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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 159 186
Rank change year-on-year +8 +27 -116
Contract jobs citing Spring 269 231 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.67% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.98% 6.41% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 135 187
10th Percentile £358 £431 £413
25th Percentile £449 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £578
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.30% -14.44%
75th Percentile £633 £653 £681
90th Percentile £700 £817 £838
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -28.25%

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 3,856 3,604 4,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.12% 26.09% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,349 3,474
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £772 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.60
25th Percentile £41.88 £38.44 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +10.77% -25.00%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £69.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.38 £76.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 28 January 2026.

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 28 January 2026. 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 -16 27 £581 -0.64% 11
South London +1 13 £521 +9.63% 4
East London +3 2 £540 -6.09% 4
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 13 (4.83%) Confluence
2 11 (4.09%) Camunda
3 5 (1.86%) Ethereum
3 5 (1.86%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) Drupal
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (4.09%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 135 (50.19%) AWS
2 87 (32.34%) Azure
3 59 (21.93%) GCP
4 51 (18.96%) GitHub
5 31 (11.52%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (8.55%) Serverless
7 22 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (8.18%) OpenShift
8 21 (7.81%) Amazon S3
9 20 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (4.46%) Azure AKS
12 12 (4.46%) Cloud Run
13 11 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
15 8 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.86%) HTTP
2 4 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.42%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (16.36%) NoSQL
3 41 (15.24%) MongoDB
4 36 (13.38%) Relational Database
5 20 (7.43%) MySQL
6 15 (5.58%) DB2
7 14 (5.20%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.09%) DynamoDB
9 11 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (3.72%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.35%) Redis
12 7 (2.60%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.60%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.23%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.23%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.49%) Big Data
15 3 (1.12%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 66 (24.54%) Jenkins
2 54 (20.07%) JUnit
3 48 (17.84%) Git
4 41 (15.24%) GitLab
5 28 (10.41%) Maven
6 23 (8.55%) JIRA
6 23 (8.55%) Mockito
7 14 (5.20%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.83%) Gradle
9 12 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.86%) JMeter
10 5 (1.86%) Postman
11 4 (1.49%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.49%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.12%) Gatling
12 3 (1.12%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.74%) git-flow
13 2 (0.74%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.74%) XCTest
General
1 89 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.82%) Banking
3 55 (20.45%) Finance
4 27 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 24 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.95%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.97%) Retail
8 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.12%) Front Office
9 3 (1.12%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (62.45%) Developer
2 123 (45.72%) Java Developer
3 76 (28.25%) Senior
4 53 (19.70%) Senior Developer
5 47 (17.47%) Senior Java Developer
6 36 (13.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (10.04%) Java Engineer
8 17 (6.32%) Lead
9 13 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (4.46%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Backend Developer
11 11 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Fidessa Developer
11 11 (4.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (3.72%) Architect
12 10 (3.72%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.35%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
13 9 (3.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (70.63%) Spring Boot
2 113 (42.01%) Kafka
3 85 (31.60%) RESTful
4 64 (23.79%) AngularJS
5 62 (23.05%) REST
6 61 (22.68%) React
7 38 (14.13%) HTML
8 37 (13.75%) Node.js
9 34 (12.64%) CSS
9 34 (12.64%) Hibernate
10 19 (7.06%) JPA
10 19 (7.06%) Vue
11 17 (6.32%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (5.95%) OAuth
13 15 (5.58%) JMS
13 15 (5.58%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (5.20%) OAuth2
15 12 (4.46%) JSON
15 12 (4.46%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (4.09%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.32%) Equities
4 12 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.86%) Derivative
7 5 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.49%) NHS
9 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Life Science
10 2 (0.74%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.41%) Linux
2 4 (1.49%) Unix
3 3 (1.12%) Windows
4 2 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (62.83%) Microservices
2 149 (55.39%) CI/CD
3 106 (39.41%) Agile
4 96 (35.69%) DevOps
5 84 (31.23%) Containerisation
6 74 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (24.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 62 (23.05%) Event-Driven
9 41 (15.24%) SDLC
9 41 (15.24%) Software Engineering
10 39 (14.50%) Code Quality
11 37 (13.75%) TDD
11 37 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 36 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (13.38%) Scrum
13 33 (12.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 29 (10.78%) Design Patterns
14 29 (10.78%) Observability
15 27 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
16 26 (9.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 251 (93.31%) Java
2 67 (24.91%) SQL
3 48 (17.84%) Python
4 46 (17.10%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.13%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.46%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.23%) Go
7 6 (2.23%) Groovy
8 5 (1.86%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.86%) Ruby
9 4 (1.49%) Scala
10 3 (1.12%) C#
11 2 (0.74%) PHP
11 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.37%) JCL
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) REXX
Qualifications
1 76 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.65%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.23%) Degree
4 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.74%) OCP
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.37%) CCSP
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.37%) CISSP
7 1 (0.37%) OSCP
7 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.29%) QA
2 7 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.86%) NIST
3 5 (1.86%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (0.74%) HL7
5 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.74%) PSD2
5 2 (0.74%) SEPA
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) GRC
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 126 (46.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 129 (47.96%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.87%) Terraform
3 17 (6.32%) Argo
4 13 (4.83%) Grafana
5 12 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.72%) Ansible
7 6 (2.23%) Istio
8 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.74%) Rancher
9 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (8.55%) Oracle
2 21 (7.81%) Google
3 14 (5.20%) Sybase
4 12 (4.46%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.72%) Microsoft
6 7 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.23%) Confluent
7 6 (2.23%) Solace
8 5 (1.86%) Splunk
9 4 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.49%) IBM
9 4 (1.49%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.12%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.12%) Informatica
10 3 (1.12%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.74%) Adobe
11 2 (0.74%) Qualys
12 1 (0.37%) Calypso