Spring Contracts in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 205 128
Rank change year-on-year +6 -77 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring 333 425 1,044
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.37% 1.14% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.11% 5.66% 8.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 331 814
10th Percentile £382 £375 £463
25th Percentile £433 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £624
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £725
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 28
10th Percentile £56.50 £35.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £58.75 £41.47 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +11.54%
75th Percentile £78.13 £48.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £56.25 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +79.82% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Daily rate trend for Spring in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

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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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +13 226 £550 - 152
North of England +11 54 £478 -10.12% 80
North West +11 32 £465 -11.43% 52
Midlands +34 22 £423 -6.11% 49
Yorkshire 0 16 £538 -2.27% 15
West Midlands +19 15 £455 +1.11% 29
South West +26 11 £513 -7.87% 41
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 13
East Midlands - 7 £402 - 17
South East +18 6 £456 -3.95% 93
East of England +17 1 £468 +24.67% 27
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (8.11%) Confluence
2 11 (3.30%) Apache
3 9 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.80%) Camunda
4 6 (1.80%) JBoss
4 6 (1.80%) Tomcat
5 5 (1.50%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.60%) Alfresco
8 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.60%) nginx
9 1 (0.30%) CICS
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
3 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 152 (45.65%) AWS
2 37 (11.11%) Azure
3 28 (8.41%) GCP
4 22 (6.61%) Amazon S3
5 20 (6.01%) OpenShift
6 19 (5.71%) Serverless
7 18 (5.41%) Slack
8 16 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (4.80%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (4.50%) GitHub
10 13 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (2.70%) AWS KMS
13 9 (2.70%) Kong
13 9 (2.70%) Route 53
14 8 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.30%) HTTP
2 3 (0.90%) Firewall
3 2 (0.60%) IPsec
3 2 (0.60%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.60%) SMS
3 2 (0.60%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (36.94%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (28.83%) MongoDB
3 75 (22.52%) Relational Database
4 52 (15.62%) MySQL
5 44 (13.21%) NoSQL
6 27 (8.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 20 (6.01%) DB2
8 16 (4.80%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.30%) Redis
11 10 (3.00%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.70%) DynamoDB
13 7 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (2.10%) Big Data
14 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.50%) Hadoop
16 3 (0.90%) Hazelcast
16 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database
17 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 102 (30.63%) JUnit
2 94 (28.23%) Jenkins
3 64 (19.22%) Git
4 63 (18.92%) Maven
5 50 (15.02%) Mockito
6 49 (14.71%) Gradle
7 45 (13.51%) GitLab
8 39 (11.71%) JIRA
9 32 (9.61%) Cucumber
10 27 (8.11%) Liquibase
11 19 (5.71%) Jasmine
12 17 (5.11%) SonarQube
13 14 (4.20%) IntelliJ
14 12 (3.60%) Bitbucket
15 11 (3.30%) Artifactory
16 10 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
17 7 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 7 (2.10%) Subversion
18 6 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
19 5 (1.50%) gulp
General
1 102 (30.63%) Finance
2 80 (24.02%) Public Sector
3 66 (19.82%) Social Skills
4 58 (17.42%) Banking
5 31 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (9.01%) Investment Banking
7 22 (6.61%) Telecoms
8 21 (6.31%) Electronics
8 21 (6.31%) Manufacturing
8 21 (6.31%) Marketing
9 9 (2.70%) Retail
10 3 (0.90%) Back Office
11 2 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
12 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (67.27%) Developer
2 185 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 69 (20.72%) Senior
4 52 (15.62%) Senior Developer
5 49 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 45 (13.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 39 (11.71%) Lead
8 38 (11.41%) Java Engineer
9 32 (9.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 31 (9.31%) Software Engineer
11 27 (8.11%) Lead Developer
12 25 (7.51%) Lead Java Developer
13 20 (6.01%) Architect
14 19 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (4.80%) React Developer
16 15 (4.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 14 (4.20%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
17 14 (4.20%) SQL Developer
18 12 (3.60%) Investment Banking Java Developer
18 12 (3.60%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (73.27%) Spring Boot
2 110 (33.03%) Kafka
3 82 (24.62%) React
4 72 (21.62%) RESTful
5 56 (16.82%) Swagger
6 54 (16.22%) AngularJS
7 53 (15.92%) Hibernate
8 51 (15.32%) OpenAPI
9 44 (13.21%) REST
9 44 (13.21%) Web Services
10 34 (10.21%) HTML
11 28 (8.41%) JPA
12 26 (7.81%) Spring Batch
13 24 (7.21%) Spring Security
14 23 (6.91%) Node.js
15 22 (6.61%) SOAP
16 21 (6.31%) CSS
17 20 (6.01%) J2EE
18 17 (5.11%) JMS
19 14 (4.20%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (6.01%) Data Structures
3 19 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 13 (3.90%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.30%) Equities
6 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.40%) PKI
8 6 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.90%) Derivative
11 3 (0.90%) Distributed Applications
12 2 (0.60%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.92%) Linux
2 26 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.00%) Unix
4 4 (1.20%) Windows
5 3 (0.90%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (57.36%) Microservices
2 156 (46.85%) Agile
3 139 (41.74%) CI/CD
4 108 (32.43%) DevOps
4 108 (32.43%) TDD
5 88 (26.43%) Containerisation
6 82 (24.62%) Software Engineering
7 54 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
8 53 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 47 (14.11%) BDD
11 44 (13.21%) API Development
11 44 (13.21%) SDLC
12 38 (11.41%) Test Automation
13 37 (11.11%) Clean Code
14 35 (10.51%) Continuous Delivery
14 35 (10.51%) Event-Driven
15 34 (10.21%) Scrum
16 32 (9.61%) Migration
17 29 (8.71%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 325 (97.60%) Java
2 147 (44.14%) SQL
3 64 (19.22%) JavaScript
4 53 (15.92%) Python
5 49 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 26 (7.81%) Bash
7 20 (6.01%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.90%) Scala
9 9 (2.70%) Kotlin
9 9 (2.70%) Perl
10 5 (1.50%) Groovy
11 4 (1.20%) C#
11 4 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.90%) Go
12 3 (0.90%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.90%) Rust
13 2 (0.60%) Ruby
14 1 (0.30%) COBOL
14 1 (0.30%) JCL
14 1 (0.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 113 (33.93%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.31%) Degree
4 16 (4.80%) AWS Certified Developer
5 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.60%) OCP
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.50%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 166 (49.85%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Postfix
3 4 (1.20%) Lustre
4 3 (0.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.60%) RACF
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 137 (41.14%) Kubernetes
2 50 (15.02%) Terraform
3 26 (7.81%) Grafana
4 23 (6.91%) Prometheus
5 17 (5.11%) Ansible
6 12 (3.60%) Istio
7 8 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.40%) Puppet
8 7 (2.10%) Argo
9 6 (1.80%) Kibana
10 4 (1.20%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.20%) Podman
11 3 (0.90%) Control-M
11 3 (0.90%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.60%) Packer
13 1 (0.30%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (11.41%) Oracle
2 22 (6.61%) SAP
3 18 (5.41%) Splunk
4 17 (5.11%) Sybase
5 13 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.30%) Google
7 8 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.10%) CA Agile Central
8 7 (2.10%) Microsoft
9 6 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
10 5 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.50%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.60%) Adobe
11 2 (0.60%) Databricks
11 2 (0.60%) IBM
11 2 (0.60%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.60%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.60%) Sun
12 1 (0.30%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.30%) Virgin Media