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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 201 228
Rank change year-on-year +37 +27 -120
Contract jobs citing Spring 630 320 380
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.30% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.05% 5.76% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 196 285
10th Percentile £352 £391 £388
25th Percentile £420 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -0.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -13.93%
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 7,829 5,557 7,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 22.62% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,242 3,775 5,401
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 87 193
10th Percentile £35.05 £27.34 £21.25
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 £70.00 £68.75 £63.75
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 17 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 17 March 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 17 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 -3 290 £525 -4.55% 54
North of England +21 155 £475 +3.26% 52
North West +45 114 £465 +3.33% 27
Midlands +4 78 £468 +10.10% 11
West Midlands -4 75 £469 +10.35% 8
South East +14 59 £405 -1.82% 23
South West -9 27 £409 -23.91% 13
North East +5 25 £475 +6.74% 14
Yorkshire -48 23 £500 -4.76% 11
East of England - 14 £510 - 5
East Midlands -32 3 £308 -28.74% 3
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 (6.51%) Confluence
2 24 (3.81%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.86%) Apache
4 13 (2.06%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.75%) Camunda
6 8 (1.27%) JBoss
7 7 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.48%) nginx
11 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.32%) CICS
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.32%) WordPress
12 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.75%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 353 (56.03%) AWS
2 180 (28.57%) Azure
3 139 (22.06%) GitHub
4 115 (18.25%) GCP
5 75 (11.90%) Serverless
6 72 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 70 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 38 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (4.29%) Azure AKS
14 25 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.70%) Datadog
17 16 (2.54%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.75%) 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 (24.60%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (14.44%) NoSQL
3 78 (12.38%) MongoDB
4 62 (9.84%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.46%) DynamoDB
6 44 (6.98%) MySQL
7 35 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.06%) DB2
10 13 (2.06%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.75%) Redis
13 10 (1.59%) Big Data
13 10 (1.59%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.43%) Flink
14 9 (1.43%) HBase
14 9 (1.43%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 177 (28.10%) Git
2 151 (23.97%) Jenkins
3 141 (22.38%) JUnit
4 115 (18.25%) GitLab
5 71 (11.27%) Cucumber
6 66 (10.48%) Maven
7 65 (10.32%) JIRA
8 51 (8.10%) Gradle
9 49 (7.78%) Mockito
10 44 (6.98%) Selenium
11 31 (4.92%) JMeter
12 28 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (3.33%) SonarQube
14 19 (3.02%) IntelliJ
15 17 (2.70%) Postman
16 16 (2.54%) WebDriver
17 15 (2.38%) Gatling
18 11 (1.75%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.75%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.75%) REST Assured
General
1 166 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.68%) Finance
3 106 (16.83%) Public Sector
4 71 (11.27%) Banking
5 36 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (2.38%) Retail
7 14 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.79%) Front Office
9 5 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.79%) Law
9 5 (0.79%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.63%) Automotive
10 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.63%) Military
10 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.48%) Marketing
11 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 380 (60.32%) Developer
2 257 (40.79%) Java Developer
3 118 (18.73%) Senior
4 92 (14.60%) Java Engineer
5 91 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 72 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 60 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 58 (9.21%) Software Engineer
9 55 (8.73%) Lead
10 34 (5.40%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (5.24%) Backend Developer
12 26 (4.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 26 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (4.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 25 (3.97%) Architect
14 22 (3.49%) AWS Developer
15 18 (2.86%) Lead Developer
15 18 (2.86%) Software Developer
16 14 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (1.90%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 478 (75.87%) Spring Boot
2 185 (29.37%) Kafka
3 162 (25.71%) RESTful
4 139 (22.06%) REST
5 137 (21.75%) React
6 106 (16.83%) AngularJS
7 95 (15.08%) Node.js
8 79 (12.54%) Hibernate
9 64 (10.16%) HTML
10 56 (8.89%) CSS
11 42 (6.67%) WireMock
12 41 (6.51%) JPA
13 35 (5.56%) Spring MVC
14 34 (5.40%) OAuth
15 33 (5.24%) Playwright
15 33 (5.24%) Web Services
16 31 (4.92%) OAuth2
16 31 (4.92%) Spring Cloud
17 29 (4.60%) JSON
17 29 (4.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 15 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 12 (1.90%) Equities
8 11 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.59%) 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
12 6 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.79%) NHS
14 3 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
15 2 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.73%) Linux
2 14 (2.22%) Unix
3 9 (1.43%) 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
1 384 (60.95%) Microservices
2 361 (57.30%) CI/CD
3 261 (41.43%) Agile
4 226 (35.87%) DevOps
5 183 (29.05%) Containerisation
6 152 (24.13%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (21.59%) Test Automation
9 134 (21.27%) TDD
10 118 (18.73%) Software Engineering
11 108 (17.14%) Event-Driven
12 94 (14.92%) Observability
13 89 (14.13%) Scrum
14 86 (13.65%) Code Quality
15 77 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (10.63%) BDD
17 62 (9.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 62 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (9.21%) SDLC
19 57 (9.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 591 (93.81%) Java
2 162 (25.71%) SQL
3 96 (15.24%) TypeScript
4 90 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 83 (13.17%) Python
6 42 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.38%) Go
9 11 (1.75%) Ruby
10 10 (1.59%) Scala
11 8 (1.27%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.11%) Perl
13 6 (0.95%) C#
14 3 (0.48%) Bash
14 3 (0.48%) 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
1 196 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 167 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.24%) Degree
4 28 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.90%) OCP
6 12 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.59%) 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 (9.68%) QA
2 48 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.02%) WCAG
4 18 (2.86%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.59%) PSD2
5 10 (1.59%) SEPA
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.79%) NIST
6 5 (0.79%) SLA
7 3 (0.48%) GDPR
7 3 (0.48%) NCSC
7 3 (0.48%) 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
1 261 (41.43%) Docker
2 6 (0.95%) Postfix
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 308 (48.89%) Kubernetes
2 80 (12.70%) Grafana
3 60 (9.52%) Terraform
4 42 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.60%) Ansible
6 21 (3.33%) Argo
7 10 (1.59%) Kibana
7 10 (1.59%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.95%) Istio
9 4 (0.63%) Puppet
9 4 (0.63%) Rancher
10 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 52 (8.25%) Oracle
2 41 (6.51%) Microsoft
3 34 (5.40%) Google
4 28 (4.44%) Splunk
5 23 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 12 (1.90%) Sybase
7 10 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.59%) VMware
8 9 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.43%) Solace
9 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.95%) Adobe
10 6 (0.95%) Databricks
10 6 (0.95%) IBM
10 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.79%) SAP
11 5 (0.79%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.63%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.63%) webMethods