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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 159 167
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 -97
Contract jobs citing Spring 268 265 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.66% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 6.38% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 164 233
10th Percentile £359 £447 £425
25th Percentile £431 £506 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -1.68% -8.46%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £750
90th Percentile £675 £809 £884
England median daily rate £500 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -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 3,765 4,156 5,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.49% 26.11% 26.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,553 2,722 3,830
10th Percentile £360 £381 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £656 £704 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.55% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 34
10th Percentile £34.19 £35.13 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.77 £38.31 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.56 £62.25 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.63 £70.40 £83.84
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.54% +20.93% -17.31%

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 27 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 27 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 -24 27 £580 -7.20% 8
South London 0 11 £531 -11.46% 7
East London +7 3 £540 -6.09% 4
West London - 1 £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 12 (4.48%) Confluence
2 4 (1.49%) Camunda
3 3 (1.12%) CICS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Drupal
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 130 (48.51%) AWS
2 96 (35.82%) Azure
3 55 (20.52%) GCP
4 32 (11.94%) GitHub
5 22 (8.21%) Serverless
6 21 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (6.34%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.60%) Azure AKS
9 15 (5.60%) OpenShift
10 14 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.48%) AWS Fargate
12 11 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (2.24%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Broadband
1 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.39%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (18.28%) Relational Database
3 33 (12.31%) MongoDB
4 26 (9.70%) NoSQL
5 24 (8.96%) DB2
6 17 (6.34%) MySQL
7 15 (5.60%) DynamoDB
8 14 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.48%) SQL Server
10 10 (3.73%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.36%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (2.24%) Redis
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.49%) Big Data
15 4 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.49%) Tick Data
16 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
16 3 (1.12%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 64 (23.88%) JUnit
2 46 (17.16%) Git
2 46 (17.16%) Jenkins
3 34 (12.69%) Maven
4 25 (9.33%) Mockito
5 24 (8.96%) GitLab
6 18 (6.72%) JIRA
7 12 (4.48%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.48%) Gradle
8 9 (3.36%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 8 (2.99%) Postman
10 6 (2.24%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.87%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.87%) JMeter
11 5 (1.87%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.87%) Subversion
11 5 (1.87%) Xcode
11 5 (1.87%) XCTest
General
1 102 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 68 (25.37%) Finance
3 56 (20.90%) Banking
4 38 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.21%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.12%) Automotive
8 3 (1.12%) Front Office
8 3 (1.12%) Law
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Police
9 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Aviation
10 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (65.67%) Developer
2 146 (54.48%) Java Developer
3 70 (26.12%) Senior
4 58 (21.64%) Senior Developer
5 56 (20.90%) Senior Java Developer
6 30 (11.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (10.07%) Java Engineer
8 24 (8.96%) Lead
9 17 (6.34%) Lead Developer
9 17 (6.34%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.97%) AWS Developer
10 16 (5.97%) Lead Java Developer
10 16 (5.97%) SQL Developer
11 15 (5.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.60%) Linux Developer
11 15 (5.60%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.60%) Senior SQL Developer
12 13 (4.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (4.48%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (62.31%) Spring Boot
2 100 (37.31%) Kafka
3 68 (25.37%) RESTful
4 56 (20.90%) REST
5 50 (18.66%) React
6 49 (18.28%) AngularJS
7 41 (15.30%) HTML
8 39 (14.55%) Hibernate
9 36 (13.43%) CSS
10 24 (8.96%) Node.js
11 21 (7.84%) JMS
12 20 (7.46%) JPA
13 17 (6.34%) JSON
14 16 (5.97%) Web Services
15 15 (5.60%) OAuth
15 15 (5.60%) Vue
16 13 (4.85%) OAuth2
16 13 (4.85%) Spring Cloud
17 12 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
17 12 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 30 (11.19%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.46%) Equities
4 17 (6.34%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.36%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.24%) Derivative
8 5 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.12%) NHS
11 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.75%) DataPower
11 2 (0.75%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.75%) Life Science
11 2 (0.75%) VSAM
12 1 (0.37%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.43%) Linux
2 13 (4.85%) Unix
3 5 (1.87%) Windows
4 2 (0.75%) Android
4 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
4 2 (0.75%) zOS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (60.45%) Microservices
2 143 (53.36%) CI/CD
3 131 (48.88%) Agile
4 88 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (29.48%) DevOps
6 68 (25.37%) Containerisation
7 53 (19.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (18.28%) Event-Driven
9 47 (17.54%) TDD
10 46 (17.16%) Software Engineering
11 45 (16.79%) SDLC
12 43 (16.04%) Code Quality
13 38 (14.18%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 30 (11.19%) Design Patterns
15 30 (11.19%) Scrum
16 29 (10.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 28 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (10.45%) Multithreading
17 28 (10.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 261 (97.39%) Java
2 74 (27.61%) SQL
3 66 (24.63%) Python
4 49 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 40 (14.93%) TypeScript
6 21 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.36%) Groovy
7 9 (3.36%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.24%) Ruby
9 4 (1.49%) Bash
9 4 (1.49%) C++
9 4 (1.49%) Scala
10 3 (1.12%) C
10 3 (1.12%) Go
10 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.75%) C#
11 2 (0.75%) COBOL
11 2 (0.75%) JCL
11 2 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.36%) Degree
4 7 (2.61%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.75%) OCP
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
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 26 (9.70%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.75%) HL7
3 2 (0.75%) 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 (42.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 103 (38.43%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.31%) Terraform
3 11 (4.10%) Ansible
4 9 (3.36%) Argo
5 8 (2.99%) Grafana
6 7 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.75%) Rancher
8 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.37%) Control-M
9 1 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (10.07%) Oracle
2 21 (7.84%) Sybase
3 17 (6.34%) Google
4 16 (5.97%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.60%) CA Agile Central
6 8 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.99%) Splunk
7 7 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.87%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.49%) IBM
9 4 (1.49%) Solace
9 4 (1.49%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.12%) Confluent
10 3 (1.12%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.12%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.75%) Qualys
11 2 (0.75%) Salesforce