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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 145 142
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Spring 376 266 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.97% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.39% 7.57% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 166 240
10th Percentile £400 £361 £404
25th Percentile £463 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £558
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -6.28% -11.51%
75th Percentile £626 £586 £678
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% -35.61%

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 4,481 3,512 4,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.69% 25.96% 27.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,443 3,438
10th Percentile £391 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £706 £719
90th Percentile £776 £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% -8.19%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -3 54 £525 +5.00% 10
South London -9 23 £521 +3.58% 3
East London +2 2 £421 +68.40% 6
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 20 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.26%) Apache
3 11 (2.93%) Camunda
4 10 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.66%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.66%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.66%) nginx
5 5 (1.33%) Confluence
5 5 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.80%) JBoss
7 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.53%) CMS
8 2 (0.53%) Drupal
8 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.53%) Mule
8 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) Maya
1 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.06%) Quorum
2 4 (1.06%) Ripple
3 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 170 (45.21%) AWS
2 86 (22.87%) Azure
3 59 (15.69%) GCP
4 57 (15.16%) GitHub
5 38 (10.11%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.85%) Serverless
7 18 (4.79%) Amazon S3
7 18 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.52%) OpenShift
9 16 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.19%) Azure AKS
12 11 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (2.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (1.86%) AWS CodePipeline
17 6 (1.60%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.13%) HTTP
2 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (22.87%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.23%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.84%) MongoDB
4 34 (9.04%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.65%) MySQL
6 17 (4.52%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.46%) Redis
9 9 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (2.39%) Flink
10 8 (2.13%) Big Data
11 7 (1.86%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.33%) Db2
13 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 87 (23.14%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.28%) Git
3 66 (17.55%) JUnit
4 42 (11.17%) Mockito
5 41 (10.90%) Gradle
6 36 (9.57%) Maven
7 35 (9.31%) GitLab
8 19 (5.05%) JIRA
9 14 (3.72%) Liquibase
10 11 (2.93%) SonarQube
11 10 (2.66%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.33%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.33%) Postman
13 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.06%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.06%) Flyway
13 4 (1.06%) jMock
14 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (28.72%) Finance
2 65 (17.29%) Banking
3 60 (15.96%) Social Skills
4 51 (13.56%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.52%) Retail
7 16 (4.26%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.13%) Law
9 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.86%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.06%) Police
10 4 (1.06%) Publishing
11 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.53%) Legal
12 2 (0.53%) Military
12 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (53.19%) Developer
2 154 (40.96%) Java Developer
3 75 (19.95%) Senior
4 60 (15.96%) Java Engineer
5 42 (11.17%) Senior Developer
5 42 (11.17%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.78%) Backend Developer
7 32 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (5.59%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (5.59%) Lead
9 21 (5.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 20 (5.32%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (3.72%) Architect
12 14 (3.72%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.13%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.13%) Software Developer
15 7 (1.86%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 301 (80.05%) Spring Boot
2 128 (34.04%) Kafka
3 104 (27.66%) REST
4 98 (26.06%) RESTful
5 74 (19.68%) React
6 41 (10.90%) Node.js
7 40 (10.64%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.12%) HTML
9 22 (5.85%) Spring MVC
10 21 (5.59%) CSS
10 21 (5.59%) Web Services
11 20 (5.32%) Hibernate
12 18 (4.79%) JPA
13 17 (4.52%) J2EE
14 16 (4.26%) WireMock
15 15 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.72%) OpenAPI
16 14 (3.72%) Swagger
17 13 (3.46%) Next.js
17 13 (3.46%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 76 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 52 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.66%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.13%) Derivative
9 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.60%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.45%) Linux
2 8 (2.13%) Unix
2 8 (2.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.80%) Solaris
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (59.84%) Microservices
2 201 (53.46%) CI/CD
3 159 (42.29%) Agile
4 123 (32.71%) DevOps
5 116 (30.85%) Containerisation
6 98 (26.06%) Software Engineering
7 88 (23.40%) Event-Driven
8 72 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 71 (18.88%) TDD
10 63 (16.76%) Test Automation
11 58 (15.43%) Observability
11 58 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (14.89%) Scrum
13 55 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 51 (13.56%) Code Quality
15 39 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (10.11%) Clean Code
17 37 (9.84%) Design Patterns
18 31 (8.24%) Migration
19 29 (7.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 366 (97.34%) Java
2 109 (28.99%) SQL
3 66 (17.55%) TypeScript
4 54 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 42 (11.17%) Python
6 21 (5.59%) PL/SQL
7 19 (5.05%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.39%) C#
8 9 (2.39%) Scala
9 5 (1.33%) Ruby
9 5 (1.33%) Solidity
10 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.53%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 124 (32.98%) Security Cleared
2 112 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.52%) Degree
4 15 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.78%) QA
2 20 (5.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.86%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.33%) SEPA
4 5 (1.33%) SLA
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 167 (44.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Postfix
3 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 158 (42.02%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.71%) Terraform
3 26 (6.91%) Grafana
4 18 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.93%) Ansible
6 9 (2.39%) Kibana
7 5 (1.33%) Control-M
8 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.53%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 51 (13.56%) Oracle
2 17 (4.52%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.26%) Google
3 16 (4.26%) IBM
4 12 (3.19%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.19%) Splunk
5 10 (2.66%) Sybase
6 8 (2.13%) Solace
7 7 (1.86%) TikTok
8 5 (1.33%) New Relic
8 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.80%) Confluent
10 3 (0.80%) Informatica
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.53%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.53%) MKS
11 2 (0.53%) Netlify
11 2 (0.53%) Okta