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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 137 145
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 367 269 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.98% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 7.57% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 168 223
10th Percentile £400 £359 £406
25th Percentile £456 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% -12.00%
75th Percentile £631 £585 £688
90th Percentile £738 £727 £838
England median daily rate £525 £480 £540
% change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -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 £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 4,510 3,553 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.63% 26.19% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,989 2,488 3,247
10th Percentile £390 £374 £376
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 23 25
10th Percentile £23.98 £31.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.20 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +20.00% -43.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.50 £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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -5 52 £525 +5.00% 13
South London -12 25 £535 +2.88% 4
East London +2 2 £421 +68.40% 6
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 (5.18%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.09%) Apache
3 10 (2.72%) nginx
4 9 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.36%) Camunda
5 5 (1.36%) Ethereum
5 5 (1.36%) Hyperledger
5 5 (1.36%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.09%) Confluence
6 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.82%) JBoss
7 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.54%) Drupal
8 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.54%) Mule
8 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Trello
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.09%) Quorum
2 4 (1.09%) Ripple
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 172 (46.87%) AWS
2 89 (24.25%) Azure
3 60 (16.35%) GCP
3 60 (16.35%) GitHub
4 39 (10.63%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (5.99%) Serverless
6 19 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (4.90%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.63%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (3.00%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (2.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (1.91%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (1.91%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.71%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (11.17%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.81%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.26%) MongoDB
5 23 (6.27%) MySQL
6 18 (4.90%) Redis
7 16 (4.36%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.81%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.45%) Flink
11 7 (1.91%) Big Data
11 7 (1.91%) InterSystems Cache
12 6 (1.63%) Db2
12 6 (1.63%) Oracle Database
13 5 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 87 (23.71%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.53%) Git
3 57 (15.53%) JUnit
4 40 (10.90%) Gradle
5 38 (10.35%) GitLab
6 37 (10.08%) Mockito
7 34 (9.26%) Maven
8 15 (4.09%) JIRA
8 15 (4.09%) Liquibase
9 11 (3.00%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.91%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.36%) Flyway
13 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.09%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.09%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.09%) jMock
13 4 (1.09%) Postman
13 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
General
1 111 (30.25%) Finance
2 66 (17.98%) Banking
3 62 (16.89%) Social Skills
4 49 (13.35%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.18%) Retail
7 16 (4.36%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.18%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.18%) Law
9 7 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Police
11 4 (1.09%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Back Office
12 3 (0.82%) Front Office
12 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 195 (53.13%) Developer
2 154 (41.96%) Java Developer
3 80 (21.80%) Senior
4 60 (16.35%) Java Engineer
5 48 (13.08%) Senior Developer
6 46 (12.53%) Software Engineer
7 38 (10.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 34 (9.26%) Backend Developer
9 25 (6.81%) Java Software Engineer
10 20 (5.45%) Lead
11 19 (5.18%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (4.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 15 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 14 (3.81%) Architect
15 13 (3.54%) Senior Java Engineer
16 9 (2.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 8 (2.18%) Junior
17 8 (2.18%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (2.18%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (79.29%) Spring Boot
2 122 (33.24%) Kafka
3 103 (28.07%) REST
4 94 (25.61%) RESTful
5 74 (20.16%) React
6 36 (9.81%) Node.js
7 33 (8.99%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.27%) Jakarta EE
9 22 (5.99%) HTML
9 22 (5.99%) Web Services
10 21 (5.72%) CSS
10 21 (5.72%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.18%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (5.18%) Spring MVC
12 16 (4.36%) JPA
13 14 (3.81%) OpenAPI
13 14 (3.81%) Swagger
14 13 (3.54%) JMS
14 13 (3.54%) Micronaut
14 13 (3.54%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.34%) Cloud Native
2 61 (16.62%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.81%) Data Structures
5 14 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.72%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.18%) Derivative
10 8 (2.18%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.63%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.36%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
14 4 (1.09%) Mainframe
14 4 (1.09%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.90%) Linux
2 12 (3.27%) Unix
3 8 (2.18%) Windows
4 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.82%) Solaris
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.54%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (59.13%) Microservices
2 201 (54.77%) CI/CD
3 161 (43.87%) Agile
4 122 (33.24%) DevOps
5 118 (32.15%) Containerisation
6 105 (28.61%) Software Engineering
7 88 (23.98%) Event-Driven
8 71 (19.35%) TDD
9 67 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (17.98%) Test Automation
11 61 (16.62%) Observability
12 57 (15.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 56 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (14.99%) Scrum
15 49 (13.35%) Code Quality
16 43 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (10.90%) Clean Code
18 39 (10.63%) Design Patterns
19 32 (8.72%) AI
19 32 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 362 (98.64%) Java
2 116 (31.61%) SQL
3 61 (16.62%) TypeScript
4 55 (14.99%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.53%) Python
6 27 (7.36%) PL/SQL
7 21 (5.72%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.45%) Scala
9 8 (2.18%) C#
10 5 (1.36%) Ruby
10 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.09%) Solidity
12 3 (0.82%) Bash
13 2 (0.54%) PHP
14 1 (0.27%) Groovy
14 1 (0.27%) Perl
14 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 117 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.63%) Degree
4 15 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.36%) 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 (9.26%) QA
2 20 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.18%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.36%) SEPA
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.54%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) MiFID
6 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (45.78%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 157 (42.78%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.99%) Terraform
3 26 (7.08%) Grafana
4 20 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 15 (4.09%) Ansible
6 10 (2.72%) Kibana
7 6 (1.63%) Control-M
8 3 (0.82%) Bosun
9 2 (0.54%) Rancher
9 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 53 (14.44%) Oracle
2 17 (4.63%) Google
3 16 (4.36%) Microsoft
4 14 (3.81%) IBM
5 13 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 12 (3.27%) Splunk
7 10 (2.72%) Sybase
8 8 (2.18%) New Relic
8 8 (2.18%) Solace
9 7 (1.91%) TikTok
10 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
10 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.82%) Confluent
11 3 (0.82%) FIS
11 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.54%) Netlify
12 2 (0.54%) Okta
12 2 (0.54%) Salesforce