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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 155 189
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 -119
Contract jobs citing Spring 273 235 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.72% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.06% 6.55% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 135 185
10th Percentile £357 £425 £406
25th Percentile £448 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £714 £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 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -28.82%

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 3,867 3,589 4,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.99% 26.30% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,609 2,349 3,487
10th Percentile £363 £380 £385
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.93%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 21 29
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £28.18
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £47.00 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +10.53% -26.92%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £66.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £73.92
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 7 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

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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 7 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 -20 26 £563 -3.85% 19
South London +1 14 £521 +9.58% 6
East London +2 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 11 (4.03%) Camunda
3 6 (2.20%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.20%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.10%) Drupal
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.10%) WordPress
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.73%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 135 (49.45%) AWS
2 86 (31.50%) Azure
3 58 (21.25%) GCP
4 52 (19.05%) GitHub
5 31 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.79%) Serverless
7 23 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.06%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.69%) Amazon S3
10 19 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.40%) Cloud Run
14 11 (4.03%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (2.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 8 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) HTTP
2 4 (1.47%) DNS
3 3 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (22.71%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (16.12%) MongoDB
2 44 (16.12%) NoSQL
3 36 (13.19%) Relational Database
4 20 (7.33%) MySQL
5 16 (5.86%) DB2
5 16 (5.86%) SQL Server
6 14 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 10 (3.66%) Redis
10 9 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (3.30%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.56%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.56%) Tick Data
12 6 (2.20%) BigQuery
12 6 (2.20%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.83%) Big Data
14 3 (1.10%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 68 (24.91%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.15%) JUnit
3 48 (17.58%) Git
4 44 (16.12%) GitLab
5 28 (10.26%) Maven
6 25 (9.16%) JIRA
7 23 (8.42%) Mockito
8 14 (5.13%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.76%) Gradle
10 12 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.83%) JMeter
11 5 (1.83%) Postman
12 4 (1.47%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.47%) Gatling
12 4 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.47%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.10%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.10%) Selenium
14 2 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.73%) Subversion
General
1 85 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 59 (21.61%) Finance
3 53 (19.41%) Banking
4 27 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.49%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.93%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.47%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Front Office
9 3 (1.10%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 169 (61.90%) Developer
2 119 (43.59%) Java Developer
3 77 (28.21%) Senior
4 54 (19.78%) Senior Developer
5 46 (16.85%) Senior Java Developer
6 38 (13.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (9.16%) Java Engineer
8 17 (6.23%) Lead
9 14 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 11 (4.03%) Architect
11 11 (4.03%) Backend Developer
11 11 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Fidessa Developer
11 11 (4.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (4.03%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.66%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.30%) Lead Developer
14 8 (2.93%) Lead Java Developer
14 8 (2.93%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (71.79%) Spring Boot
2 115 (42.12%) Kafka
3 85 (31.14%) RESTful
4 67 (24.54%) AngularJS
4 67 (24.54%) REST
5 66 (24.18%) React
6 40 (14.65%) Node.js
7 37 (13.55%) HTML
8 34 (12.45%) Hibernate
9 33 (12.09%) CSS
10 21 (7.69%) Vue
11 20 (7.33%) JPA
12 17 (6.23%) OAuth
13 16 (5.86%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (5.49%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (5.13%) JMS
15 14 (5.13%) OAuth2
16 12 (4.40%) JSON
17 11 (4.03%) HTML5
18 10 (3.66%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.86%) Equities
4 12 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.66%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.83%) Derivative
9 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.47%) NHS
10 3 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.73%) DataPower
11 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.26%) Linux
2 4 (1.47%) Unix
3 2 (0.73%) VMS
3 2 (0.73%) zOS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (63.37%) Microservices
2 151 (55.31%) CI/CD
3 104 (38.10%) Agile
4 101 (37.00%) DevOps
5 86 (31.50%) Containerisation
6 68 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (24.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (22.34%) Event-Driven
9 44 (16.12%) Software Engineering
10 42 (15.38%) Code Quality
11 40 (14.65%) SDLC
12 39 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 38 (13.92%) TDD
14 35 (12.82%) Scrum
15 34 (12.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 34 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (11.72%) Observability
17 30 (10.99%) Design Patterns
18 27 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
19 25 (9.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 255 (93.41%) Java
2 61 (22.34%) SQL
3 48 (17.58%) JavaScript
4 47 (17.22%) Python
5 41 (15.02%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.03%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.20%) Go
8 5 (1.83%) C#
8 5 (1.83%) Groovy
8 5 (1.83%) Kotlin
8 5 (1.83%) Ruby
9 4 (1.47%) PHP
9 4 (1.47%) Scala
10 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.73%) Rust
11 1 (0.37%) Bash
11 1 (0.37%) Clojure
11 1 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.37%) Solidity
11 1 (0.37%) XPath
Qualifications
1 79 (28.94%) Security Cleared
2 72 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.56%) Degree
4 6 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.73%) OCP
7 2 (0.73%) 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 (8.06%) QA
2 11 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.10%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.10%) NCSC
6 2 (0.73%) HL7
6 2 (0.73%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.73%) PSD2
6 2 (0.73%) 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 (45.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 130 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 39 (14.29%) Terraform
3 17 (6.23%) Argo
4 12 (4.40%) Grafana
5 11 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.93%) Ansible
7 6 (2.20%) Istio
8 4 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.73%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.73%) Rancher
9 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (8.06%) Oracle
2 19 (6.96%) Google
3 14 (5.13%) Sybase
4 11 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.30%) Microsoft
6 8 (2.93%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.93%) Solace
7 6 (2.20%) Confluent
7 6 (2.20%) Splunk
8 4 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.47%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.47%) IBM
8 4 (1.47%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.47%) VMware
9 3 (1.10%) Adobe
9 3 (1.10%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.10%) Informatica
9 3 (1.10%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.73%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Calypso