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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 182 175
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +29
Contract jobs citing Spring 687 432 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.57% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.03% 6.32% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 296 347
10th Percentile £383 £329 £381
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £552 £650
90th Percentile £712 £650 £777
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 4
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.00 £41.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £50.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 £69.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%

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 9,769 6,838 8,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,433 4,701 5,588
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -2.22%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -6 370 £530 +0.95% 251
North of England 0 156 £510 +9.68% 90
North West -15 89 £550 +23.60% 54
Midlands -45 74 £528 +27.11% 31
West Midlands -5 68 £551 +10.10% 25
Yorkshire +3 49 £500 +39.16% 16
South West -19 36 £500 -0.99% 53
South East -51 30 £367 -26.55% 23
East of England -1 21 £500 +6.95% 4
North East -28 19 £450 -8.16% 20
East Midlands -44 5 £400 +6.67% 6
Spring
UK

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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 32 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.20%) Apache
3 19 (2.77%) Confluence
4 10 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.31%) Camunda
5 9 (1.31%) nginx
6 8 (1.16%) WebLogic
7 7 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.58%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.58%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.44%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.58%) Quorum
1 4 (0.58%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.58%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 366 (53.28%) AWS
2 152 (22.13%) Azure
3 127 (18.49%) GitHub
4 106 (15.43%) GCP
5 69 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (7.28%) Serverless
7 42 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (5.82%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (4.80%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 12 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.87%) HTTP
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (12.08%) NoSQL
3 75 (10.92%) Relational Database
4 65 (9.46%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.70%) MySQL
6 34 (4.95%) Redis
7 30 (4.37%) DynamoDB
8 26 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (2.04%) Big Data
12 14 (2.04%) Flink
13 13 (1.89%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.75%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.60%) Couchbase
16 9 (1.31%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
17 7 (1.02%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (26.06%) Git
2 171 (24.89%) Jenkins
3 125 (18.20%) JUnit
4 109 (15.87%) GitLab
5 71 (10.33%) Gradle
6 67 (9.75%) Maven
7 62 (9.02%) Mockito
8 42 (6.11%) SonarQube
9 38 (5.53%) JIRA
10 36 (5.24%) Cucumber
11 33 (4.80%) Selenium
12 20 (2.91%) Gatling
12 20 (2.91%) Liquibase
13 15 (2.18%) Bitbucket
13 15 (2.18%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.04%) JMeter
15 12 (1.75%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.46%) WebDriver
17 8 (1.16%) Flyway
18 7 (1.02%) DbUnit
General
1 160 (23.29%) Finance
2 155 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 90 (13.10%) Banking
4 89 (12.95%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.22%) Retail
7 14 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.46%) Law
10 7 (1.02%) Back Office
10 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Military
11 5 (0.73%) Police
12 4 (0.58%) Automotive
12 4 (0.58%) Front Office
12 4 (0.58%) Games
12 4 (0.58%) Publishing
12 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 361 (52.55%) Developer
2 289 (42.07%) Java Developer
3 150 (21.83%) Senior
4 129 (18.78%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.54%) Software Engineer
6 88 (12.81%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.19%) Senior Java Developer
8 62 (9.02%) Lead
9 56 (8.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.57%) Backend Developer
11 47 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.37%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 27 (3.93%) Architect
15 24 (3.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 22 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.20%) Lead Developer
17 21 (3.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 18 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 557 (81.08%) Spring Boot
2 206 (29.99%) Kafka
3 174 (25.33%) REST
4 155 (22.56%) RESTful
5 124 (18.05%) React
6 68 (9.90%) Node.js
7 59 (8.59%) Terraform
8 53 (7.71%) Hibernate
9 50 (7.28%) JPA
10 47 (6.84%) HTML
11 46 (6.70%) AngularJS
12 44 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (6.26%) Spring MVC
14 39 (5.68%) CSS
15 38 (5.53%) Web Services
16 37 (5.39%) OAuth
17 35 (5.09%) OpenAPI
18 31 (4.51%) Spring Cloud
19 29 (4.22%) Swagger
19 29 (4.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 166 (24.16%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.47%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 31 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.89%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.60%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.02%) Derivative
14 6 (0.87%) Spread Betting
14 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.73%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.68%) Linux
2 27 (3.93%) Unix
3 5 (0.73%) Windows
4 4 (0.58%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (61.57%) Microservices
2 406 (59.10%) CI/CD
3 318 (46.29%) Agile
4 230 (33.48%) DevOps
5 210 (30.57%) Software Engineering
6 192 (27.95%) Containerisation
7 169 (24.60%) Test Automation
8 162 (23.58%) Event-Driven
9 135 (19.65%) TDD
10 121 (17.61%) Full-Stack Development
11 114 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 113 (16.45%) Observability
13 111 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (16.01%) Scrum
15 103 (14.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 102 (14.85%) Code Quality
17 75 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (10.63%) SDLC
19 72 (10.48%) Clean Code
20 70 (10.19%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 669 (97.38%) Java
2 221 (32.17%) SQL
3 85 (12.37%) JavaScript
3 85 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 83 (12.08%) Python
5 40 (5.82%) PL/SQL
6 32 (4.66%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.62%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.75%) Bash
8 12 (1.75%) Scala
9 6 (0.87%) C#
10 5 (0.73%) Ruby
11 4 (0.58%) Solidity
12 3 (0.44%) Go
12 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.29%) Korn
13 2 (0.29%) PromQL
14 1 (0.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 202 (29.40%) Security Cleared
2 166 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.35%) Degree
5 16 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) CISSP
9 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.50%) QA
2 42 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.89%) WCAG
4 10 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.16%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.02%) SEPA
7 6 (0.87%) GDPR
7 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 321 (46.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 301 (43.81%) Kubernetes
2 56 (8.15%) Grafana
2 56 (8.15%) Prometheus
3 33 (4.80%) Ansible
4 21 (3.06%) Kibana
5 11 (1.60%) Control-M
6 7 (1.02%) Argo
7 6 (0.87%) Istio
8 3 (0.44%) Bosun
8 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.29%) Consul
9 2 (0.29%) Rancher
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 90 (13.10%) Oracle
2 34 (4.95%) Google
3 27 (3.93%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.62%) Splunk
5 17 (2.47%) Dynatrace
6 14 (2.04%) IBM
7 10 (1.46%) Solace
8 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.16%) Databricks
9 8 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.16%) New Relic
10 7 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.02%) Sybase
10 7 (1.02%) TikTok
11 6 (0.87%) Confluent
12 4 (0.58%) FIS
12 4 (0.58%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.58%) SAP
13 3 (0.44%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.29%) Informatica