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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 164 178
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -111
Contract jobs citing Spring 252 232 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.57% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.61% 6.14% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 143 194
10th Percentile £353 £458 £422
25th Percentile £435 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +2.63% -14.93%
75th Percentile £626 £653 £675
90th Percentile £695 £819 £845
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -13.73%

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 3,815 3,777 4,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.50% 25.62% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,471 3,487
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 30
10th Percentile £33.07 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £43.75 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -21.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -5.60% +20.45% -20.17%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -11 28 £541 -7.48% 55
South London -5 9 £531 +11.79% 11
East London +3 3 £540 -6.09% 3
West London - 2 £300 -
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 (4.37%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) Camunda
3 3 (1.19%) CICS
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 124 (49.21%) AWS
2 95 (37.70%) Azure
3 59 (23.41%) GCP
4 41 (16.27%) GitHub
5 25 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 18 (7.14%) Serverless
7 17 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (5.95%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.95%) Azure AKS
9 12 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (4.37%) Cloud Run
11 10 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.19%) DNS
2 2 (0.79%) SSL
3 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (17.06%) Relational Database
3 33 (13.10%) NoSQL
4 32 (12.70%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.54%) MySQL
6 18 (7.14%) DB2
7 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.97%) Redis
9 9 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.57%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (3.17%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.98%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.59%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.19%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 48 (19.05%) JUnit
3 44 (17.46%) Git
4 30 (11.90%) GitLab
5 26 (10.32%) Maven
6 22 (8.73%) Mockito
7 18 (7.14%) JIRA
8 11 (4.37%) Gradle
9 10 (3.97%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.17%) Postman
12 7 (2.78%) SonarQube
13 6 (2.38%) JMeter
13 6 (2.38%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.38%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.98%) Subversion
14 5 (1.98%) Xcode
14 5 (1.98%) XCTest
15 3 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 93 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.81%) Finance
3 56 (22.22%) Banking
4 27 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.92%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.54%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Retail
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 155 (61.51%) Developer
2 125 (49.60%) Java Developer
3 69 (27.38%) Senior
4 53 (21.03%) Senior Developer
5 47 (18.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 28 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.13%) Java Engineer
8 22 (8.73%) Lead
9 14 (5.56%) Lead Developer
10 13 (5.16%) Lead Java Developer
10 13 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (4.76%) SQL Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Architect
12 11 (4.37%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Linux Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 11 (4.37%) Senior SQL Developer
13 10 (3.97%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (69.05%) Spring Boot
2 100 (39.68%) Kafka
3 68 (26.98%) RESTful
4 56 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 56 (22.22%) React
4 56 (22.22%) REST
5 42 (16.67%) HTML
6 39 (15.48%) Hibernate
7 37 (14.68%) CSS
8 27 (10.71%) Node.js
9 21 (8.33%) JPA
10 18 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
10 18 (7.14%) Vue
11 17 (6.75%) JMS
11 17 (6.75%) JSON
11 17 (6.75%) OAuth
12 15 (5.95%) OAuth2
13 13 (5.16%) Web Services
14 12 (4.76%) HTML5
14 12 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.35%) Equities
4 13 (5.16%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.98%) Derivative
7 5 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.59%) NHS
9 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.79%) DataPower
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.79%) Life Science
10 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.90%) Linux
2 8 (3.17%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Windows
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
4 2 (0.79%) zOS
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (61.90%) Microservices
2 131 (51.98%) CI/CD
3 105 (41.67%) Agile
4 90 (35.71%) DevOps
5 76 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (28.17%) Containerisation
7 55 (21.83%) Event-Driven
8 51 (20.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (18.25%) SDLC
10 41 (16.27%) TDD
11 40 (15.87%) Software Engineering
12 39 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (13.49%) Code Quality
14 33 (13.10%) Test Automation
15 32 (12.70%) Design Patterns
15 32 (12.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 28 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
17 27 (10.71%) Observability
17 27 (10.71%) Scrum
18 25 (9.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 241 (95.63%) Java
2 71 (28.17%) SQL
3 54 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 50 (19.84%) Python
5 36 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.37%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.57%) Groovy
9 6 (2.38%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
10 4 (1.59%) Go
11 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.19%) Scala
12 2 (0.79%) C#
12 2 (0.79%) COBOL
12 2 (0.79%) JCL
12 2 (0.79%) Korn
12 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.78%) Degree
4 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.79%) OCP
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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%) CCSP
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) OSCP
7 1 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.92%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.59%) NIST
2 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.19%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.79%) HL7
4 2 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.40%) PSD2
5 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 116 (46.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 112 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 41 (16.27%) Terraform
3 15 (5.95%) Argo
4 12 (4.76%) Grafana
5 11 (4.37%) Ansible
5 11 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.98%) Istio
7 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.79%) Kibana
8 2 (0.79%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.79%) Rancher
9 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (10.32%) Oracle
2 20 (7.94%) Google
3 15 (5.95%) Sybase
4 13 (5.16%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.97%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.17%) Splunk
7 7 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.98%) Confluent
8 5 (1.98%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.59%) IBM
9 4 (1.59%) Solace
9 4 (1.59%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.59%) VMware
10 3 (1.19%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.19%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.19%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.79%) Qualys
12 1 (0.40%) New Relic
12 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow