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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 158 160
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 -56
Contract jobs citing Spring 351 226 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.85% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.16% 6.98% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 138 217
10th Percentile £405 £366 £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 £586 £650
90th Percentile £743 £738 £830
England median daily rate £523 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +4.50% -6.54% -13.01%
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% -34.46%

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 4,303 3,240 4,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.02% 26.50% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 2,263 3,428
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £447 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £720 £700
90th Percentile £775 £833 £838
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 18 29
10th Percentile £22.63 £32.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £29.52 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £43.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +2.72% -35.61%
75th Percentile £59.99 £64.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 52 £528 +5.50% 10
South London -9 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 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.99%) Apache
3 13 (3.70%) Camunda
4 10 (2.85%) Ethereum
4 10 (2.85%) Hyperledger
5 8 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.28%) Confluence
6 7 (1.99%) nginx
7 4 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.14%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.85%) JBoss
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.57%) CMS
9 2 (0.57%) Drupal
9 2 (0.57%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.57%) WordPress
10 1 (0.28%) CICS
10 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.42%) R3 Corda
2 4 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.14%) Quorum
2 4 (1.14%) Ripple
3 3 (0.85%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 170 (48.43%) AWS
2 79 (22.51%) Azure
3 64 (18.23%) GitHub
4 55 (15.67%) GCP
5 45 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (7.41%) Serverless
7 25 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (6.84%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (5.13%) OpenShift
10 15 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (3.42%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.13%) Cloud Run
15 10 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.99%) HTTP
2 4 (1.14%) DNS
3 2 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (24.79%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (13.96%) NoSQL
3 38 (10.83%) MongoDB
4 28 (7.98%) Relational Database
5 25 (7.12%) MySQL
6 22 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (5.98%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.99%) Redis
10 13 (3.70%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (2.28%) Big Data
12 8 (2.28%) Flink
13 7 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.99%) Db2
14 6 (1.71%) DocumentDB
15 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
17 3 (0.85%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 90 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 62 (17.66%) Git
3 59 (16.81%) JUnit
4 43 (12.25%) GitLab
5 42 (11.97%) Mockito
6 31 (8.83%) Gradle
7 30 (8.55%) Maven
8 20 (5.70%) JIRA
9 14 (3.99%) Cucumber
9 14 (3.99%) Liquibase
10 8 (2.28%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.42%) Gatling
12 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (1.14%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.14%) DbUnit
12 4 (1.14%) Flyway
12 4 (1.14%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.14%) jMock
12 4 (1.14%) Postman
12 4 (1.14%) REST Assured
General
1 87 (24.79%) Finance
2 64 (18.23%) Banking
3 56 (15.95%) Social Skills
4 41 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.41%) Retail
6 15 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.99%) Law
10 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.71%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.14%) Front Office
11 4 (1.14%) Publishing
12 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Police
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (50.43%) Developer
2 122 (34.76%) Java Developer
3 80 (22.79%) Senior
4 57 (16.24%) Java Engineer
5 43 (12.25%) Software Engineer
6 42 (11.97%) Senior Developer
7 30 (8.55%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (6.27%) Backend Developer
10 20 (5.70%) Data Engineer
11 19 (5.41%) Java Software Engineer
12 18 (5.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.84%) Lead
14 15 (4.27%) Architect
14 15 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
15 14 (3.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 9 (2.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
17 8 (2.28%) Java Architect
18 7 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (81.20%) Spring Boot
2 130 (37.04%) Kafka
3 100 (28.49%) RESTful
4 93 (26.50%) REST
5 76 (21.65%) React
6 50 (14.25%) AngularJS
6 50 (14.25%) Node.js
7 22 (6.27%) HTML
8 21 (5.98%) Hibernate
9 20 (5.70%) CSS
9 20 (5.70%) JPA
9 20 (5.70%) Web Services
9 20 (5.70%) WireMock
10 17 (4.84%) OAuth
11 16 (4.56%) Next.js
11 16 (4.56%) Spring Cloud
11 16 (4.56%) Spring MVC
12 15 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
13 14 (3.99%) OpenAPI
13 14 (3.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.97%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.56%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.71%) Blockchain
8 6 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.14%) Derivative
10 4 (1.14%) Equities
10 4 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.69%) Linux
2 9 (2.56%) Windows
3 7 (1.99%) Unix
4 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.85%) Solaris
5 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.28%) Android
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (61.54%) Microservices
2 182 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 138 (39.32%) Agile
4 116 (33.05%) Containerisation
5 115 (32.76%) DevOps
6 94 (26.78%) Software Engineering
7 78 (22.22%) Event-Driven
8 72 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
9 64 (18.23%) Observability
10 62 (17.66%) TDD
11 48 (13.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 48 (13.68%) Test Automation
12 47 (13.39%) Scrum
13 42 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (11.40%) Code Quality
15 38 (10.83%) Clean Code
16 36 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
17 34 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 32 (9.12%) AI
19 31 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 333 (94.87%) Java
2 102 (29.06%) SQL
3 62 (17.66%) TypeScript
4 53 (15.10%) JavaScript
5 37 (10.54%) Python
6 18 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 13 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.28%) Scala
9 7 (1.99%) C#
10 5 (1.42%) Ruby
10 5 (1.42%) Solidity
11 4 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.85%) Go
13 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) Bash
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
14 1 (0.28%) Korn
14 1 (0.28%) Perl
14 1 (0.28%) XPath
Qualifications
1 105 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 94 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.99%) Degree
4 11 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.69%) QA
2 19 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.28%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.71%) SEPA
5 5 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.42%) SLA
6 4 (1.14%) NIST
7 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.85%) PSD2
8 2 (0.57%) EMIR
8 2 (0.57%) GDPR
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.57%) MiFID
8 2 (0.57%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) ITGC
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (45.58%) Docker
2 3 (0.85%) Postfix
3 2 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 156 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.26%) Terraform
3 29 (8.26%) Grafana
4 19 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.85%) Ansible
6 8 (2.28%) Argo
6 8 (2.28%) Kibana
7 6 (1.71%) Istio
8 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.57%) Rancher
10 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 35 (9.97%) Oracle
2 14 (3.99%) Google
2 14 (3.99%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.42%) IBM
4 11 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.13%) Sybase
5 8 (2.28%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.28%) Solace
5 8 (2.28%) Splunk
6 6 (1.71%) Confluent
7 4 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (1.14%) New Relic
8 3 (0.85%) Adobe
8 3 (0.85%) Informatica
8 3 (0.85%) TikTok
9 2 (0.57%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.57%) Netlify
9 2 (0.57%) Okta