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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 151 142
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring 377 245 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.84% 1.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.07% 6.20% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 153 202
10th Percentile £400 £359 £418
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -7.89% -8.80%
75th Percentile £659 £626 £700
90th Percentile £774 £675 £825
England median daily rate £533 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +6.50% -9.09% -7.41%
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 £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -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 5,332 3,950 4,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.34% 29.67% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,602 2,697 3,286
10th Percentile £400 £364 £385
25th Percentile £456 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £791 £850
England median daily rate £538 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £28.00 £31.77 £23.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £34.17 £36.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £51.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +22.28% -32.54%
75th Percentile £66.06 £61.56 £61.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £74.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.82% -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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -7 41 £575 +27.78% 51
South London +2 25 £550 +3.53% 6
West London -19 3 £500 +66.67% 8
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 (4.24%) Apache
1 16 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.65%) Camunda
3 9 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.39%) nginx
4 8 (2.12%) Confluence
5 4 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.06%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.06%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.80%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) Solana
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
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
1 179 (47.48%) AWS
2 86 (22.81%) Azure
3 65 (17.24%) GitHub
4 55 (14.59%) GCP
5 40 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 26 (6.90%) Serverless
8 24 (6.37%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 22 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
11 17 (4.51%) GitHub Copilot
12 15 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.92%) Anthropic Claude
15 10 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
18 6 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (24.67%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (12.73%) Relational Database
3 43 (11.41%) NoSQL
4 35 (9.28%) MongoDB
5 23 (6.10%) Redis
6 21 (5.57%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.77%) MySQL
8 16 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.71%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.39%) Flink
11 8 (2.12%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.86%) Big Data
12 7 (1.86%) InterSystems Cache
13 6 (1.59%) Metadata
14 5 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.33%) Db2
15 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.80%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.80%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 99 (26.26%) Jenkins
2 93 (24.67%) Git
3 55 (14.59%) JUnit
4 54 (14.32%) Gradle
5 52 (13.79%) GitLab
6 50 (13.26%) Maven
7 36 (9.55%) Mockito
8 20 (5.31%) SonarQube
9 15 (3.98%) JIRA
10 13 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 13 (3.45%) Liquibase
11 10 (2.65%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.86%) Claude Code
14 6 (1.59%) Flyway
15 5 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
16 4 (1.06%) CircleCI
16 4 (1.06%) Eclipse
16 4 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
16 4 (1.06%) IntelliJ
General
1 123 (32.63%) Finance
2 80 (21.22%) Social Skills
3 79 (20.95%) Banking
4 46 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 19 (5.04%) Retail
8 13 (3.45%) Back Office
9 12 (3.18%) Front Office
10 11 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.12%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.86%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.06%) Law
14 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.80%) Police
15 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (56.76%) Developer
2 167 (44.30%) Java Developer
3 96 (25.46%) Senior
4 70 (18.57%) Java Engineer
5 56 (14.85%) Senior Developer
6 43 (11.41%) Software Engineer
7 42 (11.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 35 (9.28%) Backend Developer
9 32 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (7.16%) Java Software Engineer
11 26 (6.90%) Lead
12 22 (5.84%) Senior Java Engineer
13 19 (5.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 17 (4.51%) Architect
14 17 (4.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 15 (3.98%) Data Engineer
16 11 (2.92%) Lead Developer
17 10 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 10 (2.65%) Technical Leader
18 8 (2.12%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (82.49%) Spring Boot
2 143 (37.93%) Kafka
3 107 (28.38%) REST
4 98 (25.99%) RESTful
5 69 (18.30%) React
6 40 (10.61%) Terraform
7 32 (8.49%) HTML
7 32 (8.49%) Node.js
8 31 (8.22%) AngularJS
9 28 (7.43%) CSS
10 27 (7.16%) Hibernate
10 27 (7.16%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (6.63%) JPA
12 20 (5.31%) Spring MVC
12 20 (5.31%) Web Services
13 19 (5.04%) Jakarta EE
14 18 (4.77%) Swagger
15 17 (4.51%) OpenAPI
15 17 (4.51%) SOAP
16 15 (3.98%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 96 (25.46%) Cloud Native
2 73 (19.36%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.08%) Product Ownership
4 23 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (3.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 10 (2.65%) Derivative
9 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.86%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.86%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.59%) Blockchain
12 6 (1.59%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.59%) Spread Betting
13 5 (1.33%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.61%) Linux
2 27 (7.16%) Unix
3 3 (0.80%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Windows
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Solaris
5 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 221 (58.62%) Microservices
2 174 (46.15%) Agile
3 121 (32.10%) DevOps
4 113 (29.97%) Containerisation
5 112 (29.71%) Event-Driven
6 107 (28.38%) Software Engineering
7 88 (23.34%) Test Automation
8 74 (19.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 72 (19.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 64 (16.98%) TDD
11 59 (15.65%) Scrum
12 58 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 54 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (13.53%) Clean Code
14 51 (13.53%) Code Quality
15 49 (13.00%) AI
16 46 (12.20%) Observability
17 44 (11.67%) Design Patterns
18 35 (9.28%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 372 (98.67%) Java
2 139 (36.87%) SQL
3 62 (16.45%) TypeScript
4 54 (14.32%) JavaScript
5 48 (12.73%) Python
6 29 (7.69%) PL/SQL
7 15 (3.98%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.92%) Bash
8 11 (2.92%) Scala
9 9 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.06%) C#
10 4 (1.06%) Ruby
10 4 (1.06%) Solidity
11 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 115 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.63%) Degree
4 20 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.41%) QA
2 12 (3.18%) ISO 20022
3 11 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.86%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.86%) SEPA
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
1 178 (47.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 168 (44.56%) Kubernetes
2 23 (6.10%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.57%) Grafana
4 14 (3.71%) Kibana
5 12 (3.18%) Ansible
6 6 (1.59%) 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 66 (17.51%) Oracle
2 19 (5.04%) IBM
3 18 (4.77%) Google
4 14 (3.71%) Microsoft
5 10 (2.65%) 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 (1.59%) Confluent
8 6 (1.59%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.33%) FIS
10 4 (1.06%) Solace
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%) Red Hat