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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 151 176
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -85
Contract jobs citing Spring 319 233 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.83% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.56% 7.06% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 148 193
10th Percentile £388 £368 £400
25th Percentile £456 £443 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £838
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -12.00%
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% -32.03%

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 4,222 3,302 4,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.31% 26.00% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 2,312 3,350
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £653 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 21
10th Percentile £23.33 £34.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £38.19 £24.18
Median hourly rate £42.50 £54.00 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +46.58% -46.22%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.80 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -21 45 £525 -4.55% 16
South London -2 24 £521 +9.87% 3
East London -5 2 £421 +68.40% 4
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 12 (3.76%) Camunda
1 12 (3.76%) Confluence
2 7 (2.19%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.88%) Apache
3 6 (1.88%) Ethereum
3 6 (1.88%) Hyperledger
4 4 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.94%) JBoss
5 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) Drupal
6 2 (0.63%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.63%) WordPress
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.31%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (2.51%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.94%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.31%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 163 (51.10%) AWS
2 91 (28.53%) Azure
3 59 (18.50%) GCP
4 57 (17.87%) GitHub
5 34 (10.66%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (10.66%) Serverless
6 32 (10.03%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (6.27%) Azure AKS
10 19 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 12 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.45%) Cloud Run
14 11 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.88%) HTTP
2 4 (1.25%) DNS
3 3 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (22.88%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (16.30%) NoSQL
3 36 (11.29%) MongoDB
4 29 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 26 (8.15%) MySQL
6 23 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (6.90%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (4.39%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (3.76%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (3.13%) DB2
11 10 (3.13%) Redis
12 7 (2.19%) DocumentDB
12 7 (2.19%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.57%) Tick Data
15 4 (1.25%) Big Data
15 4 (1.25%) Flink
16 3 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (24.45%) Jenkins
2 57 (17.87%) Git
3 56 (17.55%) JUnit
4 43 (13.48%) GitLab
5 34 (10.66%) Mockito
6 27 (8.46%) Maven
7 23 (7.21%) JIRA
8 17 (5.33%) Gradle
9 12 (3.76%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.88%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.57%) Gatling
11 5 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.25%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.25%) Postman
12 4 (1.25%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.25%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.94%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 66 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.44%) Finance
3 43 (13.48%) Banking
4 37 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.08%) Retail
7 9 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.57%) Law
8 5 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.25%) Front Office
9 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Publishing
9 4 (1.25%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (56.11%) Developer
2 124 (38.87%) Java Developer
3 73 (22.88%) Senior
4 43 (13.48%) Senior Developer
5 37 (11.60%) Java Engineer
6 33 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 32 (10.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 28 (8.78%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.64%) Architect
10 17 (5.33%) Backend Developer
10 17 (5.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 16 (5.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 14 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.39%) Lead
13 11 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.13%) AWS Developer
14 10 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.82%) Data Engineer
16 8 (2.51%) Fidessa Developer
16 8 (2.51%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (76.18%) Spring Boot
2 117 (36.68%) Kafka
3 102 (31.97%) RESTful
4 78 (24.45%) REST
5 69 (21.63%) React
6 62 (19.44%) AngularJS
7 47 (14.73%) Node.js
8 28 (8.78%) HTML
9 26 (8.15%) Hibernate
10 25 (7.84%) CSS
11 19 (5.96%) WireMock
12 16 (5.02%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (5.02%) Spring MVC
12 16 (5.02%) Web Services
13 15 (4.70%) JPA
13 15 (4.70%) OAuth
13 15 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
13 15 (4.70%) Vue
14 13 (4.08%) JMS
14 13 (4.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.50%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.19%) Equities
7 7 (2.19%) NHS
7 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.57%) Derivative
10 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.63%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.52%) Linux
2 7 (2.19%) Windows
3 6 (1.88%) Unix
4 4 (1.25%) 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
1 210 (65.83%) Microservices
2 177 (55.49%) CI/CD
3 120 (37.62%) Agile
4 116 (36.36%) DevOps
5 114 (35.74%) Containerisation
6 74 (23.20%) Event-Driven
7 71 (22.26%) Software Engineering
8 67 (21.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 58 (18.18%) Observability
9 58 (18.18%) TDD
10 54 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (15.67%) Code Quality
12 46 (14.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 45 (14.11%) Test Automation
14 41 (12.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (11.91%) Clean Code
15 38 (11.91%) Scrum
16 37 (11.60%) Performance Tuning
17 36 (11.29%) Design Patterns
18 28 (8.78%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 297 (93.10%) Java
2 75 (23.51%) SQL
3 46 (14.42%) JavaScript
3 46 (14.42%) TypeScript
4 33 (10.34%) Python
5 15 (4.70%) Kotlin
6 6 (1.88%) Go
7 5 (1.57%) C#
8 3 (0.94%) PHP
8 3 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.63%) Scala
9 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.31%) Bash
10 1 (0.31%) COBOL
10 1 (0.31%) JCL
10 1 (0.31%) Korn
10 1 (0.31%) Perl
10 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) REXX
Qualifications
1 101 (31.66%) Security Cleared
2 90 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.45%) Degree
4 8 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.63%) OCP
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CCSP
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.31%) CISSP
8 1 (0.31%) OSCP
8 1 (0.31%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.66%) QA
2 17 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.57%) NIST
4 5 (1.57%) SLA
5 3 (0.94%) HL7
5 3 (0.94%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 144 (45.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.63%) Postfix
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 147 (46.08%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.85%) Terraform
3 26 (8.15%) Grafana
4 17 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.13%) Argo
6 7 (2.19%) Ansible
7 6 (1.88%) Istio
8 4 (1.25%) Rancher
9 3 (0.94%) Kibana
10 2 (0.63%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.31%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (7.21%) Oracle
2 18 (5.64%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.02%) Google
4 10 (3.13%) Sybase
5 9 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 9 (2.82%) Solace
6 8 (2.51%) IBM
6 8 (2.51%) Splunk
7 6 (1.88%) Confluent
7 6 (1.88%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.57%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.25%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.94%) Adobe
10 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.94%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.94%) Informatica
10 3 (0.94%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (0.94%) Tradeweb
11 2 (0.63%) New Relic
11 2 (0.63%) ServiceNow