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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 -54
Contract jobs citing Spring 345 223 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.85% 1.56%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.15% 6.98% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 136 213
10th Percentile £404 £365 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £835
England median daily rate £524 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +4.80% -6.98% -12.96%
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 £71.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +29.09% +19.88% -36.72%

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 4,231 3,193 4,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.01% 26.44% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 2,233 3,376
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 28
10th Percentile £22.26 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -8.45% -35.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.69 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £74.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -4 51 £528 +5.50% 15
South London -11 18 £521 +9.58%
East London -5 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 19 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.06%) Apache
3 13 (3.77%) Camunda
4 10 (2.90%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.90%) Hyperledger
5 8 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.32%) Confluence
6 7 (2.03%) nginx
7 4 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.16%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.87%) JBoss
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.58%) CMS
9 2 (0.58%) Drupal
9 2 (0.58%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.58%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.29%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.45%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.16%) Quorum
2 4 (1.16%) Ripple
3 3 (0.87%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 167 (48.41%) AWS
2 80 (23.19%) Azure
3 63 (18.26%) GitHub
4 54 (15.65%) GCP
5 44 (12.75%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.54%) Serverless
7 25 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (6.96%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (5.22%) OpenShift
10 15 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.48%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.19%) Cloud Run
15 10 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (2.61%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.03%) HTTP
2 4 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (24.35%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.20%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.43%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.54%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.67%) MySQL
6 22 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (6.09%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (3.77%) Redis
9 13 (3.77%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.32%) Apache Cassandra
11 8 (2.32%) Big Data
11 8 (2.32%) Flink
12 7 (2.03%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.74%) DB2
13 6 (1.74%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.87%) GIS
15 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 89 (25.80%) Jenkins
2 59 (17.10%) JUnit
3 58 (16.81%) Git
4 43 (12.46%) GitLab
5 42 (12.17%) Mockito
6 29 (8.41%) Gradle
6 29 (8.41%) Maven
7 20 (5.80%) JIRA
8 14 (4.06%) Cucumber
8 14 (4.06%) Liquibase
9 8 (2.32%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.45%) Gatling
11 4 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.16%) DbUnit
11 4 (1.16%) Flyway
11 4 (1.16%) jMock
11 4 (1.16%) Postman
11 4 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 84 (24.35%) Finance
2 64 (18.55%) Banking
3 55 (15.94%) Social Skills
4 40 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.51%) Retail
6 14 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.32%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.03%) Law
10 6 (1.74%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.16%) Front Office
12 4 (1.16%) Publishing
13 3 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Legal
14 2 (0.58%) Police
14 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (49.57%) Developer
2 117 (33.91%) Java Developer
3 80 (23.19%) Senior
4 57 (16.52%) Java Engineer
5 44 (12.75%) Software Engineer
6 42 (12.17%) Senior Developer
7 30 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 26 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 21 (6.09%) Backend Developer
10 20 (5.80%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.51%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.93%) Lead
14 15 (4.35%) Architect
14 15 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
15 14 (4.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 9 (2.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.61%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (2.32%) Java Architect
18 7 (2.03%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (80.87%) Spring Boot
2 129 (37.39%) Kafka
3 98 (28.41%) RESTful
4 90 (26.09%) REST
5 76 (22.03%) React
6 50 (14.49%) AngularJS
7 49 (14.20%) Node.js
8 21 (6.09%) Hibernate
8 21 (6.09%) HTML
9 20 (5.80%) Web Services
9 20 (5.80%) WireMock
10 19 (5.51%) CSS
10 19 (5.51%) JPA
11 17 (4.93%) OAuth
12 16 (4.64%) Next.js
12 16 (4.64%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (4.35%) Spring MVC
14 14 (4.06%) J2EE
14 14 (4.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.17%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.61%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.74%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.74%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.16%) Derivative
10 4 (1.16%) Equities
10 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.54%) Linux
2 8 (2.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.74%) Unix
4 4 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.87%) Solaris
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.58%) VMS
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (61.74%) Microservices
2 179 (51.88%) CI/CD
3 134 (38.84%) Agile
4 115 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 112 (32.46%) DevOps
6 94 (27.25%) Software Engineering
7 77 (22.32%) Event-Driven
8 70 (20.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 63 (18.26%) Observability
10 60 (17.39%) TDD
11 47 (13.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 46 (13.33%) Test Automation
13 45 (13.04%) Scrum
14 41 (11.88%) Code Quality
14 41 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (11.01%) Clean Code
16 36 (10.43%) Performance Tuning
17 34 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 32 (9.28%) AI
19 30 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 327 (94.78%) Java
2 100 (28.99%) SQL
3 62 (17.97%) TypeScript
4 51 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.28%) Python
6 18 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 12 (3.48%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.32%) Scala
9 7 (2.03%) C#
10 5 (1.45%) Solidity
11 4 (1.16%) Ruby
12 3 (0.87%) Go
12 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.58%) PHP
14 1 (0.29%) Bash
14 1 (0.29%) Groovy
14 1 (0.29%) Korn
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 104 (30.14%) Security Cleared
2 94 (27.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.06%) Degree
4 11 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.99%) QA
2 17 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.32%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.74%) SEPA
5 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.45%) SLA
6 4 (1.16%) NIST
7 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.87%) PSD2
8 2 (0.58%) EMIR
8 2 (0.58%) GDPR
8 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) HL7
9 1 (0.29%) ITGC
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 159 (46.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Postfix
3 2 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (44.35%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.43%) Terraform
3 28 (8.12%) Grafana
4 18 (5.22%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.61%) Ansible
6 8 (2.32%) Argo
7 7 (2.03%) Kibana
8 6 (1.74%) Istio
9 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.58%) Rancher
11 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 31 (8.99%) Oracle
2 14 (4.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.77%) Google
4 11 (3.19%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.19%) IBM
5 10 (2.90%) Sybase
6 8 (2.32%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.32%) Solace
6 8 (2.32%) Splunk
7 6 (1.74%) Confluent
8 4 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (1.16%) New Relic
9 3 (0.87%) Adobe
9 3 (0.87%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.58%) MKS
10 2 (0.58%) Netlify
10 2 (0.58%) Okta
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce