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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 141 154
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing Spring 366 271 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.99% 1.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.16% 7.61% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 168 227
10th Percentile £401 £359 £409
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -12.35%
75th Percentile £626 £585 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £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% -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 4,486 3,560 4,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.65% 26.09% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,966 2,474 3,339
10th Percentile £393 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £725
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
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% -38.46%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.81 £58.76
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.88 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -7 54 £525 +5.00% 10
South London -10 24 £535 +6.47% 4
East London 0 2 £421 +68.40% 5
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 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.10%) Apache
3 10 (2.73%) Ethereum
3 10 (2.73%) Hyperledger
3 10 (2.73%) nginx
4 9 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.19%) Camunda
6 5 (1.37%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.09%) Confluence
7 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.82%) CMS
8 3 (0.82%) JBoss
8 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.55%) Drupal
9 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.55%) Mule
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Trello
2 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.09%) Quorum
2 4 (1.09%) Ripple
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 167 (45.63%) AWS
2 83 (22.68%) Azure
3 57 (15.57%) GCP
3 57 (15.57%) GitHub
4 39 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (5.74%) Serverless
6 19 (5.19%) OpenShift
7 17 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (4.64%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (3.01%) Azure AKS
10 10 (2.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.91%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (1.64%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (23.22%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (12.02%) NoSQL
3 35 (9.56%) MongoDB
4 33 (9.02%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.83%) MySQL
6 17 (4.64%) DynamoDB
6 17 (4.64%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.83%) Redis
8 14 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (2.46%) Flink
10 7 (1.91%) Big Data
10 7 (1.91%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.37%) Db2
11 5 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 89 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 83 (22.68%) Git
3 65 (17.76%) JUnit
4 41 (11.20%) Gradle
4 41 (11.20%) Mockito
5 36 (9.84%) Maven
6 35 (9.56%) GitLab
7 19 (5.19%) JIRA
8 14 (3.83%) Liquibase
9 11 (3.01%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.46%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.37%) IntelliJ
11 5 (1.37%) Postman
12 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.09%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
12 4 (1.09%) Flyway
12 4 (1.09%) jMock
12 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
General
1 106 (28.96%) Finance
2 64 (17.49%) Banking
3 60 (16.39%) Social Skills
4 48 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.64%) Retail
7 15 (4.10%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.19%) Law
9 7 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.64%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.09%) Police
11 4 (1.09%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Back Office
13 2 (0.55%) Front Office
13 2 (0.55%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 193 (52.73%) Developer
2 151 (41.26%) Java Developer
3 76 (20.77%) Senior
4 59 (16.12%) Java Engineer
5 44 (12.02%) Senior Developer
6 43 (11.75%) Software Engineer
7 34 (9.29%) Backend Developer
7 34 (9.29%) Senior Java Developer
8 22 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (5.74%) Full-Stack Developer
10 20 (5.46%) Lead
11 19 (5.19%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 16 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.83%) Architect
13 14 (3.83%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (2.19%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (1.91%) GCP Developer
16 7 (1.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (79.23%) Spring Boot
2 122 (33.33%) Kafka
3 100 (27.32%) REST
4 93 (25.41%) RESTful
5 72 (19.67%) React
6 39 (10.66%) Node.js
7 38 (10.38%) AngularJS
8 25 (6.83%) Jakarta EE
9 22 (6.01%) HTML
9 22 (6.01%) Spring MVC
10 21 (5.74%) CSS
10 21 (5.74%) Web Services
11 20 (5.46%) Hibernate
12 18 (4.92%) JPA
13 16 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (4.10%) WireMock
15 14 (3.83%) OpenAPI
15 14 (3.83%) Swagger
16 13 (3.55%) Next.js
16 13 (3.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 52 (14.21%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.56%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.19%) Derivative
8 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.64%) Blockchain
9 6 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.65%) Linux
2 10 (2.73%) Unix
3 8 (2.19%) Windows
4 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.82%) Solaris
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (59.84%) Microservices
2 198 (54.10%) CI/CD
3 158 (43.17%) Agile
4 118 (32.24%) DevOps
5 111 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 97 (26.50%) Software Engineering
7 82 (22.40%) Event-Driven
8 70 (19.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (19.13%) TDD
9 64 (17.49%) Test Automation
10 58 (15.85%) Observability
11 56 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (15.03%) Scrum
13 53 (14.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 51 (13.93%) Code Quality
15 40 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (10.38%) Clean Code
17 37 (10.11%) Design Patterns
18 31 (8.47%) Migration
19 29 (7.92%) AI
Programming Languages
1 357 (97.54%) Java
2 109 (29.78%) SQL
3 66 (18.03%) TypeScript
4 53 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 41 (11.20%) Python
6 23 (6.28%) PL/SQL
7 20 (5.46%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.46%) C#
8 9 (2.46%) Scala
9 5 (1.37%) Ruby
9 5 (1.37%) Solidity
10 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) Bash
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (32.51%) Security Cleared
2 109 (29.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (4.64%) Degree
4 15 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.74%) QA
2 20 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.91%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.37%) SEPA
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) MiFID
6 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (44.54%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (41.80%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.92%) Terraform
3 26 (7.10%) Grafana
4 19 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.55%) Ansible
6 10 (2.73%) Kibana
7 5 (1.37%) Control-M
8 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
10 1 (0.27%) Argo
10 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 52 (14.21%) Oracle
2 16 (4.37%) Google
2 16 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.83%) IBM
4 12 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 12 (3.28%) Splunk
5 10 (2.73%) Sybase
6 8 (2.19%) Solace
7 7 (1.91%) TikTok
8 5 (1.37%) New Relic
8 5 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.82%) Confluent
10 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.55%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.55%) MKS
11 2 (0.55%) Netlify
11 2 (0.55%) Okta
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce