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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 174 181
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +40
Contract jobs citing Spring 729 444 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.59% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.24% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 305 332
10th Percentile £353 £324 £382
25th Percentile £436 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £492 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -10.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £556 £675
90th Percentile £726 £638 £799
UK median daily rate £525 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -23.61% -1.51%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £79.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.19% -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 9,923 7,112 8,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.32% 25.53% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,524 4,834 5,399
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £443 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 172 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.29 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.56 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +21.51% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.85 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.51% -10.96% +2.67%

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 25 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 25 September 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 25 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 -12 381 £545 +3.81% 470
North of England +1 163 £550 +18.28% 142
Midlands -8 109 £525 +26.51% 58
West Midlands +24 103 £540 +8.00% 46
North West -25 93 £560 +30.23% 87
Yorkshire +5 54 £500 +8.11% 29
South West -17 33 £450 -7.69% 62
South East -60 31 £367 -4.61% 44
North East -38 17 £460 -8.00% 26
East of England - 17 £500 - 6
East Midlands -37 5 £400 +6.67% 12
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 29 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.43%) Apache
3 23 (3.16%) Confluence
4 13 (1.78%) Camunda
5 9 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.23%) nginx
6 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.55%) Quorum
1 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.55%) Ripple
2 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (55.01%) AWS
2 135 (18.52%) Azure
3 128 (17.56%) GitHub
4 97 (13.31%) GCP
5 63 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (7.68%) Serverless
7 52 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.58%) Amazon S3
9 44 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (5.08%) OpenShift
12 35 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (1.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 11 (1.51%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.10%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.41%) 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
1 149 (20.44%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.48%) MongoDB
3 86 (11.80%) Relational Database
4 84 (11.52%) NoSQL
5 41 (5.62%) MySQL
6 38 (5.21%) Redis
7 29 (3.98%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 25 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.74%) Flink
11 14 (1.92%) Big Data
11 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.78%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.51%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 198 (27.16%) Git
2 177 (24.28%) Jenkins
3 142 (19.48%) JUnit
4 128 (17.56%) GitLab
5 103 (14.13%) Maven
6 84 (11.52%) Gradle
7 77 (10.56%) Mockito
8 60 (8.23%) SonarQube
9 49 (6.72%) Cucumber
10 41 (5.62%) JIRA
11 40 (5.49%) Selenium
12 29 (3.98%) Gatling
13 20 (2.74%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.33%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.19%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.51%) Claude Code
17 10 (1.37%) IntelliJ
18 8 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.10%) Flyway
19 6 (0.82%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (23.05%) Finance
1 168 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 108 (14.81%) Banking
3 100 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 65 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (3.98%) Retail
6 14 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 14 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.23%) Front Office
9 8 (1.10%) Back Office
9 8 (1.10%) Retail Banking
10 7 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.82%) Law
11 6 (0.82%) Military
12 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) iGaming
13 4 (0.55%) Police
14 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 377 (51.71%) Developer
2 308 (42.25%) Java Developer
3 167 (22.91%) Senior
4 144 (19.75%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.17%) Senior Developer
6 89 (12.21%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.43%) Lead
8 75 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 53 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (5.90%) Backend Developer
12 38 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
13 32 (4.39%) Lead Developer
14 31 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 29 (3.98%) Software Developer
16 26 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
17 24 (3.29%) Architect
17 24 (3.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 21 (2.88%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 605 (82.99%) Spring Boot
2 240 (32.92%) Kafka
3 205 (28.12%) REST
4 158 (21.67%) RESTful
5 125 (17.15%) React
6 78 (10.70%) JPA
7 69 (9.47%) Hibernate
8 66 (9.05%) Node.js
9 65 (8.92%) Terraform
10 58 (7.96%) AngularJS
11 52 (7.13%) HTML
12 48 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
13 47 (6.45%) OpenAPI
14 42 (5.76%) Web Services
15 40 (5.49%) CSS
15 40 (5.49%) OAuth
16 38 (5.21%) Spring Cloud
16 38 (5.21%) Swagger
17 37 (5.08%) Playwright
17 37 (5.08%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 183 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 122 (16.74%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (8.92%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.10%) Derivative
13 6 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.82%) Spread Betting
14 5 (0.69%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.58%) Linux
2 35 (4.80%) Unix
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
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
1 442 (60.63%) Microservices
2 435 (59.67%) CI/CD
3 354 (48.56%) Agile
4 239 (32.78%) DevOps
5 229 (31.41%) Software Engineering
6 207 (28.40%) Test Automation
7 205 (28.12%) Containerisation
8 185 (25.38%) Event-Driven
9 146 (20.03%) Scrum
10 141 (19.34%) TDD
11 126 (17.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 120 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (16.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 112 (15.36%) Code Quality
14 112 (15.36%) Observability
15 111 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
16 93 (12.76%) SDLC
17 81 (11.11%) Clean Code
18 77 (10.56%) AI
19 76 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 715 (98.08%) Java
2 223 (30.59%) SQL
3 95 (13.03%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.62%) TypeScript
5 75 (10.29%) Python
6 40 (5.49%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.39%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.92%) Scala
10 12 (1.65%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) Go
14 2 (0.27%) Korn
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 213 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 178 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (4.25%) Degree
5 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (13.72%) QA
2 49 (6.72%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.02%) WCAG
4 15 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.37%) SEPA
6 7 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 336 (46.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 317 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.09%) Grafana
2 59 (8.09%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.25%) Kibana
4 29 (3.98%) Ansible
5 11 (1.51%) Control-M
6 9 (1.23%) Argo
7 7 (0.96%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Bosun
8 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 100 (13.72%) Oracle
2 36 (4.94%) Google
3 22 (3.02%) IBM
4 20 (2.74%) Splunk
5 18 (2.47%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 9 (1.23%) Databricks
6 9 (1.23%) New Relic
6 9 (1.23%) Sybase
7 8 (1.10%) Solace
8 7 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.96%) TikTok
9 6 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.82%) Confluent
10 5 (0.69%) Checkmarx
10 5 (0.69%) FIS
10 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.55%) ION Trading
12 3 (0.41%) Mistral