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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 148 148
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Spring 375 247 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.85% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.11% 6.33% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 147 210
10th Percentile £400 £359 £417
25th Percentile £457 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% -8.41%
75th Percentile £650 £609 £688
90th Percentile £775 £708 £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 5,271 3,901 4,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.22% 29.15% 30.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,722 3,486
10th Percentile £400 £370 £383
25th Percentile £450 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 18
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.61 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.87 £24.48
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% +21.04% -36.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
% change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -16 49 £530 +11.58% 28
South London -8 21 £550 +3.53% 6
East London +3 2 £421 -22.04%
West London -19 2 £500 +66.67% 26
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 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.47%) Apache
3 9 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.40%) Camunda
3 9 (2.40%) nginx
4 4 (1.07%) Ethereum
4 4 (1.07%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.07%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.07%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.07%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.80%) CMS
5 3 (0.80%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.07%) Quorum
1 4 (1.07%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.07%) Ripple
2 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 176 (46.93%) AWS
2 91 (24.27%) Azure
3 64 (17.07%) GitHub
4 56 (14.93%) GCP
5 39 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.87%) Serverless
7 20 (5.33%) Amazon EKS
7 20 (5.33%) OpenShift
8 19 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 14 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (2.67%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 7 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (21.87%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.27%) NoSQL
3 39 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 33 (8.80%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.87%) Redis
6 21 (5.60%) MySQL
7 18 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.47%) DynamoDB
10 12 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (2.67%) Oracle Database
12 8 (2.13%) Flink
13 7 (1.87%) InterSystems Cache
14 6 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.60%) Big Data
15 5 (1.33%) Metadata
16 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
17 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
17 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.80%) Db2
Development Applications
1 91 (24.27%) Jenkins
2 81 (21.60%) Git
3 56 (14.93%) JUnit
4 44 (11.73%) Gradle
5 43 (11.47%) GitLab
6 37 (9.87%) Mockito
7 35 (9.33%) Maven
8 18 (4.80%) Liquibase
9 14 (3.73%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.20%) JIRA
11 9 (2.40%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.60%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.60%) Flyway
12 6 (1.60%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.07%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.07%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
14 3 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 113 (30.13%) Finance
2 75 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 66 (17.60%) Banking
4 46 (12.27%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.07%) Retail
7 14 (3.73%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.13%) Law
9 7 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.87%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.60%) Back Office
11 4 (1.07%) Front Office
11 4 (1.07%) Police
11 4 (1.07%) Publishing
11 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 203 (54.13%) Developer
2 162 (43.20%) Java Developer
3 84 (22.40%) Senior
4 66 (17.60%) Java Engineer
5 51 (13.60%) Senior Developer
6 45 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 41 (10.93%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.33%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 26 (6.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 22 (5.87%) Lead
12 19 (5.07%) Data Engineer
13 18 (4.80%) Architect
13 18 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 16 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
15 14 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 14 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.40%) Technical Leader
17 8 (2.13%) Junior
17 8 (2.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (81.07%) Spring Boot
2 127 (33.87%) Kafka
3 99 (26.40%) REST
4 98 (26.13%) RESTful
5 76 (20.27%) React
6 36 (9.60%) Terraform
7 34 (9.07%) Node.js
8 31 (8.27%) AngularJS
9 28 (7.47%) HTML
10 26 (6.93%) RabbitMQ
11 24 (6.40%) CSS
12 20 (5.33%) Jakarta EE
13 19 (5.07%) Hibernate
14 18 (4.80%) Web Services
15 17 (4.53%) OpenAPI
15 17 (4.53%) Spring MVC
15 17 (4.53%) Swagger
16 14 (3.73%) JPA
16 14 (3.73%) Spring Cloud
17 13 (3.47%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 91 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 59 (15.73%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
5 15 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.93%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.87%) Derivative
11 6 (1.60%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.60%) Spread Betting
11 6 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.07%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.07%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.07%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.00%) Linux
2 18 (4.80%) Unix
3 4 (1.07%) Windows
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) 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
1 226 (60.27%) Microservices
2 206 (54.93%) CI/CD
3 173 (46.13%) Agile
4 121 (32.27%) DevOps
5 119 (31.73%) Containerisation
6 110 (29.33%) Software Engineering
7 102 (27.20%) Event-Driven
8 75 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 73 (19.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 66 (17.60%) TDD
11 64 (17.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 59 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (14.40%) Code Quality
14 53 (14.13%) Observability
15 50 (13.33%) Scrum
16 48 (12.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (12.27%) Clean Code
18 42 (11.20%) AI
18 42 (11.20%) Design Patterns
19 34 (9.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 370 (98.67%) Java
2 127 (33.87%) SQL
3 67 (17.87%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.87%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.80%) Python
6 28 (7.47%) PL/SQL
7 15 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.13%) Bash
8 8 (2.13%) Scala
9 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.33%) C#
10 5 (1.33%) Ruby
11 4 (1.07%) Solidity
12 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 117 (31.20%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 21 (5.60%) Degree
4 17 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.80%) QA
2 15 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.67%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.60%) SEPA
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 2 (0.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
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
1 173 (46.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 163 (43.47%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.33%) Prometheus
3 17 (4.53%) Grafana
4 14 (3.73%) Ansible
5 13 (3.47%) Kibana
6 6 (1.60%) Control-M
7 3 (0.80%) Bosun
7 3 (0.80%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.53%) Rancher
8 2 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 61 (16.27%) Oracle
2 19 (5.07%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.80%) IBM
4 13 (3.47%) Google
5 12 (3.20%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.87%) New Relic
6 7 (1.87%) Splunk
6 7 (1.87%) Sybase
6 7 (1.87%) TikTok
7 6 (1.60%) Confluent
7 6 (1.60%) Solace
8 4 (1.07%) FIS
9 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.53%) Informatica
10 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.53%) MKS
10 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.53%) Salesforce