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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 157 169
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -99
Contract jobs citing Spring 258 268 297
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 1.68% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 6.46% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 167 236
10th Percentile £361 £454 £423
25th Percentile £431 £509 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £598
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.09% -8.08%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £756
90th Percentile £675 £805 £888
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -12.00%

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 3,707 4,150 5,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 26.08% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,515 2,724 3,928
10th Percentile £361 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £669 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £838 £800
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 35
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £33.20
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -3.36%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £82.94
England median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.46% +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 23 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 23 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 -9 27 £580 -7.20% 6
South London -6 8 £528 -12.08% 10
East London +8 3 £540 -6.09% 7
West London - 1 £300 - 4
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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 4 (1.55%) Camunda
3 2 (0.78%) CICS
3 2 (0.78%) WordPress
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) Drupal
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 121 (46.90%) AWS
2 90 (34.88%) Azure
3 50 (19.38%) GCP
4 31 (12.02%) GitHub
5 22 (8.53%) Serverless
6 21 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 16 (6.20%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (6.20%) OpenShift
10 15 (5.81%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
13 10 (3.88%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Broadband
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
1 1 (0.39%) LAN
1 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (19.38%) Relational Database
3 32 (12.40%) MongoDB
4 24 (9.30%) DB2
4 24 (9.30%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.59%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.59%) MySQL
6 15 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.65%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.88%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.49%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.33%) Redis
12 5 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.55%) Big Data
13 4 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.55%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.16%) HPCC
14 3 (1.16%) KDB
Development Applications
1 64 (24.81%) JUnit
2 47 (18.22%) Git
3 43 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 35 (13.57%) Maven
5 25 (9.69%) Mockito
6 20 (7.75%) GitLab
7 17 (6.59%) JIRA
8 12 (4.65%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.65%) Gradle
9 10 (3.88%) SonarQube
10 9 (3.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.10%) Postman
12 6 (2.33%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.94%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.94%) JMeter
13 5 (1.94%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.94%) Subversion
13 5 (1.94%) Xcode
13 5 (1.94%) XCTest
General
1 101 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.36%) Finance
3 57 (22.09%) Banking
4 38 (14.73%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.53%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.16%) Automotive
8 3 (1.16%) Front Office
8 3 (1.16%) Law
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Police
9 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Aviation
10 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 172 (66.67%) Developer
2 146 (56.59%) Java Developer
3 71 (27.52%) Senior
4 59 (22.87%) Senior Developer
5 57 (22.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.08%) Java Engineer
8 24 (9.30%) Lead
9 17 (6.59%) Lead Developer
9 17 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 16 (6.20%) AWS Developer
10 16 (6.20%) Lead Java Developer
10 16 (6.20%) SQL Developer
11 15 (5.81%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.81%) Linux Developer
11 15 (5.81%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.81%) Senior SQL Developer
12 14 (5.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (4.26%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (62.40%) Spring Boot
2 97 (37.60%) Kafka
3 64 (24.81%) RESTful
4 55 (21.32%) REST
5 51 (19.77%) React
6 50 (19.38%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.50%) Hibernate
7 40 (15.50%) HTML
8 36 (13.95%) CSS
9 23 (8.91%) Node.js
10 21 (8.14%) JMS
10 21 (8.14%) JPA
11 18 (6.98%) JSON
12 16 (6.20%) Web Services
13 14 (5.43%) OAuth
13 14 (5.43%) Vue
14 13 (5.04%) SOAP
14 13 (5.04%) XML
15 12 (4.65%) OAuth2
15 12 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.75%) Equities
4 16 (6.20%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.10%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.33%) Derivative
8 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.78%) Life Science
11 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.39%) DataPower
12 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
12 1 (0.39%) NHS
12 1 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.39%) VSAM
12 1 (0.39%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.73%) Linux
2 14 (5.43%) Unix
3 5 (1.94%) Windows
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (59.30%) Microservices
2 135 (52.33%) CI/CD
3 131 (50.78%) Agile
4 87 (33.72%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (27.52%) DevOps
6 61 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 52 (20.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (17.83%) Event-Driven
8 46 (17.83%) Software Engineering
9 45 (17.44%) SDLC
10 43 (16.67%) TDD
11 39 (15.12%) Code Quality
12 37 (14.34%) Test Automation
13 31 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (12.02%) Scrum
14 29 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (10.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (10.85%) Multithreading
16 27 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (10.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 255 (98.84%) Java
2 75 (29.07%) SQL
3 67 (25.97%) Python
4 48 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 41 (15.89%) TypeScript
6 22 (8.53%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.49%) Groovy
7 9 (3.49%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.33%) Ruby
9 5 (1.94%) C++
10 4 (1.55%) Bash
10 4 (1.55%) C
10 4 (1.55%) Scala
11 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) C#
12 2 (0.78%) Go
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.49%) Degree
4 7 (2.71%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.78%) OCP
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.39%) CCSP
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.39%) CISSP
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) OSCP
7 1 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.69%) QA
2 4 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.39%) GDPR
3 1 (0.39%) GRC
3 1 (0.39%) HL7
3 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.39%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (41.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 94 (36.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.79%) Terraform
3 11 (4.26%) Ansible
4 9 (3.49%) Argo
4 9 (3.49%) Grafana
5 8 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.78%) Kibana
7 2 (0.78%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.78%) Rancher
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.39%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (10.47%) Oracle
2 21 (8.14%) Sybase
3 17 (6.59%) Google
4 16 (6.20%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.81%) CA Agile Central
6 9 (3.49%) Splunk
7 8 (3.10%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.10%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.94%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.55%) IBM
10 4 (1.55%) Solace
10 4 (1.55%) TIBCO
10 4 (1.55%) VMware
11 3 (1.16%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.16%) Confluent
11 3 (1.16%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.16%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.78%) Calypso
12 2 (0.78%) Salesforce