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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 166 70
Rank change year-on-year +14 -96 -4
Contract jobs citing Spring 265 309 1,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.51% 3.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.38% 5.82% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 253 970
10th Percentile £425 £425 £463
25th Percentile £500 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £788 £750
90th Percentile £825 £884 £800
England median daily rate £550 £573 £625
% change year-on-year -3.93% -8.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - £45.25
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +4.05%
75th Percentile - - £75.39
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £67.75
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.32% +1.88%

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 4,156 5,305 11,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.54% 25.94% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,723 4,020 8,509
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £710 £703 £733
90th Percentile £850 £810 £813
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 33
10th Percentile £34.08 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £38.38 £40.20 £43.03
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -5.77% +28.83%
75th Percentile £61.97 £74.66 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £90.00 £75.39
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 2024. 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 +29 42 £675 -10.00% 8
South London +8 9 £600 +4.35%
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 16 (6.04%) Confluence
2 7 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.64%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.26%) MQSeries
4 5 (1.89%) SAS
5 3 (1.13%) Camunda
6 2 (0.75%) Apache
6 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) GemFire
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 134 (50.57%) AWS
2 69 (26.04%) Azure
3 36 (13.58%) GitHub
4 33 (12.45%) GCP
5 12 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.02%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.02%) Serverless
8 7 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.13%) Apigee
11 3 (1.13%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.13%) Azure Pipelines
11 3 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.13%) Cloud Run
11 3 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.51%) SSH
2 1 (0.38%) AMQP
2 1 (0.38%) SSL
2 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (13.96%) NoSQL
3 27 (10.19%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.79%) Relational Database
5 16 (6.04%) MySQL
5 16 (6.04%) Redis
6 14 (5.28%) BigQuery
6 14 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.15%) DB2
8 8 (3.02%) Bigtable
9 7 (2.64%) NewSQL
9 7 (2.64%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.89%) Big Data
11 5 (1.89%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (20.38%) Jenkins
2 46 (17.36%) Git
3 31 (11.70%) Maven
4 26 (9.81%) JIRA
5 25 (9.43%) GitLab
6 19 (7.17%) JUnit
7 13 (4.91%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.15%) Cypress.io
9 8 (3.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (3.02%) Bitbucket
9 8 (3.02%) Gradle
10 6 (2.26%) fastlane
11 5 (1.89%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.89%) Selenium
11 5 (1.89%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.51%) LoadUI
12 4 (1.51%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.13%) Mockito
13 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (35.09%) Finance
2 58 (21.89%) Banking
3 28 (10.57%) Investment Banking
4 26 (9.81%) Social Skills
5 13 (4.91%) Public Sector
5 13 (4.91%) Retail
6 10 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.02%) Front Office
8 6 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.26%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (63.40%) Developer
2 130 (49.06%) Java Developer
3 27 (10.19%) Full-Stack Developer
3 27 (10.19%) Lead
3 27 (10.19%) Senior
4 21 (7.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 19 (7.17%) Architect
5 19 (7.17%) Software Engineer
6 14 (5.28%) AWS Architect
6 14 (5.28%) Java Engineer
6 14 (5.28%) Senior Developer
7 10 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (3.40%) Applications Developer
8 9 (3.40%) AWS Data Architect
8 9 (3.40%) Data Architect
8 9 (3.40%) GCP Developer
8 9 (3.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 8 (3.02%) Technical Leader
9 8 (3.02%) Web Developer
10 7 (2.64%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (66.79%) Spring Boot
2 58 (21.89%) Kafka
3 53 (20.00%) RESTful
4 49 (18.49%) React
5 36 (13.58%) HTML
6 33 (12.45%) CSS
7 32 (12.08%) REST
8 30 (11.32%) AngularJS
9 29 (10.94%) Hibernate
9 29 (10.94%) Node.js
10 24 (9.06%) JPA
11 23 (8.68%) XML
12 22 (8.30%) Spring MVC
13 20 (7.55%) Web Services
14 19 (7.17%) GraphQL
15 17 (6.42%) J2EE
16 16 (6.04%) JSON
17 13 (4.91%) SOAP
18 11 (4.15%) Spring Security
19 10 (3.77%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.91%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.15%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (3.77%) Derivative
4 10 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.40%) Credit Derivative
5 9 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.26%) Replication
9 5 (1.89%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.51%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.13%) IBM Mainframe
11 3 (1.13%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.55%) Unix
2 18 (6.79%) Linux
3 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) CentOS
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (39.25%) Microservices
2 87 (32.83%) Agile
2 87 (32.83%) CI/CD
3 52 (19.62%) DevOps
4 46 (17.36%) Scrum
5 43 (16.23%) Software Engineering
6 40 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 32 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (11.70%) Multithreading
8 31 (11.70%) TDD
8 31 (11.70%) Test Automation
9 27 (10.19%) Design Patterns
10 26 (9.81%) MVC
11 24 (9.06%) Computer Science
12 21 (7.92%) Mentoring
13 20 (7.55%) OO
14 19 (7.17%) API Design
14 19 (7.17%) Code Quality
15 18 (6.79%) Migration
16 17 (6.42%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 253 (95.47%) Java
2 70 (26.42%) SQL
3 52 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 30 (11.32%) Python
5 21 (7.92%) Kotlin
6 19 (7.17%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.28%) Scala
8 6 (2.26%) Perl
8 6 (2.26%) R
9 5 (1.89%) C#
9 5 (1.89%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) Bash
11 2 (0.75%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 42 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.09%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.81%) Degree
4 18 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.91%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.75%) OCP
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.02%) QA
2 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 74 (27.92%) Docker
2 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 91 (34.34%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.96%) Terraform
3 14 (5.28%) Grafana
4 10 (3.77%) Ansible
5 9 (3.40%) Istio
6 8 (3.02%) Argo
7 6 (2.26%) Kibana
7 6 (2.26%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.89%) Bosun
9 3 (1.13%) logstash
9 3 (1.13%) Podman
10 2 (0.75%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.38%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.38%) Consul
11 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (13.96%) Oracle
2 22 (8.30%) Google
3 13 (4.91%) Splunk
4 12 (4.53%) Microsoft
5 10 (3.77%) ION Trading
6 7 (2.64%) IBM
7 6 (2.26%) Confluent
7 6 (2.26%) MKS
8 5 (1.89%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.89%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.89%) SAP
8 5 (1.89%) Virgin Media
9 4 (1.51%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.51%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.51%) Tradeweb
10 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.13%) Murex
10 3 (1.13%) SEEBURGER
11 2 (0.75%) Databricks