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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 145 178
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 -87
Contract jobs citing Spring 316 236 232
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 1.86% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.50% 7.14% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 150 179
10th Percentile £388 £368 £400
25th Percentile £456 £447 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £666
90th Percentile £700 £750 £838
England median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -13.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -29.42%

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 4,213 3,306 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.37% 26.11% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,846 2,311 3,314
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £718 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 21
10th Percentile £23.00 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £33.02 £39.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +46.58% -45.01%
75th Percentile £61.63 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -20 46 £525 -4.55% 15
South London +1 23 £521 +9.87% 3
East London -4 2 £421 +68.40% 2
West London - 1 £300 - 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 13 (4.11%) Confluence
2 12 (3.80%) Camunda
3 6 (1.90%) Apache
3 6 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.90%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.95%) JBoss
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) Drupal
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.63%) WordPress
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.32%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (2.53%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.32%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.32%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 160 (50.63%) AWS
2 91 (28.80%) Azure
3 59 (18.67%) GCP
4 56 (17.72%) GitHub
5 34 (10.76%) Serverless
6 33 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (8.86%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (6.33%) Azure AKS
11 18 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (4.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (4.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.80%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (3.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.90%) HTTP
2 4 (1.27%) DNS
3 3 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (16.46%) NoSQL
3 36 (11.39%) MongoDB
4 29 (9.18%) Relational Database
5 27 (8.54%) MySQL
6 22 (6.96%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (6.65%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (4.75%) SQL Server
10 13 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (3.16%) DB2
13 9 (2.85%) Redis
14 7 (2.22%) DocumentDB
14 7 (2.22%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.90%) BigQuery
16 5 (1.58%) Tick Data
17 4 (1.27%) Big Data
17 4 (1.27%) Flink
18 3 (0.95%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 77 (24.37%) Jenkins
2 57 (18.04%) Git
2 57 (18.04%) JUnit
3 43 (13.61%) GitLab
4 34 (10.76%) Mockito
5 28 (8.86%) Maven
6 24 (7.59%) JIRA
7 17 (5.38%) Gradle
8 13 (4.11%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.90%) Liquibase
10 5 (1.58%) Gatling
10 5 (1.58%) Postman
10 5 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 4 (1.27%) Selenium
11 4 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.95%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.95%) JMeter
12 3 (0.95%) jMock
12 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.30%) Finance
3 45 (14.24%) Banking
4 35 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.11%) Retail
7 10 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.58%) Law
8 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.27%) Front Office
9 4 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.27%) Publishing
9 4 (1.27%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Legal
10 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 179 (56.65%) Developer
2 126 (39.87%) Java Developer
3 72 (22.78%) Senior
4 43 (13.61%) Senior Developer
5 35 (11.08%) Java Engineer
6 34 (10.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 31 (9.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 26 (8.23%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.70%) Architect
10 17 (5.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 16 (5.06%) Backend Developer
12 15 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.43%) Lead
14 11 (3.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 10 (3.16%) AWS Developer
16 9 (2.85%) Data Engineer
17 8 (2.53%) Fidessa Developer
17 8 (2.53%) Java Software Engineer
17 8 (2.53%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (75.95%) Spring Boot
2 115 (36.39%) Kafka
3 100 (31.65%) RESTful
4 81 (25.63%) REST
5 69 (21.84%) React
6 60 (18.99%) AngularJS
7 45 (14.24%) Node.js
8 28 (8.86%) HTML
9 26 (8.23%) CSS
10 24 (7.59%) Hibernate
11 19 (6.01%) WireMock
12 16 (5.06%) Spring MVC
12 16 (5.06%) Web Services
13 15 (4.75%) OAuth
13 15 (4.75%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (4.75%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (4.75%) Vue
14 14 (4.43%) JPA
15 13 (4.11%) J2EE
15 13 (4.11%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.81%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.22%) Equities
7 7 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.22%) NHS
7 7 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.90%) Derivative
8 6 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.63%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.59%) Linux
2 7 (2.22%) Windows
3 6 (1.90%) Unix
4 4 (1.27%) VMS
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.63%) Solaris
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (65.82%) Microservices
2 175 (55.38%) CI/CD
3 118 (37.34%) Agile
3 118 (37.34%) DevOps
4 110 (34.81%) Containerisation
5 73 (23.10%) Event-Driven
6 68 (21.52%) Software Engineering
7 66 (20.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (18.04%) Observability
9 56 (17.72%) TDD
10 55 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
11 49 (15.51%) Code Quality
12 47 (14.87%) Test Automation
13 44 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 40 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 37 (11.71%) Clean Code
15 37 (11.71%) Design Patterns
15 37 (11.71%) Scrum
16 35 (11.08%) Performance Tuning
17 28 (8.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 294 (93.04%) Java
2 73 (23.10%) SQL
3 46 (14.56%) TypeScript
4 45 (14.24%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.13%) Python
6 15 (4.75%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.90%) C#
7 6 (1.90%) Go
8 3 (0.95%) PHP
8 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.63%) Scala
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.32%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.32%) COBOL
10 1 (0.32%) JCL
10 1 (0.32%) Korn
10 1 (0.32%) Perl
10 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.32%) Ruby
10 1 (0.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 100 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 89 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.48%) Degree
4 8 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.63%) OCP
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.32%) CCSP
7 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.32%) CISSP
7 1 (0.32%) OSCP
7 1 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.76%) QA
2 16 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.58%) NIST
4 5 (1.58%) SLA
5 3 (0.95%) HL7
5 3 (0.95%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.95%) NCSC
6 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.63%) PSD2
6 2 (0.63%) SEPA
7 1 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.32%) GRC
System Software
1 143 (45.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 146 (46.20%) Kubernetes
2 40 (12.66%) Terraform
3 25 (7.91%) Grafana
4 17 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.16%) Argo
6 9 (2.85%) Ansible
7 6 (1.90%) Istio
8 4 (1.27%) Rancher
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
10 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.32%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (7.28%) Oracle
2 17 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.06%) Google
4 9 (2.85%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.85%) Sybase
5 8 (2.53%) IBM
5 8 (2.53%) Solace
5 8 (2.53%) Splunk
6 6 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.58%) Confluent
7 5 (1.58%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.27%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.95%) Adobe
9 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.95%) Informatica
9 3 (0.95%) Tradeweb
10 2 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.63%) New Relic
10 2 (0.63%) Qualys
10 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow