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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 149 176
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 -89
Contract jobs citing Spring 292 231 237
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 1.82% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 6.99% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 147 180
10th Percentile £389 £376 £400
25th Percentile £461 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.38% -10.58%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £688
90th Percentile £695 £743 £838
England median daily rate £500 £534 £538
% change year-on-year -6.28% -0.74% -14.68%
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% -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 4,120 3,307 4,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.74% 26.11% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,793 2,304 3,322
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £665 £707 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 27
10th Percentile £27.80 £34.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £38.69 £26.76
Median hourly rate £45.50 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +27.06% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.04 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £69.88 £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 25 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 25 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 38 £525 -4.55% 19
South London -1 20 £521 +9.87%
East London -6 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
1 144 (49.32%) AWS
2 92 (31.51%) Azure
3 60 (20.55%) GCP
3 60 (20.55%) GitHub
4 32 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (10.27%) Serverless
6 28 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.25%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (6.16%) Azure AKS
10 18 (6.16%) OpenShift
11 15 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (4.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 12 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (4.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.11%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
14 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 68 (23.29%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (17.12%) NoSQL
3 36 (12.33%) MongoDB
4 28 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.19%) MySQL
6 19 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.48%) DynamoDB
7 16 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (5.14%) SQL Server
9 12 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
9 12 (4.11%) DB2
10 11 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.40%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.40%) Redis
11 7 (2.40%) Tick Data
12 6 (2.05%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.71%) Big Data
14 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.03%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 76 (26.03%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.55%) Git
3 59 (20.21%) JUnit
4 43 (14.73%) GitLab
5 32 (10.96%) Mockito
6 30 (10.27%) Maven
7 26 (8.90%) JIRA
8 15 (5.14%) Gradle
9 14 (4.79%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.71%) Gatling
11 5 (1.71%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.71%) Postman
12 4 (1.37%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.37%) JMeter
12 4 (1.37%) Selenium
12 4 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.03%) jMock
13 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 73 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.84%) Finance
3 46 (15.75%) Banking
4 34 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.45%) Investment Banking
6 13 (4.45%) Retail
7 7 (2.40%) Law
8 5 (1.71%) Front Office
8 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Legal
11 2 (0.68%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) Police
12 1 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (59.25%) Developer
2 117 (40.07%) Java Developer
3 70 (23.97%) Senior
4 44 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.99%) Senior Java Developer
6 34 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (8.90%) Java Engineer
8 24 (8.22%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.82%) Architect
10 16 (5.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 14 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 13 (4.45%) Backend Developer
12 13 (4.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.77%) Fidessa Developer
14 10 (3.42%) AWS Developer
14 10 (3.42%) Lead
15 9 (3.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.74%) GCP Engineer
16 8 (2.74%) Java Architect
17 7 (2.40%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (70.55%) Spring Boot
2 114 (39.04%) Kafka
3 94 (32.19%) RESTful
4 74 (25.34%) REST
5 70 (23.97%) React
6 66 (22.60%) AngularJS
7 46 (15.75%) Node.js
8 32 (10.96%) CSS
9 31 (10.62%) HTML
10 28 (9.59%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.51%) Vue
12 18 (6.16%) WireMock
13 16 (5.48%) JPA
14 15 (5.14%) OAuth
14 15 (5.14%) Web Services
15 14 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
15 14 (4.79%) Spring Cloud
16 13 (4.45%) J2EE
16 13 (4.45%) Spring MVC
17 12 (4.11%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.77%) Equities
5 9 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.05%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.05%) Derivative
7 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.05%) NHS
8 4 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.56%) Linux
2 7 (2.40%) Windows
3 6 (2.05%) Unix
4 4 (1.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Solaris
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 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 94 (32.19%) Containerisation
6 67 (22.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (22.26%) Event-Driven
8 60 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (20.21%) Software Engineering
10 49 (16.78%) TDD
11 47 (16.10%) Observability
12 45 (15.41%) Code Quality
13 40 (13.70%) Test Automation
14 39 (13.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 37 (12.67%) Scrum
16 35 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (10.96%) Design Patterns
18 30 (10.27%) Clean Code
19 29 (9.93%) Performance Tuning
20 27 (9.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 271 (92.81%) Java
2 68 (23.29%) SQL
3 47 (16.10%) JavaScript
3 47 (16.10%) TypeScript
4 38 (13.01%) Python
5 15 (5.14%) Kotlin
6 6 (2.05%) C#
6 6 (2.05%) Go
7 4 (1.37%) Ruby
7 4 (1.37%) Scala
7 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.03%) PHP
8 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) COBOL
9 1 (0.34%) JCL
9 1 (0.34%) Perl
9 1 (0.34%) REXX
9 1 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 91 (31.16%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.11%) Degree
4 9 (3.08%) 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%) HL7
5 3 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
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 16 (5.48%) Argo
5 14 (4.79%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.42%) 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 19 (6.51%) Oracle
2 18 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.82%) Google
4 12 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.77%) Sybase
6 9 (3.08%) Solace
7 8 (2.74%) Splunk
8 7 (2.40%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.05%) IBM
10 5 (1.71%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.37%) Confluent
11 4 (1.37%) ION Trading
12 3 (1.03%) Adobe
12 3 (1.03%) Bloomberg
12 3 (1.03%) Informatica
12 3 (1.03%) Tradeweb
13 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
13 2 (0.68%) New Relic
13 2 (0.68%) Qualys