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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 152 153
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -39
Contract jobs citing Spring 365 240 295
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 1.92% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.41% 7.26% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 147 229
10th Percentile £403 £368 £400
25th Percentile £463 £419 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% -13.08%
75th Percentile £630 £585 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £838
England median daily rate £521 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +4.20% -7.41% -12.55%
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 4,341 3,306 4,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.81% 26.44% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 2,317 3,470
10th Percentile £380 £378 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 19 29
10th Percentile £23.98 £32.41 £16.25
25th Percentile £34.01 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +4.71% -36.57%
75th Percentile £73.50 £61.25 £61.43
90th Percentile £93.13 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -8 53 £528 +5.50% 2
South London -8 18 £521 +3.58% 1
East London -1 2 £421 +68.40% 2
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 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.11%) Apache
3 13 (3.56%) Camunda
4 10 (2.74%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.74%) Hyperledger
5 9 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.47%) nginx
6 8 (2.19%) Confluence
7 5 (1.37%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.82%) JBoss
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.55%) CMS
10 2 (0.55%) Drupal
10 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.55%) Mule
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.37%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.10%) Quorum
2 4 (1.10%) Ripple
3 3 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 174 (47.67%) AWS
2 84 (23.01%) Azure
3 61 (16.71%) GitHub
4 54 (14.79%) GCP
5 42 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.12%) Serverless
7 25 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (6.58%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.93%) OpenShift
11 15 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (3.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (3.29%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) HTTP
2 4 (1.10%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (24.38%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (14.25%) NoSQL
3 39 (10.68%) MongoDB
4 31 (8.49%) Relational Database
5 25 (6.85%) MySQL
6 22 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (6.03%) DynamoDB
7 18 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (4.38%) Redis
9 15 (4.11%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 8 (2.19%) Big Data
10 8 (2.19%) Flink
11 7 (1.92%) Db2
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.37%) DocumentDB
12 5 (1.37%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.37%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 92 (25.21%) Jenkins
2 68 (18.63%) Git
3 66 (18.08%) JUnit
4 44 (12.05%) Mockito
5 41 (11.23%) GitLab
6 35 (9.59%) Gradle
7 34 (9.32%) Maven
8 21 (5.75%) JIRA
9 14 (3.84%) Liquibase
10 12 (3.29%) Cucumber
11 8 (2.19%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.37%) IntelliJ
12 5 (1.37%) Postman
13 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.10%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.10%) Flyway
13 4 (1.10%) Gatling
13 4 (1.10%) jMock
14 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
General
1 97 (26.58%) Finance
2 68 (18.63%) Banking
3 56 (15.34%) Social Skills
4 46 (12.60%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.38%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.11%) Retail
8 8 (2.19%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.19%) Law
9 7 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.64%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.10%) Front Office
11 4 (1.10%) Police
11 4 (1.10%) Publishing
12 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (52.05%) Developer
2 135 (36.99%) Java Developer
3 78 (21.37%) Senior
4 61 (16.71%) Java Engineer
5 42 (11.51%) Senior Developer
5 42 (11.51%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
7 26 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
8 25 (6.85%) Backend Developer
9 21 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 20 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 19 (5.21%) Lead
12 18 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 16 (4.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 15 (4.11%) Architect
14 15 (4.11%) Senior Java Engineer
15 9 (2.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (2.47%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.19%) Java Architect
17 7 (1.92%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (80.82%) Spring Boot
2 133 (36.44%) Kafka
3 104 (28.49%) RESTful
4 95 (26.03%) REST
5 74 (20.27%) React
6 45 (12.33%) Node.js
7 44 (12.05%) AngularJS
8 23 (6.30%) Hibernate
9 22 (6.03%) HTML
9 22 (6.03%) JPA
10 21 (5.75%) CSS
11 20 (5.48%) Web Services
12 19 (5.21%) WireMock
13 18 (4.93%) Spring MVC
14 17 (4.66%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (4.38%) J2EE
15 16 (4.38%) Next.js
15 16 (4.38%) OAuth
16 14 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
16 14 (3.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.73%) Cloud Native
2 47 (12.88%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (3.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.47%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.92%) Derivative
10 6 (1.64%) Blockchain
10 6 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.64%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.10%) Equities
12 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.40%) Linux
2 8 (2.19%) Unix
2 8 (2.19%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.82%) Solaris
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (60.27%) Microservices
2 189 (51.78%) CI/CD
3 152 (41.64%) Agile
4 120 (32.88%) DevOps
5 111 (30.41%) Containerisation
6 91 (24.93%) Software Engineering
7 86 (23.56%) Event-Driven
8 75 (20.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 68 (18.63%) TDD
10 59 (16.16%) Observability
11 57 (15.62%) Test Automation
12 53 (14.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 52 (14.25%) Scrum
14 48 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (11.23%) Code Quality
16 36 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (9.86%) Performance Tuning
17 34 (9.32%) Clean Code
18 30 (8.22%) Design Patterns
18 30 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 353 (96.71%) Java
2 110 (30.14%) SQL
3 62 (16.99%) TypeScript
4 52 (14.25%) JavaScript
5 40 (10.96%) Python
6 18 (4.93%) Kotlin
6 18 (4.93%) PL/SQL
7 9 (2.47%) Scala
8 8 (2.19%) C#
9 5 (1.37%) Ruby
9 5 (1.37%) Solidity
10 3 (0.82%) Go
10 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) PHP
12 1 (0.27%) Bash
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Korn
12 1 (0.27%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 111 (30.41%) Security Cleared
2 100 (27.40%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.84%) Degree
4 12 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.41%) QA
2 21 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.19%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.64%) SEPA
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.37%) SLA
6 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.10%) NIST
7 3 (0.82%) PSD2
8 2 (0.55%) EMIR
8 2 (0.55%) GDPR
8 2 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.55%) MiFID
8 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) HL7
9 1 (0.27%) ITGC
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 163 (44.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.82%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 154 (42.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.77%) Terraform
3 27 (7.40%) Grafana
4 18 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.29%) Ansible
6 8 (2.19%) Kibana
7 3 (0.82%) Argo
7 3 (0.82%) Control-M
7 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.27%) Istio
Vendors
1 41 (11.23%) Oracle
2 15 (4.11%) IBM
2 15 (4.11%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.29%) Google
3 12 (3.29%) Sybase
4 11 (3.01%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.74%) Splunk
6 9 (2.47%) Solace
7 7 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.37%) Confluent
8 5 (1.37%) TikTok
9 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.10%) Informatica
9 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.10%) New Relic
10 3 (0.82%) Adobe
10 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.55%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.55%) MKS
11 2 (0.55%) Salesforce