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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 164 177
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 -108
Contract jobs citing Spring 260 222 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.58% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.84% 6.12% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 131 184
10th Percentile £360 £450 £420
25th Percentile £447 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -14.81%
75th Percentile £637 £653 £675
90th Percentile £712 £820 £846
England median daily rate £496 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.74% +4.55% -15.38%

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 3,803 3,626 4,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.47% 25.82% 25.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,374 3,374
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -2.13% -3.69%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
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% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.19 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £72.80 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +16.82% -17.69%

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 15 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 15 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 -11 27 £581 -0.64% 12
South London +4 12 £525 +10.53% 3
East London 0 2 £540 -6.09% 4
West London - 2 £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 14 (5.38%) Confluence
2 5 (1.92%) Camunda
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.77%) Apache
4 2 (0.77%) CICS
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.77%) WordPress
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) Drupal
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
5 1 (0.38%) SAS
5 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 10 (3.85%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 135 (51.92%) AWS
2 96 (36.92%) Azure
3 61 (23.46%) GCP
4 47 (18.08%) GitHub
5 28 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (8.85%) Serverless
7 22 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 20 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 20 (7.69%) OpenShift
9 16 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (5.77%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.23%) Cloud Run
13 10 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) DNS
2 2 (0.77%) SSL
3 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (23.85%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (16.15%) Relational Database
3 40 (15.38%) NoSQL
4 33 (12.69%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.69%) MySQL
6 17 (6.54%) DB2
7 13 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.23%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (3.46%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.46%) Redis
11 8 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.69%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.31%) DocumentDB
13 6 (2.31%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
15 4 (1.54%) Big Data
16 3 (1.15%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 60 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 45 (17.31%) JUnit
3 40 (15.38%) Git
4 39 (15.00%) GitLab
5 26 (10.00%) Maven
6 19 (7.31%) Mockito
7 18 (6.92%) JIRA
8 12 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (4.23%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.23%) Gradle
10 5 (1.92%) JMeter
11 4 (1.54%) Postman
11 4 (1.54%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.15%) Gatling
12 3 (1.15%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.77%) Selenium
13 2 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 90 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 55 (21.15%) Banking
2 55 (21.15%) Finance
3 26 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.92%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.69%) Retail
7 4 (1.54%) Front Office
7 4 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.15%) Law
8 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Back Office
10 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (61.15%) Developer
2 121 (46.54%) Java Developer
3 73 (28.08%) Senior
4 52 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 46 (17.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 31 (11.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (10.00%) Java Engineer
8 22 (8.46%) Lead
9 14 (5.38%) Lead Developer
9 14 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
11 12 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (4.23%) Architect
13 10 (3.85%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Fidessa Developer
13 10 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (3.85%) SQL Developer
14 9 (3.46%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.46%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (68.08%) Spring Boot
2 104 (40.00%) Kafka
3 74 (28.46%) RESTful
4 62 (23.85%) React
5 55 (21.15%) AngularJS
6 53 (20.38%) REST
7 44 (16.92%) HTML
8 39 (15.00%) CSS
9 34 (13.08%) Hibernate
10 32 (12.31%) Node.js
11 19 (7.31%) OAuth
11 19 (7.31%) Vue
12 17 (6.54%) JPA
12 17 (6.54%) JSON
12 17 (6.54%) OAuth2
13 16 (6.15%) Spring Cloud
14 14 (5.38%) JMS
14 14 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (5.00%) HTML5
16 12 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.54%) Equities
4 11 (4.23%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.92%) Derivative
8 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.54%) NHS
9 3 (1.15%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.77%) DataPower
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.77%) Life Science
10 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.92%) Unix
3 4 (1.54%) Windows
4 2 (0.77%) VMS
4 2 (0.77%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (61.15%) Microservices
2 140 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 106 (40.77%) Agile
4 96 (36.92%) DevOps
5 81 (31.15%) Containerisation
6 71 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (22.31%) Event-Driven
7 58 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 42 (16.15%) Software Engineering
9 41 (15.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (15.77%) SDLC
10 40 (15.38%) TDD
11 35 (13.46%) Design Patterns
12 33 (12.69%) Code Quality
12 33 (12.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 33 (12.69%) Test Automation
13 30 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
13 30 (11.54%) Scrum
14 28 (10.77%) Observability
15 25 (9.62%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 247 (95.00%) Java
2 71 (27.31%) SQL
3 53 (20.38%) JavaScript
4 51 (19.62%) Python
5 34 (13.08%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.00%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.69%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.31%) Go
8 6 (2.31%) Groovy
8 6 (2.31%) Ruby
9 4 (1.54%) Scala
10 3 (1.15%) Bash
11 2 (0.77%) C#
11 2 (0.77%) Korn
11 2 (0.77%) PHP
11 2 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.77%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 70 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 65 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.69%) Degree
4 6 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.77%) OCP
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.38%) CCSP
8 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CISSP
8 1 (0.38%) OSCP
8 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.77%) QA
2 7 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.92%) NIST
3 5 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.15%) NCSC
6 2 (0.77%) HL7
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.77%) PSD2
6 2 (0.77%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) GDPR
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 124 (47.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 120 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 43 (16.54%) Terraform
3 16 (6.15%) Argo
4 13 (5.00%) Grafana
5 12 (4.62%) Ansible
5 12 (4.62%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.92%) Istio
7 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.77%) Rancher
9 1 (0.38%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.38%) Kibana
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (8.46%) Oracle
2 20 (7.69%) Google
3 15 (5.77%) Sybase
4 12 (4.62%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.69%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.31%) Confluent
7 6 (2.31%) Solace
8 5 (1.92%) ION Trading
8 5 (1.92%) Splunk
9 4 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.54%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.54%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.15%) ForgeRock
10 3 (1.15%) IBM
10 3 (1.15%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.77%) Adobe
11 2 (0.77%) Informatica
11 2 (0.77%) Qualys