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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 156 169
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 -71
Contract jobs citing Spring 341 218 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.78% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.19% 6.86% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 134 208
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £631 £630 £652
90th Percentile £743 £750 £838
England median daily rate £511 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +2.10% -7.41% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.63 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £96.75 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.00% +30.78% -36.72%

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 4,164 3,178 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 25.97% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,768 2,221 3,353
10th Percentile £366 £385 £375
25th Percentile £437 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 25
10th Percentile £23.65 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +14.12% -36.80%
75th Percentile £59.72 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £81.25 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -7 51 £525 - 11
South London -10 23 £521 +9.58%
East London -5 2 £421 +68.40% 2
West London - 1 £300 - 3
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 18 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.11%) Apache
3 13 (3.81%) Camunda
4 9 (2.64%) Confluence
5 7 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.76%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.76%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.88%) JBoss
8 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.88%) nginx
8 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.59%) CICS
9 2 (0.59%) CMS
9 2 (0.59%) Drupal
9 2 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.59%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 174 (51.03%) AWS
2 79 (23.17%) Azure
3 62 (18.18%) GitHub
4 58 (17.01%) GCP
5 42 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (8.50%) Serverless
7 28 (8.21%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (7.92%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (4.69%) OpenShift
12 13 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.52%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.23%) Cloud Run
15 10 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.76%) HTTP
2 4 (1.17%) DNS
3 3 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.75%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (14.96%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.56%) MongoDB
4 28 (8.21%) Relational Database
5 24 (7.04%) MySQL
6 21 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (6.16%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.52%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (3.23%) Redis
10 9 (2.64%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.64%) Big Data
11 8 (2.35%) Flink
12 7 (2.05%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.05%) DB2
12 7 (2.05%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.88%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 86 (25.22%) Jenkins
2 59 (17.30%) JUnit
3 55 (16.13%) Git
4 45 (13.20%) GitLab
5 40 (11.73%) Mockito
6 28 (8.21%) Maven
7 25 (7.33%) Gradle
8 21 (6.16%) JIRA
9 13 (3.81%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.23%) Liquibase
11 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.47%) Gatling
13 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.17%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.17%) jMock
13 4 (1.17%) Postman
14 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.88%) JMeter
14 3 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 78 (22.87%) Finance
2 58 (17.01%) Banking
3 56 (16.42%) Social Skills
4 39 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.28%) Retail
6 14 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.11%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.76%) Law
8 6 (1.76%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.17%) Front Office
9 4 (1.17%) Publishing
10 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.59%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Police
11 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (49.85%) Developer
2 113 (33.14%) Java Developer
3 76 (22.29%) Senior
4 53 (15.54%) Java Engineer
5 40 (11.73%) Senior Developer
5 40 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (8.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (5.87%) Backend Developer
9 19 (5.57%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (4.99%) Lead
11 15 (4.40%) Architect
11 15 (4.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 14 (4.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.35%) Java Architect
14 8 (2.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (80.35%) Spring Boot
2 129 (37.83%) Kafka
3 103 (30.21%) RESTful
4 84 (24.63%) REST
5 73 (21.41%) React
6 50 (14.66%) AngularJS
7 46 (13.49%) Node.js
8 25 (7.33%) HTML
9 21 (6.16%) CSS
9 21 (6.16%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.87%) Spring Cloud
10 20 (5.87%) Web Services
10 20 (5.87%) WireMock
11 17 (4.99%) OAuth
12 16 (4.69%) JPA
12 16 (4.69%) Next.js
13 15 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (4.40%) Spring MVC
14 14 (4.11%) J2EE
14 14 (4.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.73%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.28%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.76%) NHS
10 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.17%) Derivative
11 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.17%) Equities
11 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.17%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.33%) Linux
2 8 (2.35%) Windows
3 6 (1.76%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.88%) Solaris
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.59%) VMS
5 2 (0.59%) zOS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (63.64%) Microservices
2 182 (53.37%) CI/CD
3 130 (38.12%) Agile
4 123 (36.07%) Containerisation
5 119 (34.90%) DevOps
6 87 (25.51%) Software Engineering
7 77 (22.58%) Event-Driven
8 69 (20.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 61 (17.89%) TDD
10 59 (17.30%) Observability
11 49 (14.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 44 (12.90%) Code Quality
12 44 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (12.90%) Scrum
13 42 (12.32%) Clean Code
13 42 (12.32%) Test Automation
14 37 (10.85%) Performance Tuning
15 33 (9.68%) Design Patterns
15 33 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 319 (93.55%) Java
2 90 (26.39%) SQL
3 54 (15.84%) JavaScript
4 49 (14.37%) TypeScript
5 30 (8.80%) Python
6 16 (4.69%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.05%) C#
7 7 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.05%) Scala
8 4 (1.17%) Go
8 4 (1.17%) Ruby
9 3 (0.88%) PHP
9 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.29%) Bash
10 1 (0.29%) JCL
10 1 (0.29%) Korn
10 1 (0.29%) Perl
10 1 (0.29%) REXX
10 1 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (31.67%) Security Cleared
2 98 (28.74%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.11%) Degree
4 11 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) OCP
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.09%) QA
2 17 (4.99%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.64%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.76%) SEPA
5 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.47%) SLA
6 4 (1.17%) NIST
7 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.59%) EMIR
7 2 (0.59%) GDPR
7 2 (0.59%) HL7
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) PSD2
8 1 (0.29%) ITGC
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 165 (48.39%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Postfix
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 160 (46.92%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.97%) Terraform
3 28 (8.21%) Grafana
4 19 (5.57%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.35%) Ansible
5 8 (2.35%) Argo
6 7 (2.05%) Kibana
7 6 (1.76%) Istio
8 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.59%) Rancher
10 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 25 (7.33%) Oracle
2 14 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.52%) Google
4 11 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.23%) IBM
5 8 (2.35%) Solace
5 8 (2.35%) Splunk
6 7 (2.05%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.05%) Sybase
7 6 (1.76%) Confluent
8 4 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.17%) New Relic
9 3 (0.88%) Adobe
9 3 (0.88%) Informatica
10 2 (0.59%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.59%) MKS
10 2 (0.59%) Netlify
10 2 (0.59%) Okta
10 2 (0.59%) Salesforce