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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 144 158
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -88
Contract jobs citing Spring 253 299 346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 1.84% 1.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.19% 6.61% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 212 280
10th Percentile £360 £418 £430
25th Percentile £429 £493 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -12.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £604 £700 £756
90th Percentile £684 £825 £869
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £53.98
25th Percentile £62.50 - £65.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £82.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -23.61% -0.69% +7.41%

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 3,517 4,521 5,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.15% 27.75% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,410 3,097 4,207
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £725 £713
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 22 41
10th Percentile £31.94 £23.84 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.48 £36.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -34.62% +12.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £59.51 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £86.56
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +3 41 £500 -21.57% 32
South London -3 16 £531 +8.97% 2
East London +11 3 £540 -36.47% 1
West London - 1 £300 -
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 6 (2.37%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.58%) Apache
4 3 (1.19%) Camunda
4 3 (1.19%) CICS
4 3 (1.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 105 (41.50%) AWS
2 55 (21.74%) Azure
3 36 (14.23%) GCP
4 18 (7.11%) Serverless
5 17 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (6.32%) Amazon S3
6 16 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (5.14%) GitHub
8 11 (4.35%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (3.56%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.56%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.16%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.37%) Cloud Run
11 6 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
1 2 (0.79%) Internet
1 2 (0.79%) Kerberos
1 2 (0.79%) LAN
1 2 (0.79%) SMS
2 1 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (28.06%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (23.72%) Relational Database
3 38 (15.02%) MongoDB
4 27 (10.67%) NoSQL
5 26 (10.28%) DB2
6 14 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (5.14%) DynamoDB
7 13 (5.14%) MySQL
8 10 (3.95%) Oracle Database
9 9 (3.56%) Big Data
9 9 (3.56%) SQL Server
10 8 (3.16%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.16%) Redis
11 5 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.58%) KDB
13 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.19%) HPCC
14 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 70 (27.67%) JUnit
2 53 (20.95%) Jenkins
3 43 (17.00%) Git
4 38 (15.02%) Maven
5 36 (14.23%) Mockito
6 21 (8.30%) Gradle
7 20 (7.91%) GitLab
8 17 (6.72%) Cucumber
9 15 (5.93%) JIRA
10 12 (4.74%) SonarQube
11 9 (3.56%) Liquibase
12 7 (2.77%) Eclipse
12 7 (2.77%) Postman
12 7 (2.77%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.77%) SoapUI
12 7 (2.77%) Subversion
13 6 (2.37%) IntelliJ
13 6 (2.37%) JMeter
13 6 (2.37%) Xcode
13 6 (2.37%) XCTest
General
1 83 (32.81%) Finance
2 81 (32.02%) Social Skills
3 63 (24.90%) Banking
4 32 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (12.25%) Public Sector
6 23 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.56%) Electronics
8 9 (3.56%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.56%) Marketing
9 5 (1.98%) Front Office
10 4 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.19%) Automotive
11 3 (1.19%) Back Office
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.79%) Police
13 1 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 159 (62.85%) Developer
2 143 (56.52%) Java Developer
3 60 (23.72%) Senior
4 48 (18.97%) Senior Developer
4 48 (18.97%) Senior Java Developer
5 31 (12.25%) Java Engineer
5 31 (12.25%) Lead
6 24 (9.49%) Software Engineer
7 19 (7.51%) Full-Stack Developer
7 19 (7.51%) Lead Developer
7 19 (7.51%) Lead Java Developer
7 19 (7.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 18 (7.11%) Linux Developer
8 18 (7.11%) SQL Developer
9 17 (6.72%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 17 (6.72%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
9 17 (6.72%) Senior SQL Developer
10 16 (6.32%) Java Software Engineer
11 13 (5.14%) Architect
12 12 (4.74%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (66.01%) Spring Boot
2 90 (35.57%) Kafka
3 51 (20.16%) React
3 51 (20.16%) REST
4 50 (19.76%) RESTful
5 39 (15.42%) Hibernate
6 37 (14.62%) AngularJS
7 31 (12.25%) HTML
8 26 (10.28%) JPA
9 23 (9.09%) CSS
9 23 (9.09%) Web Services
10 18 (7.11%) JMS
10 18 (7.11%) JSON
10 18 (7.11%) SOAP
11 17 (6.72%) Swagger
12 15 (5.93%) Node.js
12 15 (5.93%) OAuth
12 15 (5.93%) Spring Cloud
13 13 (5.14%) Bootstrap
13 13 (5.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.44%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.91%) Data Structures
4 17 (6.72%) Equities
5 10 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.19%) Derivative
8 3 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.19%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.79%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) DataPower
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Life Science
9 2 (0.79%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.23%) Linux
2 17 (6.72%) Unix
3 5 (1.98%) Windows
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.79%) zOS
5 1 (0.40%) AIX
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (56.13%) Agile
1 142 (56.13%) Microservices
2 116 (45.85%) CI/CD
3 75 (29.64%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (24.90%) DevOps
5 59 (23.32%) TDD
6 55 (21.74%) Containerisation
7 49 (19.37%) Software Engineering
8 43 (17.00%) SDLC
9 41 (16.21%) Event-Driven
10 39 (15.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 35 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (12.25%) Multithreading
13 30 (11.86%) API Development
13 30 (11.86%) Scrum
14 28 (11.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 27 (10.67%) Code Quality
15 27 (10.67%) Performance Tuning
16 26 (10.28%) Clean Code
16 26 (10.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 248 (98.02%) Java
2 92 (36.36%) SQL
3 58 (22.92%) Python
4 48 (18.97%) JavaScript
5 38 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 29 (11.46%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.35%) Groovy
8 7 (2.77%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.77%) Scala
9 5 (1.98%) Bash
9 5 (1.98%) C
9 5 (1.98%) C++
9 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.19%) C#
10 3 (1.19%) Perl
11 2 (0.79%) COBOL
11 2 (0.79%) JCL
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
11 2 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 48 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.14%) Degree
4 10 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.40%) OCP
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.91%) QA
2 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (39.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Postfix
2 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 80 (31.62%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.88%) Terraform
3 12 (4.74%) Ansible
4 9 (3.56%) Grafana
5 8 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.58%) Kibana
7 2 (0.79%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) Control-M
8 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (11.46%) Oracle
2 21 (8.30%) Sybase
3 15 (5.93%) CA Agile Central
4 12 (4.74%) Dynatrace
4 12 (4.74%) Splunk
5 11 (4.35%) Microsoft
6 10 (3.95%) Google
6 10 (3.95%) SAP
7 6 (2.37%) IBM
7 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.58%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.19%) Confluent
10 2 (0.79%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.79%) Virgin Media
10 2 (0.79%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.40%) Calypso
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco