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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 149 151
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Spring 372 261 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.93% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 7.46% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 162 217
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £456 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -5.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £604 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £838
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%

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 4,571 3,500 4,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.76% 25.87% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,020 2,429 3,168
10th Percentile £390 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £672 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 25
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.93% -6.53%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -19 50 £528 +17.22% 19
South London -6 25 £550 +5.77% 4
East London -2 2 £421 +6.58% 4
West London -16 2 £500 +66.67% 8
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 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.76%) Apache
3 9 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.42%) nginx
4 6 (1.61%) Camunda
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
5 4 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) JBoss
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.08%) Quorum
1 4 (1.08%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.08%) Ripple
2 3 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 176 (47.31%) AWS
2 91 (24.46%) Azure
3 64 (17.20%) GitHub
4 57 (15.32%) GCP
5 41 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (6.45%) Serverless
7 23 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.11%) OpenShift
10 18 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.69%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (23.92%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (11.83%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.14%) Relational Database
4 30 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.65%) MySQL
6 19 (5.11%) Redis
7 16 (4.30%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.23%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.42%) Flink
12 8 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.15%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.88%) InterSystems Cache
14 6 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.61%) Big Data
15 5 (1.34%) Db2
16 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
16 4 (1.08%) Metadata
17 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 93 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.51%) Git
3 57 (15.32%) JUnit
4 42 (11.29%) Gradle
5 41 (11.02%) GitLab
6 38 (10.22%) Mockito
7 35 (9.41%) Maven
8 17 (4.57%) Liquibase
9 15 (4.03%) JIRA
10 12 (3.23%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.88%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.61%) Flyway
14 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.08%) DbUnit
14 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
14 4 (1.08%) jMock
14 4 (1.08%) Postman
General
1 110 (29.57%) Finance
2 67 (18.01%) Banking
2 67 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 34 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (4.84%) Retail
6 15 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.15%) Law
8 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.88%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.34%) Back Office
10 4 (1.08%) Front Office
10 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.08%) Police
10 4 (1.08%) Publishing
10 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Military
12 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 204 (54.84%) Developer
2 163 (43.82%) Java Developer
3 84 (22.58%) Senior
4 64 (17.20%) Java Engineer
5 50 (13.44%) Senior Developer
6 46 (12.37%) Software Engineer
7 41 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.41%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.18%) Lead
11 19 (5.11%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 16 (4.30%) Senior Java Engineer
14 14 (3.76%) Architect
15 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.42%) Technical Leader
17 8 (2.15%) Lead Developer
17 8 (2.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (79.84%) Spring Boot
2 124 (33.33%) Kafka
3 103 (27.69%) REST
4 99 (26.61%) RESTful
5 70 (18.82%) React
6 33 (8.87%) Node.js
7 31 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.45%) HTML
9 23 (6.18%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (5.91%) CSS
10 22 (5.91%) Jakarta EE
11 21 (5.65%) Web Services
12 20 (5.38%) Hibernate
13 18 (4.84%) Spring MVC
14 16 (4.30%) Spring Cloud
15 15 (4.03%) OpenAPI
15 15 (4.03%) Swagger
16 14 (3.76%) JPA
17 13 (3.49%) JMS
18 12 (3.23%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 87 (23.39%) Cloud Native
2 61 (16.40%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.15%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.15%) Derivative
11 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.34%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.08%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.33%) Linux
2 17 (4.57%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Solaris
5 2 (0.54%) VMS
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (59.68%) Microservices
2 203 (54.57%) CI/CD
3 171 (45.97%) Agile
4 118 (31.72%) Containerisation
5 117 (31.45%) DevOps
6 105 (28.23%) Software Engineering
7 96 (25.81%) Event-Driven
8 74 (19.89%) Test Automation
9 70 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (17.47%) TDD
11 61 (16.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 60 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (13.98%) Observability
13 52 (13.98%) Scrum
14 51 (13.71%) Code Quality
15 49 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (11.56%) Clean Code
17 42 (11.29%) Design Patterns
18 39 (10.48%) AI
19 33 (8.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 367 (98.66%) Java
2 124 (33.33%) SQL
3 61 (16.40%) TypeScript
4 49 (13.17%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.37%) Python
6 27 (7.26%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.57%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.15%) Scala
9 6 (1.61%) Bash
9 6 (1.61%) C#
9 6 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.34%) Ruby
11 4 (1.08%) Solidity
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 116 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.57%) Degree
4 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.14%) QA
2 15 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.42%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.61%) SEPA
5 3 (0.81%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 172 (46.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 159 (42.74%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.14%) Terraform
3 22 (5.91%) Grafana
4 21 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.03%) Ansible
6 13 (3.49%) Kibana
7 6 (1.61%) Control-M
8 3 (0.81%) Bosun
9 2 (0.54%) Argo
9 2 (0.54%) Rancher
9 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (14.78%) Oracle
2 16 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.49%) Google
4 12 (3.23%) IBM
5 11 (2.96%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.42%) Sybase
7 8 (2.15%) New Relic
8 7 (1.88%) Splunk
8 7 (1.88%) TikTok
9 6 (1.61%) Confluent
9 6 (1.61%) Solace
10 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.08%) FIS
10 4 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.54%) Informatica
12 2 (0.54%) MKS
12 2 (0.54%) Salesforce