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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 155 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 -50
Contract jobs citing Spring 362 236 286
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.90% 1.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.37% 7.18% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 144 221
10th Percentile £405 £368 £400
25th Percentile £463 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £825
England median daily rate £524 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +4.80% -6.98% -12.60%
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 4,325 3,285 4,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.84% 26.44% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,305 3,456
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £448 £429 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 29
10th Percentile £23.65 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £68.38 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.75 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £49.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.63% -23.46%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -12 52 £528 +5.50% 2
South London -9 18 £521 +3.58% 1
East London -2 2 £421 +68.40% 2
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 19 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.87%) Apache
3 13 (3.59%) Camunda
4 10 (2.76%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.76%) Hyperledger
5 8 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.21%) Confluence
5 8 (2.21%) nginx
6 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.83%) JBoss
8 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.83%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.83%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.55%) CMS
9 2 (0.55%) Drupal
9 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.55%) Mule
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.38%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.38%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.10%) Quorum
2 4 (1.10%) Ripple
3 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 172 (47.51%) AWS
2 83 (22.93%) Azure
3 61 (16.85%) GitHub
4 54 (14.92%) GCP
5 43 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.18%) Serverless
7 25 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (6.63%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (4.97%) OpenShift
10 15 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.31%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.21%) HTTP
2 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (24.31%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (14.09%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.50%) MongoDB
4 30 (8.29%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.91%) MySQL
6 22 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (5.80%) DynamoDB
8 18 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (4.42%) Redis
10 14 (3.87%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.21%) Big Data
12 8 (2.21%) Flink
13 7 (1.93%) Db2
14 5 (1.38%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.38%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.38%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 91 (25.14%) Jenkins
2 66 (18.23%) Git
3 64 (17.68%) JUnit
4 43 (11.88%) Mockito
5 41 (11.33%) GitLab
6 35 (9.67%) Gradle
7 34 (9.39%) Maven
8 20 (5.52%) JIRA
9 14 (3.87%) Liquibase
10 11 (3.04%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.21%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.38%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.10%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.10%) Flyway
13 4 (1.10%) Gatling
13 4 (1.10%) jMock
13 4 (1.10%) Postman
14 3 (0.83%) REST Assured
General
1 94 (25.97%) Finance
2 67 (18.51%) Banking
3 55 (15.19%) Social Skills
4 45 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 16 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.42%) Investment Banking
5 16 (4.42%) Retail
6 8 (2.21%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.21%) Law
7 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.66%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.10%) Front Office
9 4 (1.10%) Police
9 4 (1.10%) Publishing
10 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Legal
11 2 (0.55%) Military
11 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (52.49%) Developer
2 134 (37.02%) Java Developer
3 78 (21.55%) Senior
4 60 (16.57%) Java Engineer
5 42 (11.60%) Senior Developer
5 42 (11.60%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 27 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (6.91%) Backend Developer
9 20 (5.52%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.52%) Java Software Engineer
10 19 (5.25%) Lead
11 18 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 15 (4.14%) Architect
13 15 (4.14%) Senior Java Engineer
14 9 (2.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (2.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.21%) Java Architect
16 7 (1.93%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 293 (80.94%) Spring Boot
2 132 (36.46%) Kafka
3 104 (28.73%) RESTful
4 96 (26.52%) REST
5 75 (20.72%) React
6 46 (12.71%) Node.js
7 45 (12.43%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.35%) Hibernate
9 22 (6.08%) HTML
10 21 (5.80%) CSS
10 21 (5.80%) JPA
11 20 (5.52%) Web Services
12 18 (4.97%) Spring MVC
12 18 (4.97%) WireMock
13 17 (4.70%) Spring Cloud
14 16 (4.42%) J2EE
14 16 (4.42%) Next.js
14 16 (4.42%) OAuth
15 14 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
15 14 (3.87%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 46 (12.71%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.42%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.49%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.93%) Derivative
10 6 (1.66%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.66%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.10%) Equities
12 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.46%) Linux
2 8 (2.21%) Unix
2 8 (2.21%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.83%) Solaris
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (60.77%) Microservices
2 187 (51.66%) CI/CD
3 150 (41.44%) Agile
4 121 (33.43%) DevOps
5 112 (30.94%) Containerisation
6 91 (25.14%) Software Engineering
7 86 (23.76%) Event-Driven
8 76 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 67 (18.51%) TDD
10 60 (16.57%) Observability
11 54 (14.92%) Test Automation
12 52 (14.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 52 (14.36%) Scrum
13 47 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (11.33%) Code Quality
15 36 (9.94%) Clean Code
15 36 (9.94%) Performance Tuning
16 35 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 31 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (8.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 349 (96.41%) Java
2 109 (30.11%) SQL
3 61 (16.85%) TypeScript
4 52 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 39 (10.77%) Python
6 18 (4.97%) Kotlin
7 17 (4.70%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.21%) Scala
9 7 (1.93%) C#
10 5 (1.38%) Ruby
10 5 (1.38%) Solidity
11 3 (0.83%) Go
11 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.55%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) Korn
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 99 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.59%) Degree
4 11 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.22%) QA
2 21 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.21%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.66%) SEPA
5 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.38%) SLA
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.83%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) EMIR
8 2 (0.55%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) ITGC
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 162 (44.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.83%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (42.27%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.12%) Terraform
3 27 (7.46%) Grafana
4 18 (4.97%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.31%) Ansible
6 8 (2.21%) Kibana
7 4 (1.10%) Argo
8 3 (0.83%) Control-M
8 3 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.55%) Istio
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
10 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 40 (11.05%) Oracle
2 15 (4.14%) IBM
3 14 (3.87%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.59%) Google
5 12 (3.31%) Sybase
6 11 (3.04%) Dynatrace
7 10 (2.76%) Splunk
8 9 (2.49%) Solace
9 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.38%) Confluent
10 5 (1.38%) TikTok
11 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (1.10%) New Relic
12 3 (0.83%) Adobe
12 3 (0.83%) Informatica
12 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.55%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.55%) MKS
13 2 (0.55%) Salesforce