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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 144 184
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 -92
Contract jobs citing Spring 313 238 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.88% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.37% 7.24% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 150 177
10th Percentile £388 £367 £400
25th Percentile £456 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £838
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -32.03%

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 4,245 3,289 4,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.54% 25.98% 24.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 2,297 3,318
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 23
10th Percentile £22.79 £34.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £32.02 £39.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £55.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +45.46% -42.19%
75th Percentile £60.12 £65.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £78.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -18 46 £525 -4.55% 20
South London -2 21 £521 +9.87%
East London -3 2 £421 +68.40% 2
West London - 1 £300 - 1
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 13 (4.15%) Confluence
2 11 (3.51%) Camunda
3 6 (1.92%) Apache
3 6 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.92%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.92%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.96%) JBoss
5 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) CICS
6 2 (0.64%) Drupal
6 2 (0.64%) nginx
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.64%) WordPress
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.32%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.96%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 156 (49.84%) AWS
2 94 (30.03%) Azure
3 61 (19.49%) GCP
4 57 (18.21%) GitHub
5 34 (10.86%) Serverless
6 33 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (8.95%) Amazon S3
9 22 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (6.39%) Azure AKS
11 18 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (4.47%) OpenShift
14 13 (4.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) HTTP
2 4 (1.28%) DNS
3 3 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.73%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (16.61%) NoSQL
3 37 (11.82%) MongoDB
4 31 (9.90%) Relational Database
5 26 (8.31%) MySQL
6 22 (7.03%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (6.71%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (4.79%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.15%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (3.51%) DB2
12 8 (2.56%) Redis
13 7 (2.24%) DocumentDB
13 7 (2.24%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.92%) BigQuery
15 5 (1.60%) Tick Data
16 4 (1.28%) Big Data
16 4 (1.28%) Flink
17 3 (0.96%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 75 (23.96%) Jenkins
2 59 (18.85%) Git
2 59 (18.85%) JUnit
3 43 (13.74%) GitLab
4 34 (10.86%) Mockito
5 29 (9.27%) Maven
6 24 (7.67%) JIRA
7 17 (5.43%) Gradle
8 14 (4.47%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.92%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.60%) Gatling
11 5 (1.60%) Postman
12 4 (1.28%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.28%) JMeter
12 4 (1.28%) Selenium
12 4 (1.28%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.96%) jMock
General
1 67 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.49%) Finance
3 46 (14.70%) Banking
4 34 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.15%) Retail
7 11 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.60%) Law
8 5 (1.60%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.28%) Front Office
9 4 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.28%) Publishing
9 4 (1.28%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.64%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
11 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (57.19%) Developer
2 124 (39.62%) Java Developer
3 73 (23.32%) Senior
4 44 (14.06%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.18%) Senior Java Developer
6 32 (10.22%) Java Engineer
7 31 (9.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (8.31%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.75%) Architect
10 16 (5.11%) Backend Developer
10 16 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (5.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 14 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.83%) Lead
13 10 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (2.88%) AWS Developer
15 8 (2.56%) Data Engineer
15 8 (2.56%) Fidessa Developer
15 8 (2.56%) Java Architect
15 8 (2.56%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (75.40%) Spring Boot
2 114 (36.42%) Kafka
3 98 (31.31%) RESTful
4 80 (25.56%) REST
5 71 (22.68%) React
6 61 (19.49%) AngularJS
7 48 (15.34%) Node.js
8 29 (9.27%) CSS
8 29 (9.27%) HTML
9 26 (8.31%) Hibernate
10 19 (6.07%) WireMock
11 16 (5.11%) Spring MVC
11 16 (5.11%) Vue
12 15 (4.79%) JPA
12 15 (4.79%) OAuth
12 15 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (4.79%) Spring Cloud
12 15 (4.79%) Web Services
13 14 (4.47%) JMS
14 13 (4.15%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 30 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.79%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.56%) Equities
7 7 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.24%) NHS
7 7 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.92%) Derivative
8 6 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.64%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.64%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.67%) Linux
2 7 (2.24%) Windows
3 5 (1.60%) Unix
4 4 (1.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.64%) Solaris
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (65.50%) Microservices
2 173 (55.27%) CI/CD
3 119 (38.02%) Agile
3 119 (38.02%) DevOps
4 107 (34.19%) Containerisation
5 71 (22.68%) Event-Driven
6 69 (22.04%) Software Engineering
7 68 (21.73%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (18.21%) Observability
10 55 (17.57%) TDD
11 50 (15.97%) Code Quality
12 46 (14.70%) Test Automation
13 43 (13.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 39 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 37 (11.82%) Scrum
16 36 (11.50%) Clean Code
16 36 (11.50%) Design Patterns
16 36 (11.50%) Performance Tuning
17 28 (8.95%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 291 (92.97%) Java
2 72 (23.00%) SQL
3 48 (15.34%) TypeScript
4 45 (14.38%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.22%) Python
6 15 (4.79%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.92%) C#
7 6 (1.92%) Go
8 3 (0.96%) PHP
8 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.64%) Scala
10 1 (0.32%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.32%) COBOL
10 1 (0.32%) JCL
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.32%) REXX
10 1 (0.32%) Ruby
10 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 97 (30.99%) Security Cleared
2 85 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.51%) Degree
4 8 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.64%) OCP
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.32%) CCSP
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.32%) CISSP
8 1 (0.32%) OSCP
8 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.86%) QA
2 16 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.60%) NIST
4 5 (1.60%) SLA
5 3 (0.96%) HL7
5 3 (0.96%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.96%) NCSC
6 2 (0.64%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.64%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.64%) PSD2
6 2 (0.64%) SEPA
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 135 (43.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Postfix
2 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 142 (45.37%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.14%) Terraform
3 24 (7.67%) Grafana
4 16 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 12 (3.83%) Argo
6 10 (3.19%) Ansible
7 6 (1.92%) Istio
8 4 (1.28%) Rancher
9 2 (0.64%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.32%) Kibana
10 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (7.35%) Oracle
2 18 (5.75%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.11%) Google
4 10 (3.19%) Sybase
5 9 (2.88%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.56%) IBM
6 8 (2.56%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.56%) Solace
6 8 (2.56%) Splunk
7 5 (1.60%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.28%) Confluent
8 4 (1.28%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.96%) Adobe
9 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.96%) Informatica
9 3 (0.96%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.64%) New Relic
10 2 (0.64%) Qualys
10 2 (0.64%) ServiceNow