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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 159 170
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -100
Contract jobs citing Spring 260 266 299
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.71% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.98% 6.55% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 169 238
10th Percentile £359 £445 £424
25th Percentile £429 £505 £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 £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 3,727 4,063 5,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.45% 26.05% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 2,658 3,917
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.35%
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 £56.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% +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 19 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 19 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 -20 29 £563 -10.00% 58
South London -7 9 £530 -11.67% 11
East London +8 3 £540 -6.09% 8
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 87 (33.46%) Azure
3 51 (19.62%) 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
10 14 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.62%) AWS Fargate
12 12 (4.62%) Azure AKS
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 60 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (19.62%) Relational Database
3 31 (11.92%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.23%) DB2
4 24 (9.23%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.31%) MySQL
6 17 (6.54%) DynamoDB
7 15 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.85%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.46%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.69%) Redis
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.54%) Big Data
13 4 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.54%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.15%) HPCC
14 3 (1.15%) KDB
Development Applications
1 64 (24.62%) JUnit
2 47 (18.08%) Git
3 42 (16.15%) Jenkins
4 36 (13.85%) Maven
5 25 (9.62%) Mockito
6 18 (6.92%) GitLab
7 17 (6.54%) JIRA
8 15 (5.77%) 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
1 100 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.15%) Finance
3 56 (21.54%) Banking
4 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.85%) 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%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (64.23%) Developer
2 141 (54.23%) Java Developer
3 69 (26.54%) Senior
4 55 (21.15%) Senior Developer
5 54 (20.77%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 29 (11.15%) Java Engineer
7 26 (10.00%) Lead
8 19 (7.31%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Lead Developer
10 16 (6.15%) Lead Java Developer
10 16 (6.15%) SQL Developer
11 15 (5.77%) AWS Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Linux Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Senior SQL Developer
12 14 (5.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (4.62%) Engineering Manager
14 11 (4.23%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (60.77%) Spring Boot
2 95 (36.54%) Kafka
3 64 (24.62%) RESTful
4 56 (21.54%) REST
5 52 (20.00%) React
6 47 (18.08%) AngularJS
7 42 (16.15%) Hibernate
8 41 (15.77%) HTML
9 37 (14.23%) CSS
10 23 (8.85%) Node.js
11 22 (8.46%) JPA
12 18 (6.92%) JMS
12 18 (6.92%) JSON
13 17 (6.54%) Web Services
14 14 (5.38%) OAuth
15 13 (5.00%) Bootstrap
15 13 (5.00%) SOAP
15 13 (5.00%) Vue
15 13 (5.00%) XML
16 12 (4.62%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.69%) Equities
4 17 (6.54%) 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%) Algorithms
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%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.38%) DataPower
11 1 (0.38%) Hedge funds
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
1 151 (58.08%) Microservices
2 132 (50.77%) CI/CD
3 129 (49.62%) Agile
4 86 (33.08%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (25.77%) DevOps
6 60 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 55 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (17.31%) Software Engineering
9 44 (16.92%) SDLC
9 44 (16.92%) TDD
10 42 (16.15%) Event-Driven
11 40 (15.38%) Code Quality
12 33 (12.69%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (11.92%) Scrum
14 29 (11.15%) Multithreading
15 27 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
16 26 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 26 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 257 (98.85%) Java
2 75 (28.85%) SQL
3 63 (24.23%) Python
4 49 (18.85%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.62%) 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%) COBOL
13 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 50 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.77%) 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 24 (9.23%) 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
1 107 (41.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.15%) Terraform
3 12 (4.62%) Ansible
4 10 (3.85%) Grafana
5 9 (3.46%) Argo
6 8 (3.08%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) Kibana
8 2 (0.77%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.77%) Rancher
8 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 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 10 (3.85%) 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%) Calypso
12 2 (0.77%) Salesforce