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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 192 236
Rank change year-on-year +19 +44 -143
Contract jobs citing Spring 495 405 401
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.31% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 5.98% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 255 308
10th Percentile £330 £394 £413
25th Percentile £402 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £713
90th Percentile £638 £789 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile £43.00 - £58.00
25th Percentile £47.50 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £62.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £67.00 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 6,951 6,776 8,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.66% 21.84% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,681 4,305 6,202
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £726 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 107 178
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.52
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +19.20% -16.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.70%

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 26 November 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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 +9 268 £525 -10.26% 75
North of England -9 98 £465 +3.33% 39
North West +10 69 £450 +2.86% 24
Midlands +1 58 £429 -26.98% 25
South East +16 41 £400 -11.11% 66
West Midlands -6 41 £500 -14.89% 18
Yorkshire -31 19 £525 -23.64% 12
East Midlands - 17 £375 - 6
South West -6 14 £528 -5.17% 28
North East -5 11 £500 +12.36% 3
East of England -22 1 - - 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 19 (3.84%) Confluence
2 18 (3.64%) JBoss
3 12 (2.42%) Apache
4 11 (2.22%) WebLogic
5 9 (1.82%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.41%) Camunda
7 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.81%) Mule
8 3 (0.61%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.61%) CICS
8 3 (0.61%) WordPress
9 2 (0.40%) Drupal
9 2 (0.40%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 274 (55.35%) AWS
2 152 (30.71%) Azure
3 89 (17.98%) GCP
4 78 (15.76%) GitHub
5 44 (8.89%) OpenShift
6 42 (8.48%) Serverless
7 35 (7.07%) Amazon S3
7 35 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (6.26%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
12 20 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (4.04%) Azure AKS
13 15 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.42%) AWS Fargate
15 12 (2.42%) Datadog
16 10 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.61%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) Broadband
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) Internet
4 1 (0.20%) LAN
4 1 (0.20%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (23.84%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (14.55%) Relational Database
3 71 (14.34%) MongoDB
4 51 (10.30%) NoSQL
5 36 (7.27%) MySQL
6 32 (6.46%) DynamoDB
7 25 (5.05%) DB2
8 22 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.83%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.83%) SQL Server
10 12 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (2.42%) Oracle Database
11 11 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (1.62%) HBase
13 7 (1.41%) Redis
14 5 (1.01%) Big Data
15 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.81%) Tick Data
16 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.61%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 147 (29.70%) JUnit
2 136 (27.47%) Git
3 109 (22.02%) Jenkins
4 63 (12.73%) Maven
5 61 (12.32%) GitLab
6 56 (11.31%) Cucumber
7 48 (9.70%) JIRA
8 44 (8.89%) Mockito
9 40 (8.08%) Gradle
10 34 (6.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (4.85%) Selenium
12 22 (4.44%) SonarQube
13 20 (4.04%) Postman
14 16 (3.23%) JMeter
15 14 (2.83%) Eclipse
16 13 (2.63%) Artifactory
16 13 (2.63%) IntelliJ
17 12 (2.42%) Bitbucket
18 7 (1.41%) REST Assured
18 7 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 170 (34.34%) Social Skills
2 115 (23.23%) Finance
3 91 (18.38%) Banking
4 62 (12.53%) Public Sector
5 54 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.61%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Electronics
12 3 (0.61%) Front Office
12 3 (0.61%) Law
12 3 (0.61%) Marketing
13 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 322 (65.05%) Developer
2 263 (53.13%) Java Developer
3 107 (21.62%) Senior
4 87 (17.58%) Senior Developer
5 84 (16.97%) Senior Java Developer
6 59 (11.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (10.51%) Java Engineer
8 51 (10.30%) Lead
9 35 (7.07%) Software Engineer
10 29 (5.86%) AWS Developer
11 28 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 25 (5.05%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
14 20 (4.04%) Architect
15 18 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 16 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
16 16 (3.23%) SQL Developer
17 15 (3.03%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 15 (3.03%) Linux Developer
17 15 (3.03%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 336 (67.88%) Spring Boot
2 158 (31.92%) Kafka
3 132 (26.67%) RESTful
4 119 (24.04%) REST
5 101 (20.40%) React
6 91 (18.38%) Hibernate
7 86 (17.37%) AngularJS
8 73 (14.75%) HTML
9 51 (10.30%) CSS
10 45 (9.09%) JSON
11 43 (8.69%) Node.js
12 41 (8.28%) SOAP
13 39 (7.88%) JPA
14 36 (7.27%) OAuth
15 33 (6.67%) Web Services
16 32 (6.46%) JMS
17 30 (6.06%) XML
18 26 (5.25%) OAuth2
18 26 (5.25%) Spring Cloud
19 23 (4.65%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.04%) Equities
5 19 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (1.62%) Derivative
8 7 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.61%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.40%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.40%) Life Science
11 2 (0.40%) NHS
11 2 (0.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (13.33%) Linux
2 30 (6.06%) Unix
3 6 (1.21%) Windows
4 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.61%) Android
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.40%) zOS
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (61.21%) Microservices
2 275 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 247 (49.90%) Agile
4 155 (31.31%) DevOps
5 150 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (28.69%) Containerisation
7 107 (21.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 98 (19.80%) TDD
9 94 (18.99%) Test Automation
10 91 (18.38%) Software Engineering
11 70 (14.14%) SDLC
12 69 (13.94%) Scrum
13 67 (13.54%) Event-Driven
14 60 (12.12%) Code Quality
15 55 (11.11%) Mentoring
16 51 (10.30%) Design Patterns
17 50 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
18 47 (9.49%) API Development
18 47 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (9.49%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 487 (98.38%) Java
2 148 (29.90%) SQL
3 82 (16.57%) Python
4 73 (14.75%) JavaScript
5 66 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.07%) Shell Script
7 15 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.83%) Scala
9 11 (2.22%) Ruby
10 10 (2.02%) Groovy
11 9 (1.82%) Bash
12 6 (1.21%) C#
12 6 (1.21%) C++
12 6 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.01%) C
14 3 (0.61%) Rust
15 2 (0.40%) COBOL
15 2 (0.40%) Go
15 2 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 113 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 94 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.86%) Degree
4 26 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.22%) OCP
6 11 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.20%) OSCP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.12%) QA
2 19 (3.84%) ISO 20022
3 17 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.22%) WCAG
5 10 (2.02%) PSD2
5 10 (2.02%) SEPA
6 9 (1.82%) GDPR
7 8 (1.62%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 205 (41.41%) Docker
2 7 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.61%) Postfix
4 1 (0.20%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 204 (41.21%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.90%) Terraform
3 31 (6.26%) Ansible
4 26 (5.25%) Grafana
5 15 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.63%) Argo
7 12 (2.42%) Prometheus
8 10 (2.02%) Kibana
9 8 (1.62%) Puppet
9 8 (1.62%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.40%) Rancher
10 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Control-M
11 1 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 58 (11.72%) Oracle
2 39 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.66%) Google
4 21 (4.24%) Sybase
5 18 (3.64%) Splunk
6 17 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
8 14 (2.83%) VMware
9 13 (2.63%) IBM
10 12 (2.42%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.82%) webMethods
12 8 (1.62%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.41%) Ping Identity
14 5 (1.01%) ION Trading
15 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 4 (0.81%) Calypso
15 4 (0.81%) SAP
15 4 (0.81%) Solace
15 4 (0.81%) TIBCO
15 4 (0.81%) Virgin Media