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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 143 174
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 -102
Contract jobs citing Spring 283 248 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 1.85% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 6.98% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 155 184
10th Percentile £376 £406 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -18.52%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £688
90th Percentile £695 £800 £838
England median daily rate £500 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.15% -14.71%
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 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 4,064 3,555 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.59% 26.47% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 2,378 3,379
10th Percentile £363 £382 £388
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 35
10th Percentile £27.80 £35.00 £20.12
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.50 £29.12
Median hourly rate £50.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +23.53% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.56 £65.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £80.00 £74.46
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 27 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 27 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 -19 28 £560 -2.61% 10
South London -2 20 £521 +9.58%
East London 0 1 £540 +116.00%
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 15 (5.30%) Confluence
2 12 (4.24%) Camunda
3 6 (2.12%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.12%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.41%) Apache
6 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.71%) CICS
7 2 (0.71%) Drupal
7 2 (0.71%) JBoss
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 143 (50.53%) AWS
2 85 (30.04%) Azure
3 60 (21.20%) GCP
4 57 (20.14%) GitHub
5 34 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (9.54%) Serverless
7 26 (9.19%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.77%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.42%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.24%) Azure AKS
14 12 (4.24%) Cloud Run
15 11 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (3.18%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) HTTP
2 4 (1.41%) DNS
3 3 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.38%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (15.55%) NoSQL
3 42 (14.84%) MongoDB
4 32 (11.31%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.77%) MySQL
6 19 (6.71%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (6.01%) SQL Server
8 15 (5.30%) DB2
9 14 (4.95%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.18%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.18%) Redis
12 7 (2.47%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.47%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.77%) Big Data
15 4 (1.41%) Oracle Database
16 3 (1.06%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 72 (25.44%) Jenkins
2 60 (21.20%) JUnit
3 54 (19.08%) Git
4 43 (15.19%) GitLab
5 31 (10.95%) Maven
6 26 (9.19%) Mockito
7 25 (8.83%) JIRA
8 16 (5.65%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.59%) Gradle
10 12 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (2.47%) JMeter
12 5 (1.77%) Gatling
12 5 (1.77%) Postman
12 5 (1.77%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.41%) Selenium
14 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
14 3 (1.06%) jMock
14 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
15 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 80 (28.27%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.43%) Finance
3 49 (17.31%) Banking
4 33 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.30%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.24%) Retail
8 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Front Office
9 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 175 (61.84%) Developer
2 121 (42.76%) Java Developer
3 75 (26.50%) Senior
4 50 (17.67%) Senior Developer
5 42 (14.84%) Senior Java Developer
6 38 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.83%) Java Engineer
8 16 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 15 (5.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 13 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Lead
12 11 (3.89%) Architect
12 11 (3.89%) Backend Developer
12 11 (3.89%) Fidessa Developer
12 11 (3.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (2.83%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (70.32%) Spring Boot
2 119 (42.05%) Kafka
3 87 (30.74%) RESTful
4 73 (25.80%) REST
5 69 (24.38%) React
6 68 (24.03%) AngularJS
7 44 (15.55%) Node.js
8 35 (12.37%) HTML
9 34 (12.01%) CSS
10 33 (11.66%) Hibernate
11 22 (7.77%) Vue
12 18 (6.36%) JPA
13 16 (5.65%) WireMock
14 15 (5.30%) OAuth
14 15 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (4.95%) JMS
15 14 (4.95%) Spring Cloud
16 13 (4.59%) Web Services
17 12 (4.24%) OAuth2
18 11 (3.89%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.95%) Equities
3 14 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.12%) Derivative
6 6 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.77%) NHS
8 4 (1.41%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) DataPower
10 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.25%) Linux
2 5 (1.77%) Unix
2 5 (1.77%) Windows
3 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Solaris
3 2 (0.71%) VMS
3 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (61.84%) Microservices
2 158 (55.83%) CI/CD
3 105 (37.10%) Agile
4 103 (36.40%) DevOps
5 86 (30.39%) Containerisation
6 68 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (22.26%) Event-Driven
8 62 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (18.02%) Software Engineering
10 44 (15.55%) TDD
11 42 (14.84%) Test Automation
12 41 (14.49%) Code Quality
13 40 (14.13%) Observability
14 36 (12.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 35 (12.37%) Scrum
15 35 (12.37%) SDLC
16 33 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (10.95%) Design Patterns
18 26 (9.19%) Clean Code
19 24 (8.48%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 264 (93.29%) Java
2 64 (22.61%) SQL
3 50 (17.67%) JavaScript
4 44 (15.55%) Python
5 41 (14.49%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.59%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.12%) Go
9 5 (1.77%) C#
9 5 (1.77%) Ruby
10 4 (1.41%) Scala
11 3 (1.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) Groovy
12 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Bash
13 1 (0.35%) Clojure
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 90 (31.80%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.47%) Degree
4 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.71%) OCP
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.35%) CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.60%) QA
2 12 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.77%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.71%) PSD2
6 2 (0.71%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 122 (43.11%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 128 (45.23%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.43%) Terraform
3 22 (7.77%) Grafana
4 17 (6.01%) Argo
5 14 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.89%) Ansible
7 6 (2.12%) Istio
8 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (7.77%) Oracle
2 19 (6.71%) Google
3 14 (4.95%) Sybase
4 13 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.24%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.18%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.18%) Splunk
7 8 (2.83%) Solace
8 6 (2.12%) IBM
9 5 (1.77%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.41%) Confluent
10 4 (1.41%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.41%) VMware
11 3 (1.06%) Adobe
11 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.06%) Informatica
11 3 (1.06%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.71%) New Relic
12 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow