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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 149 146
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring 370 252 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.88% 1.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.04% 6.48% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 152 211
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £457 £413 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.41%
75th Percentile £647 £615 £681
90th Percentile £756 £719 £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 5,256 3,891 4,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.20% 29.09% 30.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,517 2,710 3,493
10th Percentile £400 £368 £383
25th Percentile £455 £431 £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% -2.22%
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% -36.80%
75th Percentile £61.50 £61.88 £50.56
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.00 £68.02
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -14 49 £530 +17.78% 9
South London -11 21 £550 +4.27% 2
East London +2 2 £421 +6.58% 3
West London -18 2 £500 +66.67% 24
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 (4.86%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.51%) Apache
3 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.43%) nginx
4 8 (2.16%) Camunda
5 4 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.81%) CMS
6 3 (0.81%) Confluence
7 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.08%) Quorum
1 4 (1.08%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.08%) Ripple
2 3 (0.81%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 173 (46.76%) AWS
2 91 (24.59%) Azure
3 61 (16.49%) GitHub
4 55 (14.86%) GCP
5 39 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.95%) Serverless
7 20 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (5.14%) OpenShift
9 18 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.05%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.70%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 6 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (22.16%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 37 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 34 (9.19%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.68%) Redis
6 20 (5.41%) MySQL
7 15 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 14 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.24%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.70%) Oracle Database
11 8 (2.16%) Flink
12 7 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
13 6 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.62%) Big Data
14 5 (1.35%) Metadata
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
16 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.81%) Db2
Development Applications
1 89 (24.05%) Jenkins
2 79 (21.35%) Git
3 53 (14.32%) JUnit
4 42 (11.35%) Gradle
5 41 (11.08%) GitLab
6 36 (9.73%) Mockito
7 31 (8.38%) Maven
8 18 (4.86%) Liquibase
9 12 (3.24%) JIRA
10 10 (2.70%) SonarQube
11 9 (2.43%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.62%) Flyway
13 5 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 5 (1.35%) REST Assured
14 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
15 3 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
15 3 (0.81%) Postman
16 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 111 (30.00%) Finance
2 73 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.30%) Banking
4 46 (12.43%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.14%) Retail
7 14 (3.78%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.16%) Law
9 7 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.62%) Back Office
11 4 (1.08%) Front Office
11 4 (1.08%) Police
11 4 (1.08%) Publishing
11 4 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (54.59%) Developer
2 162 (43.78%) Java Developer
3 82 (22.16%) Senior
4 66 (17.84%) Java Engineer
5 50 (13.51%) Senior Developer
6 45 (12.16%) Software Engineer
7 40 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.46%) Backend Developer
9 27 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (6.22%) Full-Stack Developer
11 21 (5.68%) Lead
12 19 (5.14%) Data Engineer
13 18 (4.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 17 (4.59%) Architect
15 16 (4.32%) Senior Java Engineer
16 14 (3.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 12 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 9 (2.43%) Technical Leader
19 8 (2.16%) Junior
19 8 (2.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (81.08%) Spring Boot
2 121 (32.70%) Kafka
3 99 (26.76%) REST
4 98 (26.49%) RESTful
5 73 (19.73%) React
6 34 (9.19%) Terraform
7 32 (8.65%) Node.js
8 28 (7.57%) AngularJS
9 25 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
10 23 (6.22%) HTML
11 20 (5.41%) Jakarta EE
12 19 (5.14%) CSS
12 19 (5.14%) Hibernate
13 18 (4.86%) Spring MVC
14 17 (4.59%) OpenAPI
14 17 (4.59%) Swagger
14 17 (4.59%) Web Services
15 14 (3.78%) Spring Cloud
16 13 (3.51%) JMS
16 13 (3.51%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 91 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 59 (15.95%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.78%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.97%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.89%) Derivative
9 7 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.62%) Spread Betting
10 6 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.08%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.08%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.08%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.57%) Linux
2 17 (4.59%) Unix
3 4 (1.08%) Windows
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) 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
1 223 (60.27%) Microservices
2 204 (55.14%) CI/CD
3 168 (45.41%) Agile
4 117 (31.62%) Containerisation
5 116 (31.35%) DevOps
6 109 (29.46%) Software Engineering
7 98 (26.49%) Event-Driven
8 74 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 70 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (16.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 62 (16.76%) TDD
11 57 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (14.05%) Observability
13 50 (13.51%) Code Quality
14 48 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (12.70%) Scrum
16 44 (11.89%) Clean Code
17 41 (11.08%) AI
17 41 (11.08%) Design Patterns
18 33 (8.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 366 (98.92%) Java
2 125 (33.78%) SQL
3 65 (17.57%) TypeScript
4 47 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 47 (12.70%) Python
5 28 (7.57%) PL/SQL
6 14 (3.78%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.16%) Bash
7 8 (2.16%) Scala
8 7 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.35%) C#
9 5 (1.35%) Ruby
10 4 (1.08%) Solidity
11 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 102 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 18 (4.86%) Degree
4 13 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.19%) QA
2 15 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.43%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.62%) SEPA
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) MiFID
5 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
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
1 169 (45.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.54%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 160 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.41%) Prometheus
3 18 (4.86%) Grafana
4 15 (4.05%) Ansible
5 13 (3.51%) Kibana
6 6 (1.62%) Control-M
7 3 (0.81%) Bosun
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (15.68%) Oracle
2 17 (4.59%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.78%) IBM
4 12 (3.24%) Google
5 11 (2.97%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.16%) New Relic
7 7 (1.89%) Sybase
7 7 (1.89%) TikTok
8 6 (1.62%) Confluent
8 6 (1.62%) Solace
8 6 (1.62%) Splunk
9 4 (1.08%) FIS
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.54%) Informatica
11 2 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.54%) MKS
11 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce