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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 151 171
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -88
Contract jobs citing Spring 290 230 238
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 1.80% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.07% 6.91% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 145 182
10th Percentile £388 £373 £400
25th Percentile £461 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.46% -9.31%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £688
90th Percentile £695 £750 £838
England median daily rate £500 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -6.89% -0.56% -14.29%
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 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -34.46%

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 4,102 3,327 4,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.87% 26.08% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 2,302 3,334
10th Percentile £363 £385 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £834 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £543
% change year-on-year -2.42% -0.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 27
10th Percentile £27.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £38.44 £26.76
Median hourly rate £46.00 £50.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +18.24% -34.62%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £82.38 £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 20 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 20 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 -23 35 £525 -6.67% 19
South London -1 20 £521 +9.87%
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 (5.17%) Confluence
2 11 (3.79%) Camunda
3 6 (2.07%) Ethereum
3 6 (2.07%) Hyperledger
4 5 (1.72%) Apache
4 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.03%) JBoss
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.69%) CICS
7 2 (0.69%) Drupal
7 2 (0.69%) nginx
7 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.69%) 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 (3.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 144 (49.66%) AWS
2 94 (32.41%) Azure
3 60 (20.69%) GCP
3 60 (20.69%) GitHub
4 32 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (10.34%) Serverless
6 28 (9.66%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.31%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (6.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (6.55%) OpenShift
10 18 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (5.86%) Azure AKS
12 14 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.79%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.07%) HTTP
2 4 (1.38%) DNS
3 3 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.48%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 37 (12.76%) MongoDB
4 30 (10.34%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.24%) MySQL
6 19 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (5.52%) SQL Server
8 15 (5.17%) DynamoDB
9 13 (4.48%) DB2
10 12 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.10%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.76%) Redis
14 7 (2.41%) DocumentDB
14 7 (2.41%) Tick Data
15 6 (2.07%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.72%) Big Data
17 4 (1.38%) Oracle Database
18 3 (1.03%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 77 (26.55%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.03%) JUnit
3 60 (20.69%) Git
4 43 (14.83%) GitLab
5 33 (11.38%) Mockito
6 30 (10.34%) Maven
7 27 (9.31%) JIRA
8 14 (4.83%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.83%) Gradle
9 9 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.07%) Postman
11 5 (1.72%) Gatling
11 5 (1.72%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.38%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.38%) JMeter
12 4 (1.38%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.38%) Selenium
12 4 (1.38%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.03%) jMock
General
1 75 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 55 (18.97%) Finance
3 48 (16.55%) Banking
4 34 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.83%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.48%) Retail
8 6 (2.07%) Law
9 5 (1.72%) Front Office
9 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 1 (0.34%) Automotive
13 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.34%) Local Government
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 173 (59.66%) Developer
2 117 (40.34%) Java Developer
3 69 (23.79%) Senior
4 43 (14.83%) Senior Developer
5 35 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 26 (8.97%) Java Engineer
7 23 (7.93%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 15 (5.17%) Architect
10 14 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.14%) Backend Developer
13 11 (3.79%) Fidessa Developer
14 10 (3.45%) AWS Developer
14 10 (3.45%) Lead
15 9 (3.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
16 8 (2.76%) Java Architect
17 7 (2.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 116 (40.00%) Kafka
3 93 (32.07%) RESTful
4 75 (25.86%) REST
5 72 (24.83%) React
6 69 (23.79%) AngularJS
7 46 (15.86%) Node.js
8 35 (12.07%) CSS
9 34 (11.72%) HTML
10 29 (10.00%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.24%) Vue
12 18 (6.21%) WireMock
13 17 (5.86%) JPA
14 16 (5.52%) Web Services
15 15 (5.17%) OAuth
16 14 (4.83%) J2EE
16 14 (4.83%) Spring Cloud
16 14 (4.83%) Spring MVC
17 13 (4.48%) JMS
17 13 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.14%) Equities
5 10 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.07%) Derivative
8 6 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.07%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.72%) NHS
10 4 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.69%) DataPower
12 2 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.69%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.97%) Linux
2 7 (2.41%) Unix
2 7 (2.41%) Windows
3 4 (1.38%) VMS
4 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.69%) Solaris
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (64.14%) Microservices
2 164 (56.55%) CI/CD
3 113 (38.97%) Agile
4 110 (37.93%) DevOps
5 90 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 68 (23.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (22.07%) Event-Driven
7 64 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (19.66%) Software Engineering
9 50 (17.24%) TDD
10 45 (15.52%) Observability
11 44 (15.17%) Code Quality
12 38 (13.10%) Test Automation
13 37 (12.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 36 (12.41%) Scrum
15 34 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (11.03%) Design Patterns
17 29 (10.00%) Clean Code
17 29 (10.00%) SDLC
18 28 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 270 (93.10%) Java
2 73 (25.17%) SQL
3 49 (16.90%) JavaScript
4 48 (16.55%) TypeScript
5 40 (13.79%) Python
6 15 (5.17%) Kotlin
7 6 (2.07%) C#
7 6 (2.07%) Go
7 6 (2.07%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.72%) Ruby
9 4 (1.38%) 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 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.48%) Degree
4 10 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.69%) OCP
7 2 (0.69%) 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 30 (10.34%) QA
2 14 (4.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.07%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.72%) NIST
4 5 (1.72%) SLA
5 3 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 2 (0.69%) HL7
6 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.69%) PSD2
6 2 (0.69%) SEPA
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
System Software
1 128 (44.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Postfix
2 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 134 (46.21%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.07%) Terraform
3 21 (7.24%) Grafana
4 17 (5.86%) Argo
5 13 (4.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.10%) Ansible
7 6 (2.07%) Istio
8 4 (1.38%) Rancher
9 2 (0.69%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (6.90%) Oracle
2 18 (6.21%) Google
2 18 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.14%) Sybase
5 9 (3.10%) Solace
5 9 (3.10%) Splunk
6 8 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.07%) IBM
8 5 (1.72%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.38%) Confluent
9 4 (1.38%) 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 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.69%) New Relic
11 2 (0.69%) ServiceNow