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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 143 178
Rank change year-on-year -13 +35 -104
Contract jobs citing Spring 280 246 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.82% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 6.95% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 148 184
10th Percentile £362 £407 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -17.04%
75th Percentile £627 £632 £675
90th Percentile £696 £804 £818
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -13.73%
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 - - -30.14%

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 4,021 3,538 4,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.89% 26.24% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 2,345 3,400
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 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 18 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 -27 27 £561 -2.39% 18
South London +3 17 £521 +9.58% 3
East London -1 1 £540 -6.09% 1
West London - 1 £300 -
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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 12 (4.29%) Camunda
3 6 (2.14%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.14%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.07%) Apache
5 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) Drupal
6 2 (0.71%) JBoss
6 2 (0.71%) WordPress
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.36%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 136 (48.57%) AWS
2 85 (30.36%) Azure
3 63 (22.50%) GCP
4 53 (18.93%) GitHub
5 31 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.57%) Serverless
7 23 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.86%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.50%) OpenShift
10 19 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (5.71%) Cloud Run
13 15 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.29%) Azure AKS
16 11 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (3.21%) Amazon SQS
18 8 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) HTTP
2 4 (1.43%) DNS
3 3 (1.07%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (16.07%) NoSQL
3 43 (15.36%) MongoDB
4 34 (12.14%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.50%) MySQL
6 16 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (5.36%) DB2
8 12 (4.29%) DynamoDB
9 10 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (3.21%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.21%) Redis
11 7 (2.50%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.50%) Tick Data
12 6 (2.14%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.79%) Big Data
14 4 (1.43%) Oracle Database
15 3 (1.07%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 69 (24.64%) Jenkins
2 56 (20.00%) JUnit
3 52 (18.57%) Git
4 43 (15.36%) GitLab
5 28 (10.00%) Maven
6 25 (8.93%) JIRA
7 23 (8.21%) Mockito
8 14 (5.00%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.29%) Gradle
9 12 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.79%) JMeter
11 4 (1.43%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.43%) Gatling
11 4 (1.43%) Postman
11 4 (1.43%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.07%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.07%) Selenium
13 2 (0.71%) jMock
13 2 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.00%) Finance
3 49 (17.50%) Banking
4 31 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 11 (3.93%) Retail
8 4 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.07%) Front Office
9 3 (1.07%) Law
9 3 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 171 (61.07%) Developer
2 116 (41.43%) Java Developer
3 73 (26.07%) Senior
4 50 (17.86%) Senior Developer
5 42 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 40 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (9.64%) Java Engineer
8 15 (5.36%) Lead
8 15 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 12 (4.29%) Architect
11 12 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Fidessa Developer
12 11 (3.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (3.57%) AWS Developer
13 10 (3.57%) Backend Developer
14 8 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
15 7 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
15 7 (2.50%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (70.36%) Spring Boot
2 116 (41.43%) Kafka
3 86 (30.71%) RESTful
4 72 (25.71%) REST
5 68 (24.29%) AngularJS
6 67 (23.93%) React
7 44 (15.71%) Node.js
8 36 (12.86%) HTML
9 33 (11.79%) CSS
10 32 (11.43%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.50%) Vue
12 18 (6.43%) JPA
13 17 (6.07%) OAuth
14 16 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
15 15 (5.36%) JMS
15 15 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (5.00%) OAuth2
17 13 (4.64%) Web Services
17 13 (4.64%) WireMock
18 11 (3.93%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.36%) Equities
4 13 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.79%) Derivative
7 5 (1.79%) NHS
8 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.07%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.71%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.36%) Linux
2 4 (1.43%) Unix
3 3 (1.07%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) VMS
4 2 (0.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (61.43%) Microservices
2 154 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 103 (36.79%) Agile
3 103 (36.79%) DevOps
4 85 (30.36%) Containerisation
5 68 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (21.07%) Event-Driven
8 51 (18.21%) Software Engineering
9 41 (14.64%) Code Quality
10 40 (14.29%) TDD
11 38 (13.57%) Observability
11 38 (13.57%) SDLC
12 37 (13.21%) Scrum
12 37 (13.21%) Test Automation
13 33 (11.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 32 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 30 (10.71%) Design Patterns
16 28 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
17 27 (9.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 262 (93.57%) Java
2 61 (21.79%) SQL
3 49 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 45 (16.07%) Python
5 42 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.14%) Go
9 5 (1.79%) Ruby
10 4 (1.43%) C#
10 4 (1.43%) Groovy
10 4 (1.43%) Scala
11 3 (1.07%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) Bash
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Clojure
13 1 (0.36%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 82 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.86%) Degree
4 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.43%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.71%) OCP
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.36%) CCSP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) OSCP
8 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.00%) QA
2 12 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.79%) NIST
5 3 (1.07%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.71%) PSD2
6 2 (0.71%) SEPA
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 120 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 128 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.21%) Terraform
3 19 (6.79%) Grafana
4 17 (6.07%) Argo
5 12 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.57%) Ansible
7 6 (2.14%) Istio
8 4 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (8.21%) Google
2 21 (7.50%) Oracle
3 13 (4.64%) Sybase
4 12 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.93%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.21%) Splunk
7 8 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.86%) Solace
8 6 (2.14%) Confluent
9 5 (1.79%) IBM
10 4 (1.43%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.43%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.43%) VMware
11 3 (1.07%) Adobe
11 3 (1.07%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.07%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.07%) Informatica
11 3 (1.07%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.71%) Qualys
13 1 (0.36%) AppDynamics