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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 141 152
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 385 262 310
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 1.94% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.58% 7.40% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 164 241
10th Percentile £400 £363 £404
25th Percentile £463 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -11.27%
75th Percentile £631 £585 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £838
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £85.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%

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 4,487 3,542 4,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.78% 26.24% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,972 2,463 3,511
10th Percentile £383 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £711 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 27
10th Percentile £24.63 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.06 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £48.22 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +13.46% -37.04%
75th Percentile £70.69 £62.81 £61.97
90th Percentile £91.88 £81.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 0 56 £525 +5.00% 9
South London -5 22 £521 +3.58% 4
East London -1 2 £421 +68.40% 4
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 21 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.16%) Apache
3 11 (2.86%) Camunda
4 10 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.60%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.60%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.60%) nginx
5 8 (2.08%) Confluence
6 5 (1.30%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.04%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.78%) JBoss
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.78%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.52%) CMS
9 2 (0.52%) Drupal
9 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.52%) Mule
9 2 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.26%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.30%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.04%) Quorum
2 4 (1.04%) Ripple
3 3 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 172 (44.68%) AWS
2 87 (22.60%) Azure
3 60 (15.58%) GitHub
4 55 (14.29%) GCP
5 38 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.75%) Serverless
7 22 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (4.16%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (3.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 12 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
12 12 (3.12%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (0.26%) DNS
2 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 41 (10.65%) MongoDB
4 33 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.71%) MySQL
6 19 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (4.94%) DynamoDB
6 19 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.12%) Redis
9 8 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (2.08%) Big Data
9 8 (2.08%) Flink
10 7 (1.82%) Db2
11 6 (1.56%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (1.30%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 93 (24.16%) Jenkins
2 73 (18.96%) Git
3 69 (17.92%) JUnit
4 43 (11.17%) Mockito
5 40 (10.39%) GitLab
6 37 (9.61%) Gradle
7 35 (9.09%) Maven
8 21 (5.45%) JIRA
9 14 (3.64%) Liquibase
10 10 (2.60%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.34%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.30%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.30%) Postman
13 4 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.04%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.04%) Flyway
13 4 (1.04%) jMock
14 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 105 (27.27%) Finance
2 68 (17.66%) Banking
3 62 (16.10%) Social Skills
4 51 (13.25%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.68%) Investment Banking
7 17 (4.42%) Retail
8 8 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.08%) Law
9 7 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.04%) Front Office
10 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Police
10 4 (1.04%) Publishing
11 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.52%) Military
12 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 206 (53.51%) Developer
2 153 (39.74%) Java Developer
3 78 (20.26%) Senior
4 63 (16.36%) Java Engineer
5 42 (10.91%) Senior Developer
6 41 (10.65%) Software Engineer
7 34 (8.83%) Backend Developer
8 32 (8.31%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 22 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 20 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 20 (5.19%) Lead
11 20 (5.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 19 (4.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.16%) Senior Java Engineer
14 13 (3.38%) Architect
15 11 (2.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 10 (2.60%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 7 (1.82%) Applications Developer
17 7 (1.82%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 302 (78.44%) Spring Boot
2 135 (35.06%) Kafka
3 102 (26.49%) RESTful
4 100 (25.97%) REST
5 77 (20.00%) React
6 46 (11.95%) Node.js
7 44 (11.43%) AngularJS
8 23 (5.97%) HTML
9 21 (5.45%) CSS
9 21 (5.45%) Hibernate
9 21 (5.45%) Web Services
10 19 (4.94%) JPA
10 19 (4.94%) WireMock
11 18 (4.68%) Spring MVC
12 17 (4.42%) J2EE
13 14 (3.64%) OpenAPI
13 14 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (3.64%) Spring Cloud
13 14 (3.64%) Swagger
14 13 (3.38%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 76 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 51 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.60%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.08%) Derivative
9 8 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.56%) Blockchain
11 6 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.04%) Equities
13 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 3 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.27%) Linux
2 8 (2.08%) Unix
2 8 (2.08%) Windows
3 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.78%) Solaris
4 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Android
6 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (59.22%) Microservices
2 205 (53.25%) CI/CD
3 161 (41.82%) Agile
4 125 (32.47%) DevOps
5 121 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 95 (24.68%) Software Engineering
7 89 (23.12%) Event-Driven
8 79 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 77 (20.00%) TDD
10 62 (16.10%) Test Automation
11 56 (14.55%) Scrum
12 55 (14.29%) Observability
13 54 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 49 (12.73%) Code Quality
16 35 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (9.09%) Design Patterns
17 34 (8.83%) Clean Code
18 31 (8.05%) Performance Tuning
19 30 (7.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 374 (97.14%) Java
2 110 (28.57%) SQL
3 66 (17.14%) TypeScript
4 54 (14.03%) JavaScript
5 43 (11.17%) Python
6 21 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 18 (4.68%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.60%) Scala
9 9 (2.34%) C#
10 5 (1.30%) Ruby
10 5 (1.30%) Solidity
11 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.52%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) Go
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Perl
13 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 123 (31.95%) Security Cleared
2 110 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.42%) Degree
4 15 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.09%) QA
2 23 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.56%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.30%) SLA
5 4 (1.04%) SEPA
6 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.52%) EMIR
7 2 (0.52%) GDPR
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) HL7
8 1 (0.26%) ITGC
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (45.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.78%) Postfix
3 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 164 (42.60%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.79%) Terraform
3 25 (6.49%) Grafana
4 16 (4.16%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.86%) Ansible
6 9 (2.34%) Kibana
7 5 (1.30%) Control-M
8 3 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.52%) Rancher
10 1 (0.26%) Argo
10 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 47 (12.21%) Oracle
2 17 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.16%) IBM
4 13 (3.38%) Google
5 12 (3.12%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.12%) Splunk
5 12 (3.12%) Sybase
6 10 (2.60%) Solace
7 6 (1.56%) TikTok
8 5 (1.30%) Informatica
8 5 (1.30%) New Relic
8 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.04%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.78%) Adobe
10 3 (0.78%) Confluent
10 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.52%) MKS
11 2 (0.52%) Okta
11 2 (0.52%) Salesforce