Spring Cloud Contract Job Trends in England

Spring Cloud
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Spring Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 473 536
Rank change year-on-year -60 +63 +71
Contract jobs citing Spring Cloud 39 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.045% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 0.20% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 2
10th Percentile £343 £355 -
25th Percentile £450 £379 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £630 £500 -
90th Percentile £691 £598 -
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +1.01%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Spring Cloud 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,929 5,444 7,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.70% 22.40% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,772 5,305
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -3.05% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 100 211
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.13 £21.73
25th Percentile £52.00 £51.25 £41.28
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

Spring Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Spring Cloud job vacancy trend in England

Spring Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Cloud in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Cloud in England

Spring Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Cloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring Cloud

Spring Cloud
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London -62 17 £500 +26.58%
West Midlands -47 15 £475 -5.00%
Midlands -52 15 £475 -5.00% 1
North of England - 10 £450 -
North West - 7 £450 -
Yorkshire - 4 £620 -
South East -58 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Spring Cloud
UK

Spring Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (92.31%) AWS
2 19 (48.72%) Amazon S3
2 19 (48.72%) Amazon SQS
3 18 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (46.15%) Route 53
4 15 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (35.90%) AWS KMS
6 13 (33.33%) Azure
7 11 (28.21%) GitHub
8 7 (17.95%) GCP
9 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (12.82%) BrowserStack
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (10.26%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (10.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (48.72%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (48.72%) DynamoDB
3 18 (46.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
5 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
6 5 (12.82%) Redis
7 4 (10.26%) DocumentDB
7 4 (10.26%) MySQL
8 1 (2.56%) Flink
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (79.49%) Jenkins
2 19 (48.72%) JUnit
3 18 (46.15%) Mockito
4 17 (43.59%) Maven
5 16 (41.03%) Git
6 15 (38.46%) GitLab
6 15 (38.46%) SonarQube
7 11 (28.21%) DbUnit
7 11 (28.21%) jMock
8 9 (23.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (12.82%) Gatling
9 5 (12.82%) REST Assured
9 5 (12.82%) Selenium
9 5 (12.82%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (7.69%) JIRA
11 2 (5.13%) Gradle
12 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (41.03%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Law
4 2 (5.13%) Military
4 2 (5.13%) Police
4 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 29 (74.36%) Developer
2 27 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Lead
4 5 (12.82%) Lead Test Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Java Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Digital Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Integration Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (100.00%) Spring
1 39 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 24 (61.54%) RESTful
3 20 (51.28%) Hibernate
3 20 (51.28%) JPA
3 20 (51.28%) REST
4 16 (41.03%) Kafka
4 16 (41.03%) SOAP
5 15 (38.46%) ActiveMQ
5 15 (38.46%) AngularJS
5 15 (38.46%) Web Services
6 14 (35.90%) Spring Batch
6 14 (35.90%) Spring Integration
7 11 (28.21%) PowerMock
8 10 (25.64%) Node.js
9 9 (23.08%) Bootstrap
10 6 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (12.82%) Playwright
12 4 (10.26%) gRPC
12 4 (10.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) NHS
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Microservices
2 28 (71.79%) DevOps
3 26 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 20 (51.28%) Containerisation
5 19 (48.72%) Agile
5 19 (48.72%) Scrum
6 18 (46.15%) TDD
7 16 (41.03%) BDD
8 13 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (30.77%) Kanban
10 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven
10 11 (28.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (25.64%) BPMN
11 10 (25.64%) Observability
12 9 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (23.08%) Open Source
13 8 (20.51%) Biometrics
13 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
14 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 21 (53.85%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) PHP
3 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 17 (43.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.26%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) HL7
System Software
1 36 (92.31%) Docker
2 10 (25.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (53.85%) Grafana
2 16 (41.03%) Kubernetes
3 11 (28.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (12.82%) Terraform
5 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (28.21%) Atlassian
3 5 (12.82%) Splunk
4 3 (7.69%) Oracle