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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 155 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 -66
Contract jobs citing Spring 342 221 265
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.83% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 7.01% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 136 212
10th Percentile £400 £372 £400
25th Percentile £463 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £836
England median daily rate £521 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +4.10% -6.98% -13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.63 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £96.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.67% +30.78% -36.72%

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 4,222 3,154 4,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 26.10% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,808 2,206 3,380
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £832 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £30.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.76 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -38.18%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £90.88 £68.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -9 50 £525 +2.44% 5
South London -10 19 £521 +9.58%
East London -6 2 £421 +68.40% 2
West London - 1 £300 - 3
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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.09%) Apache
3 13 (3.80%) Camunda
4 9 (2.63%) Ethereum
4 9 (2.63%) Hyperledger
5 8 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.34%) Confluence
6 6 (1.75%) nginx
7 4 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.88%) JBoss
8 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.58%) CMS
9 2 (0.58%) Drupal
9 2 (0.58%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.58%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.29%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Fidessa
2 4 (1.17%) R3 Corda
3 3 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.88%) Quorum
3 3 (0.88%) Ripple
4 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 167 (48.83%) AWS
2 77 (22.51%) Azure
3 62 (18.13%) GitHub
4 55 (16.08%) GCP
5 43 (12.57%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.60%) Serverless
7 25 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (4.97%) OpenShift
11 16 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (3.51%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.22%) Cloud Run
16 10 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) HTTP
2 4 (1.17%) DNS
3 2 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (24.85%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (14.62%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 24 (7.02%) MySQL
6 22 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (6.14%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.80%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.51%) Redis
11 9 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.63%) Big Data
12 8 (2.34%) Flink
13 7 (2.05%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.75%) DB2
14 6 (1.75%) DocumentDB
15 4 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 87 (25.44%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.54%) JUnit
3 58 (16.96%) Git
4 42 (12.28%) GitLab
4 42 (12.28%) Mockito
5 29 (8.48%) Maven
6 27 (7.89%) Gradle
7 20 (5.85%) JIRA
8 14 (4.09%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.80%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.34%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.46%) Gatling
12 4 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.17%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.17%) jMock
12 4 (1.17%) Postman
12 4 (1.17%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 81 (23.68%) Finance
2 63 (18.42%) Banking
3 57 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 40 (11.70%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.26%) Retail
6 14 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.09%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.05%) Law
9 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.17%) Front Office
10 4 (1.17%) Publishing
11 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Legal
12 2 (0.58%) Police
12 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (50.88%) Developer
2 119 (34.80%) Java Developer
3 78 (22.81%) Senior
4 55 (16.08%) Java Engineer
5 42 (12.28%) Senior Developer
6 41 (11.99%) Software Engineer
7 30 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.14%) Backend Developer
10 20 (5.85%) Data Engineer
11 18 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
12 17 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.97%) Lead
13 15 (4.39%) Architect
13 15 (4.39%) Senior Java Engineer
14 14 (4.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 9 (2.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.34%) Java Architect
16 8 (2.34%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 7 (2.05%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (80.12%) Spring Boot
2 126 (36.84%) Kafka
3 101 (29.53%) RESTful
4 89 (26.02%) REST
5 75 (21.93%) React
6 51 (14.91%) AngularJS
7 47 (13.74%) Node.js
8 23 (6.73%) HTML
9 22 (6.43%) Hibernate
10 21 (6.14%) CSS
11 20 (5.85%) JPA
11 20 (5.85%) Web Services
11 20 (5.85%) WireMock
12 17 (4.97%) OAuth
12 17 (4.97%) Spring Cloud
13 16 (4.68%) Next.js
14 15 (4.39%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (4.39%) Spring MVC
15 14 (4.09%) J2EE
16 13 (3.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.28%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.97%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.46%) Blockchain
9 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.17%) Derivative
10 4 (1.17%) Equities
10 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.17%) NHS
10 4 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.60%) Linux
2 8 (2.34%) Windows
3 6 (1.75%) Unix
4 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.88%) Solaris
5 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (62.28%) Microservices
2 175 (51.17%) CI/CD
3 132 (38.60%) Agile
4 116 (33.92%) Containerisation
5 111 (32.46%) DevOps
6 92 (26.90%) Software Engineering
7 75 (21.93%) Event-Driven
8 70 (20.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 60 (17.54%) Observability
10 57 (16.67%) TDD
11 47 (13.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 45 (13.16%) Scrum
13 44 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.28%) Test Automation
15 40 (11.70%) Code Quality
16 39 (11.40%) Clean Code
17 36 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
18 33 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 31 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
20 30 (8.77%) AI
Programming Languages
1 324 (94.74%) Java
2 99 (28.95%) SQL
3 58 (16.96%) TypeScript
4 54 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.36%) Python
6 16 (4.68%) Kotlin
7 10 (2.92%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.34%) Scala
9 7 (2.05%) C#
10 4 (1.17%) Ruby
10 4 (1.17%) Solidity
11 3 (0.88%) Go
11 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Bash
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Korn
13 1 (0.29%) Perl
13 1 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 103 (30.12%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.09%) Degree
4 11 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) OCP
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.77%) QA
2 17 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.34%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.75%) SEPA
5 5 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.46%) SLA
6 4 (1.17%) NIST
7 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.58%) EMIR
8 2 (0.58%) GDPR
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.58%) PSD2
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ITGC
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (46.78%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Postfix
3 2 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 152 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.23%) Terraform
3 28 (8.19%) Grafana
4 19 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.63%) Ansible
6 8 (2.34%) Argo
7 7 (2.05%) Kibana
8 6 (1.75%) Istio
9 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.58%) Rancher
11 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 31 (9.06%) Oracle
2 14 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.80%) Google
4 11 (3.22%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.92%) IBM
5 10 (2.92%) Sybase
6 8 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.34%) Solace
6 8 (2.34%) Splunk
7 6 (1.75%) Confluent
8 4 (1.17%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.17%) New Relic
9 3 (0.88%) Adobe
9 3 (0.88%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.58%) Netlify
10 2 (0.58%) Okta
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.58%) TikTok