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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 177 185
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 718 429 479
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.58% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.46% 7.09% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 295 372
10th Percentile £364 £358 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £678 £659 £767
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 9
10th Percentile £56.40 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £71.00 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -35.61%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £77.50 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%

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 8,486 6,048 7,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.96% 22.25% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,581 4,154 5,423
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £430 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.70% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 140 256
10th Percentile £30.20 £31.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.94 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -10.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -3 369 £525 +0.96% 78
North of England -1 145 £520 +11.83% 24
North West -11 87 £540 +32.19% 11
Midlands -40 82 £475 +13.10% 19
West Midlands -11 79 £475 -3.55% 14
South West +10 50 £410 -21.06% 8
Yorkshire -13 42 £525 -2.33% 9
South East -34 40 £450 -1.37% 31
East of England +6 28 £510 +9.09% 2
North East -27 19 £450 -8.16% 5
East Midlands -39 2 £401 +6.93% 5
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 42 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.60%) Confluence
3 22 (3.06%) Apache
4 14 (1.95%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.67%) Camunda
6 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.39%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.39%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.39%) nginx
7 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Maya
1 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.56%) Quorum
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 364 (50.70%) AWS
2 173 (24.09%) Azure
3 127 (17.69%) GitHub
4 123 (17.13%) GCP
5 71 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (8.64%) Amazon S3
7 58 (8.08%) Serverless
8 48 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.74%) OpenShift
13 31 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (3.20%) Azure AKS
16 21 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.51%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.51%) Route 53
18 16 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 14 (1.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.25%) HTTP
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (11.70%) NoSQL
3 80 (11.14%) Relational Database
4 73 (10.17%) MongoDB
5 51 (7.10%) MySQL
6 44 (6.13%) DynamoDB
7 39 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.34%) SQL Server
10 23 (3.20%) Redis
11 19 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.65%) Flink
12 18 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.51%) Big Data
13 11 (1.53%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.25%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.97%) Couchbase
15 7 (0.97%) Db2
15 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (27.16%) Git
2 176 (24.51%) Jenkins
3 140 (19.50%) JUnit
4 90 (12.53%) GitLab
5 75 (10.45%) Maven
6 72 (10.03%) Gradle
7 63 (8.77%) Mockito
8 58 (8.08%) JIRA
9 41 (5.71%) Cucumber
9 41 (5.71%) Selenium
9 41 (5.71%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.62%) JMeter
11 19 (2.65%) WebDriver
12 17 (2.37%) REST Assured
13 16 (2.23%) Gatling
13 16 (2.23%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.95%) DbUnit
14 14 (1.95%) IntelliJ
15 13 (1.81%) jMock
16 11 (1.53%) Postman
General
1 158 (22.01%) Finance
2 146 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 109 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 88 (12.26%) Banking
5 59 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.62%) Retail
7 16 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.39%) Law
10 9 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.97%) Military
12 6 (0.84%) Automotive
12 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.56%) Games
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
14 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 390 (54.32%) Developer
2 300 (41.78%) Java Developer
3 142 (19.78%) Senior
4 114 (15.88%) Java Engineer
5 81 (11.28%) Software Engineer
6 80 (11.14%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.72%) Lead
8 61 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.80%) Backend Developer
10 53 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 42 (5.85%) Java Software Engineer
12 29 (4.04%) Software Developer
13 28 (3.90%) Lead Developer
14 26 (3.62%) Senior Java Engineer
15 25 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (3.20%) Architect
18 21 (2.92%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
19 20 (2.79%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (80.78%) Spring Boot
2 216 (30.08%) Kafka
3 182 (25.35%) REST
4 158 (22.01%) RESTful
5 130 (18.11%) React
6 90 (12.53%) Node.js
7 61 (8.50%) AngularJS
8 57 (7.94%) JPA
9 55 (7.66%) Hibernate
10 48 (6.69%) Web Services
11 46 (6.41%) HTML
12 45 (6.27%) WireMock
13 44 (6.13%) Spring MVC
14 42 (5.85%) CSS
15 39 (5.43%) Spring Cloud
16 34 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (4.46%) OAuth
18 31 (4.32%) SOAP
19 28 (3.90%) Redux
19 28 (3.90%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 135 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 18 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.67%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.11%) Derivative
12 7 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.97%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.84%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 52 (7.24%) Linux
2 20 (2.79%) Unix
3 10 (1.39%) Windows
4 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.70%) VMS
6 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.42%) Solaris
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.28%) Android
8 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (59.89%) Microservices
2 426 (59.33%) CI/CD
3 311 (43.31%) Agile
4 266 (37.05%) DevOps
5 208 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 176 (24.51%) Software Engineering
7 156 (21.73%) TDD
7 156 (21.73%) Test Automation
8 153 (21.31%) Event-Driven
9 132 (18.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 128 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 121 (16.85%) Observability
12 117 (16.30%) Scrum
13 110 (15.32%) Code Quality
14 98 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 78 (10.86%) BDD
16 65 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 62 (8.64%) Design Patterns
18 58 (8.08%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 687 (95.68%) Java
2 221 (30.78%) SQL
3 96 (13.37%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.53%) Python
5 88 (12.26%) TypeScript
6 38 (5.29%) Kotlin
7 36 (5.01%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.81%) Scala
10 11 (1.53%) Go
11 9 (1.25%) C#
12 6 (0.84%) Bash
12 6 (0.84%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) Ruby
13 5 (0.70%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 236 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 201 (27.99%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.90%) Degree
4 25 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.75%) QA
2 46 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.25%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.11%) WCAG
5 7 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.97%) SEPA
6 6 (0.84%) GDPR
6 6 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 326 (45.40%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 306 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.56%) Grafana
3 68 (9.47%) Prometheus
4 54 (7.52%) Terraform
5 30 (4.18%) Ansible
6 13 (1.81%) Kibana
7 8 (1.11%) Control-M
8 5 (0.70%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) Istio
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 82 (11.42%) Oracle
2 40 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 39 (5.43%) Google
4 32 (4.46%) Splunk
5 17 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.23%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.23%) IBM
7 14 (1.95%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.67%) Solace
9 11 (1.53%) Databricks
10 10 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.39%) Sybase
11 9 (1.25%) Checkmarx
12 7 (0.97%) TikTok
13 6 (0.84%) New Relic
14 4 (0.56%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.56%) Teradata
15 3 (0.42%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.42%) SAP