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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 140 141
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 369 269 306
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.98% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.23% 7.62% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 166 240
10th Percentile £400 £359 £404
25th Percentile £458 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -12.70%
75th Percentile £619 £585 £675
90th Percentile £738 £731 £838
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
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% -35.61%

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 4,486 3,529 4,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.02% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,449 3,419
10th Percentile £392 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £719
90th Percentile £782 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 26
10th Percentile £24.30 £31.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £48.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +20.55% -40.74%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -15 53 £525 +5.00% 7
South London -10 23 £521 +3.58% 3
East London +1 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 (5.15%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.07%) Apache
3 11 (2.98%) Camunda
4 10 (2.71%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.71%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.71%) nginx
5 9 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.36%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.08%) Confluence
7 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.81%) CMS
8 3 (0.81%) JBoss
8 3 (0.81%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.54%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.54%) Drupal
9 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.54%) Mule
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.27%) Maya
1 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.08%) Quorum
2 4 (1.08%) Ripple
3 3 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 168 (45.53%) AWS
2 85 (23.04%) Azure
3 58 (15.72%) GCP
4 56 (15.18%) GitHub
5 38 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.69%) Serverless
7 17 (4.61%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (4.61%) OpenShift
8 16 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.25%) Azure AKS
11 11 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (2.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (1.63%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.04%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (11.92%) NoSQL
3 34 (9.21%) MongoDB
4 33 (8.94%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.78%) MySQL
6 17 (4.61%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.07%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.52%) Redis
10 9 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.44%) Flink
11 7 (1.90%) Big Data
11 7 (1.90%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.36%) Db2
13 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.81%) Metadata
14 3 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 87 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.68%) Git
3 65 (17.62%) JUnit
4 41 (11.11%) Gradle
4 41 (11.11%) Mockito
5 36 (9.76%) Maven
6 34 (9.21%) GitLab
7 18 (4.88%) JIRA
8 14 (3.79%) Liquibase
9 11 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.71%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.36%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.36%) Postman
12 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.08%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.08%) Flyway
12 4 (1.08%) jMock
13 3 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (28.73%) Finance
2 64 (17.34%) Banking
3 60 (16.26%) Social Skills
4 50 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.61%) Retail
7 16 (4.34%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.17%) Law
9 7 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.08%) Police
11 4 (1.08%) Publishing
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Legal
13 2 (0.54%) Military
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (52.85%) Developer
2 150 (40.65%) Java Developer
3 73 (19.78%) Senior
4 59 (15.99%) Java Engineer
5 42 (11.38%) Software Engineer
6 41 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 33 (8.94%) Backend Developer
8 31 (8.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (5.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (5.69%) Java Software Engineer
10 21 (5.69%) Lead
11 19 (5.15%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 16 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.79%) Architect
13 14 (3.79%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (2.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 8 (2.17%) Software Developer
16 7 (1.90%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (79.95%) Spring Boot
2 125 (33.88%) Kafka
3 103 (27.91%) REST
4 96 (26.02%) RESTful
5 74 (20.05%) React
6 40 (10.84%) AngularJS
6 40 (10.84%) Node.js
7 22 (5.96%) HTML
7 22 (5.96%) Spring MVC
8 21 (5.69%) CSS
8 21 (5.69%) Web Services
9 20 (5.42%) Hibernate
10 18 (4.88%) JPA
11 17 (4.61%) J2EE
12 16 (4.34%) WireMock
13 15 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (3.79%) OpenAPI
14 14 (3.79%) Swagger
15 13 (3.52%) Next.js
15 13 (3.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 52 (14.09%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.98%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.71%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.17%) Derivative
9 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.63%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.63%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.86%) Linux
2 9 (2.44%) Unix
3 8 (2.17%) Windows
4 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.81%) Solaris
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.81%) 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
1 221 (59.89%) Microservices
2 197 (53.39%) CI/CD
3 158 (42.82%) Agile
4 121 (32.79%) DevOps
5 112 (30.35%) Containerisation
6 97 (26.29%) Software Engineering
7 86 (23.31%) Event-Driven
8 70 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (18.97%) TDD
9 63 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 58 (15.72%) Observability
10 58 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (15.18%) Scrum
12 54 (14.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 51 (13.82%) Code Quality
14 40 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (10.03%) Clean Code
15 37 (10.03%) Design Patterns
16 31 (8.40%) Migration
17 28 (7.59%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 360 (97.56%) Java
2 108 (29.27%) SQL
3 66 (17.89%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 42 (11.38%) Python
6 21 (5.69%) PL/SQL
7 19 (5.15%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.44%) C#
8 9 (2.44%) Scala
9 5 (1.36%) Ruby
9 5 (1.36%) Solidity
10 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.54%) Bash
11 2 (0.54%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 121 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 110 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.61%) Degree
4 15 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.67%) QA
2 20 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.90%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.36%) SEPA
4 5 (1.36%) SLA
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) MiFID
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 164 (44.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 154 (41.73%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.86%) Terraform
3 26 (7.05%) Grafana
4 18 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.98%) Ansible
6 10 (2.71%) Kibana
7 5 (1.36%) Control-M
8 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.54%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (13.55%) Oracle
2 17 (4.61%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.34%) Google
3 16 (4.34%) IBM
4 12 (3.25%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.25%) Splunk
5 10 (2.71%) Sybase
6 8 (2.17%) Solace
7 7 (1.90%) TikTok
8 5 (1.36%) New Relic
8 5 (1.36%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.81%) Confluent
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.54%) MKS
11 2 (0.54%) Netlify
11 2 (0.54%) Okta
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce