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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 192 232
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 -138
Contract jobs citing Spring 483 407 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.31% 1.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.04% 6.03% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 266 324
10th Percentile £327 £400 £413
25th Percentile £402 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.39% -10.76%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £725
90th Percentile £638 £780 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £44.50 - £58.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £79.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 6,864 6,746 8,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.84% 21.67% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 4,305 6,457
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
75th Percentile £635 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 100 182
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.25 £36.31
25th Percentile £43.00 £42.19 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.35 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%

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 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

Spring
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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -1 262 £525 -10.26% 158
North of England -5 87 £473 +5.00% 50
Midlands +3 64 £429 -26.98% 19
North West +1 60 £465 +6.29% 34
West Midlands -4 46 £500 -14.89% 13
South East +23 41 £405 -10.00% 56
East Midlands - 18 £368 - 6
Yorkshire -34 17 £525 -16.00% 10
South West +3 15 £505 -7.13% 22
North East -9 10 £550 +23.60% 6
East of England -23 1 - - 2
Spring
UK

Spring
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 19 (3.93%) Confluence
2 18 (3.73%) JBoss
3 11 (2.28%) Apache
3 11 (2.28%) WebLogic
4 9 (1.86%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.45%) Camunda
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.83%) Mule
7 3 (0.62%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.62%) WordPress
8 2 (0.41%) CICS
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.41%) Drupal
8 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.41%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.24%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 263 (54.45%) AWS
2 142 (29.40%) Azure
3 86 (17.81%) GCP
4 71 (14.70%) GitHub
5 46 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 35 (7.25%) Amazon S3
6 35 (7.25%) Serverless
7 33 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.31%) Azure AKS
13 15 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.48%) Datadog
15 11 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.28%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (2.28%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) Kerberos
2 5 (1.04%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.62%) HTTP
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) FTP
4 1 (0.21%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) LAN
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (24.84%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (14.91%) MongoDB
2 72 (14.91%) Relational Database
3 51 (10.56%) NoSQL
4 37 (7.66%) MySQL
5 31 (6.42%) DynamoDB
6 27 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (5.18%) DB2
8 16 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (2.90%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.69%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.48%) Oracle Database
12 10 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (1.66%) HBase
13 8 (1.66%) Redis
14 5 (1.04%) Big Data
15 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.83%) Tick Data
16 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.62%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 151 (31.26%) JUnit
2 136 (28.16%) Git
3 110 (22.77%) Jenkins
4 66 (13.66%) Maven
5 58 (12.01%) Cucumber
6 49 (10.14%) GitLab
7 47 (9.73%) JIRA
8 46 (9.52%) Mockito
9 40 (8.28%) Gradle
10 35 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (5.18%) SonarQube
12 22 (4.55%) Selenium
13 20 (4.14%) Postman
14 16 (3.31%) JMeter
15 15 (3.11%) Artifactory
15 15 (3.11%) Eclipse
16 14 (2.90%) IntelliJ
17 12 (2.48%) Bitbucket
18 7 (1.45%) REST Assured
18 7 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 167 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 113 (23.40%) Finance
3 86 (17.81%) Banking
4 57 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 53 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.97%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Front Office
11 4 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.62%) Automotive
12 3 (0.62%) Electronics
12 3 (0.62%) Law
12 3 (0.62%) Marketing
12 3 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 313 (64.80%) Developer
2 260 (53.83%) Java Developer
3 105 (21.74%) Senior
4 84 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 82 (16.98%) Senior Java Developer
6 56 (11.59%) Full-Stack Developer
7 55 (11.39%) Lead
8 52 (10.77%) Java Engineer
9 37 (7.66%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.21%) AWS Developer
11 28 (5.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 27 (5.59%) Lead Developer
13 25 (5.18%) Lead Java Developer
14 20 (4.14%) Architect
15 18 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
16 17 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (3.52%) SQL Developer
17 16 (3.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 16 (3.31%) Linux Developer
17 16 (3.31%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (66.46%) Spring Boot
2 156 (32.30%) Kafka
3 123 (25.47%) RESTful
4 118 (24.43%) REST
5 102 (21.12%) React
6 94 (19.46%) Hibernate
7 80 (16.56%) AngularJS
8 70 (14.49%) HTML
9 50 (10.35%) CSS
10 46 (9.52%) SOAP
11 44 (9.11%) JPA
11 44 (9.11%) JSON
12 40 (8.28%) Node.js
13 39 (8.07%) Web Services
14 36 (7.45%) OAuth
15 30 (6.21%) XML
16 28 (5.80%) JMS
16 28 (5.80%) Spring Cloud
17 25 (5.18%) J2EE
17 25 (5.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 66 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 57 (11.80%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.35%) Equities
3 21 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.66%) Derivative
8 6 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.41%) Life Science
12 2 (0.41%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.41%) PKI
13 1 (0.21%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.08%) Linux
2 30 (6.21%) Unix
3 6 (1.24%) Windows
4 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (59.63%) Microservices
2 257 (53.21%) CI/CD
3 241 (49.90%) Agile
4 144 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (28.57%) DevOps
6 127 (26.29%) Containerisation
7 106 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 91 (18.84%) TDD
9 90 (18.63%) Software Engineering
10 80 (16.56%) Test Automation
11 74 (15.32%) Scrum
12 68 (14.08%) SDLC
13 56 (11.59%) Event-Driven
14 55 (11.39%) Code Quality
15 54 (11.18%) Mentoring
16 49 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
18 47 (9.73%) Design Patterns
19 45 (9.32%) API Development
20 41 (8.49%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 478 (98.96%) Java
2 152 (31.47%) SQL
3 77 (15.94%) Python
4 74 (15.32%) JavaScript
5 58 (12.01%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.25%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.69%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.69%) Scala
8 11 (2.28%) Ruby
9 9 (1.86%) Groovy
10 8 (1.66%) Bash
11 6 (1.24%) C#
11 6 (1.24%) C++
11 6 (1.24%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.04%) C
13 3 (0.62%) Perl
13 3 (0.62%) Rust
14 2 (0.41%) Go
14 2 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 103 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 88 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.59%) Degree
4 23 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.28%) OCP
6 11 (2.28%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.18%) QA
2 16 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.31%) ISO 20022
3 10 (2.07%) WCAG
4 8 (1.66%) GDPR
4 8 (1.66%) HIPAA
4 8 (1.66%) PSD2
4 8 (1.66%) SEPA
5 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 195 (40.37%) Docker
2 7 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.83%) Postfix
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 187 (38.72%) Kubernetes
2 40 (8.28%) Terraform
3 31 (6.42%) Ansible
4 29 (6.00%) Grafana
5 15 (3.11%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.90%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.69%) Argo
8 9 (1.86%) Kibana
8 9 (1.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 8 (1.66%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
10 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.21%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.21%) Consul
11 1 (0.21%) Control-M
11 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 54 (11.18%) Oracle
2 40 (8.28%) Microsoft
3 27 (5.59%) Google
4 22 (4.55%) Sybase
5 18 (3.73%) Splunk
6 17 (3.52%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.11%) CA Agile Central
8 14 (2.90%) VMware
9 13 (2.69%) IBM
10 12 (2.48%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.86%) webMethods
12 8 (1.66%) Ping Identity
12 8 (1.66%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.04%) ION Trading
14 4 (0.83%) Calypso
14 4 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.83%) SAP
14 4 (0.83%) Solace
14 4 (0.83%) TIBCO