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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring 52 53 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.99% 2.58% 1.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.47% 10.45% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 39
10th Percentile £356 £365 £400
25th Percentile £488 £418 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -18.37% -5.77%
75th Percentile £633 £585 £775
90th Percentile £726 £657 £850
London median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -12.00%
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 549 507 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.05% 24.72% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 335 367
10th Percentile £413 £386 £414
25th Percentile £482 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £716
90th Percentile £775 £762 £830
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £22.38 £52.83 -
25th Percentile £28.01 £55.99 -
Median hourly rate £39.75 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% - -
75th Percentile £62.74 £76.25 -
90th Percentile £76.38 £83.75 -
London median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -20 44 £525 -2.33% 7
City of Westminster - 7 £606 - 2
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 (5.77%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Camunda
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.92%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.92%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 32 (61.54%) AWS
2 22 (42.31%) GitHub
3 20 (38.46%) Azure
4 11 (21.15%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (15.38%) GCP
6 7 (13.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (13.46%) Serverless
7 6 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (9.62%) Azure AKS
8 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.77%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.85%) dbt
11 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.85%) NoSQL
2 10 (19.23%) MongoDB
3 9 (17.31%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (15.38%) DynamoDB
5 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (5.77%) Redis
8 2 (3.85%) Db2
8 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.92%) Big Data
9 1 (1.92%) MySQL
9 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (34.62%) JUnit
2 16 (30.77%) Git
2 16 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 11 (21.15%) GitLab
3 11 (21.15%) Mockito
4 7 (13.46%) JIRA
5 6 (11.54%) Gradle
6 4 (7.69%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.69%) Maven
6 4 (7.69%) Postman
7 2 (3.85%) Liquibase
7 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.92%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.92%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.92%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 18 (34.62%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Law
5 3 (5.77%) Police
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Military
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Java Developer
3 15 (28.85%) Senior
4 13 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 10 (19.23%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.54%) Java Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Architect
9 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Junior
10 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
11 2 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
11 2 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) Java Technical Architect
11 2 (3.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (90.38%) Spring Boot
2 24 (46.15%) Kafka
3 18 (34.62%) RESTful
4 14 (26.92%) REST
5 9 (17.31%) React
6 6 (11.54%) AngularJS
6 6 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (9.62%) Node.js
7 5 (9.62%) WireMock
8 4 (7.69%) Gherkin
8 4 (7.69%) SOAP
8 4 (7.69%) YAML
9 3 (5.77%) GraphQL
9 3 (5.77%) HTML
9 3 (5.77%) Next.js
9 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (5.77%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (5.77%) Web Services
10 2 (3.85%) OpenAPI
10 2 (3.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Cloud Native
2 15 (28.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.92%) NHS
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 34 (65.38%) Microservices
3 29 (55.77%) DevOps
4 22 (42.31%) Agile
5 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
6 17 (32.69%) Event-Driven
6 17 (32.69%) Software Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Observability
8 14 (26.92%) Test Automation
9 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (17.31%) Scrum
12 7 (13.46%) Design Patterns
12 7 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (13.46%) OOP
13 6 (11.54%) Code Quality
13 6 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (9.62%) Data Engineering
15 4 (7.69%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 51 (98.08%) Java
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
2 12 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 6 (11.54%) C#
4 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 12 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) EMIR
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
2 2 (3.85%) MiFID
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.92%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.38%) Terraform
3 6 (11.54%) Grafana
3 6 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.62%) Ansible
5 1 (1.92%) Bosun
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.85%) IBM
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) Sybase
4 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.92%) New Relic
4 1 (1.92%) Pega
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow