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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 148 146
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Spring 362 268 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.97% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.02% 7.55% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 168 218
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £838
England median daily rate £525 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +9.38% -12.73% -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 £51.07
% change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%

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 4,515 3,550 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.57% 26.06% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 2,485 3,206
10th Percentile £388 £371 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 25
10th Percentile £25.13 £31.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +40.00% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.70 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -9 52 £528 +17.22% 18
South London -11 25 £543 +4.33% 5
East London +2 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 18 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.87%) Apache
3 10 (2.76%) nginx
4 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.38%) Camunda
5 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.10%) Ethereum
6 4 (1.10%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.83%) Confluence
7 3 (0.83%) JBoss
7 3 (0.83%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.55%) Mule
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.10%) Quorum
1 4 (1.10%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.10%) Ripple
2 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 168 (46.41%) AWS
2 85 (23.48%) Azure
3 61 (16.85%) GitHub
4 59 (16.30%) GCP
5 40 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (6.08%) Serverless
7 21 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (5.25%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.97%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.59%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.04%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 9 (2.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
18 7 (1.93%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (24.03%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (10.50%) NoSQL
3 32 (8.84%) Relational Database
4 30 (8.29%) MongoDB
5 22 (6.08%) MySQL
6 19 (5.25%) Redis
7 16 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.04%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.49%) Flink
11 8 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.93%) InterSystems Cache
12 7 (1.93%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.66%) Big Data
14 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.10%) Db2
16 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 89 (24.59%) Jenkins
2 80 (22.10%) Git
3 55 (15.19%) JUnit
4 41 (11.33%) GitLab
4 41 (11.33%) Gradle
5 38 (10.50%) Mockito
6 34 (9.39%) Maven
7 16 (4.42%) Liquibase
8 14 (3.87%) JIRA
9 11 (3.04%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.21%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.38%) Flyway
13 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.10%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.10%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.10%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.10%) jMock
13 4 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 109 (30.11%) Finance
2 65 (17.96%) Banking
3 63 (17.40%) Social Skills
4 50 (13.81%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.52%) Retail
7 15 (4.14%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.21%) Law
9 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.66%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Back Office
11 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.10%) Police
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.83%) Front Office
12 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.55%) Military
13 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (54.14%) Developer
2 156 (43.09%) Java Developer
3 79 (21.82%) Senior
4 60 (16.57%) Java Engineer
5 47 (12.98%) Senior Developer
5 47 (12.98%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 33 (9.12%) Backend Developer
8 27 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (5.25%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.25%) Lead
11 16 (4.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 14 (3.87%) Architect
12 14 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (3.59%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (2.49%) Junior
16 8 (2.21%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (79.01%) Spring Boot
2 116 (32.04%) Kafka
3 98 (27.07%) REST
4 92 (25.41%) RESTful
5 71 (19.61%) React
6 35 (9.67%) Node.js
7 30 (8.29%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.63%) Jakarta EE
9 22 (6.08%) HTML
10 21 (5.80%) CSS
10 21 (5.80%) Web Services
11 19 (5.25%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.25%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (4.97%) Spring MVC
13 15 (4.14%) OpenAPI
13 15 (4.14%) Swagger
14 14 (3.87%) JMS
14 14 (3.87%) JPA
15 12 (3.31%) Next.js
15 12 (3.31%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.93%) Cloud Native
2 62 (17.13%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.76%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.21%) Derivative
10 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.66%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.38%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.10%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
15 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.46%) Linux
2 11 (3.04%) Unix
3 8 (2.21%) Windows
4 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Solaris
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (58.84%) Microservices
2 202 (55.80%) CI/CD
3 161 (44.48%) Agile
4 119 (32.87%) Containerisation
5 114 (31.49%) DevOps
6 105 (29.01%) Software Engineering
7 88 (24.31%) Event-Driven
8 69 (19.06%) TDD
9 68 (18.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (17.68%) Test Automation
11 57 (15.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 56 (15.47%) Observability
12 56 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (14.92%) Scrum
14 48 (13.26%) Code Quality
15 44 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (11.05%) Clean Code
17 38 (10.50%) Design Patterns
18 34 (9.39%) AI
19 33 (9.12%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 357 (98.62%) Java
2 118 (32.60%) SQL
3 61 (16.85%) TypeScript
4 51 (14.09%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.71%) Python
6 27 (7.46%) PL/SQL
7 21 (5.80%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.21%) Scala
9 6 (1.66%) C#
10 5 (1.38%) Ruby
10 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.10%) Solidity
12 3 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 115 (31.77%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.45%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.42%) Degree
4 14 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.39%) QA
2 19 (5.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.21%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.38%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) ITGC
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (46.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.83%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 155 (42.82%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.84%) Terraform
3 24 (6.63%) Grafana
4 19 (5.25%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.42%) Ansible
6 10 (2.76%) Kibana
7 6 (1.66%) Control-M
8 3 (0.83%) Bosun
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 51 (14.09%) Oracle
2 17 (4.70%) Google
3 15 (4.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.59%) IBM
5 12 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.04%) Splunk
7 9 (2.49%) Sybase
8 8 (2.21%) New Relic
8 8 (2.21%) Solace
9 7 (1.93%) TikTok
10 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.10%) FIS
10 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.83%) Confluent
11 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.55%) Informatica
12 2 (0.55%) MKS
12 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.55%) Salesforce