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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 179 178
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +46
Contract jobs citing Spring 721 434 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.56% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 6.14% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 302 319
10th Percentile £360 £326 £390
25th Percentile £445 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -9.09% -7.41%
75th Percentile £626 £575 £675
90th Percentile £725 £638 £795
UK median daily rate £520 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +4.79% -5.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 9,819 7,073 7,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 25.48% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 4,774 5,204
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £526 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.54% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 173 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +20.37% -13.60% +4.17%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -7 377 £545 +3.81% 512
North of England -5 164 £550 +17.27% 139
Midlands -1 114 £525 +26.51% 44
West Midlands +23 108 £528 +5.50% 38
North West -10 95 £570 +28.09% 77
Yorkshire +6 53 £500 +25.00% 28
South West -21 30 £538 +6.44% 44
South East -53 27 £294 -28.73% 53
North East -29 17 £470 -14.55% 35
East of England - 15 £504 - 7
East Midlands -33 5 £400 +9.89% 6
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 25 (3.47%) Apache
2 24 (3.33%) Confluence
3 23 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.39%) Camunda
5 9 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.25%) nginx
6 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Mule
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) Solana
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.55%) Quorum
1 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.55%) Ripple
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (54.37%) AWS
2 126 (17.48%) Azure
3 125 (17.34%) GitHub
4 92 (12.76%) GCP
5 61 (8.46%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (6.93%) Serverless
7 45 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (5.96%) Amazon S3
9 41 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
10 33 (4.58%) OpenShift
11 28 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (3.47%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (1.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (20.11%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 87 (12.07%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.82%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.99%) Redis
6 33 (4.58%) MySQL
7 29 (4.02%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.64%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.64%) Flink
10 16 (2.22%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.80%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
13 10 (1.39%) Big Data
14 9 (1.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
16 6 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 203 (28.16%) Git
2 178 (24.69%) Jenkins
3 140 (19.42%) JUnit
4 138 (19.14%) GitLab
5 102 (14.15%) Maven
6 84 (11.65%) Gradle
7 75 (10.40%) Mockito
8 59 (8.18%) SonarQube
9 52 (7.21%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.83%) Selenium
11 39 (5.41%) JIRA
12 31 (4.30%) Gatling
13 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.36%) Bitbucket
15 15 (2.08%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.94%) Claude Code
17 8 (1.11%) Flyway
17 8 (1.11%) IntelliJ
18 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
19 6 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
General
1 172 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 165 (22.88%) Finance
3 112 (15.53%) Banking
4 100 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 70 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.16%) Retail
7 20 (2.77%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.94%) Back Office
8 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.66%) Front Office
11 8 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.83%) Law
13 6 (0.83%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.55%) Games
15 4 (0.55%) iGaming
15 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 365 (50.62%) Developer
2 297 (41.19%) Java Developer
3 166 (23.02%) Senior
4 147 (20.39%) Java Engineer
5 92 (12.76%) Senior Developer
6 90 (12.48%) Software Engineer
7 74 (10.26%) Lead
8 73 (10.12%) Senior Java Developer
9 54 (7.49%) Java Software Engineer
10 47 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (6.38%) Backend Developer
12 40 (5.55%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (4.16%) Lead Developer
14 26 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.47%) Lead Java Developer
15 25 (3.47%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.33%) Architect
16 24 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 22 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (2.91%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (82.39%) Spring Boot
2 245 (33.98%) Kafka
3 209 (28.99%) REST
4 156 (21.64%) RESTful
5 115 (15.95%) React
6 76 (10.54%) JPA
7 68 (9.43%) Hibernate
8 66 (9.15%) Terraform
9 61 (8.46%) Node.js
10 55 (7.63%) AngularJS
11 48 (6.66%) HTML
11 48 (6.66%) OpenAPI
11 48 (6.66%) RabbitMQ
12 42 (5.83%) Web Services
13 39 (5.41%) CSS
13 39 (5.41%) OAuth
13 39 (5.41%) Playwright
14 38 (5.27%) Spring MVC
15 37 (5.13%) Swagger
16 36 (4.99%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 181 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 131 (18.17%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (8.74%) Product Ownership
4 39 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.91%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.39%) Derivative
11 10 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.80%) Linux
2 35 (4.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Mac OS X
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (61.44%) CI/CD
2 436 (60.47%) Microservices
3 361 (50.07%) Agile
4 235 (32.59%) DevOps
5 223 (30.93%) Software Engineering
6 207 (28.71%) Test Automation
7 192 (26.63%) Containerisation
8 186 (25.80%) Event-Driven
9 150 (20.80%) Scrum
10 137 (19.00%) TDD
11 123 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (16.78%) Full-Stack Development
13 118 (16.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 113 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
15 109 (15.12%) Observability
16 101 (14.01%) Code Quality
17 91 (12.62%) SDLC
18 81 (11.23%) AI
19 80 (11.10%) Clean Code
20 74 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 707 (98.06%) Java
2 223 (30.93%) SQL
3 93 (12.90%) JavaScript
3 93 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 68 (9.43%) Python
5 41 (5.69%) PL/SQL
6 30 (4.16%) Kotlin
7 25 (3.47%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.94%) Scala
9 13 (1.80%) Bash
10 5 (0.69%) C#
11 4 (0.55%) Ruby
11 4 (0.55%) Solidity
12 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.28%) Bicep
13 2 (0.28%) Korn
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 206 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 175 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.16%) Degree
5 24 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (13.87%) QA
2 51 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.19%) WCAG
4 14 (1.94%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.25%) SEPA
6 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 329 (45.63%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 318 (44.11%) Kubernetes
2 57 (7.91%) Grafana
3 55 (7.63%) Prometheus
4 31 (4.30%) Kibana
5 29 (4.02%) Ansible
6 11 (1.53%) Control-M
7 9 (1.25%) Argo
8 7 (0.97%) Istio
9 4 (0.55%) Bosun
9 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 98 (13.59%) Oracle
2 36 (4.99%) Google
3 20 (2.77%) IBM
3 20 (2.77%) Splunk
4 17 (2.36%) Dynatrace
4 17 (2.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.25%) New Relic
5 9 (1.25%) Sybase
6 8 (1.11%) Databricks
7 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.97%) Solace
7 7 (0.97%) TikTok
8 6 (0.83%) Confluent
8 6 (0.83%) ION Trading
8 6 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.69%) FIS
10 4 (0.55%) Checkmarx
10 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.42%) Mistral