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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 186 222
Rank change year-on-year +6 +36 -129
Contract jobs citing Spring 443 448 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.40% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.89% 6.30% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 312 353
10th Percentile £325 £390 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% -3.67%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £738
90th Percentile £638 £783 £848
UK median daily rate £496 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.48% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 19
10th Percentile £52.00 - £57.87
25th Percentile - £69.50 £68.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% -0.69% +6.62%
75th Percentile - £74.50 £76.75
90th Percentile £64.00 - £80.40
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -23.61% -0.69% +7.41%

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 6,426 7,115 9,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.78% 22.19% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,303 4,561 6,647
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.96% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 151 194
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.75 £41.25
25th Percentile £41.51 £43.00 £46.20
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.72 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.97% +13.04% -11.54%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

Spring
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 16 October 2025. 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 -11 245 £525 -7.08% 75
North of England -9 78 £469 -14.73% 26
Midlands +20 67 £420 -28.51% 5
North West -2 56 £448 -0.56% 19
West Midlands -6 37 £500 -14.89% 4
East Midlands - 30 £364 - 1
South East +10 26 £413 -2.94% 57
South West +3 16 £505 -6.05% 16
Yorkshire -31 12 £525 -4.55% 5
North East -6 10 £550 +11.11% 2
East of England -9 1 - - 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 19 (4.29%) JBoss
2 14 (3.16%) Confluence
3 12 (2.71%) Tomcat
4 8 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.58%) Camunda
6 5 (1.13%) Apache
6 5 (1.13%) Mule
7 3 (0.68%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.68%) CICS
7 3 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.68%) WordPress
8 2 (0.45%) CMS
8 2 (0.45%) Drupal
8 2 (0.45%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.45%) nginx
8 2 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.23%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.45%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 222 (50.11%) AWS
2 111 (25.06%) Azure
3 71 (16.03%) GCP
4 45 (10.16%) GitHub
5 41 (9.26%) OpenShift
6 32 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (7.22%) Amazon S3
7 29 (6.55%) Serverless
8 26 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (3.84%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (2.93%) Azure AKS
12 13 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.03%) Route 53
16 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (1.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.58%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.13%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.68%) HTTP
3 3 (0.68%) SSL
4 2 (0.45%) Internet
4 2 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.45%) SMS
5 1 (0.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (24.15%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (15.12%) Relational Database
3 66 (14.90%) MongoDB
4 45 (10.16%) NoSQL
5 28 (6.32%) DB2
5 28 (6.32%) MySQL
6 25 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (5.64%) DynamoDB
7 16 (3.61%) Oracle Database
8 15 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.48%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.03%) Redis
12 7 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.35%) Big Data
14 4 (0.90%) HBase
15 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.68%) HPCC
15 3 (0.68%) KDB
15 3 (0.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 133 (30.02%) JUnit
2 128 (28.89%) Git
3 96 (21.67%) Jenkins
4 64 (14.45%) Maven
5 48 (10.84%) Mockito
6 47 (10.61%) JIRA
7 44 (9.93%) Cucumber
8 43 (9.71%) GitLab
9 34 (7.67%) Gradle
10 30 (6.77%) SonarQube
11 24 (5.42%) Sonatype Nexus
12 15 (3.39%) Postman
13 13 (2.93%) IntelliJ
13 13 (2.93%) Selenium
14 12 (2.71%) Eclipse
15 11 (2.48%) Artifactory
15 11 (2.48%) Bitbucket
15 11 (2.48%) JMeter
16 9 (2.03%) Bitbucket Server
16 9 (2.03%) REST Assured
General
1 146 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 104 (23.48%) Finance
3 87 (19.64%) Banking
4 50 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 49 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.42%) Investment Banking
7 8 (1.81%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.13%) Front Office
9 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.68%) Automotive
10 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.45%) Law
11 2 (0.45%) Police
11 2 (0.45%) Retail
12 1 (0.23%) Aviation
12 1 (0.23%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 290 (65.46%) Developer
2 238 (53.72%) Java Developer
3 95 (21.44%) Senior
4 82 (18.51%) Senior Developer
4 82 (18.51%) Senior Java Developer
5 51 (11.51%) Lead
6 40 (9.03%) Java Engineer
7 39 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 33 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 28 (6.32%) AWS Developer
10 25 (5.64%) Lead Developer
11 24 (5.42%) Lead Java Developer
12 19 (4.29%) Linux Developer
13 18 (4.06%) Architect
13 18 (4.06%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 18 (4.06%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
13 18 (4.06%) Senior SQL Developer
13 18 (4.06%) SQL Developer
14 17 (3.84%) Java Software Engineer
15 15 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (66.37%) Spring Boot
2 144 (32.51%) Kafka
3 122 (27.54%) REST
4 105 (23.70%) RESTful
5 93 (20.99%) React
6 86 (19.41%) Hibernate
7 68 (15.35%) AngularJS
8 61 (13.77%) HTML
9 52 (11.74%) Web Services
10 51 (11.51%) SOAP
11 44 (9.93%) CSS
11 44 (9.93%) JPA
12 39 (8.80%) JSON
13 38 (8.58%) Node.js
14 36 (8.13%) OAuth
15 34 (7.67%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (6.77%) JMS
17 28 (6.32%) Spring Batch
18 26 (5.87%) XML
19 25 (5.64%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 66 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 62 (14.00%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.51%) Equities
5 16 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.68%) Derivative
11 3 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.68%) State Machine
12 2 (0.45%) Life Science
12 2 (0.45%) Online Banking
12 2 (0.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.67%) Linux
2 31 (7.00%) Unix
3 6 (1.35%) Windows
4 5 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.45%) zOS
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (58.24%) Microservices
2 226 (51.02%) Agile
3 213 (48.08%) CI/CD
4 137 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
5 117 (26.41%) DevOps
6 115 (25.96%) Containerisation
7 91 (20.54%) TDD
8 80 (18.06%) Software Engineering
9 78 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 73 (16.48%) SDLC
11 70 (15.80%) Test Automation
12 68 (15.35%) Scrum
13 53 (11.96%) Event-Driven
14 51 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (10.61%) Mentoring
16 44 (9.93%) BDD
16 44 (9.93%) Code Quality
16 44 (9.93%) Design Patterns
17 42 (9.48%) API Development
18 40 (9.03%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 439 (99.10%) Java
2 143 (32.28%) SQL
3 77 (17.38%) JavaScript
4 76 (17.16%) Python
5 48 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 40 (9.03%) Shell Script
7 12 (2.71%) Ruby
8 11 (2.48%) Groovy
8 11 (2.48%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.48%) Scala
9 10 (2.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.81%) Bash
10 8 (1.81%) C#
11 7 (1.58%) C++
12 6 (1.35%) C
13 5 (1.13%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.90%) Rust
15 2 (0.45%) Korn
15 2 (0.45%) Perl
15 2 (0.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 89 (20.09%) Security Cleared
2 76 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.64%) Degree
4 20 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.13%) OCP
7 5 (1.13%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.51%) QA
2 14 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.48%) GDPR
3 11 (2.48%) HIPAA
3 11 (2.48%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.81%) PSD2
4 8 (1.81%) SEPA
4 8 (1.81%) WCAG
5 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 177 (39.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.35%) Postfix
3 4 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (35.44%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.67%) Terraform
3 23 (5.19%) Ansible
3 23 (5.19%) Grafana
4 15 (3.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.93%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 11 (2.48%) Argo
7 8 (1.81%) Kibana
7 8 (1.81%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.45%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) Consul
10 1 (0.23%) Control-M
10 1 (0.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 58 (13.09%) Oracle
2 38 (8.58%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.51%) Sybase
4 19 (4.29%) IBM
4 19 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 18 (4.06%) Google
5 18 (4.06%) Splunk
6 15 (3.39%) Dynatrace
7 14 (3.16%) CA Agile Central
8 12 (2.71%) Ping Identity
9 7 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.58%) VMware
10 6 (1.35%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (1.13%) webMethods
12 4 (0.90%) Checkmarx
12 4 (0.90%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.90%) Virgin Media
13 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.68%) Solace