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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 183 175
Rank change year-on-year -2 -8 +38
Contract jobs citing Spring 715 440 464
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.58% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 6.23% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 300 339
10th Percentile £353 £332 £378
25th Percentile £432 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £558 £656
90th Percentile £738 £638 £785
UK median daily rate £520 £484 £525
% change year-on-year +7.49% -7.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -9.72% -0.69%

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 9,806 7,059 8,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.38% 24.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,437 4,805 5,494
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -5.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 169 179
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.54 £27.60
25th Percentile £51.88 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.83 £54.70 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.35% -11.20% -1.44%

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 18 September 2026.

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -9 376 £541 +3.05% 491
North of England -5 158 £550 +18.28% 153
Midlands -14 97 £525 +26.51% 62
West Midlands +10 91 £540 +8.05% 47
North West -20 89 £560 +30.23% 97
Yorkshire +6 54 £500 +8.11% 30
South West -11 39 £410 -18.41% 67
South East -46 32 £297 -32.88% 49
East of England -12 18 £500 +6.95% 5
North East -38 16 £450 -8.16% 26
East Midlands -40 5 £400 +6.67% 15
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 30 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.22%) Confluence
3 20 (2.80%) Apache
4 13 (1.82%) Camunda
5 10 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.26%) nginx
7 8 (1.12%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.12%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.56%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.56%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.56%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.56%) Quorum
1 4 (0.56%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.56%) Ripple
2 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 391 (54.69%) AWS
2 130 (18.18%) Azure
3 124 (17.34%) GitHub
4 100 (13.99%) GCP
5 64 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (7.41%) Serverless
7 49 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (6.57%) Amazon S3
9 41 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (5.17%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 13 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
19 11 (1.54%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.98%) HTTP
2 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (20.70%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (12.31%) MongoDB
3 86 (12.03%) NoSQL
3 86 (12.03%) Relational Database
4 45 (6.29%) MySQL
5 37 (5.17%) Redis
6 29 (4.06%) SQL Server
7 28 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 25 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (2.24%) Flink
11 15 (2.10%) Big Data
12 14 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.96%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.54%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.40%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.98%) Db2
17 7 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 194 (27.13%) Git
2 180 (25.17%) Jenkins
3 132 (18.46%) JUnit
4 119 (16.64%) GitLab
5 96 (13.43%) Maven
6 83 (11.61%) Gradle
7 71 (9.93%) Mockito
8 57 (7.97%) SonarQube
9 42 (5.87%) JIRA
10 40 (5.59%) Cucumber
11 35 (4.90%) Selenium
12 24 (3.36%) Gatling
13 20 (2.80%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.38%) Bitbucket
14 17 (2.38%) Liquibase
15 11 (1.54%) IntelliJ
16 9 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
17 8 (1.12%) Claude Code
17 8 (1.12%) Flyway
18 7 (0.98%) DbUnit
General
1 167 (23.36%) Finance
2 164 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.41%) Banking
4 97 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.78%) Retail
7 14 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.26%) Front Office
11 8 (1.12%) Law
11 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.98%) Back Office
12 7 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.84%) Military
14 5 (0.70%) Police
15 4 (0.56%) Games
15 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 378 (52.87%) Developer
2 307 (42.94%) Java Developer
3 162 (22.66%) Senior
4 135 (18.88%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 89 (12.45%) Software Engineer
7 74 (10.35%) Lead
7 74 (10.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 54 (7.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 52 (7.27%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (6.15%) Backend Developer
11 34 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (4.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 30 (4.20%) Lead Developer
12 30 (4.20%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.64%) Architect
14 24 (3.36%) Lead Java Developer
15 22 (3.08%) Data Engineer
16 21 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 20 (2.80%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 597 (83.50%) Spring Boot
2 233 (32.59%) Kafka
3 202 (28.25%) REST
4 159 (22.24%) RESTful
5 129 (18.04%) React
6 70 (9.79%) JPA
7 67 (9.37%) Hibernate
8 65 (9.09%) Node.js
9 62 (8.67%) Terraform
10 59 (8.25%) AngularJS
11 57 (7.97%) HTML
12 49 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
13 45 (6.29%) CSS
14 43 (6.01%) Web Services
15 41 (5.73%) Spring MVC
16 40 (5.59%) OpenAPI
16 40 (5.59%) Spring Cloud
17 35 (4.90%) OAuth
17 35 (4.90%) Swagger
18 33 (4.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (25.03%) Cloud Native
2 118 (16.50%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (9.23%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.38%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.24%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.96%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.12%) Derivative
14 7 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.84%) Spread Betting
16 5 (0.70%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.29%) Linux
2 33 (4.62%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (60.70%) Microservices
2 425 (59.44%) CI/CD
3 343 (47.97%) Agile
4 240 (33.57%) DevOps
5 226 (31.61%) Software Engineering
6 206 (28.81%) Containerisation
7 194 (27.13%) Test Automation
8 179 (25.03%) Event-Driven
9 139 (19.44%) Scrum
10 135 (18.88%) TDD
11 124 (17.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 121 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.22%) Code Quality
14 114 (15.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 113 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
16 110 (15.38%) Observability
17 95 (13.29%) SDLC
18 80 (11.19%) Clean Code
19 75 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
20 74 (10.35%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 701 (98.04%) Java
2 227 (31.75%) SQL
3 101 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 91 (12.73%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.63%) Python
6 40 (5.59%) PL/SQL
7 31 (4.34%) Kotlin
8 21 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.82%) Scala
10 12 (1.68%) Bash
11 5 (0.70%) C#
12 4 (0.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Solidity
13 3 (0.42%) Go
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 209 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 174 (24.34%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.20%) Degree
5 23 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.10%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (13.71%) QA
2 41 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.52%) WCAG
4 15 (2.10%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.40%) SEPA
6 8 (1.12%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 331 (46.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 307 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.53%) Grafana
2 61 (8.53%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.34%) Ansible
4 26 (3.64%) Kibana
5 11 (1.54%) Control-M
6 8 (1.12%) Argo
7 7 (0.98%) Istio
8 4 (0.56%) Bosun
8 4 (0.56%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.28%) Consul
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) Kiali
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 99 (13.85%) Oracle
2 37 (5.17%) Google
3 22 (3.08%) IBM
4 19 (2.66%) Splunk
5 18 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.38%) Microsoft
7 9 (1.26%) Databricks
7 9 (1.26%) Solace
7 9 (1.26%) Sybase
8 8 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.12%) New Relic
9 7 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.98%) TikTok
10 6 (0.84%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.84%) Confluent
10 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.70%) FIS
11 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.56%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.42%) SAP