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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 187 197
Rank change year-on-year +29 +10 -69
Contract jobs citing Spring 681 335 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.38% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.68% 6.21% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 213 331
10th Percentile £361 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -2.78% -12.20%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £650
90th Percentile £670 £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 7,843 5,398 7,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.26% 22.31% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,735 5,309
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% -1.79%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 100 227
10th Percentile £32.06 £33.25 £22.19
25th Percentile £52.38 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £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

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 15 May 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 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

Spring
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 15 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 +18 337 £525 -2.05% 75
North of England +22 168 £475 - 48
North West +37 121 £475 +9.57% 32
Midlands -33 67 £469 +15.52% 8
West Midlands -11 66 £470 +6.70% 6
South West +1 39 £409 -22.10% 16
South East -29 37 £500 +9.59% 28
Yorkshire -44 29 £463 -13.95% 8
North East +1 26 £463 -0.54% 8
East of England -7 26 £510 +9.09% 2
East Midlands -45 1 £450 +21.13% 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 40 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.29%) Confluence
3 21 (3.08%) Apache
4 14 (2.06%) Camunda
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.59%) JBoss
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
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%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 359 (52.72%) AWS
2 164 (24.08%) Azure
3 128 (18.80%) GitHub
4 113 (16.59%) GCP
5 74 (10.87%) Serverless
6 73 (10.72%) Amazon S3
7 71 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (9.10%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (4.41%) OpenShift
13 27 (3.96%) Azure AKS
14 23 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.64%) Route 53
17 16 (2.35%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.17%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) SSL
3 4 (0.59%) DNS
3 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (22.61%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (13.07%) NoSQL
3 71 (10.43%) MongoDB
4 68 (9.99%) Relational Database
5 52 (7.64%) DynamoDB
6 50 (7.34%) MySQL
7 37 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.94%) Redis
10 20 (2.94%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.64%) Big Data
12 14 (2.06%) Flink
13 11 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.47%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.47%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.17%) DB2
16 7 (1.03%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 163 (23.94%) Git
2 144 (21.15%) Jenkins
3 119 (17.47%) JUnit
4 118 (17.33%) GitLab
5 65 (9.54%) Gradle
6 64 (9.40%) Maven
7 61 (8.96%) JIRA
8 55 (8.08%) Mockito
9 39 (5.73%) Cucumber
10 35 (5.14%) Selenium
11 34 (4.99%) SonarQube
12 23 (3.38%) IntelliJ
13 22 (3.23%) JMeter
14 16 (2.35%) WebDriver
15 15 (2.20%) Gatling
16 13 (1.91%) REST Assured
17 11 (1.62%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.62%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.62%) jMock
17 11 (1.62%) Liquibase
General
1 133 (19.53%) Finance
2 126 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 115 (16.89%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.72%) Banking
5 39 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.64%) Retail
7 13 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.88%) Automotive
10 6 (0.88%) Law
10 6 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Military
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 383 (56.24%) Developer
2 263 (38.62%) Java Developer
3 133 (19.53%) Senior
4 112 (16.45%) Java Engineer
5 81 (11.89%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.45%) Senior Developer
7 76 (11.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 68 (9.99%) Lead
9 61 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
10 44 (6.46%) Backend Developer
10 44 (6.46%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.11%) Software Developer
12 25 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (3.38%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (3.08%) Architect
15 21 (3.08%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 17 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 17 (2.50%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 551 (80.91%) Spring Boot
2 190 (27.90%) Kafka
3 166 (24.38%) RESTful
4 151 (22.17%) REST
5 135 (19.82%) React
6 102 (14.98%) Node.js
7 84 (12.33%) AngularJS
8 58 (8.52%) Hibernate
9 51 (7.49%) HTML
10 46 (6.75%) Spring Cloud
11 44 (6.46%) CSS
11 44 (6.46%) WireMock
12 42 (6.17%) JPA
12 42 (6.17%) Spring MVC
13 39 (5.73%) Web Services
14 34 (4.99%) OAuth
14 34 (4.99%) OpenTelemetry
15 31 (4.55%) OAuth2
16 29 (4.26%) Playwright
17 28 (4.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 117 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.75%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.03%) NHS
14 4 (0.59%) Derivative
14 4 (0.59%) Equities
14 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.31%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Unix
3 10 (1.47%) Windows
4 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (60.21%) Microservices
2 375 (55.07%) CI/CD
3 259 (38.03%) Agile
4 240 (35.24%) DevOps
5 220 (32.31%) Containerisation
6 159 (23.35%) Software Engineering
7 153 (22.47%) TDD
8 144 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 132 (19.38%) Test Automation
10 127 (18.65%) Event-Driven
11 120 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
12 109 (16.01%) Observability
13 106 (15.57%) Code Quality
14 98 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 88 (12.92%) Scrum
16 79 (11.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
18 72 (10.57%) BDD
19 57 (8.37%) Clean Code
20 56 (8.22%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 640 (93.98%) Java
2 190 (27.90%) SQL
3 99 (14.54%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 86 (12.63%) Python
6 47 (6.90%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.20%) Go
8 13 (1.91%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.47%) Scala
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) Bash
12 5 (0.73%) C#
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 3 (0.44%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) COBOL
15 1 (0.15%) JCL
15 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 214 (31.42%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.58%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.41%) Degree
4 23 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.73%) 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 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.10%) QA
2 51 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.76%) SEPA
4 12 (1.76%) WCAG
5 8 (1.17%) PSD2
6 7 (1.03%) GDPR
6 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.44%) HL7
10 3 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) EMIR
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 303 (44.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (46.26%) Kubernetes
2 87 (12.78%) Grafana
3 67 (9.84%) Terraform
4 61 (8.96%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.08%) Ansible
6 12 (1.76%) Argo
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 8 (1.17%) Istio
9 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 50 (7.34%) Oracle
2 36 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.82%) Google
3 26 (3.82%) Splunk
4 14 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (1.76%) Dynatrace
5 12 (1.76%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.62%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.47%) IBM
8 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.32%) Solace
9 7 (1.03%) Databricks
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
10 6 (0.88%) Sybase
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
12 4 (0.59%) New Relic
13 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.44%) SAP