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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 179 192
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 699 441 448
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.28% 7.23% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 308 341
10th Percentile £360 £335 £375
25th Percentile £431 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £694 £653 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £62.00 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%
75th Percentile £77.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +3.85% +27.29% -29.57%

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 8,446 6,101 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.24% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,156
10th Percentile £363 £350 £361
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £804
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £51.75
% change year-on-year +18.45% +6.04% -13.75%

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 28 July 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 28 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 28 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 -12 367 £525 +2.69% 128
North of England -3 139 £520 +14.41% 41
Midlands -32 85 £475 +14.46% 26
West Midlands -3 82 £475 -5.00% 22
North West -15 80 £550 +36.82% 22
South West -5 44 £410 -19.41% 14
Yorkshire -6 42 £525 +46.12% 9
South East -45 38 £450 +9.09% 27
East of England +6 27 £510 +9.09%
North East -29 20 £450 -8.16% 11
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 4
Spring
UK

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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 42 (6.01%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.86%) Confluence
3 22 (3.15%) Apache
4 15 (2.15%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.43%) nginx
6 7 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.86%) Camunda
8 5 (0.72%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.72%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.43%) CMS
10 3 (0.43%) JBoss
11 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.29%) Drupal
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.72%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.57%) Quorum
2 4 (0.57%) Ripple
3 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 363 (51.93%) AWS
2 168 (24.03%) Azure
3 123 (17.60%) GitHub
4 119 (17.02%) GCP
5 70 (10.01%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (8.01%) Amazon S3
6 56 (8.01%) Serverless
7 46 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (5.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 41 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (5.01%) OpenShift
10 34 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.86%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.58%) AWS KMS
15 18 (2.58%) Route 53
16 16 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.57%) HTTP
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (12.02%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.16%) Relational Database
4 67 (9.59%) MongoDB
5 48 (6.87%) MySQL
6 43 (6.15%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (4.01%) Redis
9 23 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (3.15%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
12 19 (2.72%) Flink
13 18 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
14 17 (2.43%) Big Data
15 10 (1.43%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.29%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.14%) Db2
18 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 187 (26.75%) Git
2 177 (25.32%) Jenkins
3 130 (18.60%) JUnit
4 91 (13.02%) GitLab
5 68 (9.73%) Maven
6 66 (9.44%) Gradle
7 63 (9.01%) Mockito
8 59 (8.44%) JIRA
9 42 (6.01%) SonarQube
10 38 (5.44%) Cucumber
11 36 (5.15%) Selenium
12 23 (3.29%) JMeter
13 19 (2.72%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.43%) Liquibase
15 16 (2.29%) REST Assured
16 15 (2.15%) Gatling
17 14 (2.00%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.86%) jMock
19 12 (1.72%) IntelliJ
20 11 (1.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 162 (23.18%) Finance
2 146 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 102 (14.59%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.73%) Banking
5 60 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.15%) Retail
7 16 (2.29%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.43%) Law
9 9 (1.29%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.86%) Automotive
10 6 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.72%) Military
11 5 (0.72%) Police
12 4 (0.57%) Back Office
12 4 (0.57%) Games
12 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 378 (54.08%) Developer
2 301 (43.06%) Java Developer
3 143 (20.46%) Senior
4 112 (16.02%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.30%) Senior Developer
6 84 (12.02%) Software Engineer
7 72 (10.30%) Lead
8 68 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 55 (7.87%) Backend Developer
10 49 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.29%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.43%) Architect
13 24 (3.43%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 24 (3.43%) Senior Java Engineer
14 21 (3.00%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (2.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 19 (2.72%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 563 (80.54%) Spring Boot
2 208 (29.76%) Kafka
3 179 (25.61%) REST
4 160 (22.89%) RESTful
5 118 (16.88%) React
6 79 (11.30%) Node.js
7 64 (9.16%) Hibernate
8 56 (8.01%) AngularJS
8 56 (8.01%) JPA
9 51 (7.30%) Web Services
10 44 (6.29%) HTML
11 42 (6.01%) Spring MVC
12 40 (5.72%) CSS
13 39 (5.58%) Spring Cloud
14 37 (5.29%) WireMock
15 36 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (4.58%) SOAP
17 31 (4.43%) OAuth
18 28 (4.01%) Jakarta EE
19 26 (3.72%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 148 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 125 (17.88%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.86%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.14%) Derivative
12 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.72%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.15%) Linux
2 23 (3.29%) Unix
3 9 (1.29%) Windows
4 8 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.57%) VMS
5 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.43%) Solaris
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (61.37%) Microservices
2 421 (60.23%) CI/CD
3 309 (44.21%) Agile
4 252 (36.05%) DevOps
5 211 (30.19%) Containerisation
6 187 (26.75%) Software Engineering
7 153 (21.89%) TDD
7 153 (21.89%) Test Automation
8 148 (21.17%) Event-Driven
9 124 (17.74%) Observability
10 122 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (16.74%) Scrum
13 116 (16.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 108 (15.45%) Code Quality
15 99 (14.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 72 (10.30%) BDD
16 72 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 68 (9.73%) Design Patterns
18 64 (9.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 672 (96.14%) Java
2 226 (32.33%) SQL
3 93 (13.30%) Python
4 89 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 79 (11.30%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 40 (5.72%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.86%) Scala
10 8 (1.14%) C#
11 7 (1.00%) Bash
12 6 (0.86%) Go
13 5 (0.72%) Perl
13 5 (0.72%) Ruby
14 4 (0.57%) Solidity
15 2 (0.29%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.29%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 227 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 192 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.01%) Degree
4 24 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.72%) 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 74 (10.59%) QA
2 41 (5.87%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.43%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.00%) SEPA
5 6 (0.86%) GDPR
5 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.86%) WCAG
6 4 (0.57%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 327 (46.78%) Docker
2 11 (1.57%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 304 (43.49%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.44%) Grafana
3 69 (9.87%) Prometheus
4 58 (8.30%) Terraform
5 33 (4.72%) Ansible
6 13 (1.86%) Kibana
7 10 (1.43%) Control-M
8 5 (0.72%) Argo
9 4 (0.57%) Istio
10 3 (0.43%) Bosun
11 2 (0.29%) Consul
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (11.87%) Oracle
2 40 (5.72%) Google
3 33 (4.72%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.86%) Splunk
5 17 (2.43%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.43%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.00%) IBM
7 12 (1.72%) Solace
8 11 (1.57%) Databricks
9 10 (1.43%) Sybase
10 9 (1.29%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.29%) New Relic
11 8 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.00%) TikTok
13 4 (0.57%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.57%) Teradata
14 3 (0.43%) Confluent
14 3 (0.43%) FIS