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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 152 172
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 -75
Contract jobs citing Spring 336 216 257
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.75% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.22% 6.70% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 133 200
10th Percentile £396 £382 £400
25th Percentile £456 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £675
90th Percentile £738 £790 £838
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -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 4,086 3,223 4,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.13% 26.07% 25.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 2,261 3,337
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -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 30 16 24
10th Percentile £22.79 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £34.56 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +31.25% -40.52%
75th Percentile £60.12 £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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -4 50 £525 -4.55% 8
South London -3 22 £521 +9.58%
East London -5 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 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.17%) Apache
3 13 (3.87%) Camunda
4 9 (2.68%) Confluence
5 7 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.79%) Ethereum
6 6 (1.79%) Hyperledger
7 4 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.89%) JBoss
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.89%) nginx
8 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.60%) CICS
9 2 (0.60%) CMS
9 2 (0.60%) Drupal
9 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.60%) WordPress
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 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
1 173 (51.49%) AWS
2 82 (24.40%) Azure
3 61 (18.15%) GCP
4 60 (17.86%) GitHub
5 38 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (8.63%) Serverless
7 28 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (7.74%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 15 (4.46%) Azure AKS
12 14 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.27%) Cloud Run
15 10 (2.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 9 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.79%) HTTP
2 4 (1.19%) DNS
3 3 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.74%) Relational Database
5 25 (7.44%) MySQL
6 19 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (5.65%) DynamoDB
7 16 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (2.98%) Redis
11 9 (2.68%) Big Data
12 8 (2.38%) Flink
13 7 (2.08%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.08%) DB2
13 7 (2.08%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.19%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.89%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 82 (24.40%) Jenkins
2 61 (18.15%) JUnit
3 53 (15.77%) Git
4 45 (13.39%) GitLab
5 42 (12.50%) Mockito
6 27 (8.04%) Maven
7 25 (7.44%) Gradle
8 20 (5.95%) JIRA
9 12 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 11 (3.27%) Liquibase
11 7 (2.08%) 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 72 (21.43%) Finance
2 58 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 54 (16.07%) Banking
4 39 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.17%) Retail
6 13 (3.87%) Investment Banking
7 12 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.79%) Law
9 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.49%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Front Office
10 4 (1.19%) Publishing
11 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Police
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (52.08%) Developer
2 118 (35.12%) Java Developer
3 75 (22.32%) Senior
4 49 (14.58%) Java Engineer
5 43 (12.80%) Senior Developer
6 37 (11.01%) Software Engineer
7 32 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (5.65%) Backend Developer
9 19 (5.65%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.76%) Lead
10 16 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 15 (4.46%) Architect
11 15 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
12 12 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.27%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (2.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 8 (2.38%) Java Architect
15 8 (2.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (80.06%) Spring Boot
2 125 (37.20%) Kafka
3 101 (30.06%) RESTful
4 80 (23.81%) REST
5 73 (21.73%) React
6 56 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 43 (12.80%) Node.js
8 28 (8.33%) HTML
9 24 (7.14%) CSS
10 23 (6.85%) Hibernate
11 20 (5.95%) Spring Cloud
12 19 (5.65%) WireMock
13 18 (5.36%) Web Services
14 17 (5.06%) Spring MVC
15 16 (4.76%) OAuth
16 15 (4.46%) JPA
16 15 (4.46%) Next.js
16 15 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
16 15 (4.46%) Vue
17 13 (3.87%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 71 (21.13%) Cloud Native
2 37 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.98%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.68%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.08%) NHS
9 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.19%) Derivative
11 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.19%) Equities
11 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Mainframe
12 3 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 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
2 183 (54.46%) CI/CD
3 127 (37.80%) Agile
4 125 (37.20%) Containerisation
5 119 (35.42%) DevOps
6 88 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 79 (23.51%) Event-Driven
8 70 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (18.45%) TDD
10 59 (17.56%) Observability
11 48 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 46 (13.69%) Code Quality
13 45 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (13.39%) Test Automation
14 44 (13.10%) Clean Code
15 40 (11.90%) Scrum
16 38 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
17 37 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
18 34 (10.12%) Design Patterns
19 30 (8.93%) AI
Programming Languages
1 314 (93.45%) Java
2 84 (25.00%) SQL
3 53 (15.77%) JavaScript
4 50 (14.88%) TypeScript
5 33 (9.82%) Python
6 16 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 7 (2.08%) Scala
8 6 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.49%) C#
10 4 (1.19%) Go
11 3 (0.89%) PHP
11 3 (0.89%) Ruby
11 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.30%) COBOL
12 1 (0.30%) JCL
12 1 (0.30%) Korn
12 1 (0.30%) Perl
12 1 (0.30%) REXX
12 1 (0.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 99 (29.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.17%) Degree
4 11 (3.27%) 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 32 (9.52%) QA
2 16 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.08%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.49%) NIST
5 5 (1.49%) SEPA
5 5 (1.49%) SLA
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
1 159 (47.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Postfix
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 156 (46.43%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.61%) Terraform
3 26 (7.74%) Grafana
4 18 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.38%) Ansible
5 8 (2.38%) Argo
6 6 (1.79%) Istio
6 6 (1.79%) Kibana
7 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.60%) Rancher
9 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 24 (7.14%) Oracle
2 14 (4.17%) Google
2 14 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.68%) Dynatrace
3 9 (2.68%) IBM
4 8 (2.38%) Solace
5 7 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.79%) Confluent
6 6 (1.79%) Splunk
6 6 (1.79%) Sybase
7 3 (0.89%) Adobe
7 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
7 3 (0.89%) Informatica
7 3 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.60%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.60%) MKS
8 2 (0.60%) Netlify
8 2 (0.60%) New Relic
8 2 (0.60%) Okta
8 2 (0.60%) Salesforce