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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 145 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -36
Contract jobs citing Spring 377 249 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 1.96% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 154 233
10th Percentile £401 £368 £400
25th Percentile £463 £415 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -8.63% -13.08%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £835
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -11.84%
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% -34.46%

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 4,368 3,351 4,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.85% 26.39% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 2,346 3,460
10th Percentile £381 £379 £375
25th Percentile £450 £429 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £713 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 28
10th Percentile £24.30 £32.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.00 £44.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +5.29% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.13 £61.70
90th Percentile £92.50 £87.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -10 53 £530 +3.41% 4
South London -6 21 £521 +3.58% 1
East London 0 2 £421 +68.40% 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 20 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.98%) Apache
3 12 (3.18%) Camunda
4 10 (2.65%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.65%) Hyperledger
4 10 (2.65%) nginx
5 9 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (2.12%) Confluence
7 5 (1.33%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.80%) JBoss
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.80%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.53%) CMS
10 2 (0.53%) Drupal
10 2 (0.53%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.53%) Mule
10 2 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.33%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.06%) Quorum
2 4 (1.06%) Ripple
3 3 (0.80%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 173 (45.89%) AWS
2 85 (22.55%) Azure
3 62 (16.45%) GitHub
4 54 (14.32%) GCP
5 41 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (7.16%) Serverless
7 25 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (6.37%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (4.51%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (3.18%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (2.12%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.12%) HTTP
2 4 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (23.87%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (13.53%) NoSQL
3 39 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 31 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.63%) MySQL
6 22 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (5.84%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.24%) Redis
8 16 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.12%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (2.12%) Big Data
9 8 (2.12%) Flink
10 7 (1.86%) Db2
11 6 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.33%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (24.93%) Jenkins
2 71 (18.83%) Git
3 68 (18.04%) JUnit
4 44 (11.67%) Mockito
5 42 (11.14%) GitLab
6 37 (9.81%) Gradle
7 35 (9.28%) Maven
8 21 (5.57%) JIRA
9 14 (3.71%) Liquibase
10 11 (2.92%) Cucumber
11 9 (2.39%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.33%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.33%) Postman
13 4 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.06%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.06%) Flyway
13 4 (1.06%) jMock
14 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (25.99%) Finance
2 67 (17.77%) Banking
3 61 (16.18%) Social Skills
4 50 (13.26%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.51%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.24%) Retail
8 8 (2.12%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.12%) Law
9 7 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.59%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.06%) Front Office
11 4 (1.06%) Police
11 4 (1.06%) Publishing
12 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Military
13 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 201 (53.32%) Developer
2 147 (38.99%) Java Developer
3 76 (20.16%) Senior
4 61 (16.18%) Java Engineer
5 41 (10.88%) Senior Developer
5 41 (10.88%) Software Engineer
6 34 (9.02%) Backend Developer
7 30 (7.96%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (7.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (5.57%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.57%) Lead
10 20 (5.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 18 (4.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 15 (3.98%) Architect
13 15 (3.98%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (2.39%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.12%) Java Architect
17 7 (1.86%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (78.51%) Spring Boot
2 134 (35.54%) Kafka
3 105 (27.85%) RESTful
4 97 (25.73%) REST
5 75 (19.89%) React
6 45 (11.94%) Node.js
7 44 (11.67%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.37%) Hibernate
9 23 (6.10%) HTML
9 23 (6.10%) JPA
10 21 (5.57%) CSS
11 20 (5.31%) Web Services
12 19 (5.04%) WireMock
13 18 (4.77%) Spring MVC
14 17 (4.51%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (4.24%) J2EE
16 15 (3.98%) Next.js
16 15 (3.98%) OAuth
17 14 (3.71%) OpenAPI
17 14 (3.71%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 76 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.12%) Derivative
9 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.59%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.06%) Equities
12 4 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.80%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.43%) Linux
2 8 (2.12%) Unix
2 8 (2.12%) Windows
3 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.80%) Solaris
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (59.15%) Microservices
2 200 (53.05%) CI/CD
3 158 (41.91%) Agile
4 123 (32.63%) DevOps
5 119 (31.56%) Containerisation
6 91 (24.14%) Software Engineering
7 88 (23.34%) Event-Driven
8 77 (20.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 76 (20.16%) TDD
10 60 (15.92%) Test Automation
11 58 (15.38%) Observability
12 54 (14.32%) Scrum
13 53 (14.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 53 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (12.47%) Code Quality
15 38 (10.08%) Design Patterns
16 36 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (9.28%) Performance Tuning
18 34 (9.02%) Clean Code
19 30 (7.96%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 366 (97.08%) Java
2 111 (29.44%) SQL
3 64 (16.98%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 41 (10.88%) Python
6 20 (5.31%) PL/SQL
7 18 (4.77%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.39%) Scala
9 8 (2.12%) C#
10 5 (1.33%) Ruby
10 5 (1.33%) Solidity
11 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.53%) Go
12 2 (0.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.27%) Bash
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Perl
13 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 121 (32.10%) Security Cleared
2 108 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.98%) Degree
4 13 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.08%) QA
2 22 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.86%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.33%) SEPA
5 5 (1.33%) SLA
6 4 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.06%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) EMIR
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) MiFID
7 2 (0.53%) PSD2
8 1 (0.27%) HL7
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.27%) ITGC
8 1 (0.27%) NCSC
8 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (45.89%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Postfix
3 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 163 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.75%) Terraform
3 26 (6.90%) Grafana
4 17 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.92%) Ansible
6 9 (2.39%) Kibana
7 4 (1.06%) Control-M
8 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.53%) Argo
9 2 (0.53%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (11.67%) Oracle
2 16 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.98%) IBM
4 13 (3.45%) Google
5 12 (3.18%) Sybase
6 11 (2.92%) Dynatrace
6 11 (2.92%) Splunk
7 9 (2.39%) Solace
8 6 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.59%) TikTok
9 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.06%) Confluent
9 4 (1.06%) Informatica
9 4 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.06%) New Relic
10 3 (0.80%) Adobe
10 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.53%) MKS
11 2 (0.53%) Okta
11 2 (0.53%) Salesforce