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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 182 225
Rank change year-on-year +18 +43 -111
Contract jobs citing Spring 648 343 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.41% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.17% 6.29% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 212 286
10th Percentile £356 £382 £384
25th Percentile £420 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £648
90th Percentile £648 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 10
10th Percentile £51.00 £63.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.94 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -33.27%
75th Percentile £81.00 £83.44 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.63 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £86.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year -36.23% +87.99% -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 7,935 5,454 7,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.74% 22.49% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,316 3,767 5,390
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -3.01% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 88 160
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £36.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +35.79% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £83.27 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -6 300 £525 -4.55% 58
North of England +13 158 £475 -0.52% 49
North West +46 118 £465 -7.00% 31
Midlands -5 79 £469 +11.01% 6
West Midlands 0 78 £469 +6.59% 3
South East -3 54 £405 -1.82% 18
South West -3 34 £409 -23.91% 14
Yorkshire -49 25 £500 -6.98% 11
North East -3 22 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -16 17 £505 +8.02% 3
East Midlands -39 1 £450 +11.94% 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 39 (6.02%) Confluence
2 28 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.93%) Apache
4 13 (2.01%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.85%) Camunda
6 8 (1.23%) JBoss
7 7 (1.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.93%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.93%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.46%) nginx
11 2 (0.31%) CICS
11 2 (0.31%) Drupal
11 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.31%) WordPress
12 1 (0.15%) CMS
12 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 361 (55.71%) AWS
2 181 (27.93%) Azure
3 133 (20.52%) GitHub
4 113 (17.44%) GCP
5 79 (12.19%) Serverless
6 73 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 64 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (5.40%) OpenShift
11 31 (4.78%) Azure AKS
12 29 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (2.47%) AWS Fargate
17 15 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.70%) HTTP
2 7 (1.08%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.77%) SSL
4 4 (0.62%) DNS
5 3 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (24.07%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (15.12%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.73%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.49%) Relational Database
5 57 (8.80%) MySQL
6 52 (8.02%) DynamoDB
7 36 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 21 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.85%) Big Data
12 12 (1.85%) DB2
12 12 (1.85%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.85%) Redis
13 10 (1.54%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.54%) Flink
14 9 (1.39%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.23%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.08%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (27.78%) Git
2 149 (22.99%) Jenkins
3 142 (21.91%) JUnit
4 115 (17.75%) GitLab
5 68 (10.49%) Maven
6 65 (10.03%) JIRA
7 61 (9.41%) Cucumber
8 53 (8.18%) Gradle
8 53 (8.18%) Mockito
9 43 (6.64%) Selenium
10 32 (4.94%) JMeter
11 26 (4.01%) SonarQube
12 23 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 22 (3.40%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.62%) WebDriver
15 16 (2.47%) Postman
16 14 (2.16%) Gatling
17 11 (1.70%) Cypress.io
18 10 (1.54%) jMock
19 9 (1.39%) Mocha
General
1 153 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 130 (20.06%) Finance
3 104 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.34%) Banking
5 38 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.31%) Retail
7 14 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.70%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.93%) Law
11 5 (0.77%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.62%) Automotive
12 4 (0.62%) Front Office
12 4 (0.62%) Military
12 4 (0.62%) Publishing
13 3 (0.46%) Electronics
13 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 385 (59.41%) Developer
2 266 (41.05%) Java Developer
3 126 (19.44%) Senior
4 94 (14.51%) Java Engineer
5 89 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (11.73%) Senior Developer
7 63 (9.72%) Software Engineer
8 62 (9.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (8.64%) Lead
10 32 (4.94%) Backend Developer
10 32 (4.94%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (4.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 27 (4.17%) Architect
12 27 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 23 (3.55%) Software Developer
15 21 (3.24%) Lead Developer
16 17 (2.62%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
18 14 (2.16%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (78.09%) Spring Boot
2 181 (27.93%) Kafka
3 175 (27.01%) RESTful
4 148 (22.84%) REST
5 144 (22.22%) React
6 101 (15.59%) AngularJS
7 98 (15.12%) Node.js
8 79 (12.19%) Hibernate
9 66 (10.19%) HTML
10 56 (8.64%) CSS
11 44 (6.79%) JPA
11 44 (6.79%) Spring MVC
12 42 (6.48%) WireMock
13 36 (5.56%) OAuth
14 35 (5.40%) Spring Cloud
15 34 (5.25%) Web Services
16 33 (5.09%) OAuth2
17 32 (4.94%) HTML5
17 32 (4.94%) Playwright
18 30 (4.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 99 (15.28%) Cloud Native
2 76 (11.73%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.62%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.23%) Derivative
10 8 (1.23%) Equities
11 7 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.08%) NHS
11 7 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.93%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.87%) Linux
2 12 (1.85%) Unix
3 9 (1.39%) Windows
4 8 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.93%) VMS
6 2 (0.31%) Android
6 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.31%) Solaris
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (61.42%) Microservices
2 364 (56.17%) CI/CD
3 262 (40.43%) Agile
4 232 (35.80%) DevOps
5 187 (28.86%) Containerisation
6 156 (24.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 140 (21.60%) TDD
8 136 (20.99%) Test Automation
9 131 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (19.91%) Software Engineering
11 113 (17.44%) Event-Driven
12 101 (15.59%) Observability
13 100 (15.43%) Code Quality
14 94 (14.51%) Scrum
15 88 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (10.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 68 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 67 (10.34%) BDD
19 59 (9.10%) API Design
19 59 (9.10%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 606 (93.52%) Java
2 174 (26.85%) SQL
3 93 (14.35%) JavaScript
4 92 (14.20%) TypeScript
5 77 (11.88%) Python
6 43 (6.64%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.62%) Go
8 15 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.23%) Scala
10 7 (1.08%) Perl
11 6 (0.93%) C#
12 3 (0.46%) Bash
12 3 (0.46%) PHP
12 3 (0.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Groovy
13 1 (0.15%) Korn
13 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 194 (29.94%) Security Cleared
2 161 (24.85%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.78%) Degree
4 24 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.39%) OCP
7 9 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.19%) QA
2 49 (7.56%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.93%) WCAG
4 16 (2.47%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.54%) SEPA
6 9 (1.39%) PSD2
7 8 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.77%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) SLA
9 3 (0.46%) GDPR
9 3 (0.46%) HL7
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
9 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 266 (41.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.23%) Postfix
3 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 311 (47.99%) Kubernetes
2 84 (12.96%) Grafana
3 59 (9.10%) Terraform
4 49 (7.56%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.63%) Ansible
6 12 (1.85%) Argo
7 9 (1.39%) Kibana
7 9 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.93%) Istio
9 4 (0.62%) Puppet
9 4 (0.62%) Rancher
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 56 (8.64%) Oracle
2 44 (6.79%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.48%) Google
4 26 (4.01%) Splunk
5 14 (2.16%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.70%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.70%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.54%) Sybase
8 9 (1.39%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.39%) Solace
8 9 (1.39%) VMware
9 8 (1.23%) IBM
10 7 (1.08%) Databricks
11 6 (0.93%) Adobe
12 5 (0.77%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.77%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.77%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.77%) SAP
13 4 (0.62%) Confluent
13 4 (0.62%) Virgin Media