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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 181 88
Rank change year-on-year +37 -93 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring 238 233 831
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.89% 1.29% 2.92%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 5.24% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 176 658
10th Percentile £368 £400 £463
25th Percentile £441 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £750
90th Percentile £750 £831 £850
England median daily rate £530 £538 £630
% change year-on-year -1.40% -14.68% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £67.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.75 £45.88 £68.75
% change year-on-year +60.75% -33.27% +22.77%

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 3,286 4,446 7,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 24.63% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,299 3,342 5,936
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £699 £735
90th Percentile £834 £800 £820
England median daily rate £534 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 38
10th Percentile £34.48 £16.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £38.69 £25.00 £38.91
Median hourly rate £54.00 £38.16 £65.40
Median % change year-on-year +41.53% -41.65% +30.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £69.40 -
England median hourly rate £64.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +35.79% -26.92% +32.65%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +17 49 £550 - 6
South London -7 8 £474 -7.56% 5
East London +13 3 £250 -53.70%
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 27 (11.34%) Confluence
2 8 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.94%) Apache
4 5 (2.10%) Camunda
4 5 (2.10%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.84%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.84%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 126 (52.94%) AWS
2 41 (17.23%) Azure
3 26 (10.92%) GitHub
4 23 (9.66%) GCP
5 18 (7.56%) OpenShift
6 15 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (5.04%) Amazon S3
8 11 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (4.62%) Slack
9 10 (4.20%) Serverless
10 8 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (1.68%) Datadog
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.52%) HTTP
2 2 (0.84%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) IPsec
3 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (29.41%) MongoDB
2 68 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (17.23%) Relational Database
4 30 (12.61%) MySQL
5 27 (11.34%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 13 (5.46%) DB2
8 11 (4.62%) Redis
9 10 (4.20%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.94%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.52%) Big Data
11 6 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.10%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.26%) Hazelcast
14 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.84%) GIS
14 2 (0.84%) KDB
14 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 57 (23.95%) JUnit
2 51 (21.43%) Maven
3 50 (21.01%) Jenkins
4 38 (15.97%) GitLab
5 35 (14.71%) Git
5 35 (14.71%) JIRA
6 22 (9.24%) Gradle
7 20 (8.40%) Cucumber
8 17 (7.14%) Mockito
9 11 (4.62%) Jasmine
10 10 (4.20%) IntelliJ
11 9 (3.78%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.94%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.94%) Liquibase
12 7 (2.94%) SonarQube
13 6 (2.52%) SoapUI
14 5 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.68%) LoadUI
16 3 (1.26%) git-flow
General
1 78 (32.77%) Finance
2 51 (21.43%) Banking
3 50 (21.01%) Social Skills
4 40 (16.81%) Public Sector
5 33 (13.87%) Investment Banking
6 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.20%) Retail
8 8 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.94%) Electronics
9 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.94%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Back Office
10 3 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.26%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 154 (64.71%) Developer
2 117 (49.16%) Java Developer
3 43 (18.07%) Senior
4 30 (12.61%) Senior Developer
5 28 (11.76%) Lead
6 27 (11.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (10.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 24 (10.08%) Java Engineer
9 20 (8.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (7.56%) Architect
11 15 (6.30%) Software Engineer
12 14 (5.88%) Applications Developer
12 14 (5.88%) Lead Developer
13 13 (5.46%) Lead Java Developer
14 11 (4.62%) SQL Developer
14 11 (4.62%) Web Applications Developer
14 11 (4.62%) Web Developer
15 10 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.20%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 9 (3.78%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (64.71%) Spring Boot
2 89 (37.39%) Kafka
3 47 (19.75%) React
4 45 (18.91%) RESTful
5 30 (12.61%) AngularJS
5 30 (12.61%) Swagger
6 28 (11.76%) Hibernate
7 24 (10.08%) OpenAPI
8 23 (9.66%) HTML
9 20 (8.40%) JPA
10 19 (7.98%) Web Services
11 18 (7.56%) REST
12 17 (7.14%) JMS
13 16 (6.72%) Spring Security
14 14 (5.88%) CSS
15 12 (5.04%) Node.js
15 12 (5.04%) Spring Batch
16 11 (4.62%) J2EE
17 8 (3.36%) Bootstrap
17 8 (3.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.78%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.78%) Equities
4 7 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.94%) PKI
5 5 (2.10%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.10%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.26%) Derivative
8 2 (0.84%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.42%) Replication
9 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (17.65%) Linux
2 15 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.20%) Unix
4 3 (1.26%) Android
4 3 (1.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (48.74%) Microservices
2 92 (38.66%) Agile
3 79 (33.19%) CI/CD
4 76 (31.93%) DevOps
5 52 (21.85%) TDD
6 51 (21.43%) Containerisation
7 42 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.81%) Software Engineering
9 37 (15.55%) API Development
10 36 (15.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 28 (11.76%) API Design
11 28 (11.76%) Clean Code
12 26 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (10.50%) Continuous Delivery
13 25 (10.50%) SOLID
14 23 (9.66%) Event-Driven
14 23 (9.66%) SDLC
14 23 (9.66%) Unit Testing
15 22 (9.24%) Multithreading
15 22 (9.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (96.64%) Java
2 87 (36.55%) SQL
3 45 (18.91%) JavaScript
4 37 (15.55%) Python
5 26 (10.92%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.14%) Kotlin
7 16 (6.72%) Bash
8 15 (6.30%) Shell Script
9 10 (4.20%) Scala
10 8 (3.36%) Perl
11 4 (1.68%) Groovy
11 4 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.84%) C#
14 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.42%) COBOL
14 1 (0.42%) Go
14 1 (0.42%) JCL
Qualifications
1 63 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 63 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.56%) Degree
3 14 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) OCP
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.84%) SLA
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) QA
4 1 (0.42%) SEPA
System Software
1 121 (50.84%) Docker
2 5 (2.10%) Lustre
3 3 (1.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.42%) RACF
Systems Management
1 122 (51.26%) Kubernetes
2 43 (18.07%) Terraform
3 21 (8.82%) Istio
4 20 (8.40%) Grafana
5 17 (7.14%) Prometheus
6 15 (6.30%) Argo
7 12 (5.04%) Ansible
8 5 (2.10%) Karpenter
8 5 (2.10%) Podman
9 3 (1.26%) Control-M
9 3 (1.26%) Kibana
9 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.26%) Puppet
9 3 (1.26%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 26 (10.92%) Oracle
2 16 (6.72%) Splunk
3 14 (5.88%) Sybase
4 13 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.04%) Google
6 9 (3.78%) SAP
7 8 (3.36%) Microsoft
8 6 (2.52%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.68%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.26%) Virgin Media
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.84%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.84%) Sun
12 1 (0.42%) Adobe
12 1 (0.42%) MKS
12 1 (0.42%) Murex
12 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.42%) Thunderhead