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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 150 180
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 -112
Contract jobs citing Spring 269 267 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.70% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.16% 6.55% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 168 212
10th Percentile £354 £449 £425
25th Percentile £431 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -12.88%
75th Percentile £623 £723 £728
90th Percentile £675 £825 £868
England median daily rate £492 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +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 3,756 4,078 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 25.94% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 2,668 3,761
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £504 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 31
10th Percentile £34.16 £36.13 £32.00
25th Percentile £43.44 £38.44 £36.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -15.22% -7.63%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.13 £72.83
90th Percentile £77.03 £71.90 £86.56
England median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -11.85% +21.50% -17.69%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -16 29 £563 -10.00% 7
South London -3 11 £531 -11.46% 4
East London +5 3 £540 -6.09% 1
West London - 2 £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 (4.09%) Confluence
2 4 (1.49%) Camunda
3 3 (1.12%) CICS
4 2 (0.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 127 (47.21%) AWS
2 98 (36.43%) Azure
3 57 (21.19%) GCP
4 32 (11.90%) GitHub
5 19 (7.06%) Serverless
6 18 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (5.58%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.58%) Azure AKS
8 15 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.20%) OpenShift
10 13 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (2.97%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.23%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Broadband
1 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (21.56%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (18.59%) Relational Database
3 33 (12.27%) MongoDB
4 27 (10.04%) NoSQL
5 23 (8.55%) DB2
6 17 (6.32%) MySQL
7 13 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.72%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.72%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.72%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.23%) Redis
11 5 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.86%) Big Data
12 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.49%) Tick Data
13 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.12%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 62 (23.05%) JUnit
2 46 (17.10%) Git
3 44 (16.36%) Jenkins
4 30 (11.15%) Maven
5 26 (9.67%) Mockito
6 25 (9.29%) GitLab
7 18 (6.69%) JIRA
8 12 (4.46%) Gradle
9 9 (3.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (2.97%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.97%) Postman
10 8 (2.97%) SonarQube
11 6 (2.23%) SoapUI
12 5 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.86%) Eclipse
12 5 (1.86%) JMeter
12 5 (1.86%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.86%) Subversion
12 5 (1.86%) Xcode
12 5 (1.86%) XCTest
General
1 102 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.54%) Finance
3 57 (21.19%) Banking
4 37 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.92%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.18%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.12%) Automotive
9 3 (1.12%) Front Office
9 3 (1.12%) Law
9 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Police
10 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (65.43%) Developer
2 148 (55.02%) Java Developer
3 70 (26.02%) Senior
4 58 (21.56%) Senior Developer
5 55 (20.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 27 (10.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (10.04%) Java Engineer
7 23 (8.55%) Lead
8 17 (6.32%) Lead Developer
9 16 (5.95%) Lead Java Developer
10 15 (5.58%) Software Engineer
10 15 (5.58%) SQL Developer
11 14 (5.20%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 14 (5.20%) Linux Developer
11 14 (5.20%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 14 (5.20%) Senior SQL Developer
12 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (4.46%) AWS Developer
14 11 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (64.68%) Spring Boot
2 100 (37.17%) Kafka
3 72 (26.77%) RESTful
4 57 (21.19%) REST
5 51 (18.96%) AngularJS
5 51 (18.96%) React
6 42 (15.61%) HTML
7 38 (14.13%) Hibernate
8 36 (13.38%) CSS
9 23 (8.55%) Node.js
10 20 (7.43%) JMS
10 20 (7.43%) JPA
11 18 (6.69%) JSON
12 17 (6.32%) Vue
13 15 (5.58%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (5.58%) Web Services
14 14 (5.20%) OAuth
15 13 (4.83%) OAuth2
16 12 (4.46%) HTML5
16 12 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.06%) Equities
4 16 (5.95%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.23%) Derivative
8 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.49%) NHS
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.74%) DataPower
11 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.74%) Life Science
11 2 (0.74%) VSAM
12 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.01%) Linux
2 13 (4.83%) Unix
3 5 (1.86%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) Android
4 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
4 2 (0.74%) zOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (62.08%) Microservices
2 145 (53.90%) CI/CD
3 129 (47.96%) Agile
4 89 (33.09%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (30.86%) DevOps
6 66 (24.54%) Containerisation
7 52 (19.33%) Event-Driven
8 49 (18.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 48 (17.84%) TDD
10 46 (17.10%) SDLC
11 43 (15.99%) Software Engineering
12 39 (14.50%) Code Quality
13 34 (12.64%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 31 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.15%) Design Patterns
15 30 (11.15%) Scrum
16 27 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.04%) Multithreading
16 27 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 262 (97.40%) Java
2 75 (27.88%) SQL
3 60 (22.30%) Python
4 52 (19.33%) JavaScript
5 36 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.43%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.72%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.35%) Groovy
9 6 (2.23%) Ruby
10 4 (1.49%) Bash
10 4 (1.49%) C++
10 4 (1.49%) Scala
11 3 (1.12%) C
11 3 (1.12%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) C#
12 2 (0.74%) COBOL
12 2 (0.74%) JCL
12 2 (0.74%) PHP
12 2 (0.74%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (24.16%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.97%) Degree
4 7 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.12%) OCP
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.37%) CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.18%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.74%) HL7
3 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) GRC
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NCSC
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (42.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 105 (39.03%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.27%) Terraform
3 11 (4.09%) Ansible
4 9 (3.35%) Argo
5 8 (2.97%) Grafana
5 8 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.74%) Kibana
7 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.74%) Rancher
8 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.37%) Control-M
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (10.41%) Oracle
2 20 (7.43%) Sybase
3 17 (6.32%) Google
4 15 (5.58%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.72%) CA Agile Central
6 8 (2.97%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.97%) Splunk
7 5 (1.86%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.49%) IBM
8 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.49%) Solace
8 4 (1.49%) TIBCO
8 4 (1.49%) VMware
9 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.12%) Confluent
9 3 (1.12%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.12%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.74%) Qualys
10 2 (0.74%) Salesforce