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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 168 177
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -109
Contract jobs citing Spring 248 227 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 1.59% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.55% 6.21% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 136 191
10th Percentile £356 £456 £420
25th Percentile £435 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +3.54% -16.30%
75th Percentile £629 £652 £653
90th Percentile £695 £816 £838
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -13.73%

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 3,789 3,653 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 25.64% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,387 3,426
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £35.05 £34.65 £29.60
25th Percentile £43.13 £38.38 £35.79
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -18.07%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £69.25
90th Percentile £71.60 £72.80 £75.29
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.45% -20.17%

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 7 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 7 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 -13 29 £541 -7.48% 15
South London -2 9 £531 +11.79% 2
East London +5 3 £540 -6.09% 3
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 11 (4.44%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) Camunda
3 3 (1.21%) CICS
4 2 (0.81%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) Drupal
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
5 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 124 (50.00%) AWS
2 95 (38.31%) Azure
3 60 (24.19%) GCP
4 42 (16.94%) GitHub
5 26 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (8.06%) OpenShift
7 18 (7.26%) Serverless
8 17 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (6.05%) Amazon S3
9 15 (6.05%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (4.44%) Cloud Run
13 10 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (2.42%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.21%) DNS
2 2 (0.81%) SSL
3 1 (0.40%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (24.19%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (17.34%) Relational Database
3 34 (13.71%) NoSQL
4 30 (12.10%) MongoDB
5 20 (8.06%) MySQL
6 17 (6.85%) DB2
7 12 (4.84%) SQL Server
8 11 (4.44%) Redis
9 9 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.63%) Oracle Database
10 8 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (3.23%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.02%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.02%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.61%) Tick Data
14 3 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (1.21%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 54 (21.77%) Jenkins
2 47 (18.95%) JUnit
3 45 (18.15%) Git
4 30 (12.10%) GitLab
5 26 (10.48%) Maven
6 22 (8.87%) Mockito
7 18 (7.26%) JIRA
8 12 (4.84%) Gradle
9 11 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (3.23%) Postman
12 7 (2.82%) SonarQube
13 6 (2.42%) JMeter
13 6 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.42%) SoapUI
14 5 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (2.02%) Subversion
14 5 (2.02%) Xcode
14 5 (2.02%) XCTest
15 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
General
1 91 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 58 (23.39%) Finance
3 55 (22.18%) Banking
4 26 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 17 (6.85%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.82%) Retail
8 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (60.89%) Developer
2 121 (48.79%) Java Developer
3 68 (27.42%) Senior
4 51 (20.56%) Senior Developer
5 45 (18.15%) Senior Java Developer
6 26 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (8.87%) Java Engineer
7 22 (8.87%) Lead
8 14 (5.65%) Lead Developer
8 14 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.24%) Lead Java Developer
10 12 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.44%) Architect
11 11 (4.44%) SQL Developer
12 10 (4.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.03%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 10 (4.03%) Linux Developer
12 10 (4.03%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 10 (4.03%) Senior SQL Developer
13 9 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (69.35%) Spring Boot
2 99 (39.92%) Kafka
3 68 (27.42%) RESTful
4 56 (22.58%) React
5 55 (22.18%) AngularJS
5 55 (22.18%) REST
6 43 (17.34%) HTML
7 39 (15.73%) Hibernate
8 38 (15.32%) CSS
9 26 (10.48%) Node.js
10 21 (8.47%) JPA
11 19 (7.66%) OAuth
11 19 (7.66%) Vue
12 18 (7.26%) JSON
12 18 (7.26%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (6.85%) OAuth2
14 16 (6.45%) JMS
15 13 (5.24%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (5.24%) Web Services
16 12 (4.84%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.05%) Equities
4 12 (4.84%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (2.02%) Derivative
7 5 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.61%) NHS
9 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.21%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.81%) DataPower
10 2 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.81%) Life Science
10 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.69%) Linux
2 8 (3.23%) Unix
3 4 (1.61%) Windows
4 2 (0.81%) VMS
4 2 (0.81%) zOS
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (61.69%) Microservices
2 130 (52.42%) CI/CD
3 103 (41.53%) Agile
4 91 (36.69%) DevOps
5 74 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (29.44%) Containerisation
7 54 (21.77%) Event-Driven
8 49 (19.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (18.15%) SDLC
10 41 (16.53%) Software Engineering
11 40 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (16.13%) TDD
12 34 (13.71%) Code Quality
13 33 (13.31%) Test Automation
14 32 (12.90%) Design Patterns
14 32 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 29 (11.69%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (11.29%) Observability
17 26 (10.48%) Scrum
18 24 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 236 (95.16%) Java
2 71 (28.63%) SQL
3 53 (21.37%) JavaScript
4 48 (19.35%) Python
5 35 (14.11%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.85%) Shell Script
7 11 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 9 (3.63%) Groovy
9 6 (2.42%) Ruby
10 5 (2.02%) Go
11 4 (1.61%) Bash
12 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.21%) Scala
13 2 (0.81%) C#
13 2 (0.81%) COBOL
13 2 (0.81%) JCL
13 2 (0.81%) Korn
13 2 (0.81%) PHP
13 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.82%) Degree
4 6 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.81%) OCP
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.40%) CCSP
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.40%) CISSP
7 1 (0.40%) OSCP
7 1 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.48%) QA
2 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.61%) ISO 20022
2 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.61%) NIST
2 4 (1.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 2 (0.81%) HL7
4 2 (0.81%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.81%) PSD2
4 2 (0.81%) SEPA
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 115 (46.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 110 (44.35%) Kubernetes
2 42 (16.94%) Terraform
3 16 (6.45%) Argo
4 13 (5.24%) Grafana
5 12 (4.84%) Ansible
5 12 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.02%) Istio
7 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.81%) Kibana
8 2 (0.81%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.81%) Rancher
9 1 (0.40%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (10.48%) Oracle
2 20 (8.06%) Google
3 14 (5.65%) Sybase
4 13 (5.24%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.44%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.03%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.23%) Splunk
8 7 (2.82%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (2.42%) Confluent
10 5 (2.02%) ION Trading
11 4 (1.61%) IBM
11 4 (1.61%) Solace
11 4 (1.61%) TIBCO
11 4 (1.61%) VMware
12 3 (1.21%) Bloomberg
12 3 (1.21%) ForgeRock
12 3 (1.21%) Tradeweb
13 2 (0.81%) Qualys
14 1 (0.40%) CheckPoint
14 1 (0.40%) Salesforce