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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 144 176
Rank change year-on-year -10 +32 -105
Contract jobs citing Spring 271 235 236
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.73% 1.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 6.58% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 136 185
10th Percentile £356 £433 £409
25th Percentile £448 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £570
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +2.63% -15.56%
75th Percentile £630 £652 £650
90th Percentile £700 £813 £800
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 3,887 3,572 4,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.14% 26.22% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 2,327 3,459
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £29.48
25th Percentile £39.75 £38.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% +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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -15 27 £581 -0.64% 19
South London 0 14 £521 +9.58% 5
East London +1 2 £540 -6.09% 2
West London - 1 £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 14 (5.17%) Confluence
2 11 (4.06%) Camunda
3 6 (2.21%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.21%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.11%) Drupal
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.11%) WordPress
6 2 (0.74%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (4.06%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 135 (49.82%) AWS
2 86 (31.73%) Azure
3 59 (21.77%) GCP
4 52 (19.19%) GitHub
5 31 (11.44%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.86%) Serverless
7 23 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.12%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.75%) Amazon S3
10 19 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.43%) Cloud Run
14 11 (4.06%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.95%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (2.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.21%) HTTP
2 4 (1.48%) DNS
3 3 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.25%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (16.61%) NoSQL
3 43 (15.87%) MongoDB
4 36 (13.28%) Relational Database
5 20 (7.38%) MySQL
6 15 (5.54%) DB2
6 15 (5.54%) SQL Server
7 14 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (4.06%) DynamoDB
10 10 (3.69%) Redis
11 9 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.32%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.58%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.58%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.21%) BigQuery
13 6 (2.21%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.48%) Big Data
15 3 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 67 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.30%) JUnit
3 50 (18.45%) Git
4 43 (15.87%) GitLab
5 28 (10.33%) Maven
6 25 (9.23%) JIRA
7 23 (8.49%) Mockito
8 14 (5.17%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.80%) Gradle
10 12 (4.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.85%) JMeter
11 5 (1.85%) Postman
12 4 (1.48%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.48%) Gatling
12 4 (1.48%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.48%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.11%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.11%) Selenium
14 2 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.30%) Finance
3 51 (18.82%) Banking
4 27 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.95%) Retail
8 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.11%) Front Office
9 3 (1.11%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (63.10%) Developer
2 122 (45.02%) Java Developer
3 75 (27.68%) Senior
4 54 (19.93%) Senior Developer
5 46 (16.97%) Senior Java Developer
6 37 (13.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (9.23%) Java Engineer
8 18 (6.64%) Lead
9 13 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (4.43%) Backend Developer
10 12 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Fidessa Developer
11 11 (4.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Architect
12 10 (3.69%) AWS Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Lead Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) Lead Java Developer
14 8 (2.95%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (71.59%) Spring Boot
2 114 (42.07%) Kafka
3 85 (31.37%) RESTful
4 67 (24.72%) REST
5 66 (24.35%) AngularJS
6 62 (22.88%) React
7 39 (14.39%) Node.js
8 36 (13.28%) HTML
9 35 (12.92%) Hibernate
10 32 (11.81%) CSS
11 21 (7.75%) Vue
12 20 (7.38%) JPA
13 17 (6.27%) OAuth
13 17 (6.27%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (5.54%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (5.17%) JMS
15 14 (5.17%) OAuth2
16 12 (4.43%) JSON
17 11 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
18 10 (3.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.90%) Equities
4 12 (4.43%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.85%) Derivative
9 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.48%) NHS
10 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.74%) DataPower
11 2 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.74%) Life Science
11 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.96%) Linux
2 3 (1.11%) Unix
3 2 (0.74%) VMS
3 2 (0.74%) zOS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.10%) Microservices
2 148 (54.61%) CI/CD
3 104 (38.38%) Agile
4 100 (36.90%) DevOps
5 83 (30.63%) Containerisation
6 70 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (23.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (22.14%) Event-Driven
9 41 (15.13%) Software Engineering
10 40 (14.76%) Code Quality
11 39 (14.39%) SDLC
11 39 (14.39%) TDD
11 39 (14.39%) Test Automation
12 36 (13.28%) Scrum
13 35 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (11.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 30 (11.07%) Design Patterns
15 30 (11.07%) Observability
16 25 (9.23%) Clean Code
16 25 (9.23%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 253 (93.36%) Java
2 64 (23.62%) SQL
3 47 (17.34%) Python
4 46 (16.97%) JavaScript
5 39 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.06%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.21%) Go
8 5 (1.85%) C#
8 5 (1.85%) Groovy
8 5 (1.85%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.85%) Ruby
9 4 (1.48%) PHP
10 3 (1.11%) Scala
11 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) Bash
12 1 (0.37%) Clojure
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) Solidity
12 1 (0.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 79 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.58%) Degree
4 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.74%) OCP
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.37%) CCSP
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CISSP
8 1 (0.37%) OSCP
8 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.12%) QA
2 8 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.85%) NIST
5 3 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.11%) NCSC
6 2 (0.74%) HL7
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.74%) PSD2
6 2 (0.74%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 123 (45.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (48.34%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.76%) Terraform
3 17 (6.27%) Argo
4 13 (4.80%) Grafana
5 12 (4.43%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.32%) Ansible
7 6 (2.21%) Istio
8 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.74%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.74%) Rancher
9 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (8.12%) Oracle
2 19 (7.01%) Google
3 13 (4.80%) Sybase
4 11 (4.06%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.32%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.95%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.21%) Confluent
7 6 (2.21%) Solace
7 6 (2.21%) Splunk
8 4 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.48%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.48%) IBM
8 4 (1.48%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.48%) VMware
9 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.11%) Informatica
9 3 (1.11%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.74%) Adobe
10 2 (0.74%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Calypso