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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 482 554
Rank change year-on-year -52 +72 +78
Contract jobs citing Spring Cloud 32 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.093% 0.027% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% 0.12% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 2
10th Percentile £343 £378 -
25th Percentile £389 £456 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £533 £825
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% -35.45% +65.00%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £888
90th Percentile £648 £747 -
UK median daily rate £463 £533 £825
% change year-on-year -13.15% -35.45% +65.00%

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 7,566 5,809 7,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.88% 22.50% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,080 3,770 5,493
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £526 £534
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 74 189
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.00 £51.56 £43.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -24 16 £425 -20.19% 1
North of England - 11 £450 -
North West - 7 £450 -
West Midlands -44 6 £475 - 5
Midlands -51 6 £475 - 5
Yorkshire - 5 £609 -
South East - 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) JBoss
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Amazon S3
3 10 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (28.13%) GitHub
4 9 (28.13%) Route 53
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (15.63%) AWS KMS
6 5 (15.63%) BrowserStack
6 5 (15.63%) GCP
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (12.50%) Serverless
7 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (40.63%) NoSQL
3 10 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (31.25%) DynamoDB
4 9 (28.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
6 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
6 5 (15.63%) Redis
7 4 (12.50%) DocumentDB
7 4 (12.50%) MySQL
8 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
8 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (65.63%) Jenkins
2 13 (40.63%) GitLab
3 11 (34.38%) JUnit
4 10 (31.25%) Git
4 10 (31.25%) Maven
4 10 (31.25%) Mockito
5 6 (18.75%) REST Assured
5 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
6 5 (15.63%) Gatling
6 5 (15.63%) Selenium
6 5 (15.63%) Serenity BDD
7 4 (12.50%) DbUnit
7 4 (12.50%) JIRA
7 4 (12.50%) jMock
8 3 (9.38%) Gradle
8 3 (9.38%) Subversion
9 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (6.25%) Log4j
10 1 (3.13%) Postman
10 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Developer
2 18 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Lead
4 5 (15.63%) Lead Test Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Test Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Architect
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Java Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Digital Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Integration Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 1 (3.13%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (100.00%) Spring
1 32 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 19 (59.38%) Kafka
3 16 (50.00%) RESTful
4 15 (46.88%) REST
5 11 (34.38%) Hibernate
5 11 (34.38%) JPA
6 8 (25.00%) SOAP
6 8 (25.00%) Spring Batch
6 8 (25.00%) Web Services
7 7 (21.88%) OAuth
7 7 (21.88%) OAuth2
8 6 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
8 6 (18.75%) Node.js
8 6 (18.75%) PowerMock
9 5 (15.63%) Playwright
9 5 (15.63%) Spring Integration
10 4 (12.50%) gRPC
10 4 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) NHS
4 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Microservices
2 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
3 17 (53.13%) DevOps
4 10 (31.25%) BDD
4 10 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Design Patterns
5 9 (28.13%) Observability
5 9 (28.13%) Performance Tuning
5 9 (28.13%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
7 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven
7 7 (21.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
9 5 (15.63%) BPMN
9 5 (15.63%) Build Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) Java
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) Groovy
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 4 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.50%) NIST
2 4 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) HL7
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (37.50%) Grafana
3 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Splunk
2 5 (15.63%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 3 (9.38%) Confluent
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace