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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 142 146
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Spring 366 271 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.99% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.11% 7.64% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 172 227
10th Percentile £400 £359 £409
25th Percentile £456 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £688
90th Percentile £738 £731 £838
England median daily rate £525 £495 £540
% change year-on-year +6.06% -8.33% -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 £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -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 4,511 3,547 4,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.10% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,980 2,485 3,281
10th Percentile £390 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +12.50% -39.39%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £58.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +17.12% -1.33% -10.00%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -18 52 £525 +5.00% 7
South London -9 25 £535 +3.88% 3
East London +1 2 £421 +68.40% 7
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 19 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.10%) Apache
3 10 (2.73%) nginx
4 9 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.37%) Camunda
5 5 (1.37%) Ethereum
5 5 (1.37%) Hyperledger
5 5 (1.37%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.09%) Confluence
6 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.82%) JBoss
7 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.55%) Drupal
8 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.55%) Mule
8 2 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Trello
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.09%) Quorum
2 4 (1.09%) Ripple
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 171 (46.72%) AWS
2 86 (23.50%) Azure
3 61 (16.67%) GitHub
4 60 (16.39%) GCP
5 40 (10.93%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (6.01%) Serverless
7 18 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.64%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.01%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (1.91%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (1.91%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.50%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (11.20%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.29%) MongoDB
5 24 (6.56%) MySQL
6 17 (4.64%) Redis
7 16 (4.37%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.83%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.46%) Flink
11 7 (1.91%) Big Data
11 7 (1.91%) InterSystems Cache
11 7 (1.91%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.37%) Db2
13 4 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.82%) GIS
14 3 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (24.04%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.58%) Git
3 58 (15.85%) JUnit
4 40 (10.93%) Gradle
5 38 (10.38%) Mockito
6 35 (9.56%) Maven
7 34 (9.29%) GitLab
8 14 (3.83%) JIRA
8 14 (3.83%) Liquibase
9 11 (3.01%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.91%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.09%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.09%) Flyway
12 4 (1.09%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.09%) jMock
12 4 (1.09%) Postman
12 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
General
1 108 (29.51%) Finance
2 62 (16.94%) Banking
2 62 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 49 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.46%) Retail
6 16 (4.37%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.19%) Law
8 7 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.64%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.09%) Police
10 4 (1.09%) Publishing
11 3 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.55%) Back Office
12 2 (0.55%) Military
12 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 195 (53.28%) Developer
2 153 (41.80%) Java Developer
3 79 (21.58%) Senior
4 58 (15.85%) Java Engineer
5 47 (12.84%) Senior Developer
6 43 (11.75%) Software Engineer
7 37 (10.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (9.29%) Backend Developer
9 22 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.46%) Lead
11 19 (5.19%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 13 (3.55%) Architect
13 13 (3.55%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (2.19%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.19%) Software Developer
16 7 (1.91%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (79.23%) Spring Boot
2 121 (33.06%) Kafka
3 102 (27.87%) REST
4 96 (26.23%) RESTful
5 73 (19.95%) React
6 37 (10.11%) Node.js
7 34 (9.29%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.28%) Jakarta EE
9 22 (6.01%) HTML
9 22 (6.01%) Web Services
10 21 (5.74%) CSS
10 21 (5.74%) Hibernate
11 20 (5.46%) Spring MVC
12 19 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
13 17 (4.64%) JPA
14 14 (3.83%) OpenAPI
14 14 (3.83%) Swagger
15 13 (3.55%) JMS
15 13 (3.55%) Micronaut
15 13 (3.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (22.13%) Cloud Native
2 61 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (3.55%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.73%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.19%) Derivative
9 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.64%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.37%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.09%) Spread Betting
13 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.92%) Linux
2 12 (3.28%) Unix
3 8 (2.19%) Windows
4 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.82%) Solaris
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (60.66%) Microservices
2 199 (54.37%) CI/CD
3 160 (43.72%) Agile
4 123 (33.61%) DevOps
5 118 (32.24%) Containerisation
6 103 (28.14%) Software Engineering
7 88 (24.04%) Event-Driven
8 70 (19.13%) TDD
9 69 (18.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (17.76%) Test Automation
11 62 (16.94%) Observability
12 58 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (15.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 54 (14.75%) Scrum
15 49 (13.39%) Code Quality
16 43 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (10.93%) Clean Code
18 39 (10.66%) Design Patterns
19 32 (8.74%) AI
19 32 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 359 (98.09%) Java
2 115 (31.42%) SQL
3 60 (16.39%) TypeScript
4 55 (15.03%) JavaScript
5 43 (11.75%) Python
6 26 (7.10%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.46%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.46%) Scala
9 8 (2.19%) C#
10 5 (1.37%) Ruby
10 5 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.09%) Solidity
12 2 (0.55%) Bash
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (32.24%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.64%) Degree
4 15 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.29%) QA
2 20 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.91%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.37%) SEPA
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) MiFID
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 169 (46.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 157 (42.90%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.29%) Terraform
3 26 (7.10%) Grafana
4 19 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.10%) Ansible
6 10 (2.73%) Kibana
7 5 (1.37%) Control-M
8 3 (0.82%) Bosun
9 2 (0.55%) Argo
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 54 (14.75%) Oracle
2 18 (4.92%) Google
3 16 (4.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.83%) IBM
5 13 (3.55%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.28%) Splunk
7 10 (2.73%) Sybase
8 8 (2.19%) New Relic
8 8 (2.19%) Solace
9 7 (1.91%) TikTok
10 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.82%) Confluent
11 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.55%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.55%) MKS
12 2 (0.55%) Netlify
12 2 (0.55%) Okta
12 2 (0.55%) Salesforce