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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 196 207
Rank change year-on-year +39 +11 -79
Contract jobs citing Spring 679 332 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.36% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.57% 6.08% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 211 325
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -1.85% -13.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £664 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £523
% change year-on-year -0.50% -3.83% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 10
10th Percentile £52.00 £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £41.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £77.50 £72.81 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -15.93% +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 7,919 5,465 7,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.48% 22.40% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,270 3,787 5,310
10th Percentile £363 £368 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 102 223
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.25 £51.25 £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 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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 +22 338 £525 -4.55% 70
North of England +27 161 £475 -0.52% 48
North West +36 118 £470 +1.08% 29
Midlands -26 68 £469 +8.50% 14
West Midlands -5 67 £469 +3.08% 9
South East -13 45 £423 -7.40% 40
South West -11 34 £409 -20.20% 18
Yorkshire -47 26 £475 -11.63% 8
North East -2 24 £475 +2.15% 11
East of England -11 24 £510 +9.09% 11
East Midlands -37 1 £450 +11.94% 5
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 (5.60%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.30%) Confluence
3 19 (2.80%) Apache
4 14 (2.06%) Camunda
5 8 (1.18%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.59%) JBoss
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.29%) CICS
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Drupal
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) nginx
11 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (54.05%) AWS
2 175 (25.77%) Azure
3 131 (19.29%) GitHub
4 117 (17.23%) GCP
5 77 (11.34%) Serverless
6 75 (11.05%) Amazon S3
7 74 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.15%) OpenShift
11 33 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.57%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 25 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.65%) Route 53
16 15 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.33%) HTTP
2 5 (0.74%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.74%) SSL
3 4 (0.59%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (23.27%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.55%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.01%) MongoDB
4 64 (9.43%) Relational Database
5 54 (7.95%) MySQL
6 53 (7.81%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.50%) Big Data
12 16 (2.36%) Redis
13 13 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.77%) Flink
15 10 (1.47%) DocumentDB
16 9 (1.33%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.18%) DB2
18 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 166 (24.45%) Git
2 146 (21.50%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.70%) JUnit
4 112 (16.49%) GitLab
5 61 (8.98%) Gradle
5 61 (8.98%) JIRA
6 60 (8.84%) Maven
7 56 (8.25%) Mockito
8 46 (6.77%) Cucumber
9 32 (4.71%) Selenium
9 32 (4.71%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.83%) JMeter
11 23 (3.39%) IntelliJ
12 17 (2.50%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.91%) Gatling
14 12 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (1.62%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.62%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.62%) jMock
16 10 (1.47%) CircleCI
General
1 135 (19.88%) Finance
2 131 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.38%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.75%) Banking
5 34 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.50%) Retail
7 12 (1.77%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
10 6 (0.88%) Automotive
10 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.88%) Law
11 5 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 385 (56.70%) Developer
2 266 (39.18%) Java Developer
3 131 (19.29%) Senior
4 108 (15.91%) Java Engineer
5 82 (12.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 75 (11.05%) Senior Developer
6 75 (11.05%) Software Engineer
7 66 (9.72%) Lead
8 57 (8.39%) Senior Java Developer
9 40 (5.89%) Backend Developer
9 40 (5.89%) Java Software Engineer
10 27 (3.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 26 (3.83%) Architect
11 26 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 26 (3.83%) Software Developer
12 23 (3.39%) Lead Developer
12 23 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 20 (2.95%) Data Engineer
14 16 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.36%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (80.27%) Spring Boot
2 188 (27.69%) Kafka
3 171 (25.18%) RESTful
4 149 (21.94%) REST
5 136 (20.03%) React
6 104 (15.32%) Node.js
7 92 (13.55%) AngularJS
8 65 (9.57%) Hibernate
9 55 (8.10%) HTML
10 48 (7.07%) CSS
11 45 (6.63%) Spring MVC
12 43 (6.33%) WireMock
13 41 (6.04%) JPA
14 40 (5.89%) Spring Cloud
15 39 (5.74%) Web Services
16 34 (5.01%) OAuth
17 32 (4.71%) OpenTelemetry
18 31 (4.57%) OAuth2
19 27 (3.98%) Next.js
20 26 (3.83%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.93%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.03%) NHS
12 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.74%) Equities
14 4 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.92%) Linux
2 12 (1.77%) Unix
3 9 (1.33%) Windows
4 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.88%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Solaris
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (60.24%) Microservices
2 380 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 263 (38.73%) Agile
4 239 (35.20%) DevOps
5 221 (32.55%) Containerisation
6 153 (22.53%) Full-Stack Development
6 153 (22.53%) TDD
7 149 (21.94%) Software Engineering
8 133 (19.59%) Test Automation
9 124 (18.26%) Event-Driven
10 118 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (16.35%) Code Quality
12 104 (15.32%) Observability
13 95 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (13.11%) Scrum
15 76 (11.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 76 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 70 (10.31%) BDD
17 58 (8.54%) Design Patterns
18 55 (8.10%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 638 (93.96%) Java
2 187 (27.54%) SQL
3 99 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 91 (13.40%) Python
6 46 (6.77%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.50%) Go
8 14 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.33%) Scala
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.74%) C#
12 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 215 (31.66%) Security Cleared
2 184 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.42%) Degree
4 23 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.74%) OCP
8 5 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 65 (9.57%) QA
2 49 (7.22%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.77%) WCAG
5 11 (1.62%) SEPA
6 8 (1.18%) PSD2
7 7 (1.03%) GDPR
7 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.74%) 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
System Software
1 304 (44.77%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 324 (47.72%) Kubernetes
2 85 (12.52%) Grafana
3 70 (10.31%) Terraform
4 55 (8.10%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.09%) Ansible
6 12 (1.77%) Argo
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
9 4 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.59%) Rancher
10 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 51 (7.51%) Oracle
2 42 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.42%) Google
4 25 (3.68%) Splunk
5 14 (2.06%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.62%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.62%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.62%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.33%) Solace
8 8 (1.18%) IBM
9 7 (1.03%) Databricks
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
10 6 (0.88%) Sybase
11 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.74%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.74%) Teradata
12 4 (0.59%) VMware