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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 145 176
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 -93
Contract jobs citing Spring 292 229 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.80% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 6.87% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 145 182
10th Percentile £388 £373 £400
25th Percentile £458 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £581
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -2.80% -10.58%
75th Percentile £624 £630 £688
90th Percentile £695 £745 £836
England median daily rate £500 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -6.80% -0.65% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -33.27%

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 4,139 3,332 4,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.88% 26.15% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 2,306 3,335
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £829 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.83 £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -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 21 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 21 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 -11 36 £525 -4.55% 23
South London -1 20 £521 +9.87%
East London -5 1 £432 +72.80% 2
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 (5.14%) Confluence
2 11 (3.77%) Camunda
3 6 (2.05%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.05%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.71%) Apache
4 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.03%) JBoss
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.68%) CICS
7 2 (0.68%) Drupal
7 2 (0.68%) nginx
7 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.68%) WordPress
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.34%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.77%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 145 (49.66%) AWS
2 95 (32.53%) Azure
3 61 (20.89%) GitHub
4 60 (20.55%) GCP
5 32 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (10.27%) Serverless
7 28 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (9.25%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (6.51%) OpenShift
11 18 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (6.16%) Azure AKS
12 15 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.77%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.05%) HTTP
2 4 (1.37%) DNS
3 3 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (17.47%) NoSQL
3 38 (13.01%) MongoDB
4 31 (10.62%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.19%) MySQL
6 19 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.48%) DynamoDB
7 16 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (5.48%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 13 (4.45%) DB2
9 11 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.08%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.74%) Redis
12 7 (2.40%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.40%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.05%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.71%) Big Data
15 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
16 3 (1.03%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 77 (26.37%) Jenkins
2 61 (20.89%) Git
2 61 (20.89%) JUnit
3 43 (14.73%) GitLab
4 33 (11.30%) Mockito
5 31 (10.62%) Maven
6 27 (9.25%) JIRA
7 15 (5.14%) Gradle
8 14 (4.79%) Cucumber
9 9 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.05%) Postman
11 5 (1.71%) Gatling
11 5 (1.71%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.37%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.37%) JMeter
12 4 (1.37%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.37%) Selenium
12 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.03%) jMock
General
1 76 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.18%) Finance
3 48 (16.44%) Banking
4 34 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.79%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.45%) Retail
8 6 (2.05%) Law
9 5 (1.71%) Front Office
9 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Legal
12 2 (0.68%) Publishing
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
13 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 175 (59.93%) Developer
2 119 (40.75%) Java Developer
3 70 (23.97%) Senior
4 44 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 36 (12.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 35 (11.99%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (8.90%) Java Engineer
8 23 (7.88%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 15 (5.14%) Architect
11 14 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.11%) Backend Developer
14 11 (3.77%) Fidessa Developer
15 10 (3.42%) AWS Developer
15 10 (3.42%) Lead
16 9 (3.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 8 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
17 8 (2.74%) Java Architect
18 7 (2.40%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (70.21%) Spring Boot
2 117 (40.07%) Kafka
3 94 (32.19%) RESTful
4 76 (26.03%) REST
5 72 (24.66%) React
6 69 (23.63%) AngularJS
7 47 (16.10%) Node.js
8 35 (11.99%) CSS
9 34 (11.64%) HTML
10 29 (9.93%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.19%) Vue
12 18 (6.16%) WireMock
13 17 (5.82%) JPA
14 16 (5.48%) Web Services
15 15 (5.14%) OAuth
16 14 (4.79%) J2EE
16 14 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
16 14 (4.79%) Spring Cloud
16 14 (4.79%) Spring MVC
17 13 (4.45%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.18%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.11%) Equities
5 10 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.05%) Derivative
8 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.71%) NHS
10 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.68%) DataPower
11 2 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.68%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.90%) Linux
2 7 (2.40%) Unix
2 7 (2.40%) Windows
3 4 (1.37%) VMS
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.68%) Solaris
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (64.38%) Microservices
2 165 (56.51%) CI/CD
3 113 (38.70%) Agile
4 111 (38.01%) DevOps
5 92 (31.51%) Containerisation
6 68 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (22.26%) Event-Driven
8 64 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (19.52%) Software Engineering
10 50 (17.12%) TDD
11 47 (16.10%) Observability
12 45 (15.41%) Code Quality
13 40 (13.70%) Test Automation
14 37 (12.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 36 (12.33%) Scrum
16 34 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (10.96%) Design Patterns
18 30 (10.27%) Performance Tuning
19 29 (9.93%) Clean Code
19 29 (9.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 272 (93.15%) Java
2 73 (25.00%) SQL
3 49 (16.78%) JavaScript
4 48 (16.44%) TypeScript
5 40 (13.70%) Python
6 15 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.05%) C#
7 6 (2.05%) Go
7 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.71%) Ruby
9 4 (1.37%) Scala
10 3 (1.03%) PHP
10 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) COBOL
11 1 (0.34%) JCL
11 1 (0.34%) Korn
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) REXX
Qualifications
1 92 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 83 (28.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.45%) Degree
4 10 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.68%) OCP
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) CCSP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.34%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) OSCP
8 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.62%) QA
2 14 (4.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.05%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.71%) NIST
4 5 (1.71%) SLA
5 3 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) HL7
6 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.68%) PSD2
6 2 (0.68%) SEPA
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 129 (44.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Postfix
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 136 (46.58%) Kubernetes
2 35 (11.99%) Terraform
3 22 (7.53%) Grafana
4 17 (5.82%) Argo
5 14 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.08%) Ansible
7 6 (2.05%) Istio
8 4 (1.37%) Rancher
9 2 (0.68%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (6.85%) Oracle
2 18 (6.16%) Google
2 18 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.45%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.11%) Sybase
5 9 (3.08%) Solace
5 9 (3.08%) Splunk
6 8 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.05%) IBM
8 5 (1.71%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.37%) Confluent
9 4 (1.37%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.03%) Adobe
10 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.03%) Informatica
10 3 (1.03%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.68%) New Relic
11 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow