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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 154 145
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +22
Contract jobs citing Spring 379 253 299
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.88% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.13% 6.36% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 153 212
10th Percentile £375 £360 £418
25th Percentile £450 £429 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £691
90th Percentile £775 £670 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
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 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%

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 5,319 3,980 4,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.57% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 2,744 3,449
10th Percentile £400 £365 £381
25th Percentile £450 £431 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £807 £850
England median daily rate £535 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 22
10th Percentile £26.43 £32.10 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.06 £34.61 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +23.53% -33.59%
75th Percentile £63.00 £63.44 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £82.85 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -15 49 £550 +10.00% 42
South London -1 24 £550 +3.53% 2
West London -21 3 £500 +66.67% 23
East London +1 2 £421 -22.04% 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 18 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.43%) Apache
3 12 (3.17%) Camunda
4 9 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.37%) nginx
5 7 (1.85%) Confluence
6 4 (1.06%) Ethereum
6 4 (1.06%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.79%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.53%) CMS
8 2 (0.53%) Mule
9 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.06%) Quorum
1 4 (1.06%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.06%) Ripple
2 3 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 181 (47.76%) AWS
2 85 (22.43%) Azure
3 66 (17.41%) GitHub
4 57 (15.04%) GCP
5 42 (11.08%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (7.12%) Serverless
7 24 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (6.07%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (5.80%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.90%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (1.58%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (22.69%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.87%) Relational Database
3 43 (11.35%) NoSQL
4 38 (10.03%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.80%) Redis
6 20 (5.28%) MySQL
7 19 (5.01%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (3.43%) DynamoDB
11 12 (3.17%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.85%) Big Data
12 7 (1.85%) Flink
12 7 (1.85%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.32%) Db2
13 5 (1.32%) Metadata
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (25.59%) Jenkins
2 90 (23.75%) Git
3 55 (14.51%) JUnit
4 52 (13.72%) Gradle
5 48 (12.66%) Maven
6 45 (11.87%) GitLab
7 36 (9.50%) Mockito
8 19 (5.01%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.69%) JIRA
9 14 (3.69%) Liquibase
10 10 (2.64%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.64%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.58%) Flyway
13 5 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.32%) Claude Code
14 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
General
1 121 (31.93%) Finance
2 78 (20.58%) Social Skills
3 72 (19.00%) Banking
4 48 (12.66%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.49%) Retail
7 13 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.37%) Front Office
10 8 (2.11%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.58%) Back Office
13 5 (1.32%) Law
13 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Police
14 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Publishing
16 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (55.94%) Developer
2 168 (44.33%) Java Developer
3 93 (24.54%) Senior
4 69 (18.21%) Java Engineer
5 56 (14.78%) Senior Developer
6 42 (11.08%) Software Engineer
7 41 (10.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.71%) Backend Developer
9 30 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (7.12%) Lead
11 26 (6.86%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (5.01%) Data Engineer
12 19 (5.01%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 19 (5.01%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (4.75%) Architect
13 18 (4.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (2.90%) Lead Developer
14 11 (2.90%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.11%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (83.11%) Spring Boot
2 132 (34.83%) Kafka
3 108 (28.50%) REST
4 97 (25.59%) RESTful
5 71 (18.73%) React
6 35 (9.23%) Node.js
7 34 (8.97%) Terraform
8 30 (7.92%) HTML
9 29 (7.65%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.65%) RabbitMQ
10 26 (6.86%) Hibernate
11 24 (6.33%) CSS
12 22 (5.80%) JPA
13 18 (4.75%) Swagger
13 18 (4.75%) Web Services
14 17 (4.49%) Jakarta EE
14 17 (4.49%) OpenAPI
14 17 (4.49%) Spring MVC
15 16 (4.22%) Spring Cloud
16 15 (3.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 62 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.03%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.96%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.37%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.11%) Derivative
10 8 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.11%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.58%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.32%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.06%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.23%) Linux
2 23 (6.07%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.26%) Solaris
4 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (59.37%) Microservices
2 210 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 174 (45.91%) Agile
4 127 (33.51%) Containerisation
4 127 (33.51%) DevOps
5 113 (29.82%) Software Engineering
6 108 (28.50%) Event-Driven
7 85 (22.43%) Test Automation
8 73 (19.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 69 (18.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 66 (17.41%) TDD
11 57 (15.04%) Scrum
12 56 (14.78%) Code Quality
13 55 (14.51%) Clean Code
13 55 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (13.98%) Observability
15 44 (11.61%) AI
15 44 (11.61%) Design Patterns
16 35 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 375 (98.94%) Java
2 128 (33.77%) SQL
3 63 (16.62%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.72%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.93%) Python
6 28 (7.39%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.22%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.90%) Scala
9 10 (2.64%) Bash
10 9 (2.37%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.06%) C#
11 4 (1.06%) Ruby
11 4 (1.06%) Solidity
12 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (31.93%) Security Cleared
2 107 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.33%) Degree
4 19 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (12.14%) QA
2 12 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.17%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.85%) SEPA
4 6 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 2 (0.53%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) HL7
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ITGC
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 176 (46.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 164 (43.27%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.86%) Prometheus
3 23 (6.07%) Grafana
4 14 (3.69%) Kibana
5 13 (3.43%) Ansible
6 6 (1.58%) Control-M
7 3 (0.79%) Argo
7 3 (0.79%) Bosun
7 3 (0.79%) Istio
7 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 68 (17.94%) Oracle
2 21 (5.54%) IBM
3 16 (4.22%) Google
4 12 (3.17%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.37%) Sybase
7 7 (1.85%) New Relic
7 7 (1.85%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.85%) Splunk
7 7 (1.85%) TikTok
8 6 (1.58%) Confluent
9 5 (1.32%) FIS
9 5 (1.32%) Solace
10 4 (1.06%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.79%) Veracode
12 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.53%) Informatica
12 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.53%) Temenos