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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 177 187
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -46
Contract jobs citing Spring 705 382 465
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.55% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 6.86% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 251 356
10th Percentile £388 £358 £375
25th Percentile £430 £406 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -13.36%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £630
90th Percentile £677 £694 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%

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 8,174 5,566 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.08% 22.54% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,387 3,859 5,456
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.27% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 110 257
10th Percentile £30.45 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +7 361 £525 - 86
North of England +15 153 £500 +7.53% 40
North West +16 102 £510 +32.81% 20
Midlands -40 73 £471 +10.80% 8
West Midlands -20 70 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +6 47 £409 -22.10% 23
South East -34 37 £500 +21.21% 13
Yorkshire -30 31 £475 -9.52% 16
East of England -4 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -16 25 £450 -8.16% 6
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +7.94% 4
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 43 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.25%) Confluence
3 22 (3.12%) Apache
4 14 (1.99%) Camunda
5 12 (1.70%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.42%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.42%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (1.13%) nginx
8 8 (1.13%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.57%) JBoss
10 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) Drupal
11 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.57%) Quorum
2 4 (0.57%) Ripple
3 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (51.35%) AWS
2 166 (23.55%) Azure
3 132 (18.72%) GitHub
4 121 (17.16%) GCP
5 79 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (9.79%) Amazon S3
7 64 (9.08%) Serverless
8 57 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.53%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.40%) OpenShift
13 25 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.26%) Azure AKS
15 22 (3.12%) Route 53
16 20 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.55%) AWS KMS
18 16 (2.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.28%) HTTP
2 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
5 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (24.54%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.91%) NoSQL
3 76 (10.78%) MongoDB
4 74 (10.50%) Relational Database
5 54 (7.66%) MySQL
6 51 (7.23%) DynamoDB
7 45 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.55%) Redis
10 24 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.98%) SQL Server
12 20 (2.84%) Big Data
13 16 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.27%) Flink
14 13 (1.84%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.13%) Db2
16 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.99%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (25.53%) Git
2 169 (23.97%) Jenkins
3 136 (19.29%) JUnit
4 107 (15.18%) GitLab
5 69 (9.79%) Maven
6 64 (9.08%) Gradle
7 63 (8.94%) JIRA
7 63 (8.94%) Mockito
8 41 (5.82%) Selenium
9 40 (5.67%) Cucumber
10 37 (5.25%) SonarQube
11 24 (3.40%) JMeter
12 20 (2.84%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.70%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.41%) Gatling
14 17 (2.41%) REST Assured
15 16 (2.27%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.99%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.84%) jMock
18 11 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 143 (20.28%) Finance
2 134 (19.01%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 90 (12.77%) Banking
5 48 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.55%) Retail
7 15 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.42%) Law
10 9 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
12 5 (0.71%) Military
12 5 (0.71%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.57%) Front Office
13 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.57%) Police
13 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Publishing
14 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 385 (54.61%) Developer
2 282 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 140 (19.86%) Senior
4 118 (16.74%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.06%) Software Engineer
6 77 (10.92%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.21%) Lead
8 68 (9.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (8.37%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (6.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.38%) Backend Developer
12 28 (3.97%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 25 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (3.40%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (3.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 22 (3.12%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.98%) Architect
18 21 (2.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 16 (2.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 573 (81.28%) Spring Boot
2 206 (29.22%) Kafka
3 170 (24.11%) REST
4 162 (22.98%) RESTful
5 137 (19.43%) React
6 106 (15.04%) Node.js
7 71 (10.07%) AngularJS
8 58 (8.23%) JPA
9 57 (8.09%) Hibernate
10 49 (6.95%) Spring Cloud
11 48 (6.81%) WireMock
12 46 (6.52%) HTML
13 44 (6.24%) Web Services
14 42 (5.96%) CSS
14 42 (5.96%) Spring MVC
15 33 (4.68%) OAuth
16 31 (4.40%) SOAP
17 30 (4.26%) OAuth2
17 30 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
18 29 (4.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 129 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 98 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
6 17 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.70%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.99%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.85%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.85%) Derivative
13 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.57%) Equities
14 4 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.95%) Linux
2 19 (2.70%) Unix
3 9 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.28%) Windows
4 5 (0.71%) VMS
5 3 (0.43%) Solaris
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (59.01%) Microservices
2 396 (56.17%) CI/CD
3 285 (40.43%) Agile
4 255 (36.17%) DevOps
5 210 (29.79%) Containerisation
6 171 (24.26%) Software Engineering
7 147 (20.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 147 (20.85%) TDD
8 136 (19.29%) Event-Driven
9 134 (19.01%) Test Automation
10 122 (17.30%) Observability
11 114 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (15.18%) Scrum
13 96 (13.62%) Code Quality
14 88 (12.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 76 (10.78%) BDD
16 71 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (8.37%) AI
18 58 (8.23%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 664 (94.18%) Java
2 214 (30.35%) SQL
3 100 (14.18%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.91%) Python
6 37 (5.25%) Kotlin
7 25 (3.55%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.41%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.99%) Go
10 10 (1.42%) Scala
11 7 (0.99%) C#
11 7 (0.99%) Ruby
12 6 (0.85%) Perl
13 5 (0.71%) Bash
13 5 (0.71%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 215 (30.50%) Security Cleared
2 184 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (3.55%) Degree
4 20 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.65%) QA
2 51 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.70%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.56%) WCAG
5 10 (1.42%) SEPA
6 7 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.85%) GDPR
7 6 (0.85%) PSD2
7 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.71%) SLA
9 4 (0.57%) NIST
10 2 (0.28%) EMIR
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.28%) MiFID
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 318 (45.11%) Docker
2 11 (1.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 308 (43.69%) Kubernetes
2 90 (12.77%) Grafana
3 68 (9.65%) Prometheus
4 62 (8.79%) Terraform
5 30 (4.26%) Ansible
6 12 (1.70%) Argo
6 12 (1.70%) Kibana
7 9 (1.28%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Consul
9 2 (0.28%) Rancher
9 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.14%) Control-M
10 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 68 (9.65%) Oracle
2 37 (5.25%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.11%) Google
4 26 (3.69%) Splunk
5 17 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 15 (2.13%) IBM
7 14 (1.99%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.70%) Solace
8 12 (1.70%) Sybase
9 9 (1.28%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.28%) Databricks
10 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.71%) Confluent
10 5 (0.71%) New Relic
10 5 (0.71%) Teradata
10 5 (0.71%) TikTok
11 3 (0.43%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.43%) SAP