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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 148 144
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Spring 371 256 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.92% 1.82%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.02% 6.48% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 159 209
10th Percentile £383 £359 £417
25th Percentile £450 £429 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -3.64% -10.24%
75th Percentile £650 £614 £700
90th Percentile £775 £670 £825
England median daily rate £528 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.50% -9.09% -6.78%
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 £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +29.09% -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 5,284 3,952 4,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.25% 29.57% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,554 2,715 3,353
10th Percentile £400 £366 £385
25th Percentile £451 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £704
90th Percentile £763 £800 £850
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 31 22
10th Percentile £26.55 £31.61 £23.84
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.87 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.44 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +21.04% -32.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.88 £62.23
90th Percentile £81.25 £87.50 £74.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -15 43 £553 +2.79% 46
South London -1 24 £550 +3.53% 2
West London -21 3 £500 +66.67% 18
East London +1 1 £410 -24.07% 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 16 (4.31%) Apache
1 16 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.96%) Camunda
3 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.43%) nginx
4 7 (1.89%) Confluence
5 4 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 4 (1.08%) Hyperledger
5 4 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.81%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.08%) Quorum
1 4 (1.08%) R3 Corda
1 4 (1.08%) Ripple
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 179 (48.25%) AWS
2 85 (22.91%) Azure
3 67 (18.06%) GitHub
4 54 (14.56%) GCP
5 41 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (6.74%) Serverless
8 23 (6.20%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.93%) Amazon S3
9 22 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
12 17 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (2.96%) Anthropic Claude
16 9 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (2.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 7 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (23.45%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (11.86%) NoSQL
3 41 (11.05%) Relational Database
4 37 (9.97%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.93%) Redis
6 19 (5.12%) MySQL
7 18 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 16 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.23%) Oracle Database
11 10 (2.70%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.43%) Flink
13 7 (1.89%) Big Data
13 7 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
14 5 (1.35%) Db2
14 5 (1.35%) Metadata
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
15 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 97 (26.15%) Jenkins
2 89 (23.99%) Git
3 56 (15.09%) JUnit
4 52 (14.02%) Gradle
5 48 (12.94%) GitLab
5 48 (12.94%) Maven
6 37 (9.97%) Mockito
7 19 (5.12%) SonarQube
8 14 (3.77%) JIRA
8 14 (3.77%) Liquibase
9 12 (3.23%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.70%) REST Assured
11 9 (2.43%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.62%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.62%) Flyway
13 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (1.08%) CircleCI
14 4 (1.08%) Eclipse
14 4 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (1.08%) IntelliJ
General
1 117 (31.54%) Finance
2 76 (20.49%) Banking
3 74 (19.95%) Social Skills
4 46 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.85%) Retail
7 14 (3.77%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.43%) Front Office
10 8 (2.16%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.89%) Back Office
12 6 (1.62%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Law
15 3 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.81%) Police
15 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 207 (55.80%) Developer
2 164 (44.20%) Java Developer
3 95 (25.61%) Senior
4 71 (19.14%) Java Engineer
5 55 (14.82%) Senior Developer
6 42 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 41 (11.05%) Senior Java Developer
8 33 (8.89%) Backend Developer
9 30 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 27 (7.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (7.28%) Lead
11 22 (5.93%) Senior Java Engineer
12 19 (5.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 17 (4.58%) Data Engineer
13 17 (4.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 16 (4.31%) Architect
15 11 (2.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (2.96%) Lead Developer
15 11 (2.96%) Technical Leader
16 8 (2.16%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (82.75%) Spring Boot
2 137 (36.93%) Kafka
3 102 (27.49%) REST
4 95 (25.61%) RESTful
5 71 (19.14%) React
6 38 (10.24%) Terraform
7 32 (8.63%) Node.js
8 31 (8.36%) HTML
9 28 (7.55%) AngularJS
10 27 (7.28%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (7.01%) Hibernate
12 25 (6.74%) CSS
13 24 (6.47%) JPA
14 19 (5.12%) Web Services
15 18 (4.85%) Swagger
16 17 (4.58%) Jakarta EE
16 17 (4.58%) OpenAPI
16 17 (4.58%) Spring MVC
17 16 (4.31%) SOAP
18 15 (4.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 98 (26.42%) Cloud Native
2 69 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.24%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (2.96%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.70%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.16%) Derivative
10 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (2.16%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.62%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.35%) Blockchain
12 5 (1.35%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 38 (10.24%) Linux
2 25 (6.74%) Unix
3 2 (0.54%) Mac OS X
3 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Solaris
4 1 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (59.03%) Microservices
2 214 (57.68%) CI/CD
3 169 (45.55%) Agile
4 122 (32.88%) DevOps
5 116 (31.27%) Containerisation
6 109 (29.38%) Event-Driven
7 106 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 84 (22.64%) Test Automation
9 74 (19.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 69 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 64 (17.25%) TDD
12 56 (15.09%) Scrum
13 55 (14.82%) Code Quality
14 54 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (14.02%) Clean Code
15 52 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (12.67%) Observability
17 46 (12.40%) AI
18 41 (11.05%) Design Patterns
19 34 (9.16%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 367 (98.92%) Java
2 130 (35.04%) SQL
3 60 (16.17%) TypeScript
4 50 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 49 (13.21%) Python
6 28 (7.55%) PL/SQL
7 16 (4.31%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.96%) Scala
9 10 (2.70%) Bash
10 9 (2.43%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.08%) C#
11 4 (1.08%) Ruby
11 4 (1.08%) Solidity
12 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Groovy
13 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 116 (31.27%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.47%) Degree
4 19 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.13%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.23%) ISO 20022
3 7 (1.89%) SEPA
4 6 (1.62%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) MiFID
5 2 (0.54%) 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
1 175 (47.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.54%) Postfix
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 163 (43.94%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.47%) Prometheus
3 21 (5.66%) Grafana
4 14 (3.77%) Kibana
5 12 (3.23%) Ansible
6 6 (1.62%) Control-M
7 4 (1.08%) Argo
8 3 (0.81%) Bosun
8 3 (0.81%) Istio
8 3 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 63 (16.98%) Oracle
2 20 (5.39%) IBM
3 17 (4.58%) Google
4 13 (3.50%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.43%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.43%) Sybase
6 7 (1.89%) New Relic
6 7 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.89%) Splunk
6 7 (1.89%) TikTok
7 6 (1.62%) Confluent
8 5 (1.35%) FIS
8 5 (1.35%) Solace
9 4 (1.08%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.81%) Veracode
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.54%) Informatica
11 2 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (0.54%) Red Hat