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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 170 191
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 730 419 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.74% 7.08% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 289 375
10th Percentile £380 £358 £375
25th Percentile £433 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -11.73%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £688 £671 £793
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile £53.25 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £69.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%
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% -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 8,356 5,921 7,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 22.48% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,509 4,079 5,534
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £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 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £540
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 126 264
10th Percentile £30.25 £30.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.44 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -0.90% -10.54%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.68 £80.51 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 4 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 4 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 +10 381 £525 - 119
North of England +8 152 £500 +7.53% 38
North West +3 94 £525 +26.51% 21
Midlands -42 74 £475 +13.10% 20
West Midlands -23 71 £475 -3.55% 17
South West +5 49 £410 -20.96% 19
Yorkshire -19 41 £500 -4.76% 11
South East -29 41 £450 -1.37% 26
East of England -3 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -21 22 £450 -8.16% 7
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 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 45 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.07%) Confluence
3 26 (3.56%) Apache
4 12 (1.64%) Camunda
4 12 (1.64%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.37%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.37%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.37%) nginx
7 7 (0.96%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.41%) JBoss
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Drupal
10 2 (0.27%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.27%) Mule
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.68%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.55%) Quorum
2 4 (0.55%) Ripple
3 3 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 368 (50.41%) AWS
2 174 (23.84%) Azure
3 127 (17.40%) GitHub
4 120 (16.44%) GCP
5 70 (9.59%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 60 (8.22%) Serverless
8 52 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.25%) OpenShift
13 30 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.15%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.60%) Route 53
16 18 (2.47%) AWS KMS
17 17 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 16 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.23%) HTTP
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) DNS
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (23.29%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.60%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.96%) MongoDB
4 78 (10.68%) Relational Database
5 49 (6.71%) MySQL
6 47 (6.44%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.88%) Redis
11 20 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.74%) Big Data
12 18 (2.47%) Flink
13 17 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.92%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.23%) Db2
16 7 (0.96%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (25.21%) Git
2 172 (23.56%) Jenkins
3 145 (19.86%) JUnit
4 100 (13.70%) GitLab
5 73 (10.00%) Maven
6 66 (9.04%) Mockito
7 63 (8.63%) Gradle
7 63 (8.63%) JIRA
8 42 (5.75%) Selenium
9 41 (5.62%) Cucumber
10 38 (5.21%) SonarQube
11 26 (3.56%) JMeter
12 19 (2.60%) WebDriver
13 17 (2.33%) REST Assured
14 16 (2.19%) Gatling
14 16 (2.19%) Liquibase
15 15 (2.05%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.92%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.78%) jMock
18 11 (1.51%) Postman
General
1 155 (21.23%) Finance
2 146 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 116 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 91 (12.47%) Banking
5 53 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.42%) Retail
7 18 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.37%) Law
10 9 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.96%) Military
11 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.82%) Automotive
13 4 (0.55%) Front Office
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Police
13 4 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 402 (55.07%) Developer
2 301 (41.23%) Java Developer
3 144 (19.73%) Senior
4 121 (16.58%) Java Engineer
5 84 (11.51%) Software Engineer
6 80 (10.96%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.55%) Lead
8 62 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 61 (8.36%) Senior Java Developer
10 57 (7.81%) Backend Developer
11 45 (6.16%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (3.84%) Lead Developer
13 27 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.56%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.29%) Data Engineer
17 22 (3.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 19 (2.60%) Lead Java Developer
19 18 (2.47%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 581 (79.59%) Spring Boot
2 217 (29.73%) Kafka
3 174 (23.84%) REST
4 162 (22.19%) RESTful
5 128 (17.53%) React
6 97 (13.29%) Node.js
7 65 (8.90%) AngularJS
8 58 (7.95%) JPA
9 56 (7.67%) Hibernate
10 49 (6.71%) WireMock
11 47 (6.44%) HTML
12 45 (6.16%) Web Services
13 43 (5.89%) CSS
14 42 (5.75%) Spring Cloud
15 41 (5.62%) Spring MVC
16 33 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (4.25%) SOAP
18 28 (3.84%) Spring Batch
19 27 (3.70%) OAuth
19 27 (3.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 105 (14.38%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
4 18 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.51%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.37%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.10%) Derivative
13 7 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.82%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.82%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.71%) Linux
2 18 (2.47%) Unix
3 10 (1.37%) Windows
4 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.68%) VMS
6 4 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.41%) Solaris
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (58.63%) Microservices
2 426 (58.36%) CI/CD
3 309 (42.33%) Agile
4 265 (36.30%) DevOps
5 217 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 175 (23.97%) Software Engineering
7 159 (21.78%) TDD
8 152 (20.82%) Test Automation
9 148 (20.27%) Event-Driven
10 145 (19.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 124 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
12 114 (15.62%) Observability
13 113 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (15.21%) Scrum
15 104 (14.25%) Code Quality
16 94 (12.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (10.68%) BDD
18 63 (8.63%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (7.81%) Migration
20 56 (7.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 697 (95.48%) Java
2 222 (30.41%) SQL
3 96 (13.15%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.60%) Python
4 92 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 38 (5.21%) Kotlin
6 31 (4.25%) PL/SQL
7 17 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.92%) Scala
9 12 (1.64%) Go
10 8 (1.10%) C#
11 7 (0.96%) Ruby
12 6 (0.82%) Perl
13 5 (0.68%) Bash
13 5 (0.68%) Solidity
14 2 (0.27%) PHP
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 233 (31.92%) Security Cleared
2 199 (27.26%) SC Cleared
3 29 (3.97%) Degree
4 25 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.96%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.00%) QA
2 48 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.23%) WCAG
5 8 (1.10%) SEPA
6 7 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.82%) GDPR
7 6 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.68%) SLA
9 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.55%) PSD2
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
11 1 (0.14%) NIST
System Software
1 333 (45.62%) Docker
2 11 (1.51%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 318 (43.56%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.37%) Grafana
3 66 (9.04%) Prometheus
4 56 (7.67%) Terraform
5 29 (3.97%) Ansible
6 14 (1.92%) Kibana
7 5 (0.68%) Argo
7 5 (0.68%) Control-M
8 4 (0.55%) Istio
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.27%) Consul
10 2 (0.27%) Rancher
10 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 75 (10.27%) Oracle
2 41 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.93%) Google
4 30 (4.11%) Splunk
5 17 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.19%) IBM
7 15 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.92%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.78%) Solace
10 12 (1.64%) Sybase
11 11 (1.51%) Databricks
12 10 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.23%) Checkmarx
14 6 (0.82%) New Relic
14 6 (0.82%) TikTok
15 5 (0.68%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.68%) Informatica
15 5 (0.68%) Teradata
16 3 (0.41%) Adobe
16 3 (0.41%) SAP