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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 145 142
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Spring 362 269 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.98% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.96% 7.57% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 168 220
10th Percentile £400 £359 £413
25th Percentile £456 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £590 £688
90th Percentile £738 £725 £838
England median daily rate £525 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +9.38% -12.73% -8.33%
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 4,548 3,553 4,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.56% 26.13% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,016 2,482 3,209
10th Percentile £393 £368 £376
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 25
10th Percentile £26.55 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.25 £33.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.97 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% +38.59% -44.03%
75th Percentile £60.75 £62.19 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.38 £71.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -10.20%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -9 52 £528 +17.22% 22
South London -11 26 £543 +4.33% 5
East London +2 2 £421 +68.40% 4
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 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.87%) Apache
3 10 (2.76%) nginx
4 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.38%) Camunda
5 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (1.10%) Ethereum
6 4 (1.10%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.83%) CMS
7 3 (0.83%) Confluence
7 3 (0.83%) JBoss
7 3 (0.83%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.55%) Mule
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Trello
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.10%) Quorum
1 4 (1.10%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.10%) Ripple
2 3 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 170 (46.96%) AWS
2 84 (23.20%) Azure
3 62 (17.13%) GitHub
4 59 (16.30%) GCP
5 41 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (6.63%) Serverless
7 22 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (5.25%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.25%) OpenShift
10 18 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (3.31%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.04%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 9 (2.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 8 (2.21%) GitHub Copilot
18 7 (1.93%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (24.03%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 32 (8.84%) Relational Database
4 30 (8.29%) MongoDB
5 22 (6.08%) MySQL
6 19 (5.25%) Redis
7 16 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 15 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.04%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.49%) Flink
11 8 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (1.93%) InterSystems Cache
12 7 (1.93%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.66%) Big Data
14 5 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.10%) Db2
16 3 (0.83%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 90 (24.86%) Jenkins
2 81 (22.38%) Git
3 55 (15.19%) JUnit
4 41 (11.33%) GitLab
4 41 (11.33%) Gradle
5 38 (10.50%) Mockito
6 35 (9.67%) Maven
7 16 (4.42%) Liquibase
8 14 (3.87%) JIRA
9 12 (3.31%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.21%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.38%) Flyway
13 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.10%) CircleCI
13 4 (1.10%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.10%) Eclipse
13 4 (1.10%) IntelliJ
13 4 (1.10%) jMock
13 4 (1.10%) Postman
General
1 107 (29.56%) Finance
2 63 (17.40%) Banking
2 63 (17.40%) Social Skills
3 50 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.52%) Retail
6 15 (4.14%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.21%) Law
8 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.66%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.10%) Back Office
10 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Police
10 4 (1.10%) Publishing
11 3 (0.83%) Front Office
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (54.42%) Developer
2 156 (43.09%) Java Developer
3 77 (21.27%) Senior
4 60 (16.57%) Java Engineer
5 47 (12.98%) Senior Developer
5 47 (12.98%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 34 (9.39%) Backend Developer
8 27 (7.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 21 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (5.80%) Lead
10 19 (5.25%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 14 (3.87%) Architect
13 13 (3.59%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (2.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.49%) Junior
17 8 (2.21%) Software Developer
18 7 (1.93%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (78.73%) Spring Boot
2 115 (31.77%) Kafka
3 99 (27.35%) REST
4 92 (25.41%) RESTful
5 69 (19.06%) React
6 35 (9.67%) Node.js
7 29 (8.01%) AngularJS
8 24 (6.63%) Jakarta EE
9 22 (6.08%) HTML
10 21 (5.80%) CSS
10 21 (5.80%) Web Services
11 20 (5.52%) Hibernate
11 20 (5.52%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (4.97%) Spring MVC
13 15 (4.14%) OpenAPI
13 15 (4.14%) Swagger
14 14 (3.87%) JMS
14 14 (3.87%) JPA
15 12 (3.31%) Next.js
15 12 (3.31%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 84 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 60 (16.57%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.21%) Derivative
9 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.66%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.38%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.10%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.10%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.46%) Linux
2 11 (3.04%) Unix
3 8 (2.21%) Windows
4 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Solaris
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (58.84%) Microservices
2 201 (55.52%) CI/CD
3 162 (44.75%) Agile
4 118 (32.60%) Containerisation
5 115 (31.77%) DevOps
6 104 (28.73%) Software Engineering
7 87 (24.03%) Event-Driven
8 69 (19.06%) TDD
9 66 (18.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (17.96%) Test Automation
11 56 (15.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 56 (15.47%) Observability
11 56 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (14.92%) Scrum
13 48 (13.26%) Code Quality
14 45 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 42 (11.60%) Clean Code
16 39 (10.77%) Design Patterns
17 33 (9.12%) Migration
18 32 (8.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 357 (98.62%) Java
2 119 (32.87%) SQL
3 59 (16.30%) TypeScript
4 51 (14.09%) JavaScript
5 46 (12.71%) Python
6 28 (7.73%) PL/SQL
7 21 (5.80%) Kotlin
8 8 (2.21%) Scala
9 6 (1.66%) C#
10 5 (1.38%) Ruby
10 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.10%) Solidity
12 3 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.28%) Groovy
13 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (32.60%) Security Cleared
2 105 (29.01%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.42%) Degree
4 14 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.67%) QA
2 16 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.21%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.38%) SEPA
5 4 (1.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) HL7
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) ITGC
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 168 (46.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.83%) Postfix
3 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 155 (42.82%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.12%) Terraform
3 24 (6.63%) Grafana
4 19 (5.25%) Prometheus
5 16 (4.42%) Ansible
6 10 (2.76%) Kibana
7 6 (1.66%) Control-M
8 3 (0.83%) Bosun
9 2 (0.55%) Rancher
9 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Argo
Vendors
1 52 (14.36%) Oracle
2 17 (4.70%) Google
3 15 (4.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.59%) IBM
5 12 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.04%) Splunk
7 9 (2.49%) Sybase
8 8 (2.21%) New Relic
9 7 (1.93%) TikTok
10 6 (1.66%) Solace
11 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.10%) FIS
11 4 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.83%) Confluent
12 3 (0.83%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.55%) Informatica
13 2 (0.55%) MKS
13 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.55%) Salesforce