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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 485 531
Rank change year-on-year -114 +46 +65
Contract jobs citing Spring Cloud 38 37 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.082% 0.13% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 0.54% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 2
10th Percentile £482 £339 -
25th Percentile £589 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £368 £500
Median % change year-on-year +89.12% -26.50% -13.79%
75th Percentile £775 £485 -
90th Percentile £828 £500 -
UK median daily rate £695 £390 £425
% change year-on-year +78.21% -8.24% -26.72%

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 9,871 6,904 8,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.31% 25.02% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,728 5,472
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 162 177
10th Percentile £29.81 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £71.80 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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
West Midlands -36 17 - -
Midlands -45 17 - -
London -89 16 £750 +104.08% 4
North of England -68 9 £620 +73.18% 5
Yorkshire -30 6 £380 -35.18% 5
North West -55 3 £630 +75.98%
South East -68 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 8 (21.05%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) Apache
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) AWS
2 16 (42.11%) Azure
3 12 (31.58%) GitHub
4 9 (23.68%) GCP
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon S3
5 7 (18.42%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (18.42%) AWS KMS
5 7 (18.42%) Route 53
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.89%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (47.37%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (31.58%) Relational Database
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (18.42%) DynamoDB
4 6 (15.79%) MongoDB
4 6 (15.79%) NoSQL
5 4 (10.53%) Flink
6 1 (2.63%) Redis
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (71.05%) Jenkins
2 20 (52.63%) JUnit
2 20 (52.63%) Mockito
3 19 (50.00%) Maven
3 19 (50.00%) SonarQube
4 17 (44.74%) Git
5 10 (26.32%) GitLab
6 8 (21.05%) JIRA
7 6 (15.79%) Gatling
7 6 (15.79%) REST Assured
7 6 (15.79%) Selenium
7 6 (15.79%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (13.16%) DbUnit
8 5 (13.16%) jMock
9 4 (10.53%) Gradle
10 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
10 2 (5.26%) Flyway
10 2 (5.26%) git-flow
10 2 (5.26%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (47.37%) Public Sector
3 14 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Law
5 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 3 (7.89%) Police
7 2 (5.26%) Banking
7 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Developer
1 27 (71.05%) Java Developer
2 16 (42.11%) Senior
2 16 (42.11%) Senior Developer
2 16 (42.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead Test Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (100.00%) Spring
1 38 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 23 (60.53%) REST
3 20 (52.63%) RESTful
4 19 (50.00%) JPA
5 17 (44.74%) Hibernate
6 16 (42.11%) AngularJS
7 15 (39.47%) ActiveMQ
7 15 (39.47%) Kafka
7 15 (39.47%) SOAP
8 14 (36.84%) Web Services
9 12 (31.58%) Spring Batch
10 7 (18.42%) Spring Integration
11 6 (15.79%) Playwright
12 5 (13.16%) Bootstrap
12 5 (13.16%) OAuth
12 5 (13.16%) OAuth2
12 5 (13.16%) PowerMock
13 4 (10.53%) Node.js
13 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (28.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Microservices
2 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
3 26 (68.42%) Agile
4 21 (55.26%) Containerisation
4 21 (55.26%) Scrum
5 20 (52.63%) DevOps
6 19 (50.00%) TDD
7 15 (39.47%) Event-Driven
7 15 (39.47%) Kanban
7 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (36.84%) Test Automation
9 13 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 10 (26.32%) API Development
11 10 (26.32%) Observability
12 9 (23.68%) BDD
12 9 (23.68%) Clean Code
12 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
13 8 (21.05%) AI
13 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (34.21%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.79%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 32 (84.21%) Docker
2 5 (13.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Grafana
2 20 (52.63%) Prometheus
3 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
4 5 (13.16%) Ansible
5 2 (5.26%) Consul
5 2 (5.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (15.79%) Splunk
3 5 (13.16%) Atlassian
4 3 (7.89%) Confluent
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) Solace
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle