Spring Contract Job Trends in South London

Pivotal Spring Framework
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 25 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Spring 10 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.56% 4.41% 4.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.24% 16.67% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £510 £488 £501
25th Percentile £513 £525 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £625
90th Percentile £592 £713 -
London median daily rate £525 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -11.76% -0.83% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 58 54 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 32.22% 26.47% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 49
10th Percentile £462 £405 £360
25th Percentile £496 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £765 £722 £678
London median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Spring job vacancy trend in South London

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Croydon +3 10 £531 +11.84% 5
Spring
London

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Route 53
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (30.00%) JUnit
3 3 (30.00%) Maven
3 3 (30.00%) Mockito
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (10.00%) DbUnit
4 1 (10.00%) jMock
4 1 (10.00%) Storybook
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) REST
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (30.00%) Bootstrap
2 3 (30.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (30.00%) JPA
2 3 (30.00%) SOAP
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 1 (10.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
2 9 (90.00%) TDD
3 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (50.00%) CQRS
5 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
6 4 (40.00%) DevOps
7 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (30.00%) Scrum
7 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (10.00%) Biometrics
8 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (10.00%) Kanban
8 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
8 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft