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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 156 146
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Spring 373 245 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.83% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 6.17% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 154 200
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £458 £426 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £661 £629 £700
90th Percentile £775 £675 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%

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 5,350 3,973 4,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.44% 29.65% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 2,715 3,295
10th Percentile £400 £367 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £788 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 32 24
10th Percentile £30.40 £31.77 £23.91
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +22.28% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.56 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £73.80
England median hourly rate £66.83 £54.35 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.96% -16.38% +8.33%

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 10 October 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
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 10 October 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 -16 40 £575 +27.78% 42
South London -7 22 £550 +3.53% 5
West London -15 3 £500 +66.67% 7
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 16 (4.29%) Apache
1 16 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.68%) Camunda
3 9 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.41%) nginx
4 8 (2.14%) Confluence
5 4 (1.07%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.07%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.07%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.07%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.07%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Solana
8 1 (0.27%) CMS
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.07%) Quorum
1 4 (1.07%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.07%) Ripple
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 177 (47.45%) AWS
2 88 (23.59%) Azure
3 66 (17.69%) GitHub
4 55 (14.75%) GCP
5 41 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.97%) Serverless
8 24 (6.43%) OpenShift
9 23 (6.17%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (4.56%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (3.22%) Anthropic Claude
16 10 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.14%) Amazon EventBridge
17 8 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 7 (1.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (24.93%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (13.40%) Relational Database
3 44 (11.80%) NoSQL
4 36 (9.65%) MongoDB
5 24 (6.43%) SQL Server
6 23 (6.17%) Redis
7 18 (4.83%) MySQL
8 15 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.75%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.41%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.41%) Flink
11 8 (2.14%) Metadata
12 7 (1.88%) Big Data
12 7 (1.88%) InterSystems Cache
13 5 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.34%) Db2
14 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.80%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.80%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 101 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 95 (25.47%) Git
3 57 (15.28%) JUnit
4 56 (15.01%) Gradle
5 52 (13.94%) GitLab
5 52 (13.94%) Maven
6 38 (10.19%) Mockito
7 21 (5.63%) SonarQube
8 15 (4.02%) JIRA
9 14 (3.75%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.49%) Liquibase
11 10 (2.68%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.41%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.88%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.61%) Flyway
15 5 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
16 4 (1.07%) CircleCI
16 4 (1.07%) Eclipse
16 4 (1.07%) IBM UrbanCode
16 4 (1.07%) IntelliJ
General
1 124 (33.24%) Finance
2 82 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 81 (21.72%) Banking
4 46 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.63%) Investment Banking
7 19 (5.09%) Retail
8 13 (3.49%) Back Office
8 13 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.22%) Front Office
10 8 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Law
14 3 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Police
14 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (56.84%) Developer
2 166 (44.50%) Java Developer
3 101 (27.08%) Senior
4 69 (18.50%) Java Engineer
5 59 (15.82%) Senior Developer
6 44 (11.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 42 (11.26%) Software Engineer
8 34 (9.12%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (8.85%) Backend Developer
10 27 (7.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 24 (6.43%) Lead
11 24 (6.43%) Senior Java Engineer
12 18 (4.83%) Architect
12 18 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 17 (4.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 14 (3.75%) Data Engineer
15 11 (2.95%) Lead Developer
16 10 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 10 (2.68%) Technical Leader
17 8 (2.14%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (82.84%) Spring Boot
2 141 (37.80%) Kafka
3 108 (28.95%) REST
4 97 (26.01%) RESTful
5 69 (18.50%) React
6 43 (11.53%) Terraform
7 35 (9.38%) HTML
8 34 (9.12%) AngularJS
9 31 (8.31%) Node.js
10 30 (8.04%) CSS
11 28 (7.51%) Hibernate
11 28 (7.51%) RabbitMQ
12 26 (6.97%) JPA
13 21 (5.63%) Web Services
14 19 (5.09%) Jakarta EE
14 19 (5.09%) Spring MVC
14 19 (5.09%) Swagger
15 18 (4.83%) OpenAPI
15 18 (4.83%) SOAP
16 16 (4.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 98 (26.27%) Cloud Native
2 74 (19.84%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (9.92%) Product Ownership
4 25 (6.70%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.22%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.68%) Derivative
9 9 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.88%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.61%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.61%) Equities
12 6 (1.61%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.61%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.46%) Linux
2 27 (7.24%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
5 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (58.71%) Microservices
2 218 (58.45%) CI/CD
3 175 (46.92%) Agile
4 121 (32.44%) DevOps
5 113 (30.29%) Containerisation
6 112 (30.03%) Event-Driven
7 108 (28.95%) Software Engineering
8 91 (24.40%) Test Automation
9 74 (19.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 73 (19.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 65 (17.43%) TDD
12 57 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (15.28%) Scrum
13 54 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 53 (14.21%) AI
15 52 (13.94%) Code Quality
16 50 (13.40%) Clean Code
17 49 (13.14%) Observability
18 43 (11.53%) Design Patterns
19 37 (9.92%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 369 (98.93%) Java
2 139 (37.27%) SQL
3 64 (17.16%) TypeScript
4 56 (15.01%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.14%) Python
6 29 (7.77%) PL/SQL
7 14 (3.75%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.95%) Scala
9 10 (2.68%) Bash
10 9 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.07%) C#
11 4 (1.07%) Ruby
11 4 (1.07%) Solidity
12 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Bicep
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 109 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 98 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.51%) Degree
4 21 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.80%) QA
2 12 (3.22%) ISO 20022
3 11 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.88%) SEPA
6 2 (0.54%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) MiFID
6 2 (0.54%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.27%) ITGC
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (46.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 164 (43.97%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.90%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.63%) Grafana
4 13 (3.49%) Kibana
5 12 (3.22%) Ansible
6 6 (1.61%) Control-M
7 4 (1.07%) Argo
8 3 (0.80%) Bosun
8 3 (0.80%) Istio
8 3 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 69 (18.50%) Oracle
2 19 (5.09%) Google
2 19 (5.09%) IBM
3 15 (4.02%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.68%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.41%) Sybase
6 8 (2.14%) Splunk
7 7 (1.88%) New Relic
7 7 (1.88%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.88%) TikTok
8 6 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.34%) Confluent
9 5 (1.34%) FIS
10 4 (1.07%) Solace
11 3 (0.80%) Databricks
11 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.80%) Veracode
12 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.54%) Temenos