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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 162 179
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -111
Contract jobs citing Spring 251 243 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.74% 1.63% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.58% 6.35% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 149 199
10th Percentile £353 £456 £425
25th Percentile £435 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -13.60%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £688
90th Percentile £695 £821 £853
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -12.70%

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 3,813 3,828 4,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.37% 25.69% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,500 3,599
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £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 26 19 31
10th Percentile £33.43 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -19.68%
75th Percentile £63.56 £63.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £72.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £59.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.80% +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 26 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 26 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 -7 28 £541 -7.48% 31
South London 0 9 £531 +11.79% 2
East London +4 3 £540 -6.09% 3
West London - 2 £300 - 1
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 4 (1.59%) Camunda
3 3 (1.20%) CICS
4 2 (0.80%) 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 (2.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 121 (48.21%) AWS
2 95 (37.85%) Azure
3 59 (23.51%) GCP
4 38 (15.14%) GitHub
5 22 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (7.17%) OpenShift
7 15 (5.98%) Azure AKS
7 15 (5.98%) Serverless
8 14 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (4.78%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.38%) Cloud Run
11 10 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.39%) Cloud Functions
15 5 (1.99%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) SSL
2 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (23.11%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (17.53%) Relational Database
3 32 (12.75%) MongoDB
4 30 (11.95%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.17%) DB2
6 16 (6.37%) MySQL
7 12 (4.78%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (3.59%) Oracle Database
9 8 (3.19%) RDBMS
10 7 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.79%) Redis
11 6 (2.39%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.59%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.20%) Big Data
15 2 (0.80%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 51 (20.32%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.52%) JUnit
3 44 (17.53%) Git
4 28 (11.16%) GitLab
5 26 (10.36%) Maven
6 23 (9.16%) Mockito
7 18 (7.17%) JIRA
8 11 (4.38%) Gradle
9 10 (3.98%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.19%) Postman
12 7 (2.79%) SonarQube
13 6 (2.39%) JMeter
13 6 (2.39%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.39%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.99%) Subversion
14 5 (1.99%) Xcode
14 5 (1.99%) XCTest
15 3 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 94 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.90%) Finance
3 56 (22.31%) Banking
4 27 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 19 (7.57%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.79%) Retail
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Law
9 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.80%) Front Office
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (62.55%) Developer
2 128 (51.00%) Java Developer
3 69 (27.49%) Senior
4 53 (21.12%) Senior Developer
5 48 (19.12%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 23 (9.16%) Java Engineer
8 22 (8.76%) Lead
9 15 (5.98%) Lead Developer
10 14 (5.58%) Lead Java Developer
11 13 (5.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 13 (5.18%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.78%) SQL Developer
13 11 (4.38%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 11 (4.38%) Linux Developer
13 11 (4.38%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
13 11 (4.38%) Senior SQL Developer
14 10 (3.98%) AWS Developer
14 10 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (68.53%) Spring Boot
2 99 (39.44%) Kafka
3 64 (25.50%) RESTful
4 55 (21.91%) AngularJS
4 55 (21.91%) React
5 54 (21.51%) REST
6 42 (16.73%) HTML
7 37 (14.74%) CSS
8 36 (14.34%) Hibernate
9 28 (11.16%) Node.js
10 18 (7.17%) JPA
10 18 (7.17%) Vue
11 17 (6.77%) JMS
11 17 (6.77%) JSON
12 15 (5.98%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (5.58%) OAuth
14 13 (5.18%) Web Services
15 12 (4.78%) HTML5
15 12 (4.78%) OAuth2
15 12 (4.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.37%) Equities
4 13 (5.18%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.39%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.99%) Derivative
7 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.59%) NHS
9 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.80%) DataPower
10 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.80%) Life Science
10 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.95%) Linux
2 8 (3.19%) Unix
3 4 (1.59%) Windows
4 2 (0.80%) VMS
4 2 (0.80%) 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 (62.15%) Microservices
2 131 (52.19%) CI/CD
3 105 (41.83%) Agile
4 87 (34.66%) DevOps
5 77 (30.68%) Problem-Solving
6 71 (28.29%) Containerisation
7 52 (20.72%) Event-Driven
8 51 (20.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 46 (18.33%) SDLC
10 42 (16.73%) TDD
11 40 (15.94%) Software Engineering
12 36 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (13.55%) Code Quality
14 33 (13.15%) Test Automation
15 29 (11.55%) Design Patterns
15 29 (11.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 27 (10.76%) Scrum
17 25 (9.96%) Mentoring
17 25 (9.96%) Observability
17 25 (9.96%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 240 (95.62%) Java
2 68 (27.09%) SQL
3 54 (21.51%) JavaScript
4 50 (19.92%) Python
5 35 (13.94%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.17%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.38%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.59%) Groovy
9 6 (2.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
10 4 (1.59%) Go
11 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.20%) Scala
12 2 (0.80%) C#
12 2 (0.80%) COBOL
12 2 (0.80%) JCL
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
12 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (25.10%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.79%) Degree
4 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.80%) OCP
6 2 (0.80%) 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 21 (8.37%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.80%) HL7
4 2 (0.80%) NCSC
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) PSD2
5 1 (0.40%) SEPA
System Software
1 114 (45.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (43.82%) Kubernetes
2 38 (15.14%) Terraform
3 15 (5.98%) Argo
4 12 (4.78%) Grafana
5 11 (4.38%) Ansible
5 11 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.99%) Istio
7 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) Kibana
8 2 (0.80%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.80%) 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 (10.36%) Oracle
2 20 (7.97%) Google
3 15 (5.98%) Sybase
4 12 (4.78%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.98%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.98%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.19%) Splunk
7 7 (2.79%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.99%) Confluent
8 5 (1.99%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.59%) IBM
9 4 (1.59%) Solace
9 4 (1.59%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.59%) VMware
10 3 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.20%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.20%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.80%) Qualys
12 1 (0.40%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.40%) Salesforce