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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 146 144
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Spring 376 258 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.92% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.07% 6.50% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 161 208
10th Percentile £391 £359 £416
25th Percentile £450 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £700
90th Percentile £775 £670 £825
England median daily rate £530 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -7.17%
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% -1.51%

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 5,319 3,972 4,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.54% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,581 2,731 3,375
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £453 £431 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £702
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 31 22
10th Percentile £26.91 £31.61 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.87 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% +21.04% -32.00%
75th Percentile £70.69 £61.88 £59.51
90th Percentile £83.50 £87.50 £74.00
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £63.36
% change year-on-year +19.69% -13.19% +5.59%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -15 43 £553 +2.79% 42
South London +4 24 £550 +3.53% 1
West London -21 3 £500 +66.67% 18
East London +1 1 £410 -24.07% 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 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.52%) Apache
3 11 (2.93%) Camunda
4 9 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.39%) nginx
5 7 (1.86%) Confluence
6 4 (1.06%) Ethereum
6 4 (1.06%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.06%) WebLogic
6 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.80%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.53%) CMS
8 2 (0.53%) Mule
9 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.06%) Quorum
1 4 (1.06%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.06%) Ripple
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 181 (48.14%) AWS
2 87 (23.14%) Azure
3 67 (17.82%) GitHub
4 56 (14.89%) GCP
5 41 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (6.65%) Serverless
8 23 (6.12%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.85%) Amazon S3
9 22 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.05%) GitHub Copilot
12 17 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (2.93%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (23.40%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (11.70%) NoSQL
3 41 (10.90%) Relational Database
4 37 (9.84%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.85%) Redis
6 19 (5.05%) MySQL
7 18 (4.79%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.19%) Oracle Database
11 11 (2.93%) Flink
12 10 (2.66%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.86%) Big Data
13 7 (1.86%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.33%) Db2
14 5 (1.33%) Metadata
15 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.80%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 97 (25.80%) Jenkins
2 90 (23.94%) Git
3 56 (14.89%) JUnit
4 53 (14.10%) Gradle
5 49 (13.03%) Maven
6 48 (12.77%) GitLab
7 37 (9.84%) Mockito
8 20 (5.32%) SonarQube
9 14 (3.72%) JIRA
9 14 (3.72%) Liquibase
10 12 (3.19%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.66%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.60%) Claude Code
13 6 (1.60%) Flyway
14 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
15 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
15 4 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
15 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
General
1 118 (31.38%) Finance
2 76 (20.21%) Banking
3 75 (19.95%) Social Skills
4 46 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 32 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.79%) Retail
7 14 (3.72%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.39%) Front Office
10 8 (2.13%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.86%) Back Office
11 7 (1.86%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.06%) Law
14 3 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.80%) Police
14 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 209 (55.59%) Developer
2 166 (44.15%) Java Developer
3 96 (25.53%) Senior
4 73 (19.41%) Java Engineer
5 56 (14.89%) Senior Developer
6 42 (11.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 42 (11.17%) Software Engineer
7 33 (8.78%) Backend Developer
8 30 (7.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 27 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
9 27 (7.18%) Lead
10 22 (5.85%) Senior Java Engineer
11 19 (5.05%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 17 (4.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 16 (4.26%) Architect
14 11 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Lead Developer
14 11 (2.93%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.13%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (82.98%) Spring Boot
2 139 (36.97%) Kafka
3 103 (27.39%) REST
4 95 (25.27%) RESTful
5 72 (19.15%) React
6 38 (10.11%) Terraform
7 33 (8.78%) Node.js
8 31 (8.24%) HTML
9 28 (7.45%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.18%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (6.91%) Hibernate
12 25 (6.65%) CSS
13 24 (6.38%) JPA
14 19 (5.05%) Web Services
15 18 (4.79%) Swagger
16 17 (4.52%) Jakarta EE
16 17 (4.52%) OpenAPI
16 17 (4.52%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.26%) SOAP
18 15 (3.99%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 99 (26.33%) Cloud Native
2 69 (18.35%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.11%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.13%) Derivative
10 8 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.13%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.60%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.33%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.33%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.11%) Linux
2 25 (6.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.53%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Solaris
4 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (59.31%) Microservices
2 215 (57.18%) CI/CD
3 169 (44.95%) Agile
4 123 (32.71%) DevOps
5 121 (32.18%) Containerisation
6 111 (29.52%) Event-Driven
7 108 (28.72%) Software Engineering
8 84 (22.34%) Test Automation
9 74 (19.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (18.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 66 (17.55%) TDD
12 56 (14.89%) Code Quality
12 56 (14.89%) Scrum
13 54 (14.36%) Clean Code
13 54 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (12.77%) Observability
16 47 (12.50%) AI
17 42 (11.17%) Design Patterns
18 34 (9.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 372 (98.94%) Java
2 133 (35.37%) SQL
3 61 (16.22%) TypeScript
4 51 (13.56%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.03%) Python
6 28 (7.45%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.26%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.93%) Scala
9 10 (2.66%) Bash
10 9 (2.39%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.06%) C#
11 4 (1.06%) Ruby
11 4 (1.06%) Solidity
12 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 119 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 106 (28.19%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.65%) Degree
4 20 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (11.97%) QA
2 12 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.19%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.86%) SEPA
4 6 (1.60%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) MiFID
5 2 (0.53%) PSD2
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.27%) ITGC
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 180 (47.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 166 (44.15%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.65%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.85%) Grafana
4 14 (3.72%) Kibana
5 12 (3.19%) Ansible
6 6 (1.60%) Control-M
7 4 (1.06%) 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 63 (16.76%) Oracle
2 20 (5.32%) IBM
3 17 (4.52%) Google
4 13 (3.46%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.39%) Sybase
7 7 (1.86%) New Relic
7 7 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 7 (1.86%) Splunk
7 7 (1.86%) TikTok
8 6 (1.60%) Confluent
9 5 (1.33%) FIS
9 5 (1.33%) Solace
10 4 (1.06%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.80%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.80%) Veracode
12 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.53%) Informatica
12 2 (0.53%) Jaspersoft
12 2 (0.53%) Temenos