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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 140 156
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Spring 363 274 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.01% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.08% 7.71% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 173 228
10th Percentile £400 £360 £410
25th Percentile £458 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £688
90th Percentile £738 £730 £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 £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 4,493 3,554 4,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.67% 26.13% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,965 2,481 3,294
10th Percentile £391 £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 £787 £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 £57.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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% 9
South London -12 23 £535 +3.88% 3
East London +1 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 19 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.13%) Apache
3 10 (2.75%) nginx
4 9 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.65%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.65%) Hyperledger
6 5 (1.38%) Camunda
6 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.10%) Confluence
7 4 (1.10%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.83%) CMS
8 3 (0.83%) JBoss
8 3 (0.83%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.55%) Drupal
9 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.55%) Mule
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Trello
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.10%) Quorum
2 4 (1.10%) Ripple
3 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 170 (46.83%) AWS
2 85 (23.42%) Azure
3 59 (16.25%) GCP
4 58 (15.98%) GitHub
5 37 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.79%) Serverless
7 17 (4.68%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (4.41%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.41%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.03%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (1.93%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (1.65%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.97%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.64%) MongoDB
3 35 (9.64%) Relational Database
4 24 (6.61%) MySQL
5 17 (4.68%) Redis
6 16 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (2.48%) Flink
10 7 (1.93%) Big Data
10 7 (1.93%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (1.38%) Db2
11 5 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (23.42%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.49%) Git
3 59 (16.25%) JUnit
4 40 (11.02%) Gradle
5 38 (10.47%) Mockito
6 35 (9.64%) Maven
7 33 (9.09%) GitLab
8 14 (3.86%) JIRA
8 14 (3.86%) Liquibase
9 11 (3.03%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.10%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.10%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.10%) Flyway
11 4 (1.10%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.10%) jMock
11 4 (1.10%) Postman
11 4 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 107 (29.48%) Finance
2 62 (17.08%) Banking
3 60 (16.53%) Social Skills
4 49 (13.50%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.51%) Retail
7 16 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.20%) Law
9 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.65%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Police
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.83%) Front Office
12 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Back Office
13 2 (0.55%) Military
13 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 193 (53.17%) Developer
2 151 (41.60%) Java Developer
3 77 (21.21%) Senior
4 59 (16.25%) Java Engineer
5 45 (12.40%) Senior Developer
6 42 (11.57%) Software Engineer
7 35 (9.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (9.37%) Backend Developer
9 22 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (5.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.51%) Lead
11 19 (5.23%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.68%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 14 (3.86%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (3.58%) Architect
15 10 (2.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.20%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.20%) Software Developer
17 7 (1.93%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (79.06%) Spring Boot
2 122 (33.61%) Kafka
3 102 (28.10%) REST
4 94 (25.90%) RESTful
5 73 (20.11%) React
6 38 (10.47%) Node.js
7 34 (9.37%) AngularJS
8 22 (6.06%) HTML
9 21 (5.79%) CSS
9 21 (5.79%) Jakarta EE
9 21 (5.79%) Web Services
10 20 (5.51%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.51%) Spring MVC
11 18 (4.96%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (4.68%) JPA
13 14 (3.86%) OpenAPI
13 14 (3.86%) Swagger
14 13 (3.58%) Next.js
14 13 (3.58%) WireMock
15 12 (3.31%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 78 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 60 (16.53%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 13 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.75%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.20%) Derivative
9 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.38%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.99%) Linux
2 12 (3.31%) Unix
3 8 (2.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Solaris
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (60.61%) Microservices
2 196 (53.99%) CI/CD
3 157 (43.25%) Agile
4 121 (33.33%) DevOps
5 116 (31.96%) Containerisation
6 100 (27.55%) Software Engineering
7 87 (23.97%) Event-Driven
8 70 (19.28%) TDD
9 69 (19.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (17.63%) Test Automation
11 60 (16.53%) Observability
12 58 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (15.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 53 (14.60%) Scrum
15 48 (13.22%) Code Quality
16 42 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (10.74%) Clean Code
18 37 (10.19%) Design Patterns
19 32 (8.82%) AI
20 31 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 356 (98.07%) Java
2 111 (30.58%) SQL
3 61 (16.80%) TypeScript
4 55 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 42 (11.57%) Python
6 24 (6.61%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.51%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.48%) Scala
9 8 (2.20%) C#
10 5 (1.38%) Ruby
10 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.38%) Solidity
11 2 (0.55%) Bash
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 106 (29.20%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.68%) Degree
4 15 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.09%) QA
2 20 (5.51%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.93%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.38%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) MiFID
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) ITGC
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (45.45%) Docker
2 3 (0.83%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 155 (42.70%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.37%) Terraform
3 26 (7.16%) Grafana
4 19 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.58%) Ansible
6 10 (2.75%) Kibana
7 5 (1.38%) Control-M
8 3 (0.83%) Bosun
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Argo
10 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.28%) Istio
Vendors
1 52 (14.33%) Oracle
2 17 (4.68%) Google
3 16 (4.41%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.86%) IBM
5 12 (3.31%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.31%) Splunk
6 10 (2.75%) Sybase
7 8 (2.20%) New Relic
7 8 (2.20%) Solace
8 7 (1.93%) TikTok
9 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.83%) Confluent
10 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.55%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.55%) MKS
11 2 (0.55%) Netlify
11 2 (0.55%) Okta
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce