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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 171 184
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +38
Contract jobs citing Spring 728 452 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.62% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.33% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 313 326
10th Percentile £360 £326 £386
25th Percentile £437 £401 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £675
90th Percentile £726 £638 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +6.60% -6.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -23.61% -1.51%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £79.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.19% -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 9,900 7,138 8,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.55% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,515 4,847 5,356
10th Percentile £380 £353 £363
25th Percentile £446 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 173 180
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.32 £27.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.60% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -10 381 £545 +3.32% 475
North of England -11 160 £550 +18.28% 147
Midlands -5 112 £525 +26.51% 57
West Midlands +24 106 £540 +8.00% 45
North West -15 91 £560 +30.23% 88
Yorkshire +3 54 £500 +25.00% 33
South West -22 33 £450 -10.89% 66
South East -60 31 £367 -4.61% 43
East of England - 17 £500 - 6
North East -35 16 £470 -6.00% 26
East Midlands -41 5 £400 +6.67% 12
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 29 (3.98%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.43%) Apache
3 23 (3.16%) Confluence
4 11 (1.51%) Camunda
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.24%) nginx
6 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.27%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mule
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
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 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (54.95%) AWS
2 132 (18.13%) Azure
3 128 (17.58%) GitHub
4 95 (13.05%) GCP
5 63 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (7.42%) Serverless
7 50 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.59%) Amazon S3
9 44 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.95%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (1.92%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (1.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 11 (1.51%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.10%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (20.05%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.64%) MongoDB
3 85 (11.68%) NoSQL
4 83 (11.40%) Relational Database
5 38 (5.22%) MySQL
6 37 (5.08%) Redis
7 27 (3.71%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.57%) DynamoDB
9 25 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.75%) Flink
11 14 (1.92%) Big Data
11 14 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.79%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.51%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.37%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 199 (27.34%) Git
2 177 (24.31%) Jenkins
3 141 (19.37%) JUnit
4 133 (18.27%) GitLab
5 103 (14.15%) Maven
6 84 (11.54%) Gradle
7 77 (10.58%) Mockito
8 59 (8.10%) SonarQube
9 49 (6.73%) Cucumber
10 40 (5.49%) Selenium
11 39 (5.36%) JIRA
12 30 (4.12%) Gatling
13 20 (2.75%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.34%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.20%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.51%) Claude Code
17 9 (1.24%) IntelliJ
18 8 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.10%) Flyway
19 6 (0.82%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 167 (22.94%) Finance
3 108 (14.84%) Banking
4 100 (13.74%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.98%) Retail
7 14 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.24%) Front Office
10 8 (1.10%) Back Office
10 8 (1.10%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.82%) Law
12 6 (0.82%) Military
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) iGaming
13 4 (0.55%) Police
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 373 (51.24%) Developer
2 306 (42.03%) Java Developer
3 168 (23.08%) Senior
4 147 (20.19%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.19%) Senior Developer
6 89 (12.23%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.44%) Lead
7 76 (10.44%) Senior Java Developer
8 54 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
9 48 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (6.04%) Backend Developer
11 39 (5.36%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (4.26%) Lead Developer
13 28 (3.85%) Software Developer
14 27 (3.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.43%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.30%) Architect
16 24 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 21 (2.88%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (82.69%) Spring Boot
2 241 (33.10%) Kafka
3 203 (27.88%) REST
4 156 (21.43%) RESTful
5 121 (16.62%) React
6 77 (10.58%) JPA
7 69 (9.48%) Hibernate
8 65 (8.93%) Node.js
8 65 (8.93%) Terraform
9 54 (7.42%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.87%) HTML
11 48 (6.59%) OpenAPI
11 48 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
12 42 (5.77%) Web Services
13 40 (5.49%) OAuth
14 39 (5.36%) CSS
14 39 (5.36%) Spring MVC
14 39 (5.36%) Swagger
15 38 (5.22%) Playwright
15 38 (5.22%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 124 (17.03%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (8.79%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.22%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.75%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.10%) Derivative
13 6 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.82%) Spread Betting
14 5 (0.69%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.59%) Linux
2 35 (4.81%) Unix
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.27%) 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
1 440 (60.44%) Microservices
2 436 (59.89%) CI/CD
3 351 (48.21%) Agile
4 238 (32.69%) DevOps
5 229 (31.46%) Software Engineering
6 205 (28.16%) Test Automation
7 202 (27.75%) Containerisation
8 185 (25.41%) Event-Driven
9 147 (20.19%) Scrum
10 140 (19.23%) TDD
11 122 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 122 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
12 116 (15.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 110 (15.11%) Observability
14 109 (14.97%) Code Quality
14 109 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
15 94 (12.91%) SDLC
16 82 (11.26%) Clean Code
17 77 (10.58%) AI
18 76 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 714 (98.08%) Java
2 225 (30.91%) SQL
3 94 (12.91%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.44%) Python
6 40 (5.49%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.40%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.92%) Scala
10 12 (1.65%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) Go
14 2 (0.27%) Korn
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 212 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 178 (24.45%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.12%) Degree
5 24 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.06%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (13.87%) QA
2 47 (6.46%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.88%) WCAG
4 15 (2.06%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.37%) SEPA
6 7 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 335 (46.02%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 318 (43.68%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.10%) Grafana
2 59 (8.10%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.26%) Kibana
4 29 (3.98%) Ansible
5 11 (1.51%) Control-M
6 9 (1.24%) Argo
7 7 (0.96%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Bosun
8 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 98 (13.46%) Oracle
2 36 (4.95%) Google
3 21 (2.88%) IBM
4 20 (2.75%) Splunk
5 18 (2.47%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.47%) Microsoft
6 9 (1.24%) Databricks
6 9 (1.24%) New Relic
6 9 (1.24%) Sybase
7 8 (1.10%) Solace
8 7 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
8 7 (0.96%) TikTok
9 6 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.82%) Confluent
10 5 (0.69%) Checkmarx
10 5 (0.69%) FIS
11 4 (0.55%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.41%) SAP