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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 149 167
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -73
Contract jobs citing Spring 336 219 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.76% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.02% 6.74% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 139 201
10th Percentile £396 £379 £400
25th Percentile £457 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £632 £650
90th Percentile £735 £760 £838
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -12.55%
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 £62.00 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 4,188 3,247 4,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.42% 26.03% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,783 2,282 3,369
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £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 32 17 24
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £93.00 £78.75 £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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -5 50 £525 -4.55% 10
South London -5 23 £521 +9.58%
East London -8 2 £421 +68.40% 3
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 17 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.87%) Apache
2 13 (3.87%) Camunda
3 9 (2.68%) Confluence
4 7 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.79%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.79%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.89%) JBoss
7 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.89%) nginx
7 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.60%) CICS
8 2 (0.60%) CMS
8 2 (0.60%) Drupal
8 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.60%) WordPress
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.30%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.89%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.30%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.30%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 172 (51.19%) AWS
2 88 (26.19%) Azure
3 62 (18.45%) GitHub
4 61 (18.15%) GCP
5 40 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (8.63%) Serverless
7 28 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (7.74%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.95%) Azure AKS
10 19 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.76%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 12 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 11 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (3.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.79%) HTTP
2 4 (1.19%) DNS
3 3 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.51%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.58%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.74%) MySQL
4 26 (7.74%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (5.65%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.87%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.98%) Redis
10 9 (2.68%) Big Data
11 7 (2.08%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.08%) DB2
11 7 (2.08%) DocumentDB
11 7 (2.08%) Flink
12 4 (1.19%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 83 (24.70%) Jenkins
2 60 (17.86%) JUnit
3 54 (16.07%) Git
4 46 (13.69%) GitLab
5 41 (12.20%) Mockito
6 26 (7.74%) Maven
7 23 (6.85%) Gradle
8 20 (5.95%) JIRA
9 13 (3.87%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.98%) Liquibase
11 6 (1.79%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.49%) Gatling
13 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.89%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.89%) JMeter
13 3 (0.89%) jMock
13 3 (0.89%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.89%) Selenium
13 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (20.54%) Finance
2 61 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 51 (15.18%) Banking
4 43 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.17%) Retail
6 12 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.79%) Law
8 5 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.19%) Front Office
9 4 (1.19%) Publishing
10 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Police
11 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (51.19%) Developer
2 116 (34.52%) Java Developer
3 76 (22.62%) Senior
4 45 (13.39%) Java Engineer
5 42 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 37 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 31 (9.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (5.65%) Data Engineer
10 18 (5.36%) Architect
10 18 (5.36%) Backend Developer
11 17 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 16 (4.76%) Lead
12 16 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 13 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.27%) Senior Java Engineer
16 10 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 9 (2.68%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
18 8 (2.38%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (80.06%) Spring Boot
2 123 (36.61%) Kafka
3 99 (29.46%) RESTful
4 82 (24.40%) REST
5 72 (21.43%) React
6 60 (17.86%) AngularJS
7 44 (13.10%) Node.js
8 28 (8.33%) HTML
9 24 (7.14%) CSS
10 22 (6.55%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.65%) Spring Cloud
11 19 (5.65%) WireMock
12 18 (5.36%) Web Services
13 17 (5.06%) OAuth
13 17 (5.06%) Spring MVC
14 15 (4.46%) JPA
14 15 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
14 15 (4.46%) Vue
15 14 (4.17%) Next.js
15 14 (4.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 70 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.08%) NHS
7 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.19%) Equities
9 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.89%) Derivative
10 3 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.14%) Linux
2 8 (2.38%) Windows
3 6 (1.79%) Unix
4 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.89%) Solaris
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.60%) zOS
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (65.18%) Microservices
2 187 (55.65%) CI/CD
3 128 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 127 (37.80%) Agile
5 122 (36.31%) DevOps
6 87 (25.89%) Software Engineering
7 80 (23.81%) Event-Driven
8 70 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 60 (17.86%) Observability
9 60 (17.86%) TDD
10 50 (14.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 48 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 46 (13.69%) Code Quality
13 45 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (12.50%) Clean Code
15 42 (12.50%) Scrum
16 37 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
17 34 (10.12%) Design Patterns
18 29 (8.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 314 (93.45%) Java
2 84 (25.00%) SQL
3 53 (15.77%) TypeScript
4 52 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 39 (11.61%) Python
6 16 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.08%) Scala
8 6 (1.79%) Go
8 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.49%) C#
10 3 (0.89%) PHP
10 3 (0.89%) Ruby
10 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) COBOL
11 1 (0.30%) JCL
11 1 (0.30%) Korn
11 1 (0.30%) Perl
11 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.30%) REXX
11 1 (0.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 103 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.87%) Degree
4 10 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CCSP
8 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) OCP
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.30%) OSCP
8 1 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.82%) QA
2 16 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.49%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.49%) NIST
4 5 (1.49%) SLA
5 4 (1.19%) SEPA
6 3 (0.89%) GDPR
6 3 (0.89%) HL7
6 3 (0.89%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.60%) EMIR
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.60%) MiFID
7 2 (0.60%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) ITGC
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 161 (47.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Postfix
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 161 (47.92%) Kubernetes
2 44 (13.10%) Terraform
3 28 (8.33%) Grafana
4 19 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.98%) Argo
6 8 (2.38%) Ansible
7 6 (1.79%) Istio
7 6 (1.79%) Kibana
8 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.60%) Rancher
10 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 24 (7.14%) Oracle
2 17 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.46%) Google
4 9 (2.68%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.68%) IBM
5 8 (2.38%) Solace
5 8 (2.38%) Splunk
6 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.79%) Confluent
7 6 (1.79%) Sybase
8 5 (1.49%) ForgeRock
9 3 (0.89%) Adobe
9 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.89%) Informatica
9 3 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.60%) MKS
10 2 (0.60%) Netlify
10 2 (0.60%) New Relic
10 2 (0.60%) Qualys
10 2 (0.60%) Salesforce