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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 200 240
Rank change year-on-year +43 +40 -139
Contract jobs citing Spring 632 329 385
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.33% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.02% 5.89% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 202 290
10th Percentile £351 £400 £388
25th Percentile £419 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -0.56% -14.42%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -14.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -34.46%

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 7,879 5,583 7,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.40% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,280 3,772 5,403
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 197
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.78 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.70 £83.38 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 14 March 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 14 March 2026.

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 14 March 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 -7 288 £525 -4.55% 49
North of England +18 154 £475 +3.26% 46
North West +43 114 £465 +3.33% 25
Midlands +8 82 £466 +9.63% 10
West Midlands +1 79 £469 +10.35% 8
South East +8 60 £400 -3.03% 31
South West -11 27 £409 -23.91% 12
North East +2 24 £475 +6.74% 11
Yorkshire -50 23 £500 -4.76% 10
East of England - 14 £510 - 3
East Midlands -31 3 £308 -28.74% 2
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 41 (6.49%) Confluence
2 24 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.48%) Apache
4 17 (2.69%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.90%) Camunda
5 12 (1.90%) JBoss
6 7 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.47%) nginx
10 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.32%) CICS
10 2 (0.32%) Drupal
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) WordPress
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 358 (56.65%) AWS
2 180 (28.48%) Azure
3 140 (22.15%) GitHub
4 115 (18.20%) GCP
5 75 (11.87%) Serverless
6 72 (11.39%) Amazon S3
7 71 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (9.49%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (7.28%) OpenShift
10 38 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (4.27%) Azure AKS
14 25 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.69%) Datadog
17 16 (2.53%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) HTTP
2 7 (1.11%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.79%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.79%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) DNS
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (24.53%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (14.40%) NoSQL
3 84 (13.29%) MongoDB
4 62 (9.81%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.44%) DynamoDB
6 45 (7.12%) MySQL
7 35 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 14 (2.22%) DB2
11 13 (2.06%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.90%) Redis
13 10 (1.58%) Big Data
13 10 (1.58%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.42%) Flink
14 9 (1.42%) HBase
14 9 (1.42%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 181 (28.64%) Git
2 151 (23.89%) Jenkins
3 145 (22.94%) JUnit
4 115 (18.20%) GitLab
5 72 (11.39%) Cucumber
6 66 (10.44%) Maven
7 65 (10.28%) JIRA
8 49 (7.75%) Gradle
9 48 (7.59%) Selenium
10 47 (7.44%) Mockito
11 32 (5.06%) JMeter
12 29 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (3.64%) IntelliJ
14 21 (3.32%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.69%) Postman
16 16 (2.53%) WebDriver
17 15 (2.37%) Gatling
18 11 (1.74%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.74%) Cypress.io
19 10 (1.58%) REST Assured
General
1 171 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.62%) Finance
3 105 (16.61%) Public Sector
4 73 (11.55%) Banking
5 38 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.37%) Investment Banking
6 15 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (2.37%) Retail
7 12 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.79%) Front Office
10 5 (0.79%) Law
10 5 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Automotive
11 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.63%) Military
11 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 382 (60.44%) Developer
2 260 (41.14%) Java Developer
3 118 (18.67%) Senior
4 93 (14.72%) Java Engineer
5 92 (14.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 60 (9.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (9.34%) Software Engineer
9 56 (8.86%) Lead
10 34 (5.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (5.22%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 26 (4.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 25 (3.96%) Architect
15 24 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (3.48%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.01%) Software Developer
18 18 (2.85%) Lead Developer
19 14 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
20 12 (1.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 474 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 184 (29.11%) Kafka
3 159 (25.16%) RESTful
4 144 (22.78%) REST
5 133 (21.04%) React
6 106 (16.77%) AngularJS
7 95 (15.03%) Node.js
8 84 (13.29%) Hibernate
9 69 (10.92%) HTML
10 56 (8.86%) CSS
11 42 (6.65%) WireMock
12 41 (6.49%) JPA
13 35 (5.54%) Spring MVC
14 34 (5.38%) OAuth
15 33 (5.22%) JSON
15 33 (5.22%) Playwright
15 33 (5.22%) SOAP
15 33 (5.22%) Web Services
16 31 (4.91%) OAuth2
16 31 (4.91%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 95 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 13 (2.06%) Equities
8 11 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.27%) Derivative
10 8 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.79%) NHS
14 4 (0.63%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 3 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
16 2 (0.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.18%) Linux
2 18 (2.85%) Unix
3 9 (1.42%) Windows
4 8 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Solaris
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (60.60%) Microservices
2 363 (57.44%) CI/CD
3 265 (41.93%) Agile
4 230 (36.39%) DevOps
5 181 (28.64%) Containerisation
6 151 (23.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 144 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (21.36%) Test Automation
9 132 (20.89%) TDD
10 120 (18.99%) Software Engineering
11 107 (16.93%) Event-Driven
12 93 (14.72%) Observability
12 93 (14.72%) Scrum
13 85 (13.45%) Code Quality
14 81 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (10.60%) BDD
16 66 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
17 61 (9.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 61 (9.65%) Mentoring
18 60 (9.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 593 (93.83%) Java
2 165 (26.11%) SQL
3 92 (14.56%) TypeScript
4 90 (14.24%) JavaScript
5 83 (13.13%) Python
6 42 (6.65%) Kotlin
7 19 (3.01%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.37%) Go
9 14 (2.22%) Scala
10 11 (1.74%) Ruby
11 8 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.11%) Perl
13 6 (0.95%) C#
14 3 (0.47%) Bash
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
15 2 (0.32%) Groovy
16 1 (0.16%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) Clojure
16 1 (0.16%) COBOL
16 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 166 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.06%) Degree
4 27 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.90%) OCP
6 12 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) OSCP
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.65%) QA
2 46 (7.28%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.01%) WCAG
4 18 (2.85%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.58%) PSD2
5 10 (1.58%) SEPA
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.79%) NIST
6 5 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) NCSC
7 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.32%) HL7
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 264 (41.77%) Docker
2 6 (0.95%) Postfix
3 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 309 (48.89%) Kubernetes
2 81 (12.82%) Grafana
3 61 (9.65%) Terraform
4 43 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.75%) Ansible
6 21 (3.32%) Argo
7 11 (1.74%) Kibana
7 11 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.27%) Puppet
9 6 (0.95%) Istio
10 4 (0.63%) Rancher
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 52 (8.23%) Oracle
2 41 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.38%) Google
4 28 (4.43%) Splunk
5 23 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.06%) Sybase
7 11 (1.74%) VMware
8 10 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.42%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.27%) Solace
10 8 (1.27%) webMethods
11 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.95%) Adobe
12 6 (0.95%) Databricks
12 6 (0.95%) IBM
12 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.79%) SAP
13 5 (0.79%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.63%) ION Trading