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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 197 234
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 -139
Contract jobs citing Spring 471 408 419
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.31% 1.06%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.01% 6.02% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 268 330
10th Percentile £323 £400 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -3.93% -8.40%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £725
90th Percentile £638 £796 £848
UK median daily rate £491 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -6.48% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 10
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - £69.50 £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £62.50 £74.50 £77.88
90th Percentile £67.00 - £79.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +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 6,722 6,780 8,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.81% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,537 4,323 6,403
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 105 177
10th Percentile £30.80 £26.70 £37.67
25th Percentile £42.88 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

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

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 252 £525 -10.26% 177
North of England -16 84 £470 +4.44% 62
Midlands +25 72 £420 -28.51% 27
North West -9 59 £455 +1.00% 42
West Midlands +1 45 £500 -14.89% 18
South East +12 34 £400 -11.11% 137
East Midlands - 27 £360 - 8
South West +3 16 £503 -8.64% 18
Yorkshire -21 15 £525 +5.00% 12
North East -8 10 £550 +23.60% 8
East of England -23 1 - - 10
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 21 (4.46%) JBoss
2 19 (4.03%) Confluence
3 11 (2.34%) WebLogic
4 10 (2.12%) Apache
4 10 (2.12%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.49%) Camunda
6 5 (1.06%) Mule
7 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.64%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.64%) WordPress
9 2 (0.42%) CICS
9 2 (0.42%) CMS
9 2 (0.42%) Drupal
9 2 (0.42%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.42%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.21%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Fidessa
1 5 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 246 (52.23%) AWS
2 128 (27.18%) Azure
3 78 (16.56%) GCP
4 60 (12.74%) GitHub
5 45 (9.55%) OpenShift
6 34 (7.22%) Amazon S3
6 34 (7.22%) Serverless
7 33 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
10 21 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (2.34%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (2.34%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.49%) HTTPS
2 6 (1.27%) Kerberos
3 5 (1.06%) HTTP
4 3 (0.64%) SSL
5 1 (0.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.21%) FTP
5 1 (0.21%) Internet
5 1 (0.21%) LAN
5 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (23.99%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (14.86%) Relational Database
3 69 (14.65%) MongoDB
4 50 (10.62%) NoSQL
5 33 (7.01%) MySQL
6 30 (6.37%) DynamoDB
7 27 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.31%) DB2
9 16 (3.40%) Oracle Database
10 15 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.97%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.76%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.91%) Redis
14 8 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.49%) Big Data
16 6 (1.27%) HBase
17 4 (0.85%) Tick Data
18 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
18 3 (0.64%) HPCC
18 3 (0.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 146 (31.00%) JUnit
2 137 (29.09%) Git
3 106 (22.51%) Jenkins
4 69 (14.65%) Maven
5 51 (10.83%) Cucumber
6 50 (10.62%) JIRA
7 46 (9.77%) Mockito
8 45 (9.55%) GitLab
9 37 (7.86%) Gradle
10 30 (6.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (5.94%) SonarQube
12 21 (4.46%) Selenium
13 19 (4.03%) Postman
14 17 (3.61%) IntelliJ
15 16 (3.40%) Eclipse
16 13 (2.76%) Artifactory
16 13 (2.76%) JMeter
17 10 (2.12%) Bitbucket
18 8 (1.70%) REST Assured
18 8 (1.70%) Subversion
General
1 165 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 111 (23.57%) Finance
3 84 (17.83%) Banking
4 55 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.10%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.70%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.06%) Front Office
9 5 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.64%) Automotive
11 3 (0.64%) Electronics
11 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.64%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Law
12 2 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 311 (66.03%) Developer
2 256 (54.35%) Java Developer
3 100 (21.23%) Senior
4 84 (17.83%) Senior Developer
5 83 (17.62%) Senior Java Developer
6 54 (11.46%) Lead
7 50 (10.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 48 (10.19%) Java Engineer
9 34 (7.22%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.37%) AWS Developer
11 27 (5.73%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.31%) Lead Java Developer
13 22 (4.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 18 (3.82%) Architect
15 17 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (3.61%) SQL Developer
16 16 (3.40%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 16 (3.40%) Linux Developer
16 16 (3.40%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
16 16 (3.40%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (66.24%) Spring Boot
2 152 (32.27%) Kafka
3 120 (25.48%) REST
4 119 (25.27%) RESTful
5 103 (21.87%) React
6 93 (19.75%) Hibernate
7 75 (15.92%) AngularJS
8 70 (14.86%) HTML
9 50 (10.62%) CSS
10 48 (10.19%) JPA
10 48 (10.19%) SOAP
11 45 (9.55%) Web Services
12 44 (9.34%) JSON
13 36 (7.64%) OAuth
14 35 (7.43%) Node.js
15 32 (6.79%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (6.37%) JMS
16 30 (6.37%) XML
17 28 (5.94%) J2EE
18 26 (5.52%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 56 (11.89%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.25%) Equities
5 19 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 8 (1.70%) Derivative
10 6 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (0.64%) State Machine
14 2 (0.42%) Life Science
14 2 (0.42%) PKI
14 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (13.59%) Linux
2 34 (7.22%) Unix
3 6 (1.27%) Windows
4 5 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.64%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (59.66%) Microservices
2 238 (50.53%) Agile
3 233 (49.47%) CI/CD
4 149 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (26.96%) DevOps
6 118 (25.05%) Containerisation
7 95 (20.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (18.47%) TDD
9 86 (18.26%) Software Engineering
10 73 (15.50%) Scrum
11 72 (15.29%) Test Automation
12 69 (14.65%) SDLC
13 57 (12.10%) Mentoring
14 54 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (11.46%) Event-Driven
15 51 (10.83%) Code Quality
16 48 (10.19%) Design Patterns
17 44 (9.34%) API Development
18 43 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
19 42 (8.92%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 465 (98.73%) Java
2 155 (32.91%) SQL
3 78 (16.56%) JavaScript
4 70 (14.86%) Python
5 54 (11.46%) TypeScript
6 36 (7.64%) Shell Script
7 13 (2.76%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.76%) Scala
8 11 (2.34%) Ruby
9 10 (2.12%) Groovy
9 10 (2.12%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.70%) Bash
11 6 (1.27%) C#
11 6 (1.27%) C++
12 5 (1.06%) C
12 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.64%) Perl
13 3 (0.64%) Rust
14 2 (0.42%) Korn
15 1 (0.21%) XPath
Qualifications
1 94 (19.96%) Security Cleared
2 79 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.73%) Degree
4 22 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.70%) OCP
7 8 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.42%) 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 52 (11.04%) QA
2 15 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.97%) ISO 20022
4 11 (2.34%) WCAG
5 9 (1.91%) GDPR
5 9 (1.91%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.70%) PSD2
6 8 (1.70%) SEPA
7 6 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 183 (38.85%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Postfix
2 4 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 169 (35.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (7.01%) Terraform
3 28 (5.94%) Ansible
4 24 (5.10%) Grafana
5 13 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.34%) Argo
6 11 (2.34%) Progress Chef
6 11 (2.34%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 8 (1.70%) Kibana
7 8 (1.70%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.21%) Consul
9 1 (0.21%) Control-M
9 1 (0.21%) logstash
Vendors
1 58 (12.31%) Oracle
2 36 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 22 (4.67%) Google
3 22 (4.67%) Sybase
4 19 (4.03%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.40%) CA Agile Central
5 16 (3.40%) Splunk
6 15 (3.18%) IBM
7 12 (2.55%) Dynatrace
8 10 (2.12%) Ping Identity
8 10 (2.12%) VMware
9 9 (1.91%) webMethods
10 8 (1.70%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.06%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.06%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.06%) Solace
11 5 (1.06%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.85%) Calypso
12 4 (0.85%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.85%) TIBCO