) Confluent
2 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.33%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Sybase
3 1 (3.33%) Tradeweb