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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 147 166
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -95
Contract jobs citing Spring 263 270 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.73% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 6.58% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 174 244
10th Percentile £359 £441 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £627 £700 £775
90th Percentile £675 £814 £867
England median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.39% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 3,730 4,101 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.52% 26.22% 26.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 2,686 3,930
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 37
10th Percentile £31.77 £34.08 £33.80
25th Percentile £40.69 £38.38 £36.84
Median hourly rate £54.50 £45.00 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -22.41% -
75th Percentile £63.19 £60.09 £72.00
90th Percentile £85.95 £72.80 £87.94
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 13 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 13 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 -6 29 £538 -14.00% 60
South London -3 11 £530 -11.67% 6
East London +5 3 £540 -6.09% 5
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 11 (4.18%) Confluence
2 4 (1.52%) Camunda
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.76%) CICS
3 2 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.28%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 121 (46.01%) AWS
2 84 (31.94%) Azure
3 48 (18.25%) GCP
4 28 (10.65%) GitHub
5 21 (7.98%) Serverless
6 20 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.22%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.84%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (6.84%) OpenShift
9 15 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (4.18%) AWS Fargate
13 10 (3.80%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.28%) Cloud Functions
14 6 (2.28%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Broadband
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
1 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.38%) LAN
1 1 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (23.19%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (19.77%) Relational Database
3 30 (11.41%) MongoDB
4 25 (9.51%) DB2
5 24 (9.13%) NoSQL
6 17 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.46%) DynamoDB
6 17 (6.46%) MySQL
7 11 (4.18%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.80%) Oracle Database
8 10 (3.80%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.04%) Redis
10 7 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.90%) Big Data
12 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.52%) Tick Data
13 3 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.14%) HPCC
13 3 (1.14%) KDB
Development Applications
1 65 (24.71%) JUnit
2 46 (17.49%) Git
2 46 (17.49%) Jenkins
3 39 (14.83%) Maven
4 25 (9.51%) Mockito
5 18 (6.84%) GitLab
5 18 (6.84%) JIRA
6 16 (6.08%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.94%) Gradle
7 13 (4.94%) SonarQube
8 9 (3.42%) Postman
8 9 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.66%) SoapUI
10 6 (2.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (2.28%) Eclipse
10 6 (2.28%) JMeter
10 6 (2.28%) REST Assured
10 6 (2.28%) Subversion
10 6 (2.28%) Xcode
10 6 (2.28%) XCTest
General
1 102 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 74 (28.14%) Finance
3 58 (22.05%) Banking
4 39 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.13%) Public Sector
6 23 (8.75%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.52%) Front Office
7 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.14%) Automotive
8 3 (1.14%) Law
9 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Police
9 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Aviation
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (65.02%) Developer
2 145 (55.13%) Java Developer
3 71 (27.00%) Senior
4 57 (21.67%) Senior Developer
5 56 (21.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 29 (11.03%) Lead
7 27 (10.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (10.27%) Java Engineer
8 19 (7.22%) Lead Developer
8 19 (7.22%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.84%) Lead Java Developer
10 17 (6.46%) SQL Developer
11 16 (6.08%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 16 (6.08%) Linux Developer
11 16 (6.08%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 16 (6.08%) Senior SQL Developer
12 15 (5.70%) AWS Developer
13 12 (4.56%) Engineering Manager
13 12 (4.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.18%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (60.84%) Spring Boot
2 99 (37.64%) Kafka
3 59 (22.43%) RESTful
4 55 (20.91%) REST
5 49 (18.63%) React
6 46 (17.49%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.21%) Hibernate
8 39 (14.83%) HTML
9 35 (13.31%) CSS
10 25 (9.51%) JPA
11 23 (8.75%) Node.js
12 19 (7.22%) JMS
13 18 (6.84%) JSON
13 18 (6.84%) Web Services
14 16 (6.08%) Bootstrap
14 16 (6.08%) SOAP
15 15 (5.70%) Spring Cloud
16 14 (5.32%) OAuth
17 13 (4.94%) XML
18 12 (4.56%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.98%) Equities
4 18 (6.84%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.28%) Derivative
8 5 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.76%) Life Science
10 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.38%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.38%) Online Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 39 (14.83%) Linux
2 15 (5.70%) Unix
3 5 (1.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (57.41%) Microservices
2 131 (49.81%) Agile
3 129 (49.05%) CI/CD
4 91 (34.60%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (24.71%) DevOps
6 61 (23.19%) Containerisation
7 52 (19.77%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (17.49%) TDD
9 44 (16.73%) SDLC
10 43 (16.35%) Software Engineering
11 40 (15.21%) Code Quality
11 40 (15.21%) Event-Driven
12 34 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (12.93%) Scrum
13 32 (12.17%) Multithreading
13 32 (12.17%) Test Automation
14 29 (11.03%) Mentoring
15 27 (10.27%) Performance Tuning
16 25 (9.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 25 (9.51%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 260 (98.86%) Java
2 79 (30.04%) SQL
3 65 (24.71%) Python
4 48 (18.25%) JavaScript
5 37 (14.07%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.13%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.80%) Groovy
8 9 (3.42%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.28%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.28%) Ruby
10 5 (1.90%) C++
11 4 (1.52%) Bash
11 4 (1.52%) C
11 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.52%) Scala
12 2 (0.76%) C#
12 2 (0.76%) Go
12 2 (0.76%) Perl
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 51 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.18%) Degree
4 10 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.76%) OCP
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.37%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (40.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 92 (34.98%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.65%) Terraform
3 13 (4.94%) Ansible
4 12 (4.56%) Grafana
5 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.42%) Argo
7 4 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.76%) Kibana
8 2 (0.76%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.76%) Rancher
8 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (9.89%) Oracle
2 22 (8.37%) Sybase
3 16 (6.08%) CA Agile Central
4 15 (5.70%) Microsoft
5 14 (5.32%) Google
6 11 (4.18%) Splunk
7 9 (3.42%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.04%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.90%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.52%) IBM
11 4 (1.52%) Solace
11 4 (1.52%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.52%) VMware
12 3 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 3 (1.14%) Confluent
12 3 (1.14%) Tradeweb
13 2 (0.76%) Calypso
13 2 (0.76%) Qualys
13 2 (0.76%) Salesforce