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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 155 168
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -67
Contract jobs citing Spring 338 217 266
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.79% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 6.90% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 135 213
10th Percentile £400 £370 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £636 £630 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £835
England median daily rate £514 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +2.80% -7.41% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £80.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.63 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £96.75 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +20.00% +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 4,187 3,147 4,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.00% 26.01% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 2,203 3,365
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 26
10th Percentile £23.98 £30.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.76 £33.25 £23.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -17.65% -38.18%
75th Percentile £60.12 £53.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £90.88 £68.25 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -12 51 £525 - 11
South London -8 21 £521 +9.58%
East London -5 2 £421 +68.40% 2
West London - 1 £300 - 3
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 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.14%) Apache
3 13 (3.85%) Camunda
4 8 (2.37%) Confluence
5 7 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.78%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.78%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.18%) nginx
8 3 (0.89%) JBoss
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.59%) CMS
9 2 (0.59%) Drupal
9 2 (0.59%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.59%) WordPress
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.30%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.30%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.89%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.30%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 165 (48.82%) AWS
2 75 (22.19%) Azure
3 62 (18.34%) GitHub
4 55 (16.27%) GCP
5 43 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (8.28%) Serverless
7 27 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (7.69%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (4.73%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (3.55%) Azure AKS
15 11 (3.25%) Cloud Run
16 10 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 9 (2.66%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) HTTP
2 4 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (24.56%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.50%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.65%) MongoDB
4 28 (8.28%) Relational Database
5 24 (7.10%) MySQL
6 21 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (6.21%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.55%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.25%) Redis
10 10 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (2.66%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.66%) Big Data
12 8 (2.37%) Flink
13 7 (2.07%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.78%) DB2
14 6 (1.78%) DocumentDB
15 4 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.89%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 86 (25.44%) Jenkins
2 61 (18.05%) JUnit
3 56 (16.57%) Git
4 44 (13.02%) GitLab
5 42 (12.43%) Mockito
6 29 (8.58%) Maven
7 26 (7.69%) Gradle
8 20 (5.92%) JIRA
9 14 (4.14%) Cucumber
10 12 (3.55%) Liquibase
11 8 (2.37%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.48%) Gatling
13 4 (1.18%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.18%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.18%) jMock
13 4 (1.18%) Postman
13 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.89%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 79 (23.37%) Finance
2 60 (17.75%) Banking
3 56 (16.57%) Social Skills
4 38 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.33%) Retail
6 14 (4.14%) Investment Banking
7 13 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.78%) Law
9 6 (1.78%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.18%) Front Office
10 4 (1.18%) Publishing
11 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Legal
12 2 (0.59%) Police
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (50.59%) Developer
2 117 (34.62%) Java Developer
3 76 (22.49%) Senior
4 53 (15.68%) Java Engineer
5 40 (11.83%) Senior Developer
5 40 (11.83%) Software Engineer
6 30 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 27 (7.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (5.92%) Backend Developer
9 19 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
10 17 (5.03%) Lead
11 15 (4.44%) Architect
12 14 (4.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 14 (4.14%) Senior Java Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.37%) Java Architect
14 8 (2.37%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (80.47%) Spring Boot
2 127 (37.57%) Kafka
3 101 (29.88%) RESTful
4 84 (24.85%) REST
5 73 (21.60%) React
6 50 (14.79%) AngularJS
7 44 (13.02%) Node.js
8 23 (6.80%) HTML
9 21 (6.21%) CSS
9 21 (6.21%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.92%) Web Services
10 20 (5.92%) WireMock
11 19 (5.62%) Spring Cloud
12 17 (5.03%) JPA
13 16 (4.73%) Next.js
13 16 (4.73%) OAuth
14 15 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (4.44%) Spring MVC
15 14 (4.14%) J2EE
16 13 (3.85%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.12%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.83%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.66%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.48%) NHS
9 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.18%) Derivative
10 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.18%) Equities
10 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.40%) Linux
2 8 (2.37%) Windows
3 6 (1.78%) Unix
4 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.89%) Solaris
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.59%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (62.43%) Microservices
2 176 (52.07%) CI/CD
3 130 (38.46%) Agile
4 116 (34.32%) Containerisation
5 114 (33.73%) DevOps
6 88 (26.04%) Software Engineering
7 73 (21.60%) Event-Driven
8 69 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 59 (17.46%) Observability
10 57 (16.86%) TDD
11 47 (13.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 44 (13.02%) Scrum
13 43 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.43%) Test Automation
15 41 (12.13%) Code Quality
16 40 (11.83%) Clean Code
17 36 (10.65%) Performance Tuning
18 33 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 30 (8.88%) AI
19 30 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 319 (94.38%) Java
2 95 (28.11%) SQL
3 53 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 51 (15.09%) TypeScript
5 30 (8.88%) Python
6 16 (4.73%) Kotlin
7 8 (2.37%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.07%) C#
8 7 (2.07%) Scala
9 4 (1.18%) Go
9 4 (1.18%) Ruby
10 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.59%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) Solidity
12 1 (0.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 103 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 93 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.14%) Degree
4 11 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) OCP
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.17%) QA
2 17 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.37%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.78%) SEPA
5 5 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.48%) SLA
6 4 (1.18%) NIST
7 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.59%) EMIR
7 2 (0.59%) GDPR
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) HL7
8 1 (0.30%) ITGC
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (47.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.89%) Postfix
3 2 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (45.27%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.06%) Terraform
3 28 (8.28%) Grafana
4 19 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.37%) Ansible
5 8 (2.37%) Argo
6 7 (2.07%) Kibana
7 6 (1.78%) Istio
8 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.59%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 27 (7.99%) Oracle
2 14 (4.14%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.55%) Google
4 11 (3.25%) Dynatrace
5 10 (2.96%) IBM
5 10 (2.96%) Sybase
6 8 (2.37%) Solace
6 8 (2.37%) Splunk
7 7 (2.07%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.78%) Confluent
9 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (1.18%) New Relic
10 3 (0.89%) Adobe
10 3 (0.89%) Informatica
11 2 (0.59%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.59%) MKS
11 2 (0.59%) Netlify
11 2 (0.59%) Okta
11 2 (0.59%) Salesforce