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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 147 181
Rank change year-on-year -6 +34 -109
Contract jobs citing Spring 283 245 240
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 1.81% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 6.91% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 148 182
10th Percentile £363 £407 £400
25th Percentile £455 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £627 £632 £675
90th Percentile £696 £804 £800
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -15.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

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 4,033 3,548 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.87% 26.20% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,718 2,361 3,376
10th Percentile £363 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 31
10th Percentile £28.39 £36.58 £28.51
25th Percentile £35.06 £39.06 £35.94
Median hourly rate £46.50 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62.18 £65.00 £68.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £81.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.62% -16.11%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -28 27 £561 -2.39% 18
South London +4 19 £521 +9.58% 3
East London -1 1 £540 -6.09% 1
West London - 1 £300 -
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 (5.30%) Confluence
2 12 (4.24%) Camunda
3 6 (2.12%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.12%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.77%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) CICS
6 2 (0.71%) Drupal
6 2 (0.71%) JBoss
6 2 (0.71%) WordPress
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 138 (48.76%) AWS
2 87 (30.74%) Azure
3 65 (22.97%) GCP
4 54 (19.08%) GitHub
5 32 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (8.48%) Serverless
7 23 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (7.77%) Amazon S3
8 22 (7.77%) OpenShift
9 19 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (6.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (5.65%) Cloud Run
12 15 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
17 8 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) HTTP
2 4 (1.41%) DNS
3 3 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (23.67%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (16.25%) NoSQL
3 43 (15.19%) MongoDB
4 34 (12.01%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.42%) MySQL
6 17 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (6.01%) SQL Server
7 15 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (5.30%) DB2
8 12 (4.24%) DynamoDB
9 11 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.18%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.18%) Redis
12 7 (2.47%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.47%) Tick Data
13 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.77%) Big Data
15 4 (1.41%) Oracle Database
16 3 (1.06%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 70 (24.73%) Jenkins
2 57 (20.14%) JUnit
3 53 (18.73%) Git
4 44 (15.55%) GitLab
5 27 (9.54%) Maven
6 26 (9.19%) JIRA
7 23 (8.13%) Mockito
8 15 (5.30%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.24%) Gradle
9 12 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.12%) JMeter
11 4 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.41%) Gatling
11 4 (1.41%) Postman
11 4 (1.41%) Selenium
11 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 83 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.14%) Finance
3 51 (18.02%) Banking
4 31 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.30%) Investment Banking
7 11 (3.89%) Retail
8 5 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Front Office
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 174 (61.48%) Developer
2 118 (41.70%) Java Developer
3 75 (26.50%) Senior
4 51 (18.02%) Senior Developer
5 43 (15.19%) Senior Java Developer
6 40 (14.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (9.19%) Java Engineer
8 15 (5.30%) Lead
8 15 (5.30%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 13 (4.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 12 (4.24%) Architect
10 12 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Backend Developer
11 11 (3.89%) Fidessa Developer
11 11 (3.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (3.53%) AWS Developer
13 8 (2.83%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.47%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (69.96%) Spring Boot
2 119 (42.05%) Kafka
3 87 (30.74%) RESTful
4 74 (26.15%) REST
5 69 (24.38%) React
6 68 (24.03%) AngularJS
7 44 (15.55%) Node.js
8 37 (13.07%) HTML
9 35 (12.37%) CSS
10 31 (10.95%) Hibernate
11 22 (7.77%) Vue
12 17 (6.01%) JPA
12 17 (6.01%) OAuth
13 16 (5.65%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (5.30%) JMS
14 15 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (5.30%) WireMock
15 14 (4.95%) OAuth2
16 13 (4.59%) Web Services
17 11 (3.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Equities
4 14 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.18%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.12%) Derivative
6 6 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.77%) NHS
8 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.06%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.71%) DataPower
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.71%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.25%) Linux
2 4 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (1.06%) Windows
4 2 (0.71%) VMS
4 2 (0.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (62.19%) Microservices
2 158 (55.83%) CI/CD
3 106 (37.46%) Agile
4 105 (37.10%) DevOps
5 86 (30.39%) Containerisation
6 68 (24.03%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (21.20%) Event-Driven
9 51 (18.02%) Software Engineering
10 42 (14.84%) Code Quality
11 40 (14.13%) TDD
12 39 (13.78%) Observability
12 39 (13.78%) Test Automation
13 38 (13.43%) Scrum
14 37 (13.07%) SDLC
15 33 (11.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 33 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (10.60%) Design Patterns
17 28 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
18 27 (9.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 264 (93.29%) Java
2 61 (21.55%) SQL
3 50 (17.67%) JavaScript
4 46 (16.25%) Python
5 43 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.53%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.12%) Go
9 5 (1.77%) Ruby
10 4 (1.41%) C#
10 4 (1.41%) Groovy
10 4 (1.41%) Scala
11 3 (1.06%) PHP
12 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.71%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Bash
13 1 (0.35%) Clojure
13 1 (0.35%) Korn
13 1 (0.35%) XPath
Qualifications
1 84 (29.68%) Security Cleared
2 77 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.83%) Degree
4 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.71%) OCP
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.35%) CCSP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.35%) CISSP
8 1 (0.35%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.25%) QA
2 12 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.77%) NIST
5 3 (1.06%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.71%) PSD2
6 2 (0.71%) SEPA
6 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
System Software
1 123 (43.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 130 (45.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.07%) Terraform
3 20 (7.07%) Grafana
4 17 (6.01%) Argo
5 13 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.53%) Ansible
7 6 (2.12%) Istio
8 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.71%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.71%) Rancher
9 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (8.13%) Google
2 21 (7.42%) Oracle
3 13 (4.59%) Sybase
4 12 (4.24%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.89%) Microsoft
6 9 (3.18%) Splunk
7 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.83%) Solace
8 6 (2.12%) Confluent
9 5 (1.77%) IBM
10 4 (1.41%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.41%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.41%) VMware
11 3 (1.06%) Adobe
11 3 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 3 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.06%) Informatica
11 3 (1.06%) Tradeweb
12 2 (0.71%) Qualys
13 1 (0.35%) Atlassian