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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 197 241
Rank change year-on-year +11 +44 -148
Contract jobs citing Spring 479 402 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.30% 1.04%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.00% 6.01% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 265 322
10th Percentile £323 £400 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £725
90th Percentile £638 £782 £825
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -5.48% -0.94% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £62.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £67.00 - £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 6,839 6,687 8,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.69% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,618 4,261 6,403
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% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £637 £665 £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 176 95 181
10th Percentile £30.38 £26.35 £36.84
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £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 £73.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.35 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +3 260 £525 -10.26% 154
North of England -12 84 £475 +5.56% 59
Midlands +11 67 £429 -26.98% 22
North West 0 59 £465 +3.33% 36
West Midlands -10 45 £500 -14.89% 16
South East +23 38 £400 -11.11% 58
East Midlands - 22 £368 - 6
South West +1 16 £503 -8.64% 18
Yorkshire -23 15 £525 +16.67% 14
North East -7 10 £550 +23.60% 9
East of England -23 1 - - 4
Spring
UK

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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 (3.97%) Confluence
1 19 (3.97%) JBoss
2 11 (2.30%) WebLogic
3 10 (2.09%) Apache
4 9 (1.88%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.46%) Camunda
6 4 (0.84%) Mule
7 3 (0.63%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.63%) WordPress
8 2 (0.42%) CICS
8 2 (0.42%) CMS
8 2 (0.42%) Drupal
8 2 (0.42%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.42%) 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 (1.25%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.25%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 253 (52.82%) AWS
2 134 (27.97%) Azure
3 82 (17.12%) GCP
4 64 (13.36%) GitHub
5 45 (9.39%) OpenShift
6 34 (7.10%) Amazon S3
7 33 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (6.89%) Serverless
8 27 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (5.01%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (2.71%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.30%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (2.30%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (2.09%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.04%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.84%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.42%) 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
1 116 (24.22%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.82%) Relational Database
3 69 (14.41%) MongoDB
4 49 (10.23%) NoSQL
5 35 (7.31%) MySQL
6 30 (6.26%) DynamoDB
7 26 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (5.22%) DB2
9 16 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.92%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.71%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.88%) Redis
13 8 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
14 6 (1.25%) Big Data
14 6 (1.25%) HBase
15 4 (0.84%) Tick Data
16 3 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
16 3 (0.63%) HPCC
16 3 (0.63%) KDB
Development Applications
1 149 (31.11%) JUnit
2 131 (27.35%) Git
3 104 (21.71%) Jenkins
4 66 (13.78%) Maven
5 55 (11.48%) Cucumber
6 48 (10.02%) JIRA
7 46 (9.60%) GitLab
7 46 (9.60%) Mockito
8 37 (7.72%) Gradle
9 32 (6.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (5.85%) SonarQube
11 22 (4.59%) Selenium
12 20 (4.18%) Postman
13 16 (3.34%) IntelliJ
13 16 (3.34%) JMeter
14 15 (3.13%) Eclipse
15 12 (2.51%) Artifactory
16 9 (1.88%) Bitbucket
17 8 (1.67%) REST Assured
17 8 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 164 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 116 (24.22%) Finance
3 85 (17.75%) Banking
4 55 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 54 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.01%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.84%) Front Office
11 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.63%) Automotive
12 3 (0.63%) Electronics
12 3 (0.63%) Marketing
12 3 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.42%) Police
13 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 311 (64.93%) Developer
2 258 (53.86%) Java Developer
3 104 (21.71%) Senior
4 86 (17.95%) Senior Developer
5 84 (17.54%) Senior Java Developer
6 55 (11.48%) Lead
7 53 (11.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 52 (10.86%) Java Engineer
9 36 (7.52%) Software Engineer
10 30 (6.26%) AWS Developer
11 27 (5.64%) Lead Developer
12 25 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 25 (5.22%) Lead Java Developer
13 19 (3.97%) Architect
14 18 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 17 (3.55%) SQL Developer
16 16 (3.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 16 (3.34%) Linux Developer
16 16 (3.34%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (64.93%) Spring Boot
2 154 (32.15%) Kafka
3 118 (24.63%) RESTful
4 115 (24.01%) REST
5 100 (20.88%) React
6 95 (19.83%) Hibernate
7 75 (15.66%) AngularJS
8 68 (14.20%) HTML
9 48 (10.02%) CSS
10 47 (9.81%) SOAP
11 45 (9.39%) JPA
12 44 (9.19%) JSON
13 40 (8.35%) Web Services
14 39 (8.14%) Node.js
15 35 (7.31%) OAuth
16 30 (6.26%) JMS
16 30 (6.26%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (6.26%) XML
17 27 (5.64%) J2EE
18 23 (4.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 65 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.11%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.38%) Data Structures
3 21 (4.38%) Equities
4 19 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 8 (1.67%) Derivative
9 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (0.42%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.42%) Life Science
13 2 (0.42%) PKI
13 2 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.99%) Linux
2 33 (6.89%) Unix
3 6 (1.25%) Windows
4 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.63%) Android
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.42%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (59.29%) Microservices
2 245 (51.15%) CI/CD
3 241 (50.31%) Agile
4 147 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (27.77%) DevOps
6 123 (25.68%) Containerisation
7 102 (21.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 93 (19.42%) TDD
9 88 (18.37%) Software Engineering
10 78 (16.28%) Test Automation
11 76 (15.87%) Scrum
12 68 (14.20%) SDLC
13 57 (11.90%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.48%) Code Quality
14 55 (11.48%) Event-Driven
15 52 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (10.02%) Continuous Integration
16 48 (10.02%) Design Patterns
17 42 (8.77%) API Development
18 41 (8.56%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 474 (98.96%) Java
2 153 (31.94%) SQL
3 75 (15.66%) JavaScript
3 75 (15.66%) Python
4 58 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 36 (7.52%) Shell Script
6 13 (2.71%) Kotlin
6 13 (2.71%) Scala
7 11 (2.30%) Ruby
8 10 (2.09%) Groovy
9 8 (1.67%) Bash
10 7 (1.46%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.25%) C#
11 6 (1.25%) C++
12 5 (1.04%) C
12 5 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.63%) Perl
13 3 (0.63%) Rust
14 2 (0.42%) Korn
15 1 (0.21%) XPath
Qualifications
1 101 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 85 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.64%) Degree
4 23 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.88%) OCP
6 9 (1.88%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.48%) QA
2 15 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 10 (2.09%) WCAG
4 8 (1.67%) GDPR
4 8 (1.67%) HIPAA
4 8 (1.67%) PSD2
4 8 (1.67%) SEPA
5 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 187 (39.04%) Docker
2 6 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.84%) Postfix
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 174 (36.33%) Kubernetes
2 36 (7.52%) Terraform
3 29 (6.05%) Ansible
4 24 (5.01%) Grafana
5 14 (2.92%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.71%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.30%) Argo
8 10 (2.09%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 8 (1.67%) Kibana
9 8 (1.67%) Puppet
10 2 (0.42%) Rancher
10 2 (0.42%) 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 55 (11.48%) Oracle
2 39 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.80%) Google
4 22 (4.59%) Sybase
5 18 (3.76%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.34%) CA Agile Central
6 16 (3.34%) Splunk
7 14 (2.92%) IBM
8 13 (2.71%) VMware
9 12 (2.51%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.88%) Ping Identity
10 9 (1.88%) webMethods
11 8 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
12 5 (1.04%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.04%) Solace
13 4 (0.84%) Calypso
13 4 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.84%) SAP
13 4 (0.84%) TIBCO