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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 152 145
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +27
Contract jobs citing Spring 380 257 294
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.91% 1.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.09% 6.42% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 159 207
10th Percentile £370 £362 £416
25th Percentile £450 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £652 £623 £700
90th Percentile £759 £675 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +29.09% -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 5,359 4,004 4,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.33% 29.71% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,736 3,352
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £450 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £703
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £537 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 22
10th Percentile £26.19 £31.77 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.19 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +22.28% -32.27%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +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 2 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 2 October 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 2 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 -20 46 £575 +6.98% 40
South London +2 25 £550 +3.53% 4
West London -21 3 £500 +66.67% 17
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 (4.21%) Apache
1 16 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.63%) Camunda
3 9 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.37%) nginx
4 8 (2.11%) Confluence
5 4 (1.05%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.05%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.05%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.79%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) Solana
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.05%) Quorum
1 4 (1.05%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.05%) Ripple
2 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 184 (48.42%) AWS
2 89 (23.42%) Azure
3 66 (17.37%) GitHub
4 56 (14.74%) GCP
5 40 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.84%) Serverless
8 23 (6.05%) Amazon S3
8 23 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (6.05%) OpenShift
9 21 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 18 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.89%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 7 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (1.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (23.95%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (12.11%) Relational Database
3 45 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 36 (9.47%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.79%) Redis
6 20 (5.26%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.74%) MySQL
8 16 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.16%) Oracle Database
11 10 (2.63%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.37%) Flink
13 7 (1.84%) Big Data
13 7 (1.84%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.32%) Db2
14 5 (1.32%) Metadata
15 4 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 98 (25.79%) Jenkins
2 93 (24.47%) Git
3 56 (14.74%) Gradle
3 56 (14.74%) JUnit
4 51 (13.42%) Maven
5 50 (13.16%) GitLab
6 37 (9.74%) Mockito
7 19 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 15 (3.95%) JIRA
9 14 (3.68%) Liquibase
10 12 (3.16%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.63%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.37%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.84%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.58%) Flyway
15 5 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
16 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
16 4 (1.05%) Eclipse
16 4 (1.05%) IBM UrbanCode
16 4 (1.05%) IntelliJ
General
1 121 (31.84%) Finance
2 78 (20.53%) Banking
3 77 (20.26%) Social Skills
4 46 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 37 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.00%) Retail
7 18 (4.74%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.16%) Back Office
9 11 (2.89%) Front Office
9 11 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.84%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.84%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.05%) Law
12 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.79%) Police
13 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (56.32%) Developer
2 169 (44.47%) Java Developer
3 96 (25.26%) Senior
4 71 (18.68%) Java Engineer
5 57 (15.00%) Senior Developer
6 43 (11.32%) Senior Java Developer
6 43 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 34 (8.95%) Backend Developer
8 31 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (7.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (7.11%) Lead
10 22 (5.79%) Senior Java Engineer
11 19 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 17 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 16 (4.21%) Architect
14 11 (2.89%) Lead Developer
14 11 (2.89%) Technical Leader
15 10 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 8 (2.11%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (82.89%) Spring Boot
2 141 (37.11%) Kafka
3 107 (28.16%) REST
4 99 (26.05%) RESTful
5 69 (18.16%) React
6 40 (10.53%) Terraform
7 32 (8.42%) HTML
8 31 (8.16%) Node.js
9 29 (7.63%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.11%) Hibernate
10 27 (7.11%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (6.84%) CSS
12 25 (6.58%) JPA
13 19 (5.00%) Jakarta EE
13 19 (5.00%) Spring MVC
13 19 (5.00%) Web Services
14 18 (4.74%) Swagger
15 17 (4.47%) OpenAPI
16 16 (4.21%) SOAP
17 15 (3.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 99 (26.05%) Cloud Native
2 71 (18.68%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.89%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.63%) AI Agents
10 9 (2.37%) Derivative
10 9 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (2.11%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.58%) Blockchain
13 6 (1.58%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.58%) Spread Betting
14 5 (1.32%) Client/Server
14 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.32%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.53%) Linux
2 26 (6.84%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Solaris
4 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (58.42%) Microservices
2 220 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 173 (45.53%) Agile
4 121 (31.84%) DevOps
5 117 (30.79%) Containerisation
6 111 (29.21%) Event-Driven
7 107 (28.16%) Software Engineering
8 87 (22.89%) Test Automation
9 73 (19.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 63 (16.58%) TDD
12 59 (15.53%) Scrum
13 58 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (13.95%) Code Quality
14 53 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (13.68%) Clean Code
16 49 (12.89%) AI
17 48 (12.63%) Observability
18 44 (11.58%) Design Patterns
19 35 (9.21%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 375 (98.68%) Java
2 136 (35.79%) SQL
3 59 (15.53%) TypeScript
4 52 (13.68%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.63%) Python
6 28 (7.37%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.21%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.89%) Bash
8 11 (2.89%) Scala
9 9 (2.37%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.05%) C#
10 4 (1.05%) Ruby
10 4 (1.05%) Solidity
11 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.32%) Degree
4 19 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.58%) QA
2 12 (3.16%) ISO 20022
3 11 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.84%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.84%) SEPA
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 2 (0.53%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ITGC
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (47.63%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 168 (44.21%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.58%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.79%) Grafana
4 15 (3.95%) Kibana
5 12 (3.16%) Ansible
6 6 (1.58%) Control-M
7 4 (1.05%) Argo
8 3 (0.79%) Bosun
8 3 (0.79%) Istio
8 3 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 64 (16.84%) Oracle
2 19 (5.00%) IBM
3 17 (4.47%) Google
4 13 (3.42%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.37%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.37%) Sybase
6 7 (1.84%) New Relic
6 7 (1.84%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.84%) Splunk
6 7 (1.84%) TikTok
7 6 (1.58%) Confluent
8 5 (1.32%) FIS
8 5 (1.32%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.05%) Solace
10 3 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.79%) Veracode
11 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.53%) Informatica
11 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.53%) Red Hat