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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 147 153
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 381 252 299
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.87% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.11% 6.32% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 154 211
10th Percentile £380 £359 £418
25th Percentile £450 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £700
90th Percentile £775 £670 £825
England median daily rate £530 £492 £550
% change year-on-year +7.72% -10.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +29.09% -23.61% -1.51%

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 5,355 3,986 4,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.35% 29.59% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,747 3,411
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £454 £432 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £680 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 22
10th Percentile £26.25 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £59.51
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.00
England median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -15 46 £553 +2.79% 46
South London 0 24 £550 +3.53% 2
West London -21 3 £500 +66.67% 18
East London 0 1 £410 -24.07% 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 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.46%) Apache
3 12 (3.15%) Camunda
4 9 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.36%) nginx
5 7 (1.84%) Confluence
6 4 (1.05%) Ethereum
6 4 (1.05%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.05%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.05%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.79%) MQSeries
7 3 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.52%) CMS
8 2 (0.52%) Mule
9 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.26%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.05%) Quorum
1 4 (1.05%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.05%) Ripple
2 2 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 181 (47.51%) AWS
2 89 (23.36%) Azure
3 67 (17.59%) GitHub
4 57 (14.96%) GCP
5 41 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
7 27 (7.09%) Serverless
8 24 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (6.04%) OpenShift
10 22 (5.77%) Amazon S3
11 21 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.99%) GitHub Copilot
13 17 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (3.94%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
17 9 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 9 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
18 7 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 7 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (23.10%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (11.81%) Relational Database
3 42 (11.02%) NoSQL
4 38 (9.97%) MongoDB
5 23 (6.04%) Redis
6 21 (5.51%) MySQL
7 19 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.15%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.15%) Oracle Database
11 11 (2.89%) Flink
12 7 (1.84%) Big Data
12 7 (1.84%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.31%) Db2
13 5 (1.31%) Metadata
14 4 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 97 (25.46%) Jenkins
2 89 (23.36%) Git
3 56 (14.70%) JUnit
4 53 (13.91%) Gradle
5 49 (12.86%) Maven
6 45 (11.81%) GitLab
7 37 (9.71%) Mockito
8 20 (5.25%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.67%) JIRA
9 14 (3.67%) Liquibase
10 12 (3.15%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.62%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.36%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.57%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.57%) Flyway
14 5 (1.31%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.05%) Eclipse
15 4 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
15 4 (1.05%) IntelliJ
General
1 121 (31.76%) Finance
2 77 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 76 (19.95%) Banking
4 47 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.72%) Retail
7 14 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.36%) Front Office
10 8 (2.10%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.84%) Back Office
11 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Law
13 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Police
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 212 (55.64%) Developer
2 169 (44.36%) Java Developer
3 96 (25.20%) Senior
4 73 (19.16%) Java Engineer
5 55 (14.44%) Senior Developer
6 42 (11.02%) Software Engineer
7 41 (10.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 32 (8.40%) Backend Developer
9 30 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (7.09%) Lead
11 26 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (6.04%) Senior Java Engineer
13 19 (4.99%) Data Engineer
13 19 (4.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 18 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 16 (4.20%) Architect
16 11 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 11 (2.89%) Lead Developer
16 11 (2.89%) Technical Leader
17 8 (2.10%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (83.20%) Spring Boot
2 136 (35.70%) Kafka
3 109 (28.61%) REST
4 96 (25.20%) RESTful
5 73 (19.16%) React
6 38 (9.97%) Terraform
7 35 (9.19%) Node.js
8 31 (8.14%) HTML
9 30 (7.87%) AngularJS
10 28 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (6.82%) Hibernate
12 25 (6.56%) CSS
13 24 (6.30%) JPA
14 19 (4.99%) Web Services
15 18 (4.72%) Swagger
16 17 (4.46%) Jakarta EE
16 17 (4.46%) OpenAPI
16 17 (4.46%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.20%) SOAP
18 15 (3.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 100 (26.25%) Cloud Native
2 66 (17.32%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (9.97%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.89%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.62%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.62%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.10%) Derivative
11 8 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (2.10%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.57%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.31%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.31%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.31%) Fixed Income
14 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.97%) Linux
2 25 (6.56%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Solaris
4 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (59.32%) Microservices
2 214 (56.17%) CI/CD
3 173 (45.41%) Agile
4 126 (33.07%) DevOps
5 125 (32.81%) Containerisation
6 111 (29.13%) Software Engineering
7 110 (28.87%) Event-Driven
8 89 (23.36%) Test Automation
9 73 (19.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (18.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 67 (17.59%) TDD
12 56 (14.70%) Code Quality
12 56 (14.70%) Scrum
13 55 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
14 54 (14.17%) Clean Code
15 52 (13.65%) Observability
16 51 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (12.34%) AI
18 44 (11.55%) Design Patterns
19 34 (8.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 377 (98.95%) Java
2 129 (33.86%) SQL
3 62 (16.27%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.65%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.86%) Python
6 28 (7.35%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.20%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.89%) Scala
9 10 (2.62%) Bash
10 9 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.05%) C#
11 4 (1.05%) Ruby
11 4 (1.05%) Solidity
12 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 120 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 106 (27.82%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.56%) Degree
4 20 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.81%) QA
2 12 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.15%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.84%) SEPA
4 6 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) EMIR
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) MiFID
5 2 (0.52%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ITGC
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 178 (46.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.52%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 167 (43.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.56%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.77%) Grafana
4 14 (3.67%) Kibana
5 12 (3.15%) Ansible
6 6 (1.57%) Control-M
7 4 (1.05%) Argo
8 3 (0.79%) Bosun
8 3 (0.79%) Istio
8 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 68 (17.85%) Oracle
2 21 (5.51%) IBM
3 17 (4.46%) Google
4 13 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 11 (2.89%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.36%) Sybase
7 7 (1.84%) New Relic
7 7 (1.84%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.84%) Splunk
7 7 (1.84%) TikTok
8 6 (1.57%) Confluent
9 5 (1.31%) FIS
9 5 (1.31%) Solace
10 4 (1.05%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.79%) Veracode
12 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.52%) Informatica
12 2 (0.52%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.52%) Red Hat