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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 160 178
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -110
Contract jobs citing Spring 261 248 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.65% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.92% 6.40% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 155 205
10th Percentile £351 £456 £425
25th Percentile £431 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £625 £694 £700
90th Percentile £693 £820 £858
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -12.00%

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 3,771 3,872 4,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 25.70% 25.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,548 2,528 3,692
10th Percentile £361 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.65 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £72.80 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -12 28 £571 -2.35% 10
South London +1 9 £531 +11.79% 4
East London +5 3 £540 -6.09% 2
West London - 2 £300 - 1
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 (4.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) Camunda
2 3 (1.15%) CICS
3 2 (0.77%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Drupal
4 1 (0.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 125 (47.89%) AWS
2 95 (36.40%) Azure
3 58 (22.22%) GCP
4 37 (14.18%) GitHub
5 21 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (6.90%) Serverless
7 17 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
8 16 (6.13%) OpenShift
9 15 (5.75%) Azure AKS
10 14 (5.36%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.21%) Cloud Run
13 10 (3.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.07%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) SSL
2 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (18.39%) Relational Database
3 32 (12.26%) MongoDB
4 28 (10.73%) NoSQL
5 21 (8.05%) DB2
6 16 (6.13%) MySQL
7 13 (4.98%) SQL Server
8 10 (3.83%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.83%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.45%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.30%) Redis
12 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.53%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.15%) Big Data
15 2 (0.77%) KDB
Development Applications
1 56 (21.46%) JUnit
2 50 (19.16%) Jenkins
3 44 (16.86%) Git
4 28 (10.73%) GitLab
5 27 (10.34%) Maven
6 24 (9.20%) Mockito
7 18 (6.90%) JIRA
8 11 (4.21%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.21%) Gradle
9 9 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (3.07%) Postman
11 7 (2.68%) SonarQube
12 6 (2.30%) JMeter
12 6 (2.30%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.30%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.92%) Subversion
13 5 (1.92%) Xcode
13 5 (1.92%) XCTest
14 4 (1.53%) Eclipse
General
1 99 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 63 (24.14%) Finance
3 55 (21.07%) Banking
4 34 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.66%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.68%) Retail
8 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Front Office
10 3 (1.15%) Law
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Police
12 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 165 (63.22%) Developer
2 137 (52.49%) Java Developer
3 72 (27.59%) Senior
4 56 (21.46%) Senior Developer
5 52 (19.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 28 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (9.20%) Java Engineer
7 24 (9.20%) Lead
8 17 (6.51%) Lead Developer
9 16 (6.13%) Lead Java Developer
10 14 (5.36%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.98%) AWS Developer
11 13 (4.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 13 (4.98%) SQL Developer
12 12 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Linux Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 12 (4.60%) Senior SQL Developer
13 11 (4.21%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (67.43%) Spring Boot
2 102 (39.08%) Kafka
3 66 (25.29%) RESTful
4 56 (21.46%) AngularJS
4 56 (21.46%) React
5 55 (21.07%) REST
6 41 (15.71%) HTML
7 37 (14.18%) Hibernate
8 36 (13.79%) CSS
9 30 (11.49%) Node.js
10 18 (6.90%) JMS
10 18 (6.90%) JPA
11 17 (6.51%) Vue
12 16 (6.13%) JSON
13 15 (5.75%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (5.36%) Web Services
15 13 (4.98%) OAuth
16 12 (4.60%) HTML5
16 12 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (4.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.77%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.96%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.51%) Equities
4 14 (5.36%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.30%) Derivative
6 6 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.53%) NHS
9 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.15%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.77%) DataPower
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.77%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.77%) Life Science
10 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.77%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.64%) Linux
2 10 (3.83%) Unix
3 4 (1.53%) Windows
4 2 (0.77%) VMS
4 2 (0.77%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (63.22%) Microservices
2 139 (53.26%) CI/CD
3 115 (44.06%) Agile
4 86 (32.95%) DevOps
5 84 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (26.82%) Containerisation
7 51 (19.54%) Event-Driven
7 51 (19.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 50 (19.16%) SDLC
9 43 (16.48%) Software Engineering
10 42 (16.09%) TDD
11 38 (14.56%) Code Quality
12 35 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (13.03%) Test Automation
14 29 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 28 (10.73%) Design Patterns
15 28 (10.73%) Scrum
16 26 (9.96%) Mentoring
17 25 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (9.58%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 251 (96.17%) Java
2 69 (26.44%) SQL
3 54 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 52 (19.92%) Python
5 38 (14.56%) TypeScript
6 19 (7.28%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.21%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.45%) Groovy
9 6 (2.30%) Ruby
10 4 (1.53%) Bash
11 3 (1.15%) Go
11 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.15%) Scala
12 2 (0.77%) C#
12 2 (0.77%) C++
12 2 (0.77%) COBOL
12 2 (0.77%) JCL
12 2 (0.77%) PHP
12 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 61 (23.37%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.07%) Degree
4 7 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.15%) OCP
6 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.38%) CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) OSCP
7 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.43%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.77%) HL7
3 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) GRC
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (43.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (42.15%) Kubernetes
2 37 (14.18%) Terraform
3 14 (5.36%) Argo
4 11 (4.21%) Grafana
5 10 (3.83%) Ansible
5 10 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.92%) Istio
7 4 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) Kibana
8 2 (0.77%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.77%) Rancher
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) logstash
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (10.34%) Oracle
2 20 (7.66%) Google
3 18 (6.90%) Sybase
4 13 (4.98%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.83%) CA Agile Central
5 10 (3.83%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.07%) Splunk
8 5 (1.92%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.53%) Confluent
9 4 (1.53%) IBM
9 4 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.53%) Solace
9 4 (1.53%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.15%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.15%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.77%) Qualys
11 2 (0.77%) Salesforce