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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 145 178
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -105
Contract jobs citing Spring 288 246 246
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.84% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 7.00% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 153 186
10th Percentile £378 £405 £394
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £576
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.95% -13.99%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £684
90th Percentile £695 £800 £838
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -15.69%
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 4,130 3,515 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.37% 26.29% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,803 2,372 3,355
10th Percentile £363 £382 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £669 £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 21 18 33
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.37
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £28.51
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.01%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £74.73
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 6 March 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 6 March 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 31 £538 -6.52% 21
South London -1 20 £521 +9.58%
East London -1 1 £540 +116.00% 3
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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 12 (4.17%) Camunda
3 6 (2.08%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.08%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.74%) Apache
4 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.04%) JBoss
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.69%) CICS
6 2 (0.69%) Drupal
6 2 (0.69%) nginx
6 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 146 (50.69%) AWS
2 88 (30.56%) Azure
3 61 (21.18%) GCP
4 59 (20.49%) GitHub
5 36 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (9.72%) Serverless
7 26 (9.03%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.64%) OpenShift
9 21 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.17%) Azure AKS
13 12 (4.17%) Cloud Run
14 11 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 9 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.08%) HTTP
2 4 (1.39%) DNS
3 3 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (24.31%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 42 (14.58%) MongoDB
4 31 (10.76%) Relational Database
5 22 (7.64%) MySQL
6 19 (6.60%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.60%) SQL Server
7 17 (5.90%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.86%) DB2
8 14 (4.86%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.13%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.13%) Redis
12 7 (2.43%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.43%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.74%) Big Data
15 4 (1.39%) Oracle Database
16 3 (1.04%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 75 (26.04%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.18%) JUnit
3 56 (19.44%) Git
4 44 (15.28%) GitLab
5 32 (11.11%) Maven
6 27 (9.38%) Mockito
7 26 (9.03%) JIRA
8 16 (5.56%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.17%) Gradle
9 12 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.43%) JMeter
11 5 (1.74%) Gatling
11 5 (1.74%) Postman
11 5 (1.74%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.39%) Selenium
13 3 (1.04%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.04%) jMock
13 3 (1.04%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 80 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.79%) Finance
3 50 (17.36%) Banking
4 33 (11.46%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.21%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.51%) Retail
8 5 (1.74%) Front Office
8 5 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Law
10 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 180 (62.50%) Developer
2 126 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 75 (26.04%) Senior
4 50 (17.36%) Senior Developer
5 42 (14.58%) Senior Java Developer
6 38 (13.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.68%) Java Engineer
8 17 (5.90%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 14 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.51%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.17%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.17%) Lead
13 11 (3.82%) Architect
13 11 (3.82%) Fidessa Developer
13 11 (3.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
15 7 (2.43%) Cloud Engineer
16 6 (2.08%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (69.44%) Spring Boot
2 119 (41.32%) Kafka
3 90 (31.25%) RESTful
4 75 (26.04%) REST
5 71 (24.65%) AngularJS
5 71 (24.65%) React
6 44 (15.28%) Node.js
7 36 (12.50%) CSS
7 36 (12.50%) HTML
8 35 (12.15%) Hibernate
9 23 (7.99%) Vue
10 18 (6.25%) JPA
11 16 (5.56%) WireMock
12 15 (5.21%) OAuth
12 15 (5.21%) Web Services
13 14 (4.86%) JMS
13 14 (4.86%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (4.86%) Spring Cloud
14 13 (4.51%) J2EE
15 12 (4.17%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.51%) Equities
5 9 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.08%) Derivative
6 6 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.74%) NHS
8 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.08%) Unix
2 6 (2.08%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.69%) Solaris
3 2 (0.69%) VMS
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (62.15%) Microservices
2 161 (55.90%) CI/CD
3 108 (37.50%) Agile
4 105 (36.46%) DevOps
5 87 (30.21%) Containerisation
6 69 (23.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (22.57%) Event-Driven
7 65 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (17.01%) Software Engineering
9 44 (15.28%) TDD
10 43 (14.93%) Code Quality
11 41 (14.24%) Test Automation
12 39 (13.54%) Observability
13 38 (13.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 36 (12.50%) Scrum
15 34 (11.81%) SDLC
16 33 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (11.11%) Design Patterns
18 26 (9.03%) Clean Code
19 24 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 269 (93.40%) Java
2 67 (23.26%) SQL
3 52 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 43 (14.93%) TypeScript
5 42 (14.58%) Python
6 13 (4.51%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.43%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.08%) Go
9 5 (1.74%) C#
10 4 (1.39%) Ruby
10 4 (1.39%) Scala
11 3 (1.04%) PHP
11 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.69%) Groovy
12 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.35%) C++
13 1 (0.35%) COBOL
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) Perl
13 1 (0.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 91 (31.60%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.47%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.43%) Degree
4 5 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.69%) OCP
7 2 (0.69%) 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 (10.42%) QA
2 14 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.74%) NIST
5 4 (1.39%) SLA
6 3 (1.04%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.04%) NCSC
7 2 (0.69%) HL7
7 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.69%) PSD2
7 2 (0.69%) SEPA
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) GDPR
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 125 (43.40%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 131 (45.49%) Kubernetes
2 37 (12.85%) Terraform
3 22 (7.64%) Grafana
4 17 (5.90%) Argo
5 14 (4.86%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.17%) Ansible
7 6 (2.08%) Istio
8 4 (1.39%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.69%) Rancher
9 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (7.64%) Oracle
2 19 (6.60%) Google
3 14 (4.86%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.51%) Sybase
5 9 (3.13%) Splunk
6 8 (2.78%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.78%) Solace
7 6 (2.08%) IBM
8 5 (1.74%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.39%) Confluent
9 4 (1.39%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.39%) VMware
10 3 (1.04%) Adobe
10 3 (1.04%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.04%) Informatica
10 3 (1.04%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.69%) New Relic
11 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow