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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 147 120
Rank change year-on-year +7 -27 -43
Contract jobs citing Spring 260 308 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.96% 1.75% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.42% 6.48% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 239 452
10th Percentile £368 £403 £456
25th Percentile £419 £475 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £585 £688 £745
90th Percentile £738 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £540 £610
% change year-on-year -7.41% -11.48% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £56.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.88% -34.46% +7.25%

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 3,504 4,755 6,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 26.99% 26.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,442 3,490 5,129
10th Percentile £375 £375 £413
25th Percentile £428 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £713 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £813
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 42
10th Percentile £31.50 £16.25 £31.18
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £47.50
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -36.80% +37.97%
75th Percentile £62.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £75.00 £86.20
England median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +13 46 £513 -16.33% 97
South London +4 20 £503 -4.29% 10
East London +10 2 £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 10 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.31%) Camunda
4 4 (1.54%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 122 (46.92%) AWS
2 43 (16.54%) Azure
3 31 (11.92%) GCP
4 23 (8.85%) Amazon S3
5 21 (8.08%) Serverless
6 18 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.54%) OpenShift
8 16 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (5.38%) GitHub
10 13 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (4.23%) Amazon Kinesis
11 11 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.08%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.92%) Datadog
14 4 (1.54%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (1.54%) Apigee
14 4 (1.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.15%) Firewall
2 2 (0.77%) HTTP
2 2 (0.77%) Internet
2 2 (0.77%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.77%) LAN
2 2 (0.77%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (22.69%) MongoDB
3 58 (22.31%) Relational Database
4 25 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 24 (9.23%) DB2
5 24 (9.23%) MySQL
6 13 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.62%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.62%) Redis
8 11 (4.23%) Big Data
8 11 (4.23%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.69%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.54%) KDB
12 4 (1.54%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.15%) Hazelcast
14 2 (0.77%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 75 (28.85%) JUnit
2 63 (24.23%) Jenkins
3 50 (19.23%) Maven
4 37 (14.23%) Git
5 34 (13.08%) Mockito
6 29 (11.15%) Gradle
7 22 (8.46%) Cucumber
7 22 (8.46%) GitLab
8 15 (5.77%) IntelliJ
9 13 (5.00%) JIRA
9 13 (5.00%) SonarQube
10 11 (4.23%) Liquibase
11 8 (3.08%) Artifactory
11 8 (3.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (3.08%) Bitbucket
12 7 (2.69%) Eclipse
13 6 (2.31%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.92%) JMeter
14 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
15 4 (1.54%) Subversion
General
1 79 (30.38%) Finance
2 72 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.77%) Banking
4 45 (17.31%) Public Sector
5 35 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (11.15%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.23%) Electronics
8 11 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.23%) Marketing
9 4 (1.54%) Front Office
9 4 (1.54%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Automotive
10 3 (1.15%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Police
11 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Aviation
12 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 172 (66.15%) Developer
2 144 (55.38%) Java Developer
3 58 (22.31%) Senior
4 43 (16.54%) Senior Developer
5 41 (15.77%) Senior Java Developer
6 28 (10.77%) Java Engineer
7 27 (10.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 24 (9.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (9.23%) Software Engineer
9 20 (7.69%) Lead
10 16 (6.15%) Linux Developer
10 16 (6.15%) SQL Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Architect
11 15 (5.77%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 15 (5.77%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 15 (5.77%) Senior SQL Developer
12 12 (4.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (4.23%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (61.54%) Spring Boot
2 83 (31.92%) Kafka
3 54 (20.77%) React
4 49 (18.85%) RESTful
5 41 (15.77%) AngularJS
5 41 (15.77%) REST
6 35 (13.46%) Hibernate
7 28 (10.77%) HTML
7 28 (10.77%) JPA
8 25 (9.62%) Web Services
9 22 (8.46%) Swagger
10 20 (7.69%) JMS
11 18 (6.92%) OpenAPI
12 16 (6.15%) SOAP
13 15 (5.77%) CSS
13 15 (5.77%) Node.js
14 13 (5.00%) XML
15 12 (4.62%) J2EE
16 11 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
17 10 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (8.85%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.69%) Data Structures
4 15 (5.77%) Equities
5 8 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.69%) PKI
7 4 (1.54%) Derivative
7 4 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.77%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.54%) Linux
2 16 (6.15%) Unix
3 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.54%) Android
4 4 (1.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (56.15%) Microservices
2 125 (48.08%) Agile
3 111 (42.69%) CI/CD
4 71 (27.31%) DevOps
5 65 (25.00%) TDD
6 61 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (21.92%) Containerisation
8 51 (19.62%) Software Engineering
9 42 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 38 (14.62%) SDLC
11 34 (13.08%) Code Quality
12 31 (11.92%) Event-Driven
12 31 (11.92%) Multithreading
13 29 (11.15%) Clean Code
14 28 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
15 27 (10.38%) API Development
16 25 (9.62%) Test Automation
17 24 (9.23%) BDD
17 24 (9.23%) Unit Testing
18 22 (8.46%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 252 (96.92%) Java
2 91 (35.00%) SQL
3 63 (24.23%) Python
4 39 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.62%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.85%) Perl
7 10 (3.85%) Scala
8 7 (2.69%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.31%) Bash
9 6 (2.31%) Groovy
10 5 (1.92%) C++
10 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.54%) C
11 4 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.15%) C#
13 2 (0.77%) Go
14 1 (0.38%) COBOL
14 1 (0.38%) JCL
14 1 (0.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.69%) Degree
4 12 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.46%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) OCP
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.62%) QA
2 4 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) SEPA
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (41.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (1.15%) Lustre
3 1 (0.38%) Postfix
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (39.62%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.38%) Terraform
3 18 (6.92%) Grafana
4 15 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.38%) Ansible
6 5 (1.92%) Istio
6 5 (1.92%) Kibana
7 3 (1.15%) Control-M
7 3 (1.15%) Karpenter
7 3 (1.15%) Podman
7 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.15%) Puppet
7 3 (1.15%) Rundeck
7 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 27 (10.38%) Oracle
2 22 (8.46%) Sybase
3 20 (7.69%) Splunk
4 12 (4.62%) CA Agile Central
5 11 (4.23%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.23%) Google
5 11 (4.23%) SAP
6 9 (3.46%) Microsoft
7 7 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.54%) TIBCO
10 3 (1.15%) IBM
11 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.77%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.77%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.38%) Calypso
12 1 (0.38%) Jaspersoft
12 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.38%) Sun
12 1 (0.38%) WSO2