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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 154 173
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -107
Contract jobs citing Spring 266 229 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.65% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 6.34% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 134 195
10th Percentile £360 £443 £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 £636 £655 £675
90th Percentile £699 £824 £838
England median daily rate £489 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% +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 3,821 3,611 4,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 26.01% 25.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 2,363 3,475
10th Percentile £363 £380 £397
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £663 £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 25 20 31
10th Percentile £35.00 £34.83 £29.72
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.44 £35.94
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% -15.38%

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 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 21 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 -14 26 £581 -0.64% 9
South London +2 14 £521 +9.68% 4
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 8 (3.01%) Camunda
3 4 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) WordPress
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) Drupal
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 11 (4.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 143 (53.76%) AWS
2 96 (36.09%) Azure
3 63 (23.68%) GCP
4 51 (19.17%) GitHub
5 30 (11.28%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (9.40%) Serverless
7 23 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.27%) Amazon S3
9 21 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.89%) OpenShift
10 17 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (4.89%) Azure AKS
13 12 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.14%) Cloud Run
15 10 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
16 8 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) DNS
2 3 (1.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 36 (13.53%) Relational Database
4 35 (13.16%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.14%) MySQL
6 15 (5.64%) DB2
7 14 (5.26%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.51%) DynamoDB
10 10 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (3.76%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (3.38%) Redis
12 7 (2.63%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.63%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.88%) Big Data
14 5 (1.88%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.13%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 64 (24.06%) Jenkins
2 49 (18.42%) JUnit
3 44 (16.54%) Git
4 41 (15.41%) GitLab
5 28 (10.53%) Maven
6 23 (8.65%) Mockito
7 19 (7.14%) JIRA
8 14 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.89%) Gradle
10 12 (4.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.88%) JMeter
11 5 (1.88%) Postman
12 4 (1.50%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.13%) Gatling
13 3 (1.13%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.75%) git-flow
14 2 (0.75%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.75%) XCTest
General
1 92 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.68%) Banking
3 54 (20.30%) Finance
4 29 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.02%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.63%) Retail
8 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.50%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Front Office
9 3 (1.13%) Law
10 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (60.90%) Developer
2 119 (44.74%) Java Developer
3 71 (26.69%) Senior
4 50 (18.80%) Senior Developer
5 44 (16.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 33 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (10.53%) Java Engineer
8 19 (7.14%) Lead
9 14 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.14%) Fidessa Developer
11 11 (4.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.76%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Architect
13 9 (3.38%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.38%) Lead Java Developer
13 9 (3.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 9 (3.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (69.17%) Spring Boot
2 110 (41.35%) Kafka
3 79 (29.70%) RESTful
4 60 (22.56%) React
5 59 (22.18%) REST
6 58 (21.80%) AngularJS
7 40 (15.04%) HTML
8 35 (13.16%) CSS
8 35 (13.16%) Node.js
9 34 (12.78%) Hibernate
10 19 (7.14%) Vue
11 18 (6.77%) JPA
11 18 (6.77%) OAuth
12 17 (6.39%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (6.02%) OAuth2
14 15 (5.64%) JMS
15 14 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
16 13 (4.89%) JSON
17 12 (4.51%) OpenID
17 12 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.39%) Equities
4 9 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.88%) Derivative
7 5 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) NHS
9 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.75%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) Life Science
10 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.15%) Linux
2 5 (1.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.50%) Windows
4 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (62.03%) Microservices
2 147 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 106 (39.85%) Agile
4 100 (37.59%) DevOps
5 87 (32.71%) Containerisation
6 73 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (24.44%) Event-Driven
8 60 (22.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 41 (15.41%) TDD
11 40 (15.04%) SDLC
12 39 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (13.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 35 (13.16%) Test Automation
14 34 (12.78%) Code Quality
15 33 (12.41%) Design Patterns
16 32 (12.03%) Scrum
17 29 (10.90%) Performance Tuning
18 28 (10.53%) Observability
19 26 (9.77%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 252 (94.74%) Java
2 70 (26.32%) SQL
3 51 (19.17%) Python
4 48 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 33 (12.41%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.51%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.26%) Go
7 6 (2.26%) Groovy
7 6 (2.26%) Ruby
8 5 (1.88%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.13%) Bash
10 3 (1.13%) C#
11 2 (0.75%) PHP
11 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.75%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.38%) Clojure
12 1 (0.38%) Korn
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.26%) Degree
4 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.75%) OCP
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.38%) CCSP
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CISSP
7 1 (0.38%) OSCP
7 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.15%) QA
2 7 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.88%) NIST
3 5 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.50%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.13%) NCSC
6 2 (0.75%) HL7
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.75%) PSD2
6 2 (0.75%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) GDPR
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 131 (49.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 131 (49.25%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.41%) Terraform
3 16 (6.02%) Argo
4 14 (5.26%) Grafana
5 13 (4.89%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.51%) Ansible
7 5 (1.88%) Istio
8 4 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.75%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.75%) Rancher
9 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (8.27%) Oracle
2 20 (7.52%) Google
3 14 (5.26%) Sybase
4 12 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.51%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.26%) Confluent
6 6 (2.26%) Solace
7 5 (1.88%) Splunk
8 4 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.50%) IBM
8 4 (1.50%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.50%) VMware
9 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.13%) ForgeRock
9 3 (1.13%) Informatica
9 3 (1.13%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.75%) Adobe
10 2 (0.75%) Qualys
11 1 (0.38%) Calypso