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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 153 150
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Spring 377 245 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.85% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.17% 6.30% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 146 210
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £458 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -5.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £650 £597 £697
90th Percentile £775 £681 £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 £53.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +2.80% -26.21%

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 5,260 3,890 4,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.30% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,510 2,703 3,483
10th Percentile £400 £369 £383
25th Percentile £455 £428 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £815 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
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% -32.84%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -9 49 £535 +12.63% 25
South London -9 22 £550 +3.53% 6
East London +3 2 £421 -22.04% 2
West London -14 2 £500 +66.67% 23
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 (4.77%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.18%) Apache
3 11 (2.92%) Camunda
4 9 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.39%) nginx
5 6 (1.59%) 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 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.80%) CMS
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.53%) Mule
9 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.27%) 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 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 179 (47.48%) AWS
2 89 (23.61%) Azure
3 65 (17.24%) GitHub
4 55 (14.59%) GCP
5 39 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (6.10%) Serverless
7 21 (5.57%) OpenShift
8 20 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.77%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (3.98%) GitHub Copilot
11 13 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (2.65%) Azure AKS
14 9 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (22.02%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (11.41%) NoSQL
3 41 (10.88%) Relational Database
4 32 (8.49%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.84%) Redis
6 20 (5.31%) MySQL
7 17 (4.51%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.65%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.86%) Flink
11 7 (1.86%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.59%) Big Data
13 5 (1.33%) Metadata
14 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.80%) Db2
15 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 94 (24.93%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.02%) Git
3 57 (15.12%) JUnit
4 47 (12.47%) Gradle
5 43 (11.41%) GitLab
6 39 (10.34%) Mockito
7 38 (10.08%) Maven
8 19 (5.04%) Liquibase
9 17 (4.51%) SonarQube
10 14 (3.71%) JIRA
11 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.86%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.86%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.59%) Flyway
14 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
15 3 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 113 (29.97%) Finance
2 76 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 67 (17.77%) Banking
4 49 (13.00%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.77%) Retail
7 13 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.12%) Law
10 7 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.86%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.59%) Back Office
12 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.06%) Police
13 4 (1.06%) Publishing
13 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.80%) Front Office
14 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 204 (54.11%) Developer
2 162 (42.97%) Java Developer
3 85 (22.55%) Senior
4 66 (17.51%) Java Engineer
5 52 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 45 (11.94%) Software Engineer
7 41 (10.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.75%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (7.16%) Java Software Engineer
10 26 (6.90%) Lead
11 19 (5.04%) Architect
11 19 (5.04%) Data Engineer
12 18 (4.77%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 16 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
14 15 (3.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (3.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 11 (2.92%) Lead Developer
17 10 (2.65%) Technical Leader
18 8 (2.12%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (82.49%) Spring Boot
2 129 (34.22%) Kafka
3 101 (26.79%) REST
4 99 (26.26%) RESTful
5 76 (20.16%) React
6 36 (9.55%) Terraform
7 34 (9.02%) Node.js
8 30 (7.96%) AngularJS
9 28 (7.43%) HTML
9 28 (7.43%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (6.10%) CSS
11 21 (5.57%) Hibernate
12 19 (5.04%) OpenAPI
12 19 (5.04%) Swagger
12 19 (5.04%) Web Services
13 18 (4.77%) Jakarta EE
13 18 (4.77%) JPA
14 16 (4.24%) Spring Cloud
14 16 (4.24%) Spring MVC
15 13 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 95 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 59 (15.65%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.18%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.86%) Derivative
10 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.59%) Spread Betting
10 6 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.06%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.06%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.69%) Linux
2 17 (4.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (60.74%) Microservices
2 209 (55.44%) CI/CD
3 175 (46.42%) Agile
4 122 (32.36%) DevOps
5 121 (32.10%) Containerisation
6 113 (29.97%) Software Engineering
7 102 (27.06%) Event-Driven
8 79 (20.95%) Test Automation
9 74 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 69 (18.30%) TDD
11 64 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 57 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (14.59%) Code Quality
13 55 (14.59%) Observability
14 54 (14.32%) Scrum
15 51 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 49 (13.00%) Clean Code
17 45 (11.94%) AI
18 42 (11.14%) Design Patterns
19 35 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 372 (98.67%) Java
2 126 (33.42%) SQL
3 68 (18.04%) TypeScript
4 51 (13.53%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.73%) Python
6 28 (7.43%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.24%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.39%) Scala
9 8 (2.12%) Bash
10 6 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.33%) C#
11 5 (1.33%) Ruby
12 4 (1.06%) Solidity
13 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.27%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 118 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 105 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.10%) Degree
4 19 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.55%) QA
2 13 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.65%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.59%) SEPA
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (46.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 161 (42.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.10%) Prometheus
3 20 (5.31%) Grafana
4 13 (3.45%) Ansible
4 13 (3.45%) Kibana
5 6 (1.59%) Control-M
6 3 (0.80%) Bosun
6 3 (0.80%) Istio
7 2 (0.53%) Argo
7 2 (0.53%) Rancher
7 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 62 (16.45%) Oracle
2 19 (5.04%) IBM
3 17 (4.51%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.45%) Google
5 12 (3.18%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.86%) New Relic
6 7 (1.86%) Splunk
6 7 (1.86%) Sybase
6 7 (1.86%) TikTok
7 6 (1.59%) Confluent
7 6 (1.59%) Solace
8 5 (1.33%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.06%) FIS
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.53%) Informatica
11 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.53%) MKS
11 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.53%) Veracode