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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 483 537
Rank change year-on-year -34 +54 +110
Contract jobs citing Spring Cloud 24 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.050% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £343 £349 £608
25th Percentile £350 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £445 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -31.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £500 £505 £888
90th Percentile £632 £541 -
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £650
% change year-on-year +5.88% -34.62% +30.00%

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 6,999 5,982 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.18% 21.86% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,673 3,827 5,524
10th Percentile £356 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £671
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 68 161
10th Percentile £33.00 £26.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £42.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.57 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 +3 16 £365 -17.98%
North of England - 6 £450 - 2
North West - 4 £450 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £586 -
East Midlands - 2 £268 - 1
Midlands - 2 £268 - 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 (8.33%) Mule
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
2 1 (4.17%) JBoss
2 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.50%) Route 53
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 11 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (25.00%) Redis
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.50%) DocumentDB
4 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 3 (12.50%) MySQL
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
5 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Git
1 10 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) GitLab
2 6 (25.00%) JUnit
2 6 (25.00%) Maven
3 5 (20.83%) Mockito
3 5 (20.83%) SonarQube
3 5 (20.83%) Subversion
4 4 (16.67%) JIRA
5 3 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (12.50%) Gradle
5 3 (12.50%) Postman
5 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 3 (12.50%) SoapUI
5 3 (12.50%) Xcode
5 3 (12.50%) XCTest
6 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (8.33%) Log4j
7 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (20.83%) Banking
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 15 (62.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.17%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) Spring
1 24 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 18 (75.00%) Kafka
3 13 (54.17%) RESTful
4 12 (50.00%) REST
5 7 (29.17%) Swagger
6 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 6 (25.00%) JPA
6 6 (25.00%) OAuth
6 6 (25.00%) OAuth2
7 5 (20.83%) J2EE
7 5 (20.83%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (20.83%) Spring Batch
8 4 (16.67%) SOAP
8 4 (16.67%) Web Services
9 3 (12.50%) CSS
9 3 (12.50%) CSS3
9 3 (12.50%) HTML
9 3 (12.50%) OpenID
9 3 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) NHS
3 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Microservices
2 10 (41.67%) Design Patterns
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 7 (29.17%) Domain-Driven Design
4 7 (29.17%) Multithreading
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) Concurrent Programming
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven
6 5 (20.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.67%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 3 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (95.83%) Java
2 14 (58.33%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) Groovy
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) COBOL
5 1 (4.17%) JCL
5 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.50%) NIST
1 3 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (12.50%) Confluent
2 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Checkmarx