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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 152 156
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Spring 370 251 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.87% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 6.41% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 152 210
10th Percentile £400 £359 £417
25th Percentile £456 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -5.83% -10.51%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £697
90th Percentile £750 £725 £826
England median daily rate £525 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.26% -9.17%
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 £56.25
% change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%

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 5,272 3,917 4,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 29.16% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,535 2,731 3,508
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £431 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £690 £716
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £30.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +37.17% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £62.50 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £75.10 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% -6.13%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -7 49 £528 +17.22% 5
South London -5 21 £550 +5.77% 3
East London +1 2 £421 +6.58% 4
West London -20 2 £500 +66.67% 7
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 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.51%) Apache
3 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.43%) nginx
4 8 (2.16%) Camunda
5 4 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.08%) Quorum
1 4 (1.08%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.08%) Ripple
2 3 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 176 (47.57%) AWS
2 91 (24.59%) Azure
3 62 (16.76%) GitHub
4 55 (14.86%) GCP
5 39 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.95%) Serverless
7 21 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
9 18 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.86%) OpenShift
10 16 (4.32%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.70%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.24%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.19%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.68%) MySQL
5 21 (5.68%) Redis
6 15 (4.05%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.78%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (2.43%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.16%) Flink
11 7 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.62%) Big Data
13 5 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.35%) Metadata
14 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.81%) Db2
Development Applications
1 90 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 78 (21.08%) Git
3 55 (14.86%) JUnit
4 43 (11.62%) Gradle
5 41 (11.08%) GitLab
6 38 (10.27%) Mockito
7 34 (9.19%) Maven
8 18 (4.86%) Liquibase
9 13 (3.51%) JIRA
10 11 (2.97%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.16%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.62%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.62%) Flyway
13 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.08%) Postman
14 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.81%) jMock
14 3 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 111 (30.00%) Finance
2 73 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.30%) Banking
4 47 (12.70%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.41%) Retail
7 13 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.16%) Law
9 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.35%) Back Office
11 4 (1.08%) Police
11 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Front Office
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 200 (54.05%) Developer
2 161 (43.51%) Java Developer
3 81 (21.89%) Senior
4 65 (17.57%) Java Engineer
5 49 (13.24%) Senior Developer
6 46 (12.43%) Software Engineer
7 40 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.46%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.22%) Lead
11 19 (5.14%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 17 (4.59%) Architect
13 16 (4.32%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.43%) Technical Leader
17 8 (2.16%) Junior
17 8 (2.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (81.08%) Spring Boot
2 123 (33.24%) Kafka
3 101 (27.30%) REST
4 100 (27.03%) RESTful
5 71 (19.19%) React
6 34 (9.19%) Terraform
7 31 (8.38%) Node.js
8 30 (8.11%) AngularJS
9 25 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (6.22%) HTML
11 21 (5.68%) Jakarta EE
12 20 (5.41%) CSS
12 20 (5.41%) Hibernate
13 19 (5.14%) Spring MVC
13 19 (5.14%) Web Services
14 17 (4.59%) OpenAPI
14 17 (4.59%) Swagger
15 15 (4.05%) Spring Cloud
16 14 (3.78%) JPA
17 12 (3.24%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 90 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 60 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.89%) Derivative
10 7 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.35%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.08%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.38%) Linux
2 18 (4.86%) Unix
3 6 (1.62%) Windows
4 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.54%) Solaris
5 2 (0.54%) VMS
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (59.73%) Microservices
2 205 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 169 (45.68%) Agile
4 118 (31.89%) Containerisation
4 118 (31.89%) DevOps
5 108 (29.19%) Software Engineering
6 99 (26.76%) Event-Driven
7 76 (20.54%) Test Automation
8 71 (19.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (17.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 62 (16.76%) TDD
11 58 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (14.05%) Observability
13 50 (13.51%) Code Quality
14 49 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (12.97%) Scrum
16 43 (11.62%) Clean Code
17 41 (11.08%) Design Patterns
18 39 (10.54%) AI
19 34 (9.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 366 (98.92%) Java
2 126 (34.05%) SQL
3 63 (17.03%) TypeScript
4 48 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 45 (12.16%) Python
6 27 (7.30%) PL/SQL
7 15 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.16%) Scala
9 7 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.62%) Bash
10 6 (1.62%) C#
11 5 (1.35%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) Solidity
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.84%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.59%) Degree
4 13 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.92%) QA
2 15 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.43%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.62%) SEPA
5 3 (0.81%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 170 (45.95%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 161 (43.51%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.68%) Prometheus
3 19 (5.14%) Grafana
4 14 (3.78%) Ansible
5 13 (3.51%) Kibana
6 6 (1.62%) Control-M
7 3 (0.81%) Bosun
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (15.41%) Oracle
2 17 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.78%) IBM
4 12 (3.24%) Google
5 11 (2.97%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.16%) New Relic
7 7 (1.89%) Sybase
7 7 (1.89%) TikTok
8 6 (1.62%) Confluent
8 6 (1.62%) Solace
8 6 (1.62%) Splunk
9 4 (1.08%) FIS
10 3 (0.81%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.54%) Informatica
11 2 (0.54%) MKS
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce