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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 146 150
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -13
Contract jobs citing Spring 372 260 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.92% 1.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 7.39% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 161 212
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £456 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% -8.51%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £700
90th Percentile £750 £725 £836
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 £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 4,568 3,520 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.74% 25.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,021 2,446 3,162
10th Percentile £393 £363 £377
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 27 23
10th Percentile £26.40 £32.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.63 £33.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.13 £49.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £78.20 £64.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -5 50 £528 +17.22% 5
South London -6 25 £550 +5.77% 3
East London -3 2 £421 +6.58% 4
West London -17 2 £500 +66.67% 8
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 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.76%) Apache
3 9 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.42%) nginx
4 6 (1.61%) Camunda
5 4 (1.08%) Confluence
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%) 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%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
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
1 178 (47.85%) AWS
2 91 (24.46%) Azure
3 64 (17.20%) GitHub
4 56 (15.05%) GCP
5 41 (11.02%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (6.45%) Serverless
7 23 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.11%) OpenShift
10 18 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.69%) Azure AKS
16 7 (1.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (24.19%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.10%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.68%) Relational Database
4 30 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.65%) MySQL
6 19 (5.11%) Redis
7 16 (4.30%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.23%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.42%) Flink
12 8 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.15%) Oracle Database
13 7 (1.88%) InterSystems Cache
14 6 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.61%) Big Data
15 5 (1.34%) Db2
16 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
16 4 (1.08%) Metadata
17 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 93 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.24%) Git
3 57 (15.32%) JUnit
4 42 (11.29%) GitLab
4 42 (11.29%) Gradle
5 39 (10.48%) Mockito
6 35 (9.41%) Maven
7 17 (4.57%) Liquibase
8 14 (3.76%) JIRA
9 12 (3.23%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.15%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.88%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.61%) Flyway
13 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.08%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.08%) jMock
13 4 (1.08%) Postman
General
1 111 (29.84%) Finance
2 68 (18.28%) Social Skills
3 67 (18.01%) Banking
4 47 (12.63%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.84%) Retail
7 15 (4.03%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.15%) Law
9 7 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.88%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Back Office
11 4 (1.08%) Front Office
11 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.08%) Police
11 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Military
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (54.57%) Developer
2 164 (44.09%) Java Developer
3 84 (22.58%) Senior
4 65 (17.47%) Java Engineer
5 50 (13.44%) Senior Developer
6 46 (12.37%) Software Engineer
7 41 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.41%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.18%) Lead
11 19 (5.11%) Data Engineer
12 18 (4.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 16 (4.30%) Senior Java Engineer
14 14 (3.76%) Architect
15 13 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 9 (2.42%) Technical Leader
18 8 (2.15%) Junior
18 8 (2.15%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (80.11%) Spring Boot
2 125 (33.60%) Kafka
3 102 (27.42%) REST
4 101 (27.15%) RESTful
5 71 (19.09%) React
6 33 (8.87%) Node.js
7 31 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.45%) HTML
8 24 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
9 22 (5.91%) CSS
10 21 (5.65%) Jakarta EE
11 20 (5.38%) Hibernate
11 20 (5.38%) Web Services
12 19 (5.11%) Spring MVC
13 16 (4.30%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (4.03%) OpenAPI
14 15 (4.03%) Swagger
15 14 (3.76%) JPA
16 12 (3.23%) JMS
16 12 (3.23%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 89 (23.92%) Cloud Native
2 61 (16.40%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.15%) Algorithms
10 8 (2.15%) Derivative
11 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.61%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.34%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 4 (1.08%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.33%) Linux
2 17 (4.57%) Unix
3 6 (1.61%) 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
1 224 (60.22%) Microservices
2 204 (54.84%) CI/CD
3 171 (45.97%) Agile
4 119 (31.99%) Containerisation
4 119 (31.99%) DevOps
5 106 (28.49%) Software Engineering
6 97 (26.08%) Event-Driven
7 75 (20.16%) Test Automation
8 71 (19.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 66 (17.74%) TDD
10 62 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 61 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (13.71%) Code Quality
12 51 (13.71%) Observability
12 51 (13.71%) Scrum
13 50 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.83%) Clean Code
15 42 (11.29%) Design Patterns
16 39 (10.48%) AI
17 33 (8.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 367 (98.66%) Java
2 125 (33.60%) SQL
3 61 (16.40%) TypeScript
4 50 (13.44%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.37%) Python
6 27 (7.26%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.30%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.15%) Scala
9 6 (1.61%) Bash
9 6 (1.61%) C#
9 6 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.34%) Ruby
11 4 (1.08%) Solidity
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 117 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.57%) Degree
4 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.14%) QA
2 15 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.42%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.61%) 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
1 173 (46.51%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 160 (43.01%) Kubernetes
2 34 (9.14%) Terraform
3 21 (5.65%) Grafana
3 21 (5.65%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.76%) Ansible
5 13 (3.49%) Kibana
6 6 (1.61%) Control-M
7 3 (0.81%) Bosun
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (14.78%) Oracle
2 16 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.23%) Google
3 12 (3.23%) IBM
4 11 (2.96%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.42%) Sybase
6 8 (2.15%) New Relic
7 7 (1.88%) TikTok
8 6 (1.61%) Confluent
8 6 (1.61%) Solace
8 6 (1.61%) Splunk
9 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.08%) FIS
9 4 (1.08%) 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