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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 188 220
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -91
Contract jobs citing Spring 669 345 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.41% 1.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.39% 6.28% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 215 311
10th Percentile £356 £382 £375
25th Percentile £420 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £636
90th Percentile £644 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 10
10th Percentile £51.25 £56.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £80.13 £78.13 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -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 7,978 5,496 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.17% 22.43% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,330 3,813 5,329
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 92 188
10th Percentile £32.50 £29.19 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £39.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.83 £82.87 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 20 April 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 20 April 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 +3 320 £525 -4.55% 73
North of England +16 156 £475 -1.04% 24
North West +30 117 £473 -0.53% 13
Midlands -14 76 £467 +11.15% 3
West Midlands -3 75 £468 +6.34% 2
South East -3 55 £416 +0.91% 25
South West -5 34 £409 -22.10% 13
Yorkshire -49 25 £475 -11.63% 5
East of England -11 22 £540 +15.51% 4
North East -4 21 £450 -3.23% 6
East Midlands -36 1 £450 +11.94% 1
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 38 (5.68%) Confluence
2 31 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.84%) Apache
4 13 (1.94%) Camunda
4 13 (1.94%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.20%) JBoss
6 7 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.90%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.90%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.30%) CICS
10 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 373 (55.75%) AWS
2 181 (27.06%) Azure
3 137 (20.48%) GitHub
4 121 (18.09%) GCP
5 82 (12.26%) Serverless
6 78 (11.66%) Amazon S3
7 74 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (4.78%) OpenShift
13 31 (4.63%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.69%) Route 53
18 16 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.64%) HTTP
2 7 (1.05%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.75%) SSL
4 4 (0.60%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (24.51%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (14.80%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 69 (10.31%) Relational Database
5 59 (8.82%) MySQL
6 58 (8.67%) DynamoDB
7 41 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.04%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 15 (2.24%) Redis
12 14 (2.09%) Big Data
13 13 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.79%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.64%) DB2
16 10 (1.49%) DocumentDB
16 10 (1.49%) Flink
17 9 (1.35%) BigQuery
18 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (26.31%) Git
2 149 (22.27%) Jenkins
3 138 (20.63%) JUnit
4 111 (16.59%) GitLab
5 65 (9.72%) Maven
6 63 (9.42%) JIRA
7 56 (8.37%) Gradle
8 52 (7.77%) Mockito
9 51 (7.62%) Cucumber
10 39 (5.83%) Selenium
11 31 (4.63%) SonarQube
12 29 (4.33%) JMeter
13 26 (3.89%) IntelliJ
14 18 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (2.54%) WebDriver
16 14 (2.09%) Gatling
17 13 (1.94%) Postman
18 11 (1.64%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.64%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.64%) jMock
General
1 146 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 132 (19.73%) Finance
3 114 (17.04%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.72%) Banking
5 40 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.24%) Retail
7 12 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.75%) Automotive
11 5 (0.75%) Law
11 5 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.60%) Front Office
12 4 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.60%) Publishing
13 3 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 397 (59.34%) Developer
2 278 (41.55%) Java Developer
3 125 (18.68%) Senior
4 98 (14.65%) Java Engineer
5 92 (13.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 74 (11.06%) Senior Developer
7 65 (9.72%) Software Engineer
8 64 (9.57%) Lead
9 59 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 37 (5.53%) Backend Developer
11 35 (5.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (4.33%) Architect
14 26 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (3.74%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.74%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.59%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 17 (2.54%) AWS Developer
18 16 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
19 13 (1.94%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (79.52%) Spring Boot
2 185 (27.65%) Kafka
3 183 (27.35%) RESTful
4 149 (22.27%) REST
5 140 (20.93%) React
6 104 (15.55%) Node.js
7 102 (15.25%) AngularJS
8 79 (11.81%) Hibernate
9 63 (9.42%) HTML
10 51 (7.62%) CSS
11 46 (6.88%) Spring MVC
12 45 (6.73%) JPA
13 42 (6.28%) WireMock
14 38 (5.68%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (5.53%) Web Services
16 35 (5.23%) OAuth
17 32 (4.78%) OAuth2
18 31 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
19 29 (4.33%) HTML5
19 29 (4.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 102 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.96%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.78%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 17 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 14 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.05%) Equities
10 7 (1.05%) NHS
11 6 (0.90%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (0.75%) Derivative
12 5 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.47%) Linux
2 16 (2.39%) Unix
3 9 (1.35%) Windows
4 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Solaris
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (61.73%) Microservices
2 374 (55.90%) CI/CD
3 265 (39.61%) Agile
4 236 (35.28%) DevOps
5 205 (30.64%) Containerisation
6 157 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 148 (22.12%) TDD
8 136 (20.33%) Software Engineering
9 130 (19.43%) Test Automation
10 127 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
11 119 (17.79%) Event-Driven
12 110 (16.44%) Code Quality
13 104 (15.55%) Observability
14 96 (14.35%) Scrum
15 95 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 75 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
17 72 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (10.61%) BDD
19 61 (9.12%) SDLC
20 59 (8.82%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 627 (93.72%) Java
2 185 (27.65%) SQL
3 95 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 90 (13.45%) TypeScript
5 80 (11.96%) Python
6 44 (6.58%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.54%) Go
8 14 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.20%) Scala
11 7 (1.05%) Perl
12 5 (0.75%) C#
13 4 (0.60%) Bash
14 3 (0.45%) PHP
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) COBOL
15 1 (0.15%) JCL
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 205 (30.64%) Security Cleared
2 172 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.63%) Degree
4 24 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.20%) OCP
7 8 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.01%) QA
2 49 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.24%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.09%) WCAG
5 9 (1.35%) SEPA
6 8 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.20%) PSD2
7 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.75%) NIST
7 5 (0.75%) SLA
8 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.45%) GDPR
8 3 (0.45%) HL7
8 3 (0.45%) NCSC
8 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 287 (42.90%) Docker
2 10 (1.49%) Postfix
3 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 316 (47.23%) Kubernetes
2 86 (12.86%) Grafana
3 66 (9.87%) Terraform
4 52 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.29%) Ansible
6 11 (1.64%) Argo
7 10 (1.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
8 6 (0.90%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.60%) Puppet
9 4 (0.60%) Rancher
10 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 52 (7.77%) Oracle
2 43 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.93%) Google
4 27 (4.04%) Splunk
5 14 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.49%) Solace
8 10 (1.49%) Sybase
9 9 (1.35%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.20%) IBM
11 7 (1.05%) Databricks
12 6 (0.90%) Adobe
12 6 (0.90%) Confluent
12 6 (0.90%) VMware
13 5 (0.75%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.75%) SAP
13 5 (0.75%) Teradata