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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 152 163
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -93
Contract jobs citing Spring 262 268 308
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.70% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 6.52% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 171 247
10th Percentile £359 £444 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £626 £700 £775
90th Percentile £675 £800 £876
England median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.39% -10.76%
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 3,711 4,111 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.61% 26.15% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,694 3,999
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £707 £700
90th Percentile £796 £850 £800
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £35.00 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £38.25 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -22.41% +0.87%
75th Percentile £63.19 £61.43 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £71.00 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +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 16 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

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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 16 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 -13 28 £559 -10.60% 54
South London -4 11 £530 -11.67% 6
East London +7 3 £540 -6.09% 6
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 11 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (1.53%) Camunda
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) CICS
3 2 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
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 (2.29%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 123 (46.95%) AWS
2 86 (32.82%) Azure
3 50 (19.08%) GCP
4 30 (11.45%) GitHub
5 21 (8.02%) Serverless
6 20 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.25%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (6.87%) OpenShift
9 15 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.20%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.20%) AWS Fargate
12 11 (4.20%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.29%) Cloud Functions
13 6 (2.29%) 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 62 (23.66%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (20.23%) Relational Database
3 32 (12.21%) MongoDB
4 25 (9.54%) DB2
4 25 (9.54%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.25%) MySQL
6 17 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.49%) DynamoDB
7 11 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.82%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.44%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (2.67%) Redis
11 4 (1.53%) Big Data
11 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.53%) Tick Data
12 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.15%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 67 (25.57%) JUnit
2 48 (18.32%) Git
3 45 (17.18%) Jenkins
4 38 (14.50%) Maven
5 27 (10.31%) Mockito
6 18 (6.87%) GitLab
7 17 (6.49%) JIRA
8 16 (6.11%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.96%) Gradle
10 12 (4.58%) SonarQube
11 9 (3.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (3.05%) Postman
13 6 (2.29%) Eclipse
13 6 (2.29%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.91%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.91%) JMeter
14 5 (1.91%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.91%) Subversion
14 5 (1.91%) Xcode
General
1 100 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 70 (26.72%) Finance
3 57 (21.76%) Banking
4 38 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.54%) Public Sector
6 23 (8.78%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.53%) Front Office
7 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.15%) Automotive
8 3 (1.15%) Law
9 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Police
9 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 172 (65.65%) Developer
2 146 (55.73%) Java Developer
3 70 (26.72%) Senior
4 56 (21.37%) Senior Developer
5 55 (20.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (10.69%) Lead
8 27 (10.31%) Java Engineer
9 19 (7.25%) Lead Developer
9 19 (7.25%) Software Engineer
10 18 (6.87%) Lead Java Developer
11 17 (6.49%) SQL Developer
12 16 (6.11%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 16 (6.11%) Linux Developer
12 16 (6.11%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 16 (6.11%) Senior SQL Developer
13 15 (5.73%) AWS Developer
14 14 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 12 (4.58%) Engineering Manager
16 11 (4.20%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (60.69%) Spring Boot
2 98 (37.40%) Kafka
3 62 (23.66%) RESTful
4 57 (21.76%) REST
5 52 (19.85%) React
6 49 (18.70%) AngularJS
7 42 (16.03%) Hibernate
8 41 (15.65%) HTML
9 37 (14.12%) CSS
10 24 (9.16%) JPA
11 23 (8.78%) Node.js
12 19 (7.25%) JMS
13 18 (6.87%) JSON
14 17 (6.49%) Web Services
15 15 (5.73%) Bootstrap
15 15 (5.73%) SOAP
16 14 (5.34%) OAuth
16 14 (5.34%) Spring Cloud
17 13 (4.96%) Vue
17 13 (4.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.45%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.02%) Equities
4 18 (6.87%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.67%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.29%) Derivative
8 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.76%) Life Science
10 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.38%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.38%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.89%) Linux
2 14 (5.34%) Unix
3 5 (1.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (57.25%) Microservices
2 133 (50.76%) CI/CD
3 131 (50.00%) Agile
4 87 (33.21%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (25.57%) DevOps
6 62 (23.66%) Containerisation
7 55 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (17.18%) SDLC
8 45 (17.18%) Software Engineering
8 45 (17.18%) TDD
9 40 (15.27%) Code Quality
9 40 (15.27%) Event-Driven
10 34 (12.98%) Scrum
11 32 (12.21%) Test Automation
12 31 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (11.83%) Multithreading
13 28 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (9.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 26 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (9.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 259 (98.85%) Java
2 77 (29.39%) SQL
3 65 (24.81%) Python
4 49 (18.70%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.50%) TypeScript
6 23 (8.78%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.44%) Groovy
7 9 (3.44%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.29%) Ruby
9 5 (1.91%) C++
10 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 4 (1.53%) C
10 4 (1.53%) Scala
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.76%) C#
12 2 (0.76%) Go
12 2 (0.76%) Perl
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 52 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 43 (16.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.20%) Degree
4 10 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.76%) OCP
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (41.60%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (36.26%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.07%) Terraform
3 13 (4.96%) Ansible
4 12 (4.58%) Grafana
5 10 (3.82%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.44%) Argo
7 4 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.76%) Kibana
8 2 (0.76%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.76%) Rancher
8 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (10.31%) Oracle
2 22 (8.40%) Sybase
3 16 (6.11%) Google
3 16 (6.11%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.73%) CA Agile Central
5 10 (3.82%) Splunk
6 8 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.91%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.53%) IBM
9 4 (1.53%) Solace
9 4 (1.53%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.15%) Confluent
10 3 (1.15%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.15%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.76%) Qualys
11 2 (0.76%) Salesforce