Spring Contract Job Trends in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 197 195
Rank change year-on-year +45 -2 -61
Contract jobs citing Spring 695 340 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.40% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.77% 6.30% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 216 339
10th Percentile £365 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £519 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -3.94% -13.11%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £650
90th Percentile £671 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 4 11
10th Percentile - £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £42.94
Median hourly rate £66.00 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £80.13 £72.81 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%

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 7,925 5,396 7,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.22% 22.28% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,251 3,732 5,333
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.70%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 100 231
10th Percentile £30.55 £33.25 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.13 £50.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Spring job vacancy trend in England

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

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 21 May 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 +15 342 £525 -0.94% 75
North of England +25 168 £475 +2.15% 46
North West +37 118 £476 +18.47% 27
Midlands -23 74 £469 +15.52% 7
West Midlands -9 70 £470 +10.47% 5
South West -1 42 £409 -20.20% 12
South East -28 37 £500 +9.59% 23
Yorkshire -30 32 £450 -14.29% 13
East of England +1 26 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -3 26 £463 -0.54% 6
East Midlands -43 3 £402 +9.24% 2
Spring
UK

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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 42 (6.04%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.18%) Confluence
3 21 (3.02%) Apache
4 14 (2.01%) Camunda
5 8 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.15%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.86%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.86%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.86%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.58%) JBoss
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.43%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 370 (53.24%) AWS
2 160 (23.02%) Azure
3 133 (19.14%) GitHub
4 112 (16.12%) GCP
5 76 (10.94%) Amazon S3
6 75 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (10.50%) Serverless
8 61 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (4.32%) OpenShift
13 23 (3.31%) Azure AKS
13 23 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.17%) Route 53
15 19 (2.73%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (2.30%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.15%) HTTP
2 5 (0.72%) SSL
3 4 (0.58%) DNS
3 4 (0.58%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
5 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (23.02%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (13.96%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.22%) MongoDB
4 72 (10.36%) Relational Database
5 56 (8.06%) DynamoDB
6 49 (7.05%) MySQL
7 41 (5.90%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.88%) Big Data
10 20 (2.88%) Redis
10 20 (2.88%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.01%) Flink
12 13 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.58%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.44%) DocumentDB
15 8 (1.15%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.15%) DB2
16 7 (1.01%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 168 (24.17%) Git
2 156 (22.45%) Jenkins
3 126 (18.13%) JUnit
4 115 (16.55%) GitLab
5 67 (9.64%) Maven
6 65 (9.35%) Gradle
7 61 (8.78%) JIRA
8 60 (8.63%) Mockito
9 41 (5.90%) Cucumber
10 40 (5.76%) Selenium
11 38 (5.47%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.45%) IntelliJ
13 22 (3.17%) JMeter
14 17 (2.45%) Gatling
15 16 (2.30%) REST Assured
15 16 (2.30%) WebDriver
16 14 (2.01%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.87%) jMock
17 13 (1.87%) Liquibase
18 11 (1.58%) Cypress.io
General
1 136 (19.57%) Finance
2 127 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 117 (16.83%) Public Sector
4 79 (11.37%) Banking
5 43 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.02%) Retail
7 14 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.15%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.86%) Automotive
12 4 (0.58%) Front Office
12 4 (0.58%) Military
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Publishing
13 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 385 (55.40%) Developer
2 266 (38.27%) Java Developer
3 136 (19.57%) Senior
4 116 (16.69%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.23%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.22%) Senior Developer
7 77 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 73 (10.50%) Lead
9 61 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (6.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.33%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.03%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (3.60%) Lead Developer
14 21 (3.02%) Architect
14 21 (3.02%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 21 (3.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 20 (2.88%) Senior Java Engineer
16 18 (2.59%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (81.01%) Spring Boot
2 202 (29.06%) Kafka
3 171 (24.60%) RESTful
4 159 (22.88%) REST
5 138 (19.86%) React
6 105 (15.11%) Node.js
7 83 (11.94%) AngularJS
8 59 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 52 (7.48%) HTML
10 51 (7.34%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.76%) JPA
12 45 (6.47%) CSS
13 44 (6.33%) Web Services
13 44 (6.33%) WireMock
14 42 (6.04%) Spring MVC
15 39 (5.61%) OAuth
16 36 (5.18%) OAuth2
16 36 (5.18%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (4.46%) Playwright
18 30 (4.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.66%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 13 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.73%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.86%) NHS
15 4 (0.58%) Derivative
15 4 (0.58%) Equities
15 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.62%) Linux
2 12 (1.73%) Unix
3 10 (1.44%) Windows
4 8 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.58%) VMS
6 3 (0.43%) Android
6 3 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.43%) Solaris
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (60.58%) Microservices
2 381 (54.82%) CI/CD
3 268 (38.56%) Agile
4 248 (35.68%) DevOps
5 220 (31.65%) Containerisation
6 164 (23.60%) Software Engineering
7 152 (21.87%) TDD
8 147 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (18.42%) Event-Driven
10 126 (18.13%) Test Automation
11 117 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (16.40%) Observability
13 105 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 103 (14.82%) Code Quality
15 96 (13.81%) Scrum
16 83 (11.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 76 (10.94%) BDD
18 71 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (8.20%) API Design
19 57 (8.20%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 654 (94.10%) Java
2 201 (28.92%) SQL
3 103 (14.82%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 82 (11.80%) Python
6 48 (6.91%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.16%) Go
8 13 (1.87%) PL/SQL
9 12 (1.73%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.44%) Scala
11 6 (0.86%) C#
11 6 (0.86%) Perl
11 6 (0.86%) Ruby
12 5 (0.72%) Bash
13 3 (0.43%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) Korn
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Solidity
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 217 (31.22%) Security Cleared
2 184 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.46%) Degree
4 23 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) OCP
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.49%) QA
2 54 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.01%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.73%) WCAG
5 11 (1.58%) SEPA
6 6 (0.86%) GDPR
6 6 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.86%) PSD2
6 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.58%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) EMIR
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 317 (45.61%) Docker
2 11 (1.58%) Postfix
3 3 (0.43%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 321 (46.19%) Kubernetes
2 94 (13.53%) Grafana
3 65 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 62 (8.92%) Terraform
5 24 (3.45%) Ansible
6 12 (1.73%) Argo
7 10 (1.44%) Kibana
8 8 (1.15%) Istio
9 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) Consul
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 51 (7.34%) Oracle
2 36 (5.18%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.17%) Splunk
4 25 (3.60%) Google
5 17 (2.45%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.58%) IBM
9 11 (1.58%) Solace
10 9 (1.29%) Checkmarx
11 7 (1.01%) Databricks
11 7 (1.01%) Sybase
12 6 (0.86%) Adobe
12 6 (0.86%) Confluent
13 5 (0.72%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.72%) New Relic
13 5 (0.72%) Teradata
14 3 (0.43%) Informatica
14 3 (0.43%) SAP