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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 145 136
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 393 261 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.98% 1.93% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.69% 7.40% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 163 240
10th Percentile £400 £363 £403
25th Percentile £463 £416 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -5.83% -12.55%
75th Percentile £630 £586 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £838
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -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 4,522 3,527 4,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.77% 26.08% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,998 2,452 3,469
10th Percentile £384 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £718
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 26
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 11 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in London

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 11 July 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 -6 56 £525 +5.00% 11
South London -5 25 £521 +3.58% 4
East London 0 2 £421 +68.40% 4
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 21 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.07%) Apache
3 11 (2.80%) Camunda
4 10 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.54%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.54%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.54%) nginx
5 8 (2.04%) Confluence
6 5 (1.27%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.02%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.76%) JBoss
8 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.51%) CMS
9 2 (0.51%) Drupal
9 2 (0.51%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.51%) Mule
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.76%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.25%) Maya
2 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.27%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.02%) Quorum
2 4 (1.02%) Ripple
3 3 (0.76%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 178 (45.29%) AWS
2 91 (23.16%) Azure
3 61 (15.52%) GitHub
4 59 (15.01%) GCP
5 39 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.62%) Serverless
7 22 (5.60%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (4.07%) OpenShift
10 14 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 12 (3.05%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
16 7 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.04%) HTTP
2 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (23.16%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (12.72%) NoSQL
3 42 (10.69%) MongoDB
4 36 (9.16%) Relational Database
5 24 (6.11%) MySQL
6 20 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (4.58%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.58%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.05%) Redis
9 8 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (2.04%) Big Data
9 8 (2.04%) Flink
10 7 (1.78%) Db2
11 6 (1.53%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.27%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 95 (24.17%) Jenkins
2 79 (20.10%) Git
3 69 (17.56%) JUnit
4 43 (10.94%) Mockito
5 42 (10.69%) GitLab
6 40 (10.18%) Gradle
6 40 (10.18%) Maven
7 22 (5.60%) JIRA
8 14 (3.56%) Liquibase
9 11 (2.80%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.54%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.27%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.27%) Postman
12 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.02%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.02%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.02%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.02%) Flyway
12 4 (1.02%) jMock
13 3 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 107 (27.23%) Finance
2 69 (17.56%) Banking
3 63 (16.03%) Social Skills
4 52 (13.23%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.33%) Retail
8 8 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.04%) Law
9 7 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.78%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.02%) Front Office
10 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Police
10 4 (1.02%) Publishing
11 3 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Legal
12 2 (0.51%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (54.20%) Developer
2 158 (40.20%) Java Developer
3 80 (20.36%) Senior
4 64 (16.28%) Java Engineer
5 44 (11.20%) Senior Developer
6 42 (10.69%) Software Engineer
7 34 (8.65%) Backend Developer
7 34 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (5.60%) Data Engineer
9 22 (5.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 21 (5.34%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (5.34%) Lead
11 19 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) Architect
14 11 (2.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 10 (2.54%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (1.78%) Applications Developer
16 7 (1.78%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (78.37%) Spring Boot
2 136 (34.61%) Kafka
3 105 (26.72%) RESTful
4 102 (25.95%) REST
5 80 (20.36%) React
6 48 (12.21%) Node.js
7 44 (11.20%) AngularJS
8 27 (6.87%) HTML
9 25 (6.36%) CSS
10 21 (5.34%) Spring MVC
10 21 (5.34%) Web Services
11 20 (5.09%) Hibernate
12 19 (4.83%) WireMock
13 18 (4.58%) JPA
14 17 (4.33%) J2EE
15 16 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.56%) OpenAPI
16 14 (3.56%) Swagger
17 13 (3.31%) Next.js
17 13 (3.31%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.34%) Cloud Native
2 50 (12.72%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.04%) Derivative
9 8 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.53%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.02%) Equities
13 4 (1.02%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.12%) Linux
2 8 (2.04%) Unix
2 8 (2.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.76%) Solaris
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.25%) Android
6 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (59.54%) Microservices
2 210 (53.44%) CI/CD
3 167 (42.49%) Agile
4 127 (32.32%) DevOps
5 125 (31.81%) Containerisation
6 97 (24.68%) Software Engineering
7 90 (22.90%) Event-Driven
8 82 (20.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 77 (19.59%) TDD
10 64 (16.28%) Test Automation
11 60 (15.27%) Scrum
12 58 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (13.99%) Observability
14 54 (13.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 53 (13.49%) Code Quality
16 39 (9.92%) Clean Code
17 38 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (9.67%) Design Patterns
18 30 (7.63%) Migration
18 30 (7.63%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 382 (97.20%) Java
2 112 (28.50%) SQL
3 67 (17.05%) TypeScript
4 58 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 43 (10.94%) Python
6 21 (5.34%) PL/SQL
7 19 (4.83%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.54%) Scala
9 9 (2.29%) C#
10 5 (1.27%) Ruby
10 5 (1.27%) Solidity
11 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.51%) PHP
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) Groovy
13 1 (0.25%) Perl
13 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 129 (32.82%) Security Cleared
2 116 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.33%) Degree
4 15 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.91%) QA
2 23 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.78%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.27%) SEPA
4 5 (1.27%) SLA
5 2 (0.51%) EMIR
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) MiFID
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) HL7
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) ITGC
6 1 (0.25%) PSD2
6 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (45.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Postfix
3 2 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 167 (42.49%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.38%) Terraform
3 25 (6.36%) Grafana
4 17 (4.33%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.80%) Ansible
6 9 (2.29%) Kibana
7 5 (1.27%) Control-M
8 3 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.51%) Rancher
10 1 (0.25%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.25%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (12.72%) Oracle
2 17 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.07%) IBM
4 15 (3.82%) Google
5 12 (3.05%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.05%) Splunk
5 12 (3.05%) Sybase
6 10 (2.54%) Solace
7 6 (1.53%) TikTok
8 5 (1.27%) Informatica
8 5 (1.27%) New Relic
8 5 (1.27%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.76%) Adobe
10 3 (0.76%) Confluent
10 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.51%) Netlify
11 2 (0.51%) Okta
11 2 (0.51%) Salesforce