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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 139 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing Spring 370 268 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.98% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.23% 7.59% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 165 234
10th Percentile £400 £359 £405
25th Percentile £456 £414 £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 £733 £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 £76.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +39.09% +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 4,494 3,532 4,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.70% 26.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,977 2,453 3,386
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £524 £550
% change year-on-year +0.19% -4.73% -
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 £61.25 £58.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +5.60% -8.66%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -6 53 £525 +5.00% 8
South London -9 24 £535 +6.47% 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 (5.14%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.05%) Apache
3 11 (2.97%) Camunda
4 10 (2.70%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.70%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.70%) nginx
5 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.35%) 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 2 (0.54%) Trello
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.35%) 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
1 169 (45.68%) AWS
2 85 (22.97%) Azure
3 59 (15.95%) GCP
4 57 (15.41%) GitHub
5 39 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.68%) Serverless
7 19 (5.14%) OpenShift
8 17 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (4.59%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (2.97%) Azure AKS
11 10 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 6 (1.62%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (22.97%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (11.89%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.46%) MongoDB
4 33 (8.92%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.76%) MySQL
6 17 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.05%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.78%) Redis
10 9 (2.43%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.43%) Flink
11 7 (1.89%) Big Data
11 7 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.35%) Db2
12 5 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.81%) GIS
Development Applications
1 89 (24.05%) Jenkins
2 82 (22.16%) Git
3 64 (17.30%) JUnit
4 41 (11.08%) Gradle
4 41 (11.08%) Mockito
5 36 (9.73%) Maven
6 35 (9.46%) GitLab
7 19 (5.14%) JIRA
8 14 (3.78%) Liquibase
9 11 (2.97%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.70%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.35%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.35%) Postman
12 4 (1.08%) Bitbucket
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%) REST Assured
General
1 108 (29.19%) Finance
2 65 (17.57%) Banking
3 63 (17.03%) Social Skills
4 49 (13.24%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.59%) Retail
7 16 (4.32%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.16%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.16%) Law
9 7 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.62%) 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%) Front Office
13 2 (0.54%) Military
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (52.70%) Developer
2 151 (40.81%) Java Developer
3 75 (20.27%) Senior
4 60 (16.22%) Java Engineer
5 43 (11.62%) Senior Developer
5 43 (11.62%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.92%) Backend Developer
6 33 (8.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 22 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
8 21 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 21 (5.68%) Lead
9 19 (5.14%) Data Engineer
9 19 (5.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 16 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 14 (3.78%) Architect
11 14 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
12 10 (2.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 8 (2.16%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.16%) Software Developer
14 7 (1.89%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (79.46%) Spring Boot
2 123 (33.24%) Kafka
3 104 (28.11%) REST
4 95 (25.68%) RESTful
5 74 (20.00%) React
6 40 (10.81%) AngularJS
7 39 (10.54%) Node.js
8 22 (5.95%) HTML
8 22 (5.95%) Spring MVC
9 21 (5.68%) CSS
9 21 (5.68%) Web Services
10 20 (5.41%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.14%) J2EE
12 18 (4.86%) JPA
13 15 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
13 15 (4.05%) WireMock
14 14 (3.78%) JMS
14 14 (3.78%) OpenAPI
14 14 (3.78%) Swagger
15 13 (3.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 52 (14.05%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.24%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.70%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.16%) Derivative
8 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.62%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.62%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.35%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.84%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Unix
3 8 (2.16%) 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
1 223 (60.27%) Microservices
2 199 (53.78%) CI/CD
3 160 (43.24%) Agile
4 120 (32.43%) DevOps
5 111 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 97 (26.22%) Software Engineering
7 85 (22.97%) Event-Driven
8 70 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (18.92%) TDD
9 63 (17.03%) Test Automation
10 58 (15.68%) Observability
10 58 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
11 57 (15.41%) Scrum
12 53 (14.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 50 (13.51%) Code Quality
14 40 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (10.27%) Clean Code
16 37 (10.00%) Design Patterns
17 31 (8.38%) Migration
18 29 (7.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 361 (97.57%) Java
2 110 (29.73%) SQL
3 66 (17.84%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.32%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.08%) Python
6 23 (6.22%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.43%) C#
8 9 (2.43%) Scala
9 5 (1.35%) Ruby
9 5 (1.35%) 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
1 120 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 109 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.59%) Degree
4 15 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) 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 (8.65%) QA
2 20 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.35%) SEPA
4 5 (1.35%) 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
1 166 (44.86%) Docker
2 3 (0.81%) Postfix
3 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 156 (42.16%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.84%) Terraform
3 26 (7.03%) Grafana
4 19 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.51%) Ansible
6 10 (2.70%) Kibana
7 5 (1.35%) 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 52 (14.05%) Oracle
2 16 (4.32%) Google
2 16 (4.32%) IBM
2 16 (4.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.24%) Dynatrace
3 12 (3.24%) Splunk
4 10 (2.70%) Sybase
5 8 (2.16%) Solace
6 7 (1.89%) TikTok
7 5 (1.35%) New Relic
7 5 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (0.81%) Confluent
9 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.54%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.54%) MKS
10 2 (0.54%) Netlify
10 2 (0.54%) Okta
10 2 (0.54%) Salesforce