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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 148 171
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -80
Contract jobs citing Spring 331 225 260
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.79% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.88% 6.86% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 143 201
10th Percentile £396 £382 £400
25th Percentile £458 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £724 £750 £825
England median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -12.55%
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 £56.25 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 4,200 3,280 4,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.68% 26.07% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 2,300 3,348
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 26
10th Percentile £23.33 £33.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £28.00 £36.06 £23.90
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +41.24% -43.68%
75th Percentile £60.94 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.80 £76.25 £68.50
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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -10 52 £525 -4.55% 14
South London -4 24 £521 +9.87%
East London -4 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 14 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.93%) Camunda
3 11 (3.32%) Confluence
4 10 (3.02%) Apache
5 6 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.81%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.81%) Hyperledger
6 4 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.91%) JBoss
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.60%) CICS
8 2 (0.60%) CMS
8 2 (0.60%) Drupal
8 2 (0.60%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.60%) nginx
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.60%) WordPress
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.30%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.91%) 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
1 170 (51.36%) AWS
2 90 (27.19%) Azure
3 62 (18.73%) GCP
4 61 (18.43%) GitHub
5 38 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (9.06%) Serverless
7 29 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.04%) Azure AKS
10 17 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (4.23%) OpenShift
13 13 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (3.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (3.32%) Cloud Run
15 10 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.81%) HTTP
2 4 (1.21%) DNS
3 3 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (21.75%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (14.80%) NoSQL
3 36 (10.88%) MongoDB
4 26 (7.85%) MySQL
5 25 (7.55%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (5.74%) DynamoDB
7 17 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (3.93%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 10 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (3.02%) Redis
11 7 (2.11%) Big Data
11 7 (2.11%) DB2
11 7 (2.11%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.81%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.81%) Flink
13 5 (1.51%) Tick Data
14 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 81 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 56 (16.92%) JUnit
3 53 (16.01%) Git
4 44 (13.29%) GitLab
5 38 (11.48%) Mockito
6 26 (7.85%) Maven
7 22 (6.65%) JIRA
8 19 (5.74%) Gradle
9 13 (3.93%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.11%) Liquibase
11 5 (1.51%) Gatling
11 5 (1.51%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.21%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.91%) DbUnit
13 3 (0.91%) JMeter
13 3 (0.91%) REST Assured
General
1 66 (19.94%) Finance
2 62 (18.73%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.20%) Banking
4 42 (12.69%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.23%) Retail
6 11 (3.32%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.81%) Law
8 5 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.51%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.21%) Front Office
9 4 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.21%) Publishing
10 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Legal
10 2 (0.60%) Police
10 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (52.87%) Developer
2 120 (36.25%) Java Developer
3 74 (22.36%) Senior
4 43 (12.99%) Java Engineer
5 42 (12.69%) Senior Developer
6 32 (9.67%) Software Engineer
7 31 (9.37%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (9.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (5.44%) Architect
10 17 (5.14%) Backend Developer
11 16 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 15 (4.53%) Lead
13 14 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 9 (2.72%) Senior Java Engineer
17 8 (2.42%) Fidessa Developer
17 8 (2.42%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (77.64%) Spring Boot
2 120 (36.25%) Kafka
3 101 (30.51%) RESTful
4 79 (23.87%) REST
5 68 (20.54%) React
6 58 (17.52%) AngularJS
7 47 (14.20%) Node.js
8 28 (8.46%) HTML
9 24 (7.25%) CSS
10 22 (6.65%) Hibernate
11 19 (5.74%) WireMock
12 18 (5.44%) Spring Cloud
13 17 (5.14%) Spring MVC
13 17 (5.14%) Web Services
14 16 (4.83%) OAuth
15 15 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
15 15 (4.53%) Vue
16 14 (4.23%) JPA
16 14 (4.23%) Next.js
17 13 (3.93%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 67 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 36 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (3.02%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.11%) Equities
7 7 (2.11%) NHS
8 6 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.21%) Derivative
9 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.55%) Linux
2 7 (2.11%) Windows
3 6 (1.81%) Unix
4 4 (1.21%) VMS
5 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) Solaris
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (64.95%) Microservices
2 184 (55.59%) CI/CD
3 125 (37.76%) Containerisation
4 124 (37.46%) Agile
5 122 (36.86%) DevOps
6 80 (24.17%) Software Engineering
7 79 (23.87%) Event-Driven
8 68 (20.54%) Full-Stack Development
9 61 (18.43%) TDD
10 59 (17.82%) Observability
11 49 (14.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 48 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (14.20%) Code Quality
14 46 (13.90%) Test Automation
15 44 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 41 (12.39%) Scrum
17 40 (12.08%) Clean Code
18 37 (11.18%) Performance Tuning
19 36 (10.88%) Design Patterns
20 27 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 309 (93.35%) Java
2 77 (23.26%) SQL
3 50 (15.11%) JavaScript
4 49 (14.80%) TypeScript
5 41 (12.39%) Python
6 16 (4.83%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.81%) Go
8 5 (1.51%) C#
8 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.51%) Scala
9 3 (0.91%) PHP
9 3 (0.91%) Ruby
9 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) Bicep
10 1 (0.30%) JCL
10 1 (0.30%) Korn
10 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) Solidity
10 1 (0.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 108 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 99 (29.91%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.63%) Degree
4 9 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) 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 34 (10.27%) QA
2 17 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.51%) NIST
4 5 (1.51%) SLA
5 4 (1.21%) ISO 20022
6 3 (0.91%) GDPR
6 3 (0.91%) HL7
6 3 (0.91%) NCSC
6 3 (0.91%) SEPA
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
System Software
1 157 (47.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Postfix
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 158 (47.73%) Kubernetes
2 45 (13.60%) Terraform
3 28 (8.46%) Grafana
4 19 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.02%) Argo
6 8 (2.42%) Ansible
7 6 (1.81%) Istio
7 6 (1.81%) Kibana
8 4 (1.21%) Rancher
9 2 (0.60%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (6.95%) Oracle
2 17 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.53%) Google
4 9 (2.72%) Dynatrace
4 9 (2.72%) Solace
5 8 (2.42%) IBM
5 8 (2.42%) Splunk
6 6 (1.81%) Confluent
6 6 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.81%) Sybase
7 5 (1.51%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.91%) Adobe
8 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.91%) Informatica
8 3 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.60%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.60%) MKS
9 2 (0.60%) Netlify
9 2 (0.60%) Okta
9 2 (0.60%) Qualys