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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 181 177
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +40
Contract jobs citing Spring 722 440 463
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.58% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 6.23% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 299 338
10th Percentile £353 £325 £378
25th Percentile £431 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £620 £550 £661
90th Percentile £734 £638 £786
UK median daily rate £520 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -9.72% -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 9,837 7,066 8,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.44% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,467 4,807 5,471
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -5.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £664
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 170 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.57 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% -0.12%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 20 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 20 September 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 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 -5 379 £536 +2.10% 487
North of England -8 158 £550 +18.28% 150
Midlands -17 102 £528 +27.11% 57
West Midlands +11 96 £551 +10.10% 44
North West -18 89 £560 +30.23% 95
Yorkshire -2 54 £500 +8.11% 30
South West -11 39 £410 -18.41% 68
South East -46 31 £367 -17.01% 46
East of England -10 18 £500 +6.95% 5
North East -34 16 £450 -8.16% 25
East Midlands -43 5 £400 +6.67% 13
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 30 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.19%) Confluence
3 21 (2.91%) Apache
4 13 (1.80%) Camunda
5 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.25%) nginx
7 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 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 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 396 (54.85%) AWS
2 131 (18.14%) Azure
3 126 (17.45%) GitHub
4 99 (13.71%) GCP
5 65 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.62%) Serverless
7 51 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.65%) Amazon S3
9 42 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (5.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.12%) OpenShift
12 36 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 11 (1.52%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) 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 (20.64%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.47%) MongoDB
3 86 (11.91%) NoSQL
3 86 (11.91%) Relational Database
4 45 (6.23%) MySQL
5 37 (5.12%) Redis
6 29 (4.02%) DynamoDB
6 29 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.22%) Flink
10 15 (2.08%) Big Data
11 14 (1.94%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.52%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 198 (27.42%) Git
2 179 (24.79%) Jenkins
3 136 (18.84%) JUnit
4 122 (16.90%) GitLab
5 100 (13.85%) Maven
6 83 (11.50%) Gradle
7 74 (10.25%) Mockito
8 58 (8.03%) SonarQube
9 43 (5.96%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.82%) JIRA
11 36 (4.99%) Selenium
12 25 (3.46%) Gatling
13 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.35%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.22%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.52%) IntelliJ
17 9 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.11%) Claude Code
18 8 (1.11%) Flyway
19 7 (0.97%) DbUnit
General
1 168 (23.27%) Finance
2 167 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.27%) Banking
4 98 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 67 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.88%) Retail
7 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.25%) Front Office
10 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.97%) Back Office
11 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.97%) Law
12 6 (0.83%) Military
13 5 (0.69%) Police
14 4 (0.55%) Games
14 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 382 (52.91%) Developer
2 312 (43.21%) Java Developer
3 164 (22.71%) Senior
4 137 (18.98%) Java Engineer
5 98 (13.57%) Senior Developer
6 88 (12.19%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.53%) Lead
7 76 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
8 53 (7.34%) Java Software Engineer
9 52 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (6.09%) Backend Developer
11 34 (4.71%) Senior Java Engineer
12 32 (4.43%) Lead Developer
13 31 (4.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (4.16%) Software Developer
15 26 (3.60%) Architect
15 26 (3.60%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 22 (3.05%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.77%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (83.38%) Spring Boot
2 235 (32.55%) Kafka
3 202 (27.98%) REST
4 159 (22.02%) RESTful
5 127 (17.59%) React
6 73 (10.11%) JPA
7 69 (9.56%) Hibernate
8 65 (9.00%) Node.js
9 62 (8.59%) Terraform
10 59 (8.17%) AngularJS
11 56 (7.76%) HTML
12 49 (6.79%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (6.09%) CSS
14 43 (5.96%) OpenAPI
15 42 (5.82%) Web Services
16 41 (5.68%) Spring MVC
17 40 (5.54%) Spring Cloud
18 36 (4.99%) OAuth
18 36 (4.99%) Swagger
19 34 (4.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (24.79%) Cloud Native
2 119 (16.48%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.35%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.11%) Derivative
14 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.69%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.37%) Linux
2 33 (4.57%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
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
1 438 (60.66%) Microservices
2 427 (59.14%) CI/CD
3 348 (48.20%) Agile
4 242 (33.52%) DevOps
5 228 (31.58%) Software Engineering
6 206 (28.53%) Containerisation
7 196 (27.15%) Test Automation
8 181 (25.07%) Event-Driven
9 143 (19.81%) Scrum
10 137 (18.98%) TDD
11 123 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 116 (16.07%) Code Quality
12 116 (16.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 113 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
14 111 (15.37%) Observability
15 97 (13.43%) SDLC
16 81 (11.22%) Clean Code
17 77 (10.66%) Technical Leadership
18 74 (10.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 708 (98.06%) Java
2 227 (31.44%) SQL
3 100 (13.85%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.47%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.53%) Python
6 40 (5.54%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.43%) Kotlin
8 23 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.94%) Scala
10 12 (1.66%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.42%) Go
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 213 (29.50%) Security Cleared
2 178 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (4.29%) Degree
5 24 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (13.71%) QA
2 44 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.63%) WCAG
4 15 (2.08%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.39%) SEPA
6 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 333 (46.12%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 310 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.59%) Grafana
2 62 (8.59%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.29%) Ansible
4 28 (3.88%) Kibana
5 11 (1.52%) Control-M
6 8 (1.11%) Argo
7 7 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Bosun
8 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 100 (13.85%) Oracle
2 37 (5.12%) Google
3 22 (3.05%) IBM
4 20 (2.77%) Splunk
5 18 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.35%) Microsoft
7 9 (1.25%) Databricks
7 9 (1.25%) New Relic
7 9 (1.25%) Sybase
8 8 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.11%) Solace
9 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.97%) TikTok
10 6 (0.83%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.83%) Confluent
11 5 (0.69%) FIS
11 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.55%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.42%) SAP