Spring Contracts in London

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 165 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 -73 -11
Contract jobs citing Spring 226 259 735
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.80% 1.45% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.91% 5.80% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 201 587
10th Percentile £383 £400 £463
25th Percentile £450 £463 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £750
90th Percentile £750 £825 £843
England median daily rate £530 £540 £624
% change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £67.50 - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +11.54%

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 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in London

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 1 May 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 +18 50 £550 +10.00% 9
South London -1 12 £474 -2.82%
East London +13 3 £250 -53.70% 2
Spring
England

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.64%) Confluence
2 9 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.54%) Apache
4 5 (2.21%) Camunda
5 4 (1.77%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.88%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.88%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) CICS
7 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 107 (47.35%) AWS
2 30 (13.27%) Azure
3 25 (11.06%) GCP
4 17 (7.52%) OpenShift
5 14 (6.19%) GitHub
6 11 (4.87%) Serverless
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (4.42%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (3.98%) Slack
9 7 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.77%) Datadog
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.33%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) HTTP
2 3 (1.33%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) IPsec
3 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.42%) MongoDB
1 71 (31.42%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (20.35%) Relational Database
3 30 (13.27%) NoSQL
4 28 (12.39%) MySQL
5 16 (7.08%) DB2
6 14 (6.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (4.87%) Redis
7 11 (4.87%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.10%) Big Data
9 5 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.21%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.21%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.33%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.88%) GIS
11 2 (0.88%) KDB
11 2 (0.88%) OLTP
11 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 57 (25.22%) JUnit
2 50 (22.12%) Jenkins
3 41 (18.14%) Maven
4 34 (15.04%) Git
5 25 (11.06%) GitLab
5 25 (11.06%) Gradle
6 23 (10.18%) JIRA
7 22 (9.73%) Mockito
8 19 (8.41%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.87%) Liquibase
10 10 (4.42%) IntelliJ
11 9 (3.98%) Jasmine
12 7 (3.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (3.10%) Bitbucket
12 7 (3.10%) SonarQube
13 6 (2.65%) Artifactory
14 5 (2.21%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.77%) JMeter
15 4 (1.77%) REST Assured
16 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
General
1 74 (32.74%) Finance
2 53 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 51 (22.57%) Banking
4 47 (20.80%) Public Sector
5 30 (13.27%) Investment Banking
6 23 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.31%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.87%) Electronics
8 11 (4.87%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.87%) Marketing
9 9 (3.98%) Retail
10 3 (1.33%) Back Office
11 2 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Front Office
12 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (64.60%) Developer
2 121 (53.54%) Java Developer
3 46 (20.35%) Senior
4 33 (14.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 31 (13.72%) Senior Developer
6 29 (12.83%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (11.50%) Java Engineer
8 25 (11.06%) Lead
9 18 (7.96%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.08%) Architect
10 16 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (5.75%) Lead Developer
11 13 (5.75%) SQL Developer
12 12 (5.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 12 (5.31%) Lead Java Developer
13 11 (4.87%) Linux Developer
13 11 (4.87%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
13 11 (4.87%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Senior SQL Developer
14 10 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (64.16%) Spring Boot
2 80 (35.40%) Kafka
3 49 (21.68%) React
4 42 (18.58%) RESTful
5 30 (13.27%) AngularJS
6 29 (12.83%) Swagger
7 27 (11.95%) Hibernate
8 26 (11.50%) OpenAPI
9 22 (9.73%) REST
10 21 (9.29%) HTML
10 21 (9.29%) Web Services
11 18 (7.96%) JPA
12 16 (7.08%) JMS
13 13 (5.75%) Spring Security
14 12 (5.31%) CSS
15 11 (4.87%) J2EE
16 10 (4.42%) Spring Batch
17 9 (3.98%) SOAP
18 8 (3.54%) XML
19 7 (3.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.64%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.87%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.87%) Equities
4 10 (4.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.10%) PKI
6 5 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.33%) Derivative
9 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.88%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.03%) Linux
2 13 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.98%) Unix
4 3 (1.33%) Android
4 3 (1.33%) Windows
5 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (51.33%) Microservices
2 99 (43.81%) Agile
3 83 (36.73%) CI/CD
4 75 (33.19%) DevOps
5 56 (24.78%) TDD
6 50 (22.12%) Containerisation
7 44 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (19.03%) Software Engineering
9 34 (15.04%) API Development
10 29 (12.83%) Clean Code
10 29 (12.83%) SDLC
11 28 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (12.39%) SOLID
12 24 (10.62%) BDD
12 24 (10.62%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (10.62%) Event-Driven
13 22 (9.73%) Multithreading
13 22 (9.73%) Test Automation
13 22 (9.73%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 220 (97.35%) Java
2 93 (41.15%) SQL
3 44 (19.47%) Python
4 40 (17.70%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.50%) TypeScript
6 19 (8.41%) Shell Script
7 14 (6.19%) Bash
8 13 (5.75%) Scala
9 8 (3.54%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.54%) Perl
10 5 (2.21%) Groovy
11 4 (1.77%) C#
11 4 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.33%) Go
12 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.44%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.44%) COBOL
13 1 (0.44%) JCL
13 1 (0.44%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (30.53%) SC Cleared
1 69 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.96%) Degree
3 16 (7.08%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.44%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) OCP
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.10%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.88%) QA
3 2 (0.88%) SLA
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 110 (48.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.77%) Lustre
3 3 (1.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.44%) RACF
Systems Management
1 111 (49.12%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.72%) Terraform
3 17 (7.52%) Grafana
4 15 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.31%) Istio
6 11 (4.87%) Ansible
7 7 (3.10%) Argo
8 5 (2.21%) Kibana
9 4 (1.77%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.77%) Podman
10 3 (1.33%) Control-M
10 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.33%) Puppet
10 3 (1.33%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.44%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 27 (11.95%) Oracle
2 16 (7.08%) Splunk
2 16 (7.08%) Sybase
3 12 (5.31%) Red Hat
3 12 (5.31%) SAP
4 11 (4.87%) Google
5 8 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.21%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.77%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.88%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.88%) Sun
10 1 (0.44%) Adobe
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) MKS
10 1 (0.44%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.44%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.44%) WSO2