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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 152 181
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 -100
Contract jobs citing Spring 285 238 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.84% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.99% 7.01% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 148 189
10th Percentile £380 £398 £400
25th Percentile £457 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -2.56% -12.46%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £688
90th Percentile £695 £800 £838
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -13.39%
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 - - -32.03%

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 4,075 3,397 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.29% 26.19% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,782 2,325 3,364
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -5.74%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 31
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.31 £27.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +5.29% -35.40%
75th Percentile £63.00 £64.13 £65.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year +1.56% +31.36% -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 10 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 10 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 -24 32 £525 -8.70% 6
South London +2 20 £521 +9.87%
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 12 (4.21%) Camunda
3 6 (2.11%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.11%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.75%) Apache
4 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.05%) JBoss
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.70%) CICS
7 2 (0.70%) Drupal
7 2 (0.70%) nginx
7 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.86%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 142 (49.82%) AWS
2 90 (31.58%) Azure
3 61 (21.40%) GitHub
4 59 (20.70%) GCP
5 34 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (9.82%) Serverless
7 26 (9.12%) Amazon S3
7 26 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.72%) OpenShift
9 20 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
10 18 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (5.61%) Azure AKS
13 14 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (4.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (3.86%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.11%) HTTP
2 4 (1.40%) DNS
3 3 (1.05%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.21%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (17.89%) NoSQL
3 41 (14.39%) MongoDB
4 30 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 23 (8.07%) MySQL
6 18 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (5.96%) SQL Server
8 14 (4.91%) DB2
8 14 (4.91%) DynamoDB
9 12 (4.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.16%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.16%) Redis
12 7 (2.46%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.46%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.75%) Big Data
15 4 (1.40%) Oracle Database
16 3 (1.05%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 73 (25.61%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.70%) JUnit
3 58 (20.35%) Git
4 42 (14.74%) GitLab
5 31 (10.88%) Maven
6 26 (9.12%) JIRA
6 26 (9.12%) Mockito
7 16 (5.61%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (3.86%) Gradle
10 7 (2.46%) JMeter
11 5 (1.75%) Gatling
11 5 (1.75%) Postman
12 4 (1.40%) Selenium
12 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (1.05%) jMock
13 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 78 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.30%) Finance
3 49 (17.19%) Banking
4 32 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 14 (4.91%) Retail
8 5 (1.75%) Front Office
8 5 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.40%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (61.75%) Developer
2 122 (42.81%) Java Developer
3 73 (25.61%) Senior
4 48 (16.84%) Senior Developer
5 40 (14.04%) Senior Java Developer
6 38 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 25 (8.77%) Java Engineer
8 17 (5.96%) Software Engineer
9 16 (5.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 15 (5.26%) Architect
11 14 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.21%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.86%) Fidessa Developer
13 11 (3.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.51%) Lead
15 8 (2.81%) GCP Engineer
15 8 (2.81%) Java Architect
16 7 (2.46%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (67.37%) Spring Boot
2 118 (41.40%) Kafka
3 88 (30.88%) RESTful
4 74 (25.96%) REST
5 70 (24.56%) AngularJS
6 68 (23.86%) React
7 45 (15.79%) Node.js
8 36 (12.63%) CSS
9 35 (12.28%) HTML
10 34 (11.93%) Hibernate
11 22 (7.72%) Vue
12 17 (5.96%) JPA
13 16 (5.61%) Web Services
13 16 (5.61%) WireMock
14 14 (4.91%) J2EE
14 14 (4.91%) JMS
14 14 (4.91%) OAuth
14 14 (4.91%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (4.91%) Spring Cloud
15 13 (4.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.56%) Equities
5 9 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.11%) Derivative
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.75%) NHS
9 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.70%) DataPower
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Unix
2 7 (2.46%) Windows
3 3 (1.05%) VMS
4 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.70%) Solaris
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (62.46%) Microservices
2 159 (55.79%) CI/CD
3 107 (37.54%) Agile
3 107 (37.54%) DevOps
4 84 (29.47%) Containerisation
5 69 (24.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (22.11%) Event-Driven
8 52 (18.25%) Software Engineering
9 44 (15.44%) TDD
10 43 (15.09%) Observability
11 42 (14.74%) Code Quality
12 39 (13.68%) Test Automation
13 36 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 35 (12.28%) Scrum
15 33 (11.58%) SDLC
16 32 (11.23%) Design Patterns
17 30 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
18 27 (9.47%) Performance Tuning
19 26 (9.12%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 266 (93.33%) Java
2 68 (23.86%) SQL
3 50 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 42 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 40 (14.04%) Python
6 13 (4.56%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.46%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.11%) Go
9 5 (1.75%) C#
10 4 (1.40%) Ruby
10 4 (1.40%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) PHP
11 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) COBOL
12 1 (0.35%) JCL
12 1 (0.35%) Korn
12 1 (0.35%) Perl
12 1 (0.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 90 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.51%) Degree
4 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) OCP
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
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 (10.53%) QA
2 13 (4.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.11%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.75%) NIST
4 5 (1.75%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.05%) NCSC
6 2 (0.70%) HL7
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.70%) PSD2
6 2 (0.70%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 121 (42.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 132 (46.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.93%) Terraform
3 22 (7.72%) Grafana
4 17 (5.96%) Argo
5 14 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.21%) Ansible
7 6 (2.11%) Istio
8 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.05%) Rancher
10 2 (0.70%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (7.37%) Oracle
2 18 (6.32%) Google
2 18 (6.32%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.56%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.56%) Sybase
4 9 (3.16%) Splunk
5 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.81%) Solace
6 6 (2.11%) IBM
7 5 (1.75%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.40%) Confluent
8 4 (1.40%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.40%) VMware
9 3 (1.05%) Adobe
9 3 (1.05%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.05%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.05%) Informatica
9 3 (1.05%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.70%) New Relic
10 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow