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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 142 182
Rank change year-on-year -19 +40 -93
Contract jobs citing Spring 297 235 234
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.86% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 7.14% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 150 177
10th Percentile £391 £367 £400
25th Percentile £458 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £609 £630 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £838
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -33.27%

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 4,171 3,291 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.69% 26.07% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 2,299 3,344
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £713 £691
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £545
% change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 18 26
10th Percentile £26.63 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £25.88
Median hourly rate £44.75 £54.00 £44.85
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.41% -31.42%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £65.69
90th Percentile £82.50 £76.25 £76.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -19 40 £525 -4.55% 20
South London -3 20 £521 +9.87%
East London +1 2 £421 +68.40% 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 13 (4.38%) Confluence
2 12 (4.04%) Camunda
3 6 (2.02%) Apache
3 6 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.02%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.02%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.01%) JBoss
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.67%) CICS
6 2 (0.67%) Drupal
6 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 2 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) WordPress
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (2.69%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 147 (49.49%) AWS
2 91 (30.64%) Azure
3 59 (19.87%) GCP
4 55 (18.52%) GitHub
5 33 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (10.77%) Serverless
7 30 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.73%) Azure AKS
10 19 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (4.71%) OpenShift
14 13 (4.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (3.70%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.02%) HTTP
2 4 (1.35%) DNS
3 3 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.56%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (16.84%) NoSQL
3 36 (12.12%) MongoDB
4 31 (10.44%) Relational Database
5 24 (8.08%) MySQL
6 19 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (6.06%) DynamoDB
8 17 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (5.39%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.70%) DB2
11 8 (2.69%) Redis
12 7 (2.36%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.36%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.02%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.68%) Tick Data
15 4 (1.35%) Big Data
15 4 (1.35%) Flink
16 3 (1.01%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 74 (24.92%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.53%) Git
2 58 (19.53%) JUnit
3 43 (14.48%) GitLab
4 32 (10.77%) Mockito
5 28 (9.43%) Maven
6 24 (8.08%) JIRA
7 15 (5.05%) Gradle
8 14 (4.71%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.68%) Gatling
10 5 (1.68%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.68%) Postman
11 4 (1.35%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (1.35%) JMeter
11 4 (1.35%) Selenium
11 4 (1.35%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.01%) jMock
General
1 67 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.87%) Finance
3 46 (15.49%) Banking
4 33 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.38%) Retail
7 11 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.02%) Law
9 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.35%) Front Office
10 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Publishing
10 4 (1.35%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Legal
12 1 (0.34%) French Language
12 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 171 (57.58%) Developer
2 118 (39.73%) Java Developer
3 71 (23.91%) Senior
4 42 (14.14%) Senior Developer
5 33 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 31 (10.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 30 (10.10%) Java Engineer
8 25 (8.42%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.72%) Architect
10 16 (5.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 15 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.38%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.37%) Lead
15 9 (3.03%) AWS Developer
16 8 (2.69%) Fidessa Developer
16 8 (2.69%) GCP Engineer
16 8 (2.69%) Java Architect
16 8 (2.69%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (73.74%) Spring Boot
2 112 (37.71%) Kafka
3 95 (31.99%) RESTful
4 79 (26.60%) REST
5 71 (23.91%) React
6 63 (21.21%) AngularJS
7 46 (15.49%) Node.js
8 29 (9.76%) CSS
9 28 (9.43%) HTML
10 27 (9.09%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.40%) WireMock
12 16 (5.39%) Vue
13 15 (5.05%) JPA
13 15 (5.05%) OAuth
13 15 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (5.05%) Web Services
14 14 (4.71%) Spring MVC
15 13 (4.38%) J2EE
15 13 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (4.04%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.69%) Equities
7 7 (2.36%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.02%) Derivative
8 6 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 6 (2.02%) NHS
9 3 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.67%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.67%) DataPower
10 2 (0.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.74%) Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Windows
3 5 (1.68%) Unix
4 4 (1.35%) VMS
5 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.67%) Solaris
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (65.32%) Microservices
2 164 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 114 (38.38%) Agile
4 112 (37.71%) DevOps
5 100 (33.67%) Containerisation
6 68 (22.90%) Event-Driven
7 66 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 65 (21.89%) Software Engineering
9 55 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (18.18%) TDD
11 52 (17.51%) Observability
12 45 (15.15%) Code Quality
13 43 (14.48%) Test Automation
14 42 (14.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 36 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
15 36 (12.12%) Scrum
16 35 (11.78%) Design Patterns
17 33 (11.11%) Clean Code
17 33 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
18 28 (9.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 276 (92.93%) Java
2 69 (23.23%) SQL
3 46 (15.49%) JavaScript
3 46 (15.49%) TypeScript
4 32 (10.77%) Python
5 13 (4.38%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.02%) C#
6 6 (2.02%) Go
7 3 (1.01%) PHP
7 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.67%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.34%) JCL
9 1 (0.34%) Korn
9 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) REXX
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
9 1 (0.34%) Solidity
9 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 92 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 81 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.70%) Degree
4 8 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.67%) OCP
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) OSCP
8 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.77%) QA
2 16 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.68%) NIST
4 5 (1.68%) SLA
5 3 (1.01%) HL7
5 3 (1.01%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.01%) NCSC
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.67%) PSD2
6 2 (0.67%) SEPA
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 128 (43.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Postfix
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 137 (46.13%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.78%) Terraform
3 22 (7.41%) Grafana
4 14 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 12 (4.04%) Argo
6 10 (3.37%) Ansible
7 6 (2.02%) Istio
8 4 (1.35%) Rancher
9 2 (0.67%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (8.08%) Oracle
2 18 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.39%) Google
4 10 (3.37%) Sybase
5 9 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.69%) IBM
6 8 (2.69%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.69%) Solace
6 8 (2.69%) Splunk
7 5 (1.68%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.35%) Confluent
8 4 (1.35%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.01%) Adobe
9 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.01%) Informatica
9 3 (1.01%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.67%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.67%) Qualys
10 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow