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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 190 230
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 -114
Contract jobs citing Spring 641 336 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.38% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 6.16% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 208 287
10th Percentile £355 £391 £384
25th Percentile £420 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -0.74% -14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £780
UK median daily rate £491 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -6.48% +0.48% -12.92%
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 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -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 7,915 5,454 7,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.81% 22.47% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,304 3,765 5,406
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -1.47% -5.22%
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 240 88 169
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.08
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 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.78 £83.27 £75.00
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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -6 298 £525 -5.83% 58
North of England +15 156 £475 -0.52% 49
North West +42 117 £465 -7.00% 31
Midlands -4 79 £469 +6.59% 6
West Midlands +6 77 £469 +6.59% 3
South East -2 53 £405 -1.82% 18
South West -5 33 £407 -24.33% 14
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 -6.98% 11
North East -2 22 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -20 16 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -39 2 £335 -22.36% 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 40 (6.24%) Confluence
2 28 (4.37%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.96%) Apache
4 14 (2.18%) Camunda
5 13 (2.03%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.25%) JBoss
7 7 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.94%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.40%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 356 (55.54%) AWS
2 181 (28.24%) Azure
3 131 (20.44%) GitHub
4 115 (17.94%) GCP
5 77 (12.01%) Serverless
6 72 (11.23%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (10.76%) Amazon S3
8 62 (9.67%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (5.30%) OpenShift
12 31 (4.84%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (2.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) HTTP
2 7 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.78%) SSL
4 4 (0.62%) DNS
5 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (23.71%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (14.82%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.86%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.61%) Relational Database
5 54 (8.42%) MySQL
6 49 (7.64%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.43%) SQL Server
10 20 (3.12%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (2.03%) DB2
12 12 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (1.87%) Big Data
12 12 (1.87%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.87%) Redis
13 11 (1.72%) Flink
14 10 (1.56%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.40%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.25%) Oracle Database
17 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (27.46%) Git
2 148 (23.09%) Jenkins
3 140 (21.84%) JUnit
4 114 (17.78%) GitLab
5 66 (10.30%) Maven
6 65 (10.14%) JIRA
7 61 (9.52%) Cucumber
8 51 (7.96%) Gradle
8 51 (7.96%) Mockito
9 43 (6.71%) Selenium
10 32 (4.99%) JMeter
11 24 (3.74%) SonarQube
11 24 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 21 (3.28%) IntelliJ
13 17 (2.65%) WebDriver
14 16 (2.50%) Postman
15 14 (2.18%) Gatling
16 11 (1.72%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.40%) jMock
17 9 (1.40%) Mocha
General
1 157 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 128 (19.97%) Finance
3 103 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 69 (10.76%) Banking
5 39 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.34%) Retail
7 14 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.94%) Law
11 5 (0.78%) Front Office
11 5 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.62%) Automotive
12 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.62%) Military
12 4 (0.62%) Publishing
13 3 (0.47%) Electronics
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 382 (59.59%) Developer
2 262 (40.87%) Java Developer
3 120 (18.72%) Senior
4 91 (14.20%) Java Engineer
5 88 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 71 (11.08%) Senior Developer
7 62 (9.67%) Software Engineer
8 57 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
9 55 (8.58%) Lead
10 32 (4.99%) Backend Developer
10 32 (4.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 27 (4.21%) Architect
13 26 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (3.28%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.12%) Lead Developer
17 16 (2.50%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
18 13 (2.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (77.85%) Spring Boot
2 181 (28.24%) Kafka
3 173 (26.99%) RESTful
4 148 (23.09%) REST
5 142 (22.15%) React
6 101 (15.76%) AngularJS
7 95 (14.82%) Node.js
8 78 (12.17%) Hibernate
9 63 (9.83%) HTML
10 53 (8.27%) CSS
11 43 (6.71%) JPA
11 43 (6.71%) Spring MVC
12 42 (6.55%) WireMock
13 35 (5.46%) OAuth
14 34 (5.30%) Spring Cloud
15 33 (5.15%) Web Services
16 32 (4.99%) OAuth2
16 32 (4.99%) Playwright
17 30 (4.68%) HTML5
18 29 (4.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.82%) Cloud Native
2 75 (11.70%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.65%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.40%) Equities
11 8 (1.25%) Derivative
12 7 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.94%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.94%) NHS
14 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.11%) Linux
2 12 (1.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.40%) Windows
4 8 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.94%) 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
1 393 (61.31%) Microservices
2 358 (55.85%) CI/CD
3 261 (40.72%) Agile
4 231 (36.04%) DevOps
5 186 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 153 (23.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (21.53%) TDD
8 135 (21.06%) Test Automation
9 133 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
10 127 (19.81%) Software Engineering
11 113 (17.63%) Event-Driven
12 97 (15.13%) Observability
13 94 (14.66%) Scrum
14 93 (14.51%) Code Quality
15 86 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 69 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (10.14%) BDD
17 65 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (9.05%) SDLC
19 57 (8.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 599 (93.45%) Java
2 170 (26.52%) SQL
3 91 (14.20%) TypeScript
4 90 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 77 (12.01%) Python
6 43 (6.71%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.50%) Go
7 16 (2.50%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.25%) Scala
9 7 (1.09%) Perl
10 6 (0.94%) C#
11 3 (0.47%) Bash
11 3 (0.47%) PHP
11 3 (0.47%) Ruby
12 1 (0.16%) Bicep
12 1 (0.16%) Korn
12 1 (0.16%) Solidity
12 1 (0.16%) Swift
12 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 191 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 159 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.84%) Degree
4 24 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.40%) OCP
7 9 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.78%) 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 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.16%) OSCP
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.67%) QA
2 48 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.96%) WCAG
4 17 (2.65%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.40%) PSD2
6 9 (1.40%) SEPA
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) NIST
7 5 (0.78%) SLA
8 3 (0.47%) GDPR
8 3 (0.47%) HL7
8 3 (0.47%) NCSC
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 265 (41.34%) Docker
2 7 (1.09%) Postfix
3 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 307 (47.89%) Kubernetes
2 82 (12.79%) Grafana
3 58 (9.05%) Terraform
4 47 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.68%) Ansible
6 12 (1.87%) Argo
7 9 (1.40%) Kibana
7 9 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 56 (8.74%) Oracle
2 44 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.68%) Google
4 26 (4.06%) Splunk
5 14 (2.18%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.72%) Sybase
7 10 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.40%) Solace
8 9 (1.40%) VMware
9 8 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.25%) IBM
10 6 (0.94%) Adobe
10 6 (0.94%) Databricks
11 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.78%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.78%) SAP
12 4 (0.62%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.62%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.62%) webMethods