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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 150 150
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring 381 251 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.88% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 6.41% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 153 206
10th Percentile £400 £360 £415
25th Percentile £455 £429 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -9.05%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £688
90th Percentile £775 £685 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.17%
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% -1.51%

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 5,281 3,916 4,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.21% 29.34% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,525 2,704 3,468
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £430 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £711
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £26.60 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.13 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -33.59%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.81 £61.43
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.10%

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 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 14 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 14 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 -13 49 £550 +10.00% 38
South London -4 24 £550 +3.53% 4
West London -18 3 £500 +66.67% 25
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 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.15%) Apache
2 12 (3.15%) Camunda
3 9 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.36%) nginx
4 7 (1.84%) Confluence
5 4 (1.05%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.05%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.05%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.79%) MQSeries
6 3 (0.79%) 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 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.05%) Quorum
1 4 (1.05%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.05%) Ripple
2 3 (0.79%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 182 (47.77%) AWS
2 87 (22.83%) Azure
3 65 (17.06%) GitHub
4 57 (14.96%) GCP
5 41 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (6.30%) Serverless
8 23 (6.04%) OpenShift
9 21 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.25%) Amazon S3
11 17 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.46%) GitHub Copilot
12 14 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (2.62%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 9 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (1.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (22.83%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.81%) Relational Database
3 42 (11.02%) NoSQL
4 37 (9.71%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.77%) Redis
6 20 (5.25%) MySQL
7 19 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 16 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.15%) DynamoDB
11 11 (2.89%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.84%) Big Data
12 7 (1.84%) Flink
12 7 (1.84%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.31%) Db2
13 5 (1.31%) Metadata
14 4 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (25.72%) Jenkins
2 85 (22.31%) Git
3 57 (14.96%) JUnit
4 53 (13.91%) Gradle
5 44 (11.55%) GitLab
5 44 (11.55%) Maven
6 38 (9.97%) Mockito
7 19 (4.99%) SonarQube
8 17 (4.46%) Liquibase
9 14 (3.67%) JIRA
10 10 (2.62%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.36%) Bitbucket
12 8 (2.10%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.57%) Flyway
14 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.31%) Claude Code
15 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.05%) Eclipse
15 4 (1.05%) IntelliJ
16 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 120 (31.50%) Finance
2 78 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 73 (19.16%) Banking
4 48 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 33 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.46%) Retail
7 13 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.10%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.84%) Front Office
11 6 (1.57%) Back Office
11 6 (1.57%) Law
12 5 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Police
13 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Publishing
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (55.12%) Developer
2 168 (44.09%) Java Developer
3 94 (24.67%) Senior
4 68 (17.85%) Java Engineer
5 55 (14.44%) Senior Developer
6 44 (11.55%) Software Engineer
7 42 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.66%) Backend Developer
9 29 (7.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (7.35%) Lead
11 27 (7.09%) Java Software Engineer
12 19 (4.99%) Data Engineer
12 19 (4.99%) Senior Java Engineer
13 18 (4.72%) Architect
13 18 (4.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 17 (4.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (3.15%) Technical Leader
17 11 (2.89%) Lead Developer
18 8 (2.10%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (83.99%) Spring Boot
2 134 (35.17%) Kafka
3 104 (27.30%) REST
4 100 (26.25%) RESTful
5 76 (19.95%) React
6 34 (8.92%) Node.js
7 33 (8.66%) Terraform
8 30 (7.87%) AngularJS
8 30 (7.87%) HTML
9 28 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (6.30%) CSS
11 23 (6.04%) Hibernate
12 20 (5.25%) JPA
13 19 (4.99%) OpenAPI
13 19 (4.99%) Swagger
14 18 (4.72%) Web Services
15 17 (4.46%) Jakarta EE
16 16 (4.20%) Spring Cloud
17 15 (3.94%) Spring MVC
18 14 (3.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 98 (25.72%) Cloud Native
2 60 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (9.45%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (3.94%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.41%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.10%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.10%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.84%) Derivative
12 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.57%) Spread Betting
13 4 (1.05%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.05%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.05%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.66%) Linux
2 22 (5.77%) 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%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (59.84%) Microservices
2 212 (55.64%) CI/CD
3 174 (45.67%) Agile
4 128 (33.60%) Containerisation
5 127 (33.33%) DevOps
6 113 (29.66%) Software Engineering
7 106 (27.82%) Event-Driven
8 85 (22.31%) Test Automation
9 75 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 68 (17.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 67 (17.59%) TDD
12 58 (15.22%) Code Quality
13 57 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (14.70%) Observability
14 56 (14.70%) Scrum
15 54 (14.17%) Clean Code
16 53 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (12.07%) AI
18 45 (11.81%) Design Patterns
19 35 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 377 (98.95%) Java
2 129 (33.86%) SQL
3 66 (17.32%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.60%) Python
6 28 (7.35%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.46%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.62%) Scala
9 9 (2.36%) Bash
10 8 (2.10%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.05%) C#
11 4 (1.05%) Ruby
11 4 (1.05%) Solidity
12 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 120 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 107 (28.08%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.56%) Degree
4 20 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) 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 43 (11.29%) QA
2 13 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.15%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.84%) SEPA
5 6 (1.57%) 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
1 177 (46.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.52%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 162 (42.52%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.56%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.77%) Grafana
4 14 (3.67%) Kibana
5 13 (3.41%) Ansible
6 6 (1.57%) Control-M
7 3 (0.79%) Argo
7 3 (0.79%) Bosun
7 3 (0.79%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 66 (17.32%) Oracle
2 21 (5.51%) IBM
3 15 (3.94%) Google
4 13 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 12 (3.15%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.36%) Sybase
7 7 (1.84%) New Relic
7 7 (1.84%) Splunk
7 7 (1.84%) TikTok
8 6 (1.57%) Confluent
8 6 (1.57%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.57%) Solace
9 5 (1.31%) FIS
10 4 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.79%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.79%) Veracode
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) Informatica
12 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.52%) Temenos