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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 156 155
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Spring 385 251 284
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.86% 1.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.21% 6.35% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 154 204
10th Percentile £400 £360 £418
25th Percentile £457 £417 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -5.83% -7.12%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £700
90th Percentile £775 £696 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £70.50 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -2.32%

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 5,341 3,953 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 29.27% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,551 2,731 3,446
10th Percentile £400 £368 £385
25th Percentile £455 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £713
90th Percentile £763 £813 £850
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 32 20
10th Percentile £26.78 £31.77 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.00 £34.17 £33.54
Median hourly rate £43.50 £51.97 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +15.49% -29.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £62.81 £61.70
90th Percentile £81.25 £85.95 £75.50
England median hourly rate £67.49 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.97% -13.60% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 48 £553 +16.32% 23
South London -3 24 £550 +3.53% 3
West London -15 3 £500 +66.67% 18
East London +1 2 £421 -22.04% 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 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.12%) Apache
2 12 (3.12%) Camunda
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.34%) nginx
4 7 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.04%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.04%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.04%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.04%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.78%) CMS
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.04%) Quorum
1 4 (1.04%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.04%) Ripple
2 3 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 185 (48.05%) AWS
2 87 (22.60%) Azure
3 66 (17.14%) GitHub
4 56 (14.55%) GCP
5 42 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (6.75%) Amazon EKS
6 26 (6.75%) Serverless
7 23 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (5.71%) OpenShift
9 21 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
11 15 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
14 9 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (22.34%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (10.65%) NoSQL
2 41 (10.65%) Relational Database
3 36 (9.35%) MongoDB
4 22 (5.71%) Redis
5 19 (4.94%) MySQL
5 19 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.16%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.38%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.86%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.82%) Flink
10 7 (1.82%) InterSystems Cache
11 6 (1.56%) Big Data
12 5 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.30%) Db2
12 5 (1.30%) Metadata
13 4 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 101 (26.23%) Jenkins
2 84 (21.82%) Git
3 60 (15.58%) JUnit
4 51 (13.25%) Gradle
5 47 (12.21%) GitLab
6 41 (10.65%) Mockito
7 40 (10.39%) Maven
8 19 (4.94%) Liquibase
9 18 (4.68%) SonarQube
10 15 (3.90%) JIRA
11 10 (2.60%) REST Assured
12 9 (2.34%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.08%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.56%) Flyway
15 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
15 5 (1.30%) Claude Code
16 4 (1.04%) CircleCI
16 4 (1.04%) Eclipse
16 4 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
16 4 (1.04%) IntelliJ
General
1 119 (30.91%) Finance
2 77 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 73 (18.96%) Banking
4 49 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 34 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.42%) Retail
7 13 (3.38%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.08%) Law
10 7 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.82%) Front Office
10 7 (1.82%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.56%) Back Office
12 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Police
13 4 (1.04%) Publishing
13 4 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (55.06%) Developer
2 168 (43.64%) Java Developer
3 92 (23.90%) Senior
4 68 (17.66%) Java Engineer
5 55 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 46 (11.95%) Software Engineer
7 42 (10.91%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.57%) Backend Developer
9 29 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
10 28 (7.27%) Lead
11 19 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 19 (4.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 18 (4.68%) Senior Java Engineer
13 17 (4.42%) Architect
13 17 (4.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 13 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (3.12%) Technical Leader
16 11 (2.86%) Lead Developer
17 8 (2.08%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 323 (83.90%) Spring Boot
2 136 (35.32%) Kafka
3 102 (26.49%) REST
4 101 (26.23%) RESTful
5 77 (20.00%) React
6 35 (9.09%) Terraform
7 33 (8.57%) Node.js
8 29 (7.53%) AngularJS
8 29 (7.53%) HTML
8 29 (7.53%) RabbitMQ
9 23 (5.97%) CSS
9 23 (5.97%) Hibernate
10 21 (5.45%) OpenAPI
10 21 (5.45%) Swagger
11 20 (5.19%) JPA
12 18 (4.68%) Web Services
13 17 (4.42%) Jakarta EE
14 16 (4.16%) Spring Cloud
14 16 (4.16%) Spring MVC
15 14 (3.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 97 (25.19%) Cloud Native
2 58 (15.06%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.31%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.38%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.82%) Derivative
10 7 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.56%) Spread Betting
12 4 (1.04%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.04%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.79%) Linux
2 18 (4.68%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Solaris
4 1 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.26%) VMS
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (60.26%) Microservices
2 214 (55.58%) CI/CD
3 176 (45.71%) Agile
4 128 (33.25%) Containerisation
5 127 (32.99%) DevOps
6 113 (29.35%) Software Engineering
7 105 (27.27%) Event-Driven
8 85 (22.08%) Test Automation
9 77 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 71 (18.44%) TDD
11 67 (17.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 57 (14.81%) Code Quality
12 57 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (14.81%) Scrum
13 56 (14.55%) Observability
14 54 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (13.77%) Clean Code
16 46 (11.95%) AI
17 45 (11.69%) Design Patterns
18 36 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 380 (98.70%) Java
2 127 (32.99%) SQL
3 68 (17.66%) TypeScript
4 51 (13.25%) JavaScript
5 49 (12.73%) Python
6 28 (7.27%) PL/SQL
7 17 (4.42%) Kotlin
8 10 (2.60%) Scala
9 9 (2.34%) Bash
10 8 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.30%) C#
11 5 (1.30%) Ruby
12 4 (1.04%) Solidity
13 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.26%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 108 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.71%) Degree
4 18 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.39%) QA
2 13 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.12%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.56%) SEPA
5 2 (0.52%) EMIR
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) MiFID
6 1 (0.26%) HL7
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) ITGC
6 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) PSD2
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (46.49%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.52%) Postfix
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 164 (42.60%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.49%) Prometheus
3 22 (5.71%) Grafana
4 14 (3.64%) Kibana
5 13 (3.38%) Ansible
6 6 (1.56%) Control-M
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
7 3 (0.78%) Bosun
7 3 (0.78%) Istio
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) logstash
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 65 (16.88%) Oracle
2 21 (5.45%) IBM
3 13 (3.38%) Google
3 13 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 12 (3.12%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.34%) Sybase
6 7 (1.82%) New Relic
6 7 (1.82%) Splunk
6 7 (1.82%) TikTok
7 6 (1.56%) Confluent
7 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.56%) Solace
8 4 (1.04%) FIS
9 3 (0.78%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.78%) Veracode
10 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.52%) Informatica
10 2 (0.52%) MKS
10 2 (0.52%) Red Hat