Spring Contract Job Trends in London

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 151 166
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -99
Contract jobs citing Spring 260 266 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.69% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 6.50% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 169 237
10th Percentile £363 £445 £423
25th Percentile £431 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £624 £700 £775
90th Percentile £675 £803 £888
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,737 4,094 5,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.03% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,544 2,689 3,886
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £670 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £42.50 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -22.41% -6.83%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Spring job vacancy trend in London

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in London

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
Central London -12 29 £563 -10.00% 53
South London -7 9 £530 -11.67% 11
East London +8 3 £540 -6.09% 7
West London - 1 £300 - 5
Spring
England

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (4.23%) Confluence
2 4 (1.54%) Camunda
3 2 (0.77%) CICS
3 2 (0.77%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.92%) AWS
2 90 (34.62%) Azure
3 50 (19.23%) GCP
4 30 (11.54%) GitHub
5 22 (8.46%) Serverless
6 21 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.92%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (6.54%) Amazon S3
8 17 (6.54%) OpenShift
9 16 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (6.15%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
13 10 (3.85%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.31%) Cloud Functions
15 6 (2.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
1 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.38%) LAN
1 1 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.69%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (19.23%) Relational Database
3 31 (11.92%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.23%) DB2
5 23 (8.85%) NoSQL
6 19 (7.31%) MySQL
7 17 (6.54%) DynamoDB
8 15 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.23%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.85%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.46%) Oracle Database
12 7 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.31%) Redis
14 5 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.54%) Big Data
15 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.54%) Tick Data
16 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
16 3 (1.15%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 63 (24.23%) JUnit
2 48 (18.46%) Git
3 42 (16.15%) Jenkins
4 36 (13.85%) Maven
5 24 (9.23%) Mockito
6 18 (6.92%) GitLab
7 17 (6.54%) JIRA
8 13 (5.00%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.62%) Gradle
10 10 (3.85%) SonarQube
11 9 (3.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (3.08%) Postman
13 6 (2.31%) Eclipse
13 6 (2.31%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.92%) JMeter
14 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.92%) Subversion
14 5 (1.92%) Xcode
14 5 (1.92%) XCTest
General
1 101 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.15%) Finance
3 56 (21.54%) Banking
4 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.46%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.54%) Front Office
7 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.15%) Automotive
8 3 (1.15%) Law
8 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Police
9 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (65.77%) Developer
2 145 (55.77%) Java Developer
3 71 (27.31%) Senior
4 58 (22.31%) Senior Developer
5 57 (21.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (10.77%) Java Engineer
8 24 (9.23%) Lead
9 19 (7.31%) Software Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) Lead Developer
11 16 (6.15%) Lead Java Developer
11 16 (6.15%) SQL Developer
12 15 (5.77%) AWS Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Linux Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 15 (5.77%) Senior SQL Developer
13 14 (5.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.23%) Backend Developer
14 11 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (61.92%) Spring Boot
2 94 (36.15%) Kafka
3 65 (25.00%) RESTful
4 56 (21.54%) REST
5 52 (20.00%) React
6 51 (19.62%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.38%) Hibernate
8 39 (15.00%) HTML
9 35 (13.46%) CSS
10 23 (8.85%) Node.js
11 22 (8.46%) JPA
12 21 (8.08%) JMS
13 18 (6.92%) JSON
14 17 (6.54%) Web Services
15 14 (5.38%) OAuth
16 13 (5.00%) SOAP
16 13 (5.00%) Vue
16 13 (5.00%) XML
17 12 (4.62%) OAuth2
18 11 (4.23%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.69%) Equities
4 16 (6.15%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.31%) Derivative
8 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.77%) Life Science
10 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.38%) DataPower
11 1 (0.38%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.38%) VSAM
11 1 (0.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.62%) Linux
2 14 (5.38%) Unix
3 5 (1.92%) Windows
4 2 (0.77%) Android
4 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.77%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (58.85%) Microservices
2 134 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 130 (50.00%) Agile
4 88 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (26.92%) DevOps
6 62 (23.85%) Containerisation
7 55 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (18.08%) Software Engineering
9 45 (17.31%) Event-Driven
10 44 (16.92%) SDLC
11 43 (16.54%) TDD
12 42 (16.15%) Code Quality
13 37 (14.23%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (11.54%) Scrum
16 28 (10.77%) Multithreading
17 27 (10.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 27 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
18 26 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 257 (98.85%) Java
2 74 (28.46%) SQL
3 67 (25.77%) Python
4 47 (18.08%) JavaScript
5 42 (16.15%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.46%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.46%) Groovy
7 9 (3.46%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.31%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.31%) Ruby
9 5 (1.92%) C++
10 4 (1.54%) Bash
10 4 (1.54%) C
10 4 (1.54%) Scala
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.77%) C#
12 2 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Clojure
13 1 (0.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 55 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.46%) Degree
4 7 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.77%) OCP
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.38%) CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) OSCP
7 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.38%) QA
2 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) GRC
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) NCSC
3 1 (0.38%) NIST
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (40.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 94 (36.15%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.69%) Terraform
3 12 (4.62%) Ansible
4 9 (3.46%) Argo
4 9 (3.46%) Grafana
5 8 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.77%) Kibana
7 2 (0.77%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.77%) Rancher
7 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (10.38%) Oracle
2 21 (8.08%) Sybase
3 17 (6.54%) Google
4 16 (6.15%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.77%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (3.46%) Splunk
7 8 (3.08%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.92%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.54%) IBM
10 4 (1.54%) Solace
10 4 (1.54%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.54%) VMware
11 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.15%) Confluent
11 3 (1.15%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.15%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.77%) Qualys
12 2 (0.77%) Salesforce