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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 151 157
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -85
Contract jobs citing Spring 247 268 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.70% 1.55%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 6.35% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 175 262
10th Percentile £359 £422 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £627 £700 £775
90th Percentile £675 £823 £868
England median daily rate £492 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.56% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +3.32%

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 3,514 4,218 5,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 26.81% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,386 2,775 4,054
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £712
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 35
10th Percentile £31.52 £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.67 £38.50 £40.55
Median hourly rate £52.72 £49.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -17.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62.19 £62.50 £74.33
90th Percentile £87.63 £75.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 -16 27 £450 -30.77% 35
South London -4 10 £531 -11.46%
East London - 3 £540 - 7
West London - 1 £300 - 3
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 8 (3.24%) Confluence
2 4 (1.62%) Camunda
3 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) CICS
4 2 (0.81%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 115 (46.56%) AWS
2 71 (28.74%) Azure
3 46 (18.62%) GCP
4 25 (10.12%) GitHub
5 22 (8.91%) Serverless
6 21 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (8.10%) OpenShift
8 19 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 19 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 19 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (4.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.45%) AWS Fargate
11 11 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.24%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.43%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (2.43%) Cloud Run
14 5 (2.02%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Internet
1 2 (0.81%) Kerberos
1 2 (0.81%) LAN
1 2 (0.81%) SMS
2 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.70%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (21.86%) Relational Database
3 31 (12.55%) MongoDB
4 27 (10.93%) DB2
5 25 (10.12%) NoSQL
6 18 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (6.88%) DynamoDB
8 15 (6.07%) MySQL
9 11 (4.45%) SQL Server
10 10 (4.05%) Oracle Database
10 10 (4.05%) RDBMS
11 8 (3.24%) Redis
12 7 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.43%) Big Data
14 5 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 3 (1.21%) HPCC
15 3 (1.21%) KDB
16 2 (0.81%) OLTP
16 2 (0.81%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 65 (26.32%) JUnit
2 48 (19.43%) Git
3 44 (17.81%) Jenkins
4 37 (14.98%) Maven
5 25 (10.12%) Mockito
6 17 (6.88%) Cucumber
7 16 (6.48%) GitLab
7 16 (6.48%) JIRA
8 14 (5.67%) Gradle
9 13 (5.26%) SonarQube
10 8 (3.24%) Postman
11 7 (2.83%) Eclipse
11 7 (2.83%) SoapUI
11 7 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.43%) IntelliJ
12 6 (2.43%) JMeter
12 6 (2.43%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.43%) Subversion
12 6 (2.43%) Xcode
General
1 96 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 72 (29.15%) Finance
3 61 (24.70%) Banking
4 36 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.31%) Investment Banking
6 20 (8.10%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.02%) Front Office
8 4 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.21%) Automotive
9 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.81%) Law
10 2 (0.81%) Police
10 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Aviation
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 164 (66.40%) Developer
2 138 (55.87%) Java Developer
3 65 (26.32%) Senior
4 56 (22.67%) Senior Developer
4 56 (22.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 29 (11.74%) Lead
6 25 (10.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.31%) Java Engineer
8 19 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 18 (7.29%) Lead Java Developer
9 18 (7.29%) Linux Developer
9 18 (7.29%) SQL Developer
10 17 (6.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 17 (6.88%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 17 (6.88%) Senior SQL Developer
11 16 (6.48%) Software Engineer
12 15 (6.07%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.86%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (4.45%) Architect
14 11 (4.45%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (62.75%) Spring Boot
2 96 (38.87%) Kafka
3 57 (23.08%) REST
4 53 (21.46%) RESTful
5 48 (19.43%) React
6 42 (17.00%) AngularJS
7 39 (15.79%) Hibernate
8 37 (14.98%) HTML
9 32 (12.96%) CSS
10 25 (10.12%) JPA
11 22 (8.91%) Node.js
12 19 (7.69%) SOAP
12 19 (7.69%) Web Services
13 18 (7.29%) JMS
13 18 (7.29%) JSON
14 15 (6.07%) Spring Cloud
15 14 (5.67%) Bootstrap
16 13 (5.26%) OAuth
16 13 (5.26%) XML
17 11 (4.45%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.43%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 19 (7.69%) Equities
4 11 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.81%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.81%) Derivative
8 2 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.81%) Life Science
8 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.81%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.40%) VSAM
9 1 (0.40%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.79%) Linux
2 16 (6.48%) Unix
3 5 (2.02%) Windows
4 2 (0.81%) Android
4 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (57.89%) Microservices
2 127 (51.42%) Agile
3 118 (47.77%) CI/CD
4 83 (33.60%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (23.48%) DevOps
6 54 (21.86%) Containerisation
7 47 (19.03%) SDLC
8 46 (18.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (17.41%) TDD
10 42 (17.00%) Software Engineering
11 39 (15.79%) Event-Driven
12 35 (14.17%) Code Quality
12 35 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (12.55%) Test Automation
14 30 (12.15%) Multithreading
15 29 (11.74%) Scrum
16 28 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
17 27 (10.93%) Mentoring
18 25 (10.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 24 (9.72%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 244 (98.79%) Java
2 78 (31.58%) SQL
3 59 (23.89%) Python
4 47 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 33 (13.36%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.05%) Groovy
8 9 (3.64%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.43%) C++
9 6 (2.43%) Ruby
9 6 (2.43%) Scala
10 5 (2.02%) C
10 5 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.62%) Bash
11 4 (1.62%) C#
11 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.81%) Go
12 2 (0.81%) Perl
12 2 (0.81%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 45 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.86%) Degree
4 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) OCP
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.10%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (40.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) Postfix
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 82 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.31%) Terraform
3 15 (6.07%) Ansible
4 10 (4.05%) Grafana
5 9 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.83%) Argo
7 4 (1.62%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.81%) Kibana
8 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 24 (9.72%) Oracle
2 22 (8.91%) Sybase
3 16 (6.48%) CA Agile Central
4 13 (5.26%) Google
4 13 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.05%) Dynatrace
5 10 (4.05%) Splunk
6 9 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.02%) IBM
9 4 (1.62%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.62%) VMware
10 3 (1.21%) Confluent
10 3 (1.21%) Solace
11 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.81%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.40%) Calypso
12 1 (0.40%) Cisco
12 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
12 1 (0.40%) SAP