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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 156 168
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -69
Contract jobs citing Spring 339 221 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.77% 1.47%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.12% 6.78% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 135 202
10th Percentile £398 £370 £400
25th Percentile £457 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £670
90th Percentile £738 £780 £838
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -12.20%
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 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.00% +30.78% -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 4,175 3,261 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.16% 26.07% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 2,284 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £376
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £567 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 24
10th Percentile £23.00 - £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £33.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +21.25% -40.74%
75th Percentile £59.99 £65.63 £63.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £81.25 £72.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -11 51 £525 -3.67% 17
South London -3 22 £521 +9.58%
East London -7 2 £421 +68.40% 4
West London - 1 £300 - 6
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 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.13%) Apache
3 13 (3.83%) Camunda
4 9 (2.65%) Confluence
5 7 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.77%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.77%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.88%) JBoss
8 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.88%) nginx
8 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.59%) CICS
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%) WordPress
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.29%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.88%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.29%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 171 (50.44%) AWS
2 82 (24.19%) Azure
3 60 (17.70%) GitHub
4 59 (17.40%) GCP
5 40 (11.80%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (8.85%) Serverless
7 29 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (7.96%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (5.01%) Azure AKS
11 16 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.72%) OpenShift
12 15 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.24%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (3.24%) Cloud Run
15 10 (2.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.77%) HTTP
2 4 (1.18%) DNS
3 3 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.30%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.45%) NoSQL
3 35 (10.32%) MongoDB
4 27 (7.96%) Relational Database
5 23 (6.78%) MySQL
6 19 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (5.60%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.24%) Redis
10 10 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.65%) Big Data
12 8 (2.36%) Flink
13 7 (2.06%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.06%) DB2
13 7 (2.06%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.18%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.88%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 83 (24.48%) Jenkins
2 58 (17.11%) JUnit
3 53 (15.63%) Git
4 45 (13.27%) GitLab
5 39 (11.50%) Mockito
6 27 (7.96%) Maven
7 25 (7.37%) Gradle
8 20 (5.90%) JIRA
9 12 (3.54%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.24%) Liquibase
11 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.47%) Gatling
13 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.88%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.88%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.88%) JMeter
13 3 (0.88%) jMock
13 3 (0.88%) Selenium
13 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (21.83%) Finance
2 60 (17.70%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.93%) Banking
4 39 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.42%) Retail
6 13 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.83%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.77%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.77%) Law
8 5 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.47%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.18%) Front Office
9 4 (1.18%) Publishing
10 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Police
11 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (51.62%) Developer
2 117 (34.51%) Java Developer
3 76 (22.42%) Senior
4 50 (14.75%) Java Engineer
5 44 (12.98%) Senior Developer
6 39 (11.50%) Software Engineer
7 33 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
8 28 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 20 (5.90%) Backend Developer
10 19 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 17 (5.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (4.72%) Lead
12 16 (4.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 15 (4.42%) Architect
14 12 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.24%) Senior Java Engineer
16 8 (2.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.36%) Java Architect
16 8 (2.36%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (80.24%) Spring Boot
2 125 (36.87%) Kafka
3 102 (30.09%) RESTful
4 82 (24.19%) REST
5 72 (21.24%) React
6 53 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 45 (13.27%) Node.js
8 25 (7.37%) HTML
9 21 (6.19%) CSS
10 20 (5.90%) Hibernate
10 20 (5.90%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (5.60%) WireMock
12 18 (5.31%) Web Services
13 16 (4.72%) OAuth
14 15 (4.42%) JPA
14 15 (4.42%) Next.js
14 15 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (4.42%) Spring MVC
15 13 (3.83%) J2EE
15 13 (3.83%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 72 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 37 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.95%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.06%) NHS
9 6 (1.77%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.18%) Derivative
11 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.18%) Equities
11 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.18%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.08%) Linux
2 8 (2.36%) Windows
3 6 (1.77%) Unix
4 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.88%) Solaris
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.59%) VMS
5 2 (0.59%) zOS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (64.60%) Microservices
2 183 (53.98%) CI/CD
3 126 (37.17%) Agile
4 125 (36.87%) Containerisation
5 120 (35.40%) DevOps
6 88 (25.96%) Software Engineering
7 83 (24.48%) Event-Driven
8 68 (20.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (18.29%) TDD
10 59 (17.40%) Observability
11 50 (14.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 46 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (13.27%) Code Quality
13 45 (13.27%) Test Automation
14 44 (12.98%) Clean Code
15 41 (12.09%) Scrum
16 38 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (10.62%) Performance Tuning
18 34 (10.03%) Design Patterns
19 30 (8.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 317 (93.51%) Java
2 85 (25.07%) SQL
3 52 (15.34%) JavaScript
3 52 (15.34%) TypeScript
4 34 (10.03%) Python
5 16 (4.72%) Kotlin
6 7 (2.06%) Scala
7 6 (1.77%) C#
7 6 (1.77%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.18%) Go
9 3 (0.88%) PHP
9 3 (0.88%) Ruby
9 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.29%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.29%) COBOL
10 1 (0.29%) JCL
10 1 (0.29%) Korn
10 1 (0.29%) Perl
10 1 (0.29%) REXX
10 1 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 110 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.13%) Degree
4 11 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CCSP
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CISSP
8 1 (0.29%) OCP
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.29%) OSCP
8 1 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.03%) QA
2 16 (4.72%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.47%) NIST
5 5 (1.47%) SEPA
5 5 (1.47%) SLA
6 3 (0.88%) GDPR
6 3 (0.88%) HL7
6 3 (0.88%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.59%) EMIR
7 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.59%) MiFID
7 2 (0.59%) PSD2
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) ITGC
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 160 (47.20%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Postfix
3 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 156 (46.02%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.50%) Terraform
3 26 (7.67%) Grafana
4 18 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.36%) Ansible
5 8 (2.36%) Argo
6 6 (1.77%) Istio
6 6 (1.77%) Kibana
7 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.59%) Rancher
9 1 (0.29%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (6.78%) Oracle
2 14 (4.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.83%) Google
4 10 (2.95%) Dynatrace
4 10 (2.95%) IBM
5 8 (2.36%) Solace
6 7 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.06%) Splunk
7 6 (1.77%) Confluent
7 6 (1.77%) Sybase
8 3 (0.88%) Adobe
8 3 (0.88%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.88%) Informatica
8 3 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (0.88%) New Relic
9 2 (0.59%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.59%) MKS
9 2 (0.59%) Netlify
9 2 (0.59%) Okta
9 2 (0.59%) Salesforce