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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 160 181
Rank change year-on-year +6 +21 -114
Contract jobs citing Spring 244 226 239
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 1.60% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.52% 6.26% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 135 189
10th Percentile £355 £455 £420
25th Percentile £435 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £675
90th Percentile £697 £817 £840
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -14.06%

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 3,745 3,613 4,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.39% 25.64% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,529 2,363 3,449
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.95% -2.87%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £764 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 19 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.65 £29.72
25th Percentile £42.19 £38.38 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 10 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 10 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 -15 25 £563 -3.85% 17
South London -5 9 £531 +11.79% 5
East London +3 2 £540 -6.09% 3
West London - 2 £300 - 2
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 11 (4.51%) Confluence
2 5 (2.05%) Camunda
3 3 (1.23%) CICS
4 2 (0.82%) WordPress
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) Drupal
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 123 (50.41%) AWS
2 90 (36.89%) Azure
3 59 (24.18%) GCP
4 43 (17.62%) GitHub
5 27 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.20%) OpenShift
7 19 (7.79%) Serverless
8 18 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (6.56%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.15%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.51%) Cloud Run
14 10 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
17 7 (2.87%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.64%) DNS
2 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (24.18%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (17.21%) Relational Database
3 35 (14.34%) NoSQL
4 30 (12.30%) MongoDB
5 21 (8.61%) MySQL
6 17 (6.97%) DB2
7 11 (4.51%) SQL Server
8 10 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (4.10%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.10%) Redis
9 9 (3.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (3.28%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.87%) Oracle Database
12 6 (2.46%) DocumentDB
13 5 (2.05%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.64%) Tick Data
15 3 (1.23%) Big Data
15 3 (1.23%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 52 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 45 (18.44%) JUnit
3 41 (16.80%) Git
4 31 (12.70%) GitLab
5 23 (9.43%) Maven
6 20 (8.20%) Mockito
7 16 (6.56%) JIRA
8 11 (4.51%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.51%) Gradle
9 9 (3.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.05%) JMeter
10 5 (2.05%) Postman
10 5 (2.05%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.64%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.23%) Subversion
12 3 (1.23%) Xcode
12 3 (1.23%) XCTest
General
1 89 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.54%) Finance
3 51 (20.90%) Banking
4 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.97%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.87%) Retail
8 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Law
9 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Back Office
11 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (61.07%) Developer
2 119 (48.77%) Java Developer
3 68 (27.87%) Senior
4 51 (20.90%) Senior Developer
5 45 (18.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 26 (10.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (9.02%) Java Engineer
7 22 (9.02%) Lead
8 14 (5.74%) Lead Developer
8 14 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Lead Java Developer
10 12 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Architect
11 11 (4.51%) SQL Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Linux Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Senior SQL Developer
13 9 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (68.85%) Spring Boot
2 97 (39.75%) Kafka
3 67 (27.46%) RESTful
4 56 (22.95%) React
5 53 (21.72%) AngularJS
5 53 (21.72%) REST
6 40 (16.39%) HTML
7 36 (14.75%) Hibernate
8 35 (14.34%) CSS
9 26 (10.66%) Node.js
10 19 (7.79%) JPA
10 19 (7.79%) OAuth
10 19 (7.79%) Vue
11 17 (6.97%) JSON
11 17 (6.97%) OAuth2
11 17 (6.97%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (6.15%) JMS
13 14 (5.74%) OpenTelemetry
14 12 (4.92%) OpenID
15 11 (4.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.90%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.15%) Equities
4 12 (4.92%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.05%) Derivative
7 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.64%) NHS
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.23%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) DataPower
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.82%) Life Science
10 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.89%) Linux
2 6 (2.46%) Unix
3 4 (1.64%) Windows
4 2 (0.82%) VMS
4 2 (0.82%) zOS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (61.07%) Microservices
2 128 (52.46%) CI/CD
3 100 (40.98%) Agile
4 90 (36.89%) DevOps
5 72 (29.51%) Containerisation
5 72 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (22.13%) Event-Driven
7 49 (20.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (17.62%) SDLC
9 41 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (16.80%) Software Engineering
10 37 (15.16%) TDD
11 33 (13.52%) Design Patterns
12 32 (13.11%) Code Quality
12 32 (13.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 32 (13.11%) Test Automation
13 30 (12.30%) Performance Tuning
14 29 (11.89%) Observability
15 26 (10.66%) Scrum
16 24 (9.84%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 232 (95.08%) Java
2 69 (28.28%) SQL
3 50 (20.49%) JavaScript
4 48 (19.67%) Python
5 34 (13.93%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.15%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.10%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.87%) Groovy
9 6 (2.46%) Ruby
10 5 (2.05%) Go
11 4 (1.64%) Bash
12 3 (1.23%) Scala
13 2 (0.82%) C#
13 2 (0.82%) COBOL
13 2 (0.82%) JCL
13 2 (0.82%) Korn
13 2 (0.82%) PHP
13 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.87%) Degree
4 6 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) OCP
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.41%) CCSP
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CISSP
7 1 (0.41%) OSCP
7 1 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.07%) QA
2 5 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.05%) NIST
2 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.64%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.23%) NCSC
5 2 (0.82%) HL7
5 2 (0.82%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.82%) PSD2
5 2 (0.82%) SEPA
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 114 (46.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 109 (44.67%) Kubernetes
2 43 (17.62%) Terraform
3 16 (6.56%) Argo
4 13 (5.33%) Grafana
5 12 (4.92%) Ansible
5 12 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.05%) Istio
7 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.82%) Rancher
9 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
9 1 (0.41%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (9.43%) Oracle
2 20 (8.20%) Google
3 14 (5.74%) Sybase
4 13 (5.33%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.51%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.28%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.46%) Confluent
7 6 (2.46%) Splunk
8 5 (2.05%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (2.05%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.64%) Solace
9 4 (1.64%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.64%) VMware
10 3 (1.23%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.23%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.23%) IBM
10 3 (1.23%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.82%) Qualys
12 1 (0.41%) Calypso
12 1 (0.41%) Intel