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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 179 96
Rank change year-on-year +31 -83 -15
Contract jobs citing Spring 221 258 696
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.77% 1.46% 2.65%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.81% 5.73% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 201 559
10th Percentile £381 £400 £463
25th Percentile £446 £463 £519
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 £838 £850
England median daily rate £530 £540 £620
% change year-on-year -1.85% -12.90% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £53.75
25th Percentile £62.50 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £73.25
75th Percentile £67.50 - £79.50
90th Percentile - - £85.80
England median hourly rate £60.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +30.78% -36.72% +10.43%

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 3,245 4,499 7,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.02% 25.44% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,283 3,363 5,352
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £35.00 £23.80 £41.97
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -40.52% +38.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £72.60 £82.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.65%

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 9 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 9 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 +16 45 £550 +10.00% 7
South London -1 13 £475 -2.56% 3
East London +15 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 14 (6.33%) Confluence
2 10 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.62%) Apache
4 5 (2.26%) Camunda
5 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.90%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.90%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) CICS
6 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.45%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.90%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 104 (47.06%) AWS
2 32 (14.48%) Azure
3 25 (11.31%) GCP
4 16 (7.24%) OpenShift
5 15 (6.79%) GitHub
6 13 (5.88%) Serverless
7 11 (4.98%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (3.62%) Slack
10 7 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.81%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.81%) Datadog
13 3 (1.36%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.36%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.71%) HTTP
2 3 (1.36%) Firewall
3 2 (0.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) IPsec
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) SMS
4 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (31.67%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (31.22%) MongoDB
3 49 (22.17%) Relational Database
4 29 (13.12%) NoSQL
5 27 (12.22%) MySQL
6 18 (8.14%) DB2
7 13 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (4.98%) Redis
8 11 (4.98%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.17%) Big Data
10 5 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.26%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.36%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.90%) GIS
12 2 (0.90%) KDB
12 2 (0.90%) OLTP
12 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 57 (25.79%) JUnit
2 53 (23.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (17.65%) Maven
4 36 (16.29%) Git
5 26 (11.76%) Gradle
6 23 (10.41%) JIRA
7 22 (9.95%) GitLab
7 22 (9.95%) Mockito
8 20 (9.05%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.98%) IntelliJ
9 11 (4.98%) Liquibase
10 8 (3.62%) Jasmine
11 7 (3.17%) Artifactory
11 7 (3.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (3.17%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.17%) SonarQube
12 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.81%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.81%) git-flow
13 4 (1.81%) REST Assured
General
1 72 (32.58%) Finance
2 55 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 50 (22.62%) Banking
4 46 (20.81%) Public Sector
5 30 (13.57%) Investment Banking
6 24 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.43%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.98%) Electronics
8 11 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.98%) Marketing
9 8 (3.62%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Back Office
11 2 (0.90%) Front Office
12 1 (0.45%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.45%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (66.52%) Developer
2 120 (54.30%) Java Developer
3 44 (19.91%) Senior
4 32 (14.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 32 (14.48%) Senior Developer
5 30 (13.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 23 (10.41%) Java Engineer
7 20 (9.05%) Lead
8 17 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Architect
9 16 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (6.33%) SQL Developer
11 13 (5.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 13 (5.88%) Linux Developer
12 12 (5.43%) Lead Developer
12 12 (5.43%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 12 (5.43%) Senior SQL Developer
13 11 (4.98%) Lead Java Developer
14 10 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (63.35%) Spring Boot
2 74 (33.48%) Kafka
3 49 (22.17%) React
4 42 (19.00%) RESTful
5 30 (13.57%) AngularJS
6 28 (12.67%) Hibernate
6 28 (12.67%) Swagger
7 25 (11.31%) OpenAPI
8 24 (10.86%) REST
9 22 (9.95%) HTML
9 22 (9.95%) Web Services
10 19 (8.60%) JPA
11 17 (7.69%) JMS
12 12 (5.43%) CSS
12 12 (5.43%) Spring Security
13 11 (4.98%) J2EE
14 10 (4.52%) SOAP
15 9 (4.07%) Node.js
15 9 (4.07%) Spring Batch
15 9 (4.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.43%) Equities
4 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.17%) PKI
7 5 (2.26%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.36%) Derivative
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.91%) Linux
2 13 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.52%) Unix
4 3 (1.36%) Android
4 3 (1.36%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) AIX
5 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.23%) Microservices
2 97 (43.89%) Agile
3 82 (37.10%) CI/CD
4 73 (33.03%) DevOps
5 58 (26.24%) TDD
6 47 (21.27%) Containerisation
7 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (18.55%) Software Engineering
9 32 (14.48%) API Development
10 30 (13.57%) SDLC
11 28 (12.67%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (12.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 26 (11.76%) Clean Code
12 26 (11.76%) SOLID
13 25 (11.31%) BDD
13 25 (11.31%) Continuous Delivery
14 24 (10.86%) Multithreading
15 23 (10.41%) Event-Driven
16 22 (9.95%) Test Automation
16 22 (9.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 215 (97.29%) Java
2 91 (41.18%) SQL
3 44 (19.91%) Python
4 38 (17.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 21 (9.50%) Shell Script
7 13 (5.88%) Bash
8 10 (4.52%) Scala
9 8 (3.62%) Kotlin
9 8 (3.62%) Perl
10 5 (2.26%) Groovy
11 4 (1.81%) C#
11 4 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.36%) Go
12 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) COBOL
13 1 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 68 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 68 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.14%) Degree
3 14 (6.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.45%) OCP
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.45%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.90%) QA
3 2 (0.90%) SLA
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 105 (47.51%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Lustre
3 3 (1.36%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.12%) Terraform
3 16 (7.24%) Grafana
4 14 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.88%) Ansible
6 9 (4.07%) Istio
7 5 (2.26%) Kibana
8 4 (1.81%) Argo
8 4 (1.81%) Karpenter
8 4 (1.81%) Podman
9 3 (1.36%) Control-M
9 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.36%) Puppet
9 3 (1.36%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.45%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (11.76%) Oracle
2 17 (7.69%) Splunk
2 17 (7.69%) Sybase
3 12 (5.43%) SAP
4 10 (4.52%) Google
4 10 (4.52%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.07%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.26%) Microsoft
7 4 (1.81%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.90%) Sun
9 2 (0.90%) Virgin Media
10 1 (0.45%) Adobe
10 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.45%) Confluent
10 1 (0.45%) MKS
10 1 (0.45%) Sitecore