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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 156 169
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -99
Contract jobs citing Spring 256 266 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.71% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 6.54% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 170 248
10th Percentile £359 £444 £424
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £775
90th Percentile £675 £820 £874
England median daily rate £500 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% -9.60%
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 3,630 4,066 5,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.43% 26.21% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,475 2,657 3,977
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 37
10th Percentile £31.52 £32.99 £33.80
25th Percentile £37.06 £38.31 £36.84
Median hourly rate £52.72 £47.25 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -18.53% -1.28%
75th Percentile £62.19 £60.76 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £73.70 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 9 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 9 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 29 £538 -14.00% 95
South London -4 10 £528 -12.08% 8
East London - 3 £540 - 5
West London - 1 £300 - 2
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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 4 (1.56%) Camunda
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.78%) CICS
3 2 (0.78%) WordPress
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
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 (2.34%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 118 (46.09%) AWS
2 78 (30.47%) Azure
3 47 (18.36%) GCP
4 26 (10.16%) GitHub
5 21 (8.20%) Serverless
6 20 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.42%) Amazon S3
8 18 (7.03%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (7.03%) OpenShift
9 15 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.30%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (4.30%) AWS Fargate
11 11 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.34%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.34%) Cloud Functions
12 6 (2.34%) Cloud Run
13 5 (1.95%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Broadband
1 1 (0.39%) Internet
1 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.39%) LAN
1 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (23.83%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (20.31%) Relational Database
3 30 (11.72%) MongoDB
4 25 (9.77%) DB2
5 23 (8.98%) NoSQL
6 17 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.64%) DynamoDB
7 16 (6.25%) MySQL
8 11 (4.30%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.91%) Oracle Database
9 10 (3.91%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.13%) Redis
11 7 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.95%) Big Data
13 4 (1.56%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.17%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.17%) HPCC
14 3 (1.17%) KDB
Development Applications
1 65 (25.39%) JUnit
2 45 (17.58%) Git
3 44 (17.19%) Jenkins
4 39 (15.23%) Maven
5 25 (9.77%) Mockito
6 18 (7.03%) JIRA
7 17 (6.64%) GitLab
8 15 (5.86%) Cucumber
9 13 (5.08%) Gradle
9 13 (5.08%) SonarQube
10 9 (3.52%) Postman
10 9 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (2.73%) SoapUI
12 6 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.34%) Eclipse
12 6 (2.34%) JMeter
12 6 (2.34%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.34%) Subversion
12 6 (2.34%) Xcode
12 6 (2.34%) XCTest
General
1 99 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.52%) Finance
3 58 (22.66%) Banking
4 39 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.98%) Investment Banking
6 21 (8.20%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.56%) Front Office
7 4 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.17%) Automotive
8 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Law
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%) Retail
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (66.80%) Developer
2 145 (56.64%) Java Developer
3 68 (26.56%) Senior
4 57 (22.27%) Senior Developer
5 56 (21.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.33%) Lead
7 27 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (10.16%) Java Engineer
9 19 (7.42%) Lead Developer
10 18 (7.03%) Lead Java Developer
11 17 (6.64%) SQL Developer
12 16 (6.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 16 (6.25%) Linux Developer
12 16 (6.25%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 16 (6.25%) Senior SQL Developer
12 16 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 15 (5.86%) AWS Developer
14 12 (4.69%) Engineering Manager
14 12 (4.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 11 (4.30%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (60.16%) Spring Boot
2 97 (37.89%) Kafka
3 59 (23.05%) RESTful
4 53 (20.70%) REST
5 48 (18.75%) React
6 43 (16.80%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.63%) Hibernate
8 39 (15.23%) HTML
9 35 (13.67%) CSS
10 25 (9.77%) JPA
11 22 (8.59%) Node.js
12 19 (7.42%) JMS
13 18 (7.03%) JSON
13 18 (7.03%) Web Services
14 16 (6.25%) Bootstrap
14 16 (6.25%) SOAP
15 15 (5.86%) Spring Cloud
16 13 (5.08%) OAuth
16 13 (5.08%) XML
17 12 (4.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.20%) Equities
4 18 (7.03%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.34%) Derivative
8 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.78%) Life Science
10 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.39%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.39%) Hedge funds
11 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.39%) Mobile Banking
11 1 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.23%) Linux
2 15 (5.86%) Unix
3 5 (1.95%) 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
1 145 (56.64%) Microservices
2 129 (50.39%) Agile
3 122 (47.66%) CI/CD
4 90 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (23.44%) DevOps
6 57 (22.27%) Containerisation
7 50 (19.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 45 (17.58%) TDD
9 44 (17.19%) SDLC
10 40 (15.63%) Software Engineering
11 39 (15.23%) Code Quality
12 37 (14.45%) Event-Driven
13 34 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (12.50%) Multithreading
14 32 (12.50%) Scrum
15 30 (11.72%) Test Automation
16 29 (11.33%) Mentoring
17 27 (10.55%) Performance Tuning
18 24 (9.38%) Design Patterns
18 24 (9.38%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 253 (98.83%) Java
2 76 (29.69%) SQL
3 60 (23.44%) Python
4 48 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.28%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.91%) Groovy
8 9 (3.52%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.34%) Ruby
10 5 (1.95%) C++
10 5 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) C
11 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.56%) Scala
12 2 (0.78%) C#
12 2 (0.78%) Perl
12 2 (0.78%) Rust
13 1 (0.39%) COBOL
13 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.30%) Degree
4 10 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.73%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) OCP
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.20%) QA
2 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (39.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) Postfix
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (33.59%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.38%) Terraform
3 13 (5.08%) Ansible
4 10 (3.91%) Grafana
5 9 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.73%) Argo
7 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.78%) Kibana
8 2 (0.78%) Rancher
8 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.39%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.39%) Control-M
9 1 (0.39%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (10.16%) Oracle
2 22 (8.59%) Sybase
3 16 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
4 13 (5.08%) Google
4 13 (5.08%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.52%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.52%) Splunk
6 8 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.95%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.56%) IBM
9 4 (1.56%) Solace
9 4 (1.56%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.56%) VMware
10 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.17%) Confluent
10 3 (1.17%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.78%) Calypso
11 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco