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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 155 155
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring 384 251 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.86% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 6.37% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 154 206
10th Percentile £401 £360 £418
25th Percentile £458 £426 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £528 £570
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -7.46% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £604 £697
90th Percentile £775 £696 £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% -2.32%

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 5,336 3,943 4,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.24% 29.20% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,550 2,725 3,465
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -17 49 £553 +16.32% 23
South London +2 24 £550 +3.53% 3
West London -17 3 £500 +66.67% 18
East London +1 2 £421 -22.04% 3
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 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.13%) Apache
2 12 (3.13%) Camunda
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.34%) nginx
4 7 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.04%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.04%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.04%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.78%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.04%) Quorum
1 4 (1.04%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.04%) Ripple
2 3 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 185 (48.18%) AWS
2 89 (23.18%) Azure
3 67 (17.45%) GitHub
4 58 (15.10%) GCP
5 42 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (6.51%) Serverless
8 23 (5.99%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.47%) Amazon S3
11 17 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 15 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (1.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.14%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (10.94%) NoSQL
2 42 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 37 (9.64%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.73%) Redis
5 20 (5.21%) MySQL
6 19 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 16 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.39%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.86%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.82%) Big Data
11 7 (1.82%) Flink
11 7 (1.82%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.30%) Db2
12 5 (1.30%) Metadata
13 4 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 102 (26.56%) Jenkins
2 83 (21.61%) Git
3 60 (15.63%) JUnit
4 51 (13.28%) Gradle
5 46 (11.98%) GitLab
6 41 (10.68%) Maven
6 41 (10.68%) Mockito
7 19 (4.95%) SonarQube
8 18 (4.69%) Liquibase
9 15 (3.91%) JIRA
10 10 (2.60%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.34%) Bitbucket
11 9 (2.34%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.56%) Flyway
13 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.30%) Claude Code
14 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (1.04%) IntelliJ
General
1 120 (31.25%) Finance
2 79 (20.57%) Social Skills
3 74 (19.27%) Banking
4 49 (12.76%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.43%) Retail
7 13 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.08%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.82%) Front Office
10 7 (1.82%) Law
11 6 (1.56%) Back Office
12 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Police
13 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 211 (54.95%) Developer
2 169 (44.01%) Java Developer
3 93 (24.22%) Senior
4 67 (17.45%) Java Engineer
5 55 (14.32%) Senior Developer
6 45 (11.72%) Software Engineer
7 42 (10.94%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.59%) Backend Developer
9 29 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (7.29%) Lead
11 27 (7.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 18 (4.69%) Architect
13 18 (4.69%) Senior Java Engineer
14 17 (4.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (3.13%) Technical Leader
17 11 (2.86%) Lead Developer
18 8 (2.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (83.85%) Spring Boot
2 137 (35.68%) Kafka
3 102 (26.56%) REST
3 102 (26.56%) RESTful
4 77 (20.05%) React
5 35 (9.11%) Node.js
5 35 (9.11%) Terraform
6 30 (7.81%) AngularJS
6 30 (7.81%) HTML
7 29 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
8 24 (6.25%) CSS
9 23 (5.99%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.21%) JPA
10 20 (5.21%) OpenAPI
10 20 (5.21%) Swagger
11 18 (4.69%) Web Services
12 17 (4.43%) Jakarta EE
13 16 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (4.17%) Spring MVC
14 14 (3.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 58 (15.10%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.59%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.39%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.86%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.82%) Derivative
12 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.56%) Spread Betting
13 4 (1.04%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.07%) Linux
2 19 (4.95%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.52%) 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%) VMS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (60.68%) Microservices
2 214 (55.73%) CI/CD
3 175 (45.57%) Agile
4 129 (33.59%) DevOps
5 128 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 112 (29.17%) Software Engineering
7 106 (27.60%) Event-Driven
8 86 (22.40%) Test Automation
9 76 (19.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (18.23%) TDD
11 68 (17.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 58 (15.10%) Code Quality
12 58 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (14.84%) Scrum
14 56 (14.58%) Observability
15 53 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (13.54%) Clean Code
17 46 (11.98%) AI
18 45 (11.72%) Design Patterns
19 37 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 380 (98.96%) Java
2 127 (33.07%) SQL
3 67 (17.45%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.54%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.76%) Python
6 28 (7.29%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.43%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.60%) Scala
9 9 (2.34%) Bash
10 8 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.30%) C#
12 4 (1.04%) Ruby
12 4 (1.04%) Solidity
13 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 122 (31.77%) Security Cleared
2 109 (28.39%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.25%) Degree
4 20 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.42%) QA
2 13 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.13%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.82%) SEPA
5 6 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.52%) EMIR
6 2 (0.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.52%) MiFID
6 2 (0.52%) PSD2
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) ITGC
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (46.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.52%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 165 (42.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.51%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.73%) Grafana
4 14 (3.65%) Kibana
5 13 (3.39%) Ansible
6 6 (1.56%) Control-M
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
7 3 (0.78%) Bosun
7 3 (0.78%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 66 (17.19%) Oracle
2 21 (5.47%) IBM
3 15 (3.91%) Google
4 13 (3.39%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.34%) Sybase
7 7 (1.82%) New Relic
7 7 (1.82%) Splunk
7 7 (1.82%) TikTok
8 6 (1.56%) Confluent
8 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.56%) Solace
9 5 (1.30%) FIS
10 4 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.78%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.78%) Veracode
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) Informatica
12 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.52%) Temenos