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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 172 186
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 -17
Contract jobs citing Spring 731 425 479
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.57% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 7.05% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 294 373
10th Percentile £365 £358 £375
25th Percentile £428 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £680 £670 £780
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 9
10th Percentile £56.40 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £71.00 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -35.61%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £77.50 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%

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 8,481 6,028 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.22% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,150 5,457
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 141 259
10th Percentile £30.25 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -8.19%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +1 376 £525 +0.48% 123
North of England +10 151 £510 +9.68% 51
North West -1 91 £525 +28.52% 23
Midlands -36 81 £475 +13.10% 30
West Midlands -19 78 £475 -3.55% 18
South West +6 50 £410 -21.06% 15
Yorkshire -15 42 £525 -2.33% 19
South East -38 40 £450 -1.37% 43
East of England +6 28 £510 +9.09% 13
North East -26 21 £450 -8.16% 10
East Midlands -40 2 £401 +6.93% 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 43 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.65%) Confluence
3 26 (3.56%) Apache
4 14 (1.92%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.64%) Camunda
6 11 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.37%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.37%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.37%) nginx
8 7 (0.96%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.41%) JBoss
10 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Drupal
11 2 (0.27%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.27%) Mule
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Maya
1 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.55%) Quorum
2 4 (0.55%) Ripple
3 3 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (50.21%) AWS
2 176 (24.08%) Azure
3 128 (17.51%) GitHub
4 124 (16.96%) GCP
5 71 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (8.48%) Amazon S3
7 58 (7.93%) Serverless
8 49 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (4.65%) OpenShift
12 31 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (3.15%) Azure AKS
15 21 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.46%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.46%) Route 53
17 16 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.23%) HTTP
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 76 (10.40%) MongoDB
5 51 (6.98%) MySQL
6 44 (6.02%) DynamoDB
7 39 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 23 (3.15%) Redis
11 19 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.60%) Big Data
11 19 (2.60%) Flink
12 18 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.09%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.96%) Couchbase
16 7 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 196 (26.81%) Git
2 175 (23.94%) Jenkins
3 141 (19.29%) JUnit
4 91 (12.45%) GitLab
5 75 (10.26%) Maven
6 72 (9.85%) Gradle
7 64 (8.76%) Mockito
8 61 (8.34%) JIRA
9 41 (5.61%) Cucumber
9 41 (5.61%) Selenium
9 41 (5.61%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.56%) JMeter
11 19 (2.60%) WebDriver
12 17 (2.33%) REST Assured
13 16 (2.19%) Gatling
13 16 (2.19%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.92%) DbUnit
14 14 (1.92%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.78%) jMock
16 11 (1.50%) Postman
General
1 162 (22.16%) Finance
2 146 (19.97%) Social Skills
3 115 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 91 (12.45%) Banking
5 58 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.56%) Retail
7 16 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.37%) Law
10 9 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.96%) Military
11 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.82%) Automotive
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Police
13 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Publishing
14 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 399 (54.58%) Developer
2 306 (41.86%) Java Developer
3 144 (19.70%) Senior
4 117 (16.01%) Java Engineer
5 83 (11.35%) Software Engineer
6 81 (11.08%) Senior Developer
7 78 (10.67%) Lead
8 62 (8.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.66%) Backend Developer
10 55 (7.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (3.97%) Lead Developer
12 29 (3.97%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 26 (3.56%) Senior Java Engineer
15 24 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.15%) Architect
17 22 (3.01%) Data Engineer
17 22 (3.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 20 (2.74%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (80.57%) Spring Boot
2 218 (29.82%) Kafka
3 184 (25.17%) REST
4 160 (21.89%) RESTful
5 129 (17.65%) React
6 90 (12.31%) Node.js
7 61 (8.34%) AngularJS
8 60 (8.21%) Hibernate
9 57 (7.80%) JPA
10 47 (6.43%) HTML
10 47 (6.43%) Web Services
11 45 (6.16%) WireMock
12 44 (6.02%) Spring MVC
13 42 (5.75%) CSS
14 40 (5.47%) Spring Cloud
15 34 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (4.38%) OAuth
17 31 (4.24%) SOAP
18 28 (3.83%) Redux
18 28 (3.83%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 138 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 113 (15.46%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
4 19 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 17 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.09%) Derivative
10 8 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.82%) Blockchain
12 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.98%) Linux
2 19 (2.60%) Unix
3 10 (1.37%) Windows
4 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.68%) VMS
6 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.41%) Solaris
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (59.92%) Microservices
2 431 (58.96%) CI/CD
3 315 (43.09%) Agile
4 270 (36.94%) DevOps
5 215 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 179 (24.49%) Software Engineering
7 158 (21.61%) Test Automation
8 156 (21.34%) TDD
9 155 (21.20%) Event-Driven
10 137 (18.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 130 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (16.55%) Observability
13 120 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (15.87%) Scrum
15 110 (15.05%) Code Quality
16 99 (13.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (10.67%) BDD
18 65 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (8.48%) Design Patterns
20 61 (8.34%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 699 (95.62%) Java
2 224 (30.64%) SQL
3 96 (13.13%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.31%) Python
5 88 (12.04%) TypeScript
6 38 (5.20%) Kotlin
7 36 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.78%) Scala
10 11 (1.50%) Go
11 9 (1.23%) C#
12 6 (0.82%) Perl
13 5 (0.68%) Bash
13 5 (0.68%) Ruby
13 5 (0.68%) Solidity
14 2 (0.27%) PHP
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 240 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 204 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.83%) Degree
4 27 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.99%) QA
2 46 (6.29%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.50%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.23%) SEPA
5 8 (1.09%) WCAG
6 7 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.82%) GDPR
7 6 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) PSD2
10 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 335 (45.83%) Docker
2 11 (1.50%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 316 (43.23%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.35%) Grafana
3 68 (9.30%) Prometheus
4 54 (7.39%) Terraform
5 30 (4.10%) Ansible
6 12 (1.64%) Kibana
7 8 (1.09%) Control-M
8 5 (0.68%) Argo
8 5 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Rancher
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 85 (11.63%) Oracle
2 40 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.34%) Google
4 32 (4.38%) Splunk
5 17 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.19%) IBM
7 14 (1.92%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.64%) Solace
9 11 (1.50%) Databricks
10 10 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.37%) Sybase
11 9 (1.23%) Checkmarx
12 7 (0.96%) TikTok
13 6 (0.82%) New Relic
14 4 (0.55%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.55%) Teradata
15 3 (0.41%) Informatica
15 3 (0.41%) SAP