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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 143 147
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Spring 372 256 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.91% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 6.55% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 155 212
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £457 £413 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -4.55% -11.86%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £688
90th Percentile £750 £723 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
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 5,302 3,911 4,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.15% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 2,724 3,510
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £766 £824 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 31 19
10th Percentile £26.43 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.59
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +21.04% -36.80%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.88 £50.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £67.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -14 49 £528 +17.22% 8
South London -5 21 £550 +5.77% 4
East London 0 2 £421 +6.58% 4
West London -21 2 £500 +66.67% 15
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 13 (3.49%) Apache
3 9 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.15%) Camunda
4 8 (2.15%) nginx
5 4 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.81%) Confluence
6 3 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
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
1 177 (47.58%) AWS
2 91 (24.46%) Azure
3 62 (16.67%) GitHub
4 55 (14.78%) GCP
5 39 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.18%) Serverless
7 21 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.84%) OpenShift
11 17 (4.57%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.69%) Azure AKS
16 8 (2.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 6 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.85%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.10%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.22%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.14%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.65%) Redis
6 20 (5.38%) MySQL
7 15 (4.03%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.76%) DynamoDB
9 13 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.42%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.15%) Flink
12 7 (1.88%) InterSystems Cache
13 6 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.61%) Big Data
14 5 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.34%) Metadata
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
16 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.81%) Db2
Development Applications
1 91 (24.46%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.24%) Git
3 55 (14.78%) JUnit
4 43 (11.56%) Gradle
5 41 (11.02%) GitLab
6 38 (10.22%) Mockito
7 34 (9.14%) Maven
8 18 (4.84%) Liquibase
9 13 (3.49%) JIRA
10 11 (2.96%) SonarQube
11 8 (2.15%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.61%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.61%) Flyway
13 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.08%) Postman
13 4 (1.08%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 111 (29.84%) Finance
2 72 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.20%) Banking
4 47 (12.63%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.11%) Retail
7 13 (3.49%) 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 6 (1.61%) Back Office
11 4 (1.08%) Front Office
11 4 (1.08%) Police
11 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (54.57%) Developer
2 163 (43.82%) Java Developer
3 83 (22.31%) Senior
4 66 (17.74%) Java Engineer
5 51 (13.71%) Senior Developer
6 45 (12.10%) 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
11 22 (5.91%) Lead
12 20 (5.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 19 (5.11%) Data Engineer
14 17 (4.57%) Architect
15 16 (4.30%) Senior Java Engineer
16 14 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 9 (2.42%) Technical Leader
19 8 (2.15%) Junior
19 8 (2.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (81.45%) Spring Boot
2 124 (33.33%) Kafka
3 101 (27.15%) REST
3 101 (27.15%) RESTful
4 73 (19.62%) React
5 35 (9.41%) Terraform
6 32 (8.60%) Node.js
7 29 (7.80%) AngularJS
8 25 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
9 23 (6.18%) HTML
10 20 (5.38%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.11%) CSS
11 19 (5.11%) Jakarta EE
12 18 (4.84%) Spring MVC
12 18 (4.84%) Web Services
13 17 (4.57%) OpenAPI
13 17 (4.57%) Swagger
14 15 (4.03%) Spring Cloud
15 14 (3.76%) JPA
16 12 (3.23%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (24.46%) Cloud Native
2 60 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.23%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.15%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.88%) Derivative
10 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.34%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.34%) 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 29 (7.80%) Linux
2 17 (4.57%) Unix
3 4 (1.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) 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
1 223 (59.95%) Microservices
2 205 (55.11%) CI/CD
3 170 (45.70%) Agile
4 120 (32.26%) Containerisation
5 119 (31.99%) DevOps
6 108 (29.03%) Software Engineering
7 100 (26.88%) Event-Driven
8 77 (20.70%) Test Automation
9 72 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (17.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 62 (16.67%) TDD
12 57 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (13.98%) Observability
14 50 (13.44%) Code Quality
15 49 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (12.90%) Scrum
17 43 (11.56%) Clean Code
18 41 (11.02%) Design Patterns
19 40 (10.75%) AI
20 34 (9.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 368 (98.92%) Java
2 126 (33.87%) SQL
3 65 (17.47%) TypeScript
4 47 (12.63%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.37%) Python
6 26 (6.99%) PL/SQL
7 15 (4.03%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.15%) Scala
9 7 (1.88%) Bash
9 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.61%) C#
11 5 (1.34%) Ruby
12 4 (1.08%) Solidity
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.84%) Degree
4 13 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.34%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.41%) QA
2 15 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.42%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.61%) SEPA
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) MiFID
5 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
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%) WCAG
System Software
1 171 (45.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 162 (43.55%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.65%) Prometheus
3 19 (5.11%) Grafana
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%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (15.05%) Oracle
2 17 (4.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.49%) IBM
4 12 (3.23%) Google
5 11 (2.96%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.15%) New Relic
7 7 (1.88%) Sybase
7 7 (1.88%) TikTok
8 6 (1.61%) Confluent
8 6 (1.61%) Solace
8 6 (1.61%) 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
11 2 (0.54%) Informatica
11 2 (0.54%) MKS
11 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce