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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 186 185
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring 729 440 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.56% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.29% 6.12% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 307 310
10th Percentile £377 £324 £389
25th Percentile £431 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £627 £575 £675
90th Percentile £734 £638 £784
UK median daily rate £510 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +3.66% -6.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £57.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 9,997 7,191 7,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.34% 25.54% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,576 4,855 5,186
10th Percentile £381 £358 £361
25th Percentile £447 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 171 157
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £32.10
25th Percentile £53.90 £41.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.00 £73.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +1 376 £550 +4.76% 52
North of England -2 171 £540 +15.14% 35
Midlands -6 119 £464 +10.38% 15
West Midlands +17 107 £525 +5.00% 13
North West -11 99 £560 +25.14% 25
Yorkshire +2 54 £500 -4.76% 7
South West -24 29 £500 -0.99% 19
South East -64 29 £345 -16.36% 11
North East -27 19 £470 -14.55% 5
East Midlands -30 11 £402 +10.44% 2
East of England - 10 £475 -
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 25 (3.43%) Apache
1 25 (3.43%) Confluence
2 23 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.37%) Camunda
4 9 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.23%) nginx
5 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.10%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
6 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
7 3 (0.41%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.27%) Mule
8 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.27%) Solana
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.55%) Quorum
1 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.55%) Ripple
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 391 (53.64%) AWS
2 133 (18.24%) GitHub
3 126 (17.28%) Azure
4 91 (12.48%) GCP
5 65 (8.92%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (7.41%) Serverless
7 49 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
8 47 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 45 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (5.90%) Amazon S3
11 34 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (4.66%) OpenShift
12 33 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.25%) GitHub Copilot
14 26 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 12 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.37%) HTTP
2 5 (0.69%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.27%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (19.89%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.48%) MongoDB
3 89 (12.21%) Relational Database
4 81 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.94%) Redis
6 33 (4.53%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.39%) MySQL
8 23 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.61%) Flink
11 18 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (2.33%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.78%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.51%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.37%) Big Data
16 9 (1.23%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.23%) Metadata
17 7 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 206 (28.26%) Git
2 181 (24.83%) Jenkins
3 143 (19.62%) GitLab
3 143 (19.62%) JUnit
4 104 (14.27%) Maven
5 90 (12.35%) Gradle
6 77 (10.56%) Mockito
7 55 (7.54%) Cucumber
7 55 (7.54%) SonarQube
8 44 (6.04%) Selenium
9 41 (5.62%) JIRA
10 32 (4.39%) Gatling
11 21 (2.88%) REST Assured
12 20 (2.74%) Claude Code
13 16 (2.19%) Bitbucket
14 15 (2.06%) Liquibase
15 8 (1.10%) Flyway
16 7 (0.96%) CircleCI
17 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
17 6 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 172 (23.59%) Finance
3 121 (16.60%) Banking
4 98 (13.44%) Public Sector
5 71 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (4.25%) Retail
7 22 (3.02%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.06%) Back Office
8 15 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.78%) Front Office
11 9 (1.23%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.82%) Law
13 6 (0.82%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Games
15 4 (0.55%) iGaming
15 4 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 356 (48.83%) Developer
2 288 (39.51%) Java Developer
3 171 (23.46%) Senior
4 148 (20.30%) Java Engineer
5 93 (12.76%) Senior Developer
6 92 (12.62%) Software Engineer
7 73 (10.01%) Senior Java Developer
8 71 (9.74%) Lead
9 53 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
10 46 (6.31%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.04%) Backend Developer
12 42 (5.76%) Senior Java Engineer
13 27 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.57%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.43%) Architect
15 25 (3.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 23 (3.16%) Lead Java Developer
16 23 (3.16%) Quality Engineer
16 23 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 23 (3.16%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 602 (82.58%) Spring Boot
2 252 (34.57%) Kafka
3 216 (29.63%) REST
4 157 (21.54%) RESTful
5 116 (15.91%) React
6 78 (10.70%) JPA
7 71 (9.74%) Terraform
8 70 (9.60%) Hibernate
9 58 (7.96%) AngularJS
10 57 (7.82%) Node.js
11 51 (7.00%) OpenAPI
12 49 (6.72%) HTML
12 49 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (5.76%) OAuth
13 42 (5.76%) Playwright
13 42 (5.76%) Web Services
14 41 (5.62%) CSS
15 40 (5.49%) Swagger
16 38 (5.21%) Spring MVC
17 37 (5.08%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 191 (26.20%) Cloud Native
2 138 (18.93%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (8.50%) Product Ownership
4 49 (6.72%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.16%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.92%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.37%) Derivative
10 10 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
10 10 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.96%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.82%) Equities
13 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.82%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.17%) Linux
2 34 (4.66%) Unix
3 4 (0.55%) macOS
4 3 (0.41%) Android
4 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.41%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.14%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (61.87%) CI/CD
2 444 (60.91%) Microservices
3 370 (50.75%) Agile
4 240 (32.92%) DevOps
5 232 (31.82%) Software Engineering
6 223 (30.59%) Test Automation
7 195 (26.75%) Event-Driven
8 190 (26.06%) Containerisation
9 154 (21.12%) Scrum
10 140 (19.20%) TDD
11 128 (17.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 126 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (17.15%) Full-Stack Development
14 119 (16.32%) Observability
15 113 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.72%) Code Quality
17 92 (12.62%) SDLC
18 89 (12.21%) AI
19 78 (10.70%) Clean Code
20 76 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 715 (98.08%) Java
2 227 (31.14%) SQL
3 101 (13.85%) TypeScript
4 92 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 70 (9.60%) Python
6 42 (5.76%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.53%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.92%) Scala
10 12 (1.65%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) Bicep
14 2 (0.27%) Korn
14 2 (0.27%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 194 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 165 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (4.80%) Degree
5 27 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (13.85%) QA
2 53 (7.27%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.29%) WCAG
4 14 (1.92%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.37%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.23%) SEPA
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) MiFID
9 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.27%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 325 (44.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (0.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 315 (43.21%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.37%) Grafana
3 56 (7.68%) Prometheus
4 30 (4.12%) Kibana
5 28 (3.84%) Ansible
6 11 (1.51%) Control-M
7 9 (1.23%) Argo
8 7 (0.96%) Istio
9 4 (0.55%) Bosun
9 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.27%) Consul
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 102 (13.99%) Oracle
2 35 (4.80%) Google
3 20 (2.74%) IBM
3 20 (2.74%) Splunk
4 18 (2.47%) Microsoft
5 17 (2.33%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.37%) Databricks
6 10 (1.37%) New Relic
7 9 (1.23%) Solace
7 9 (1.23%) Sybase
8 8 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.96%) ION Trading
9 7 (0.96%) TikTok
10 5 (0.69%) Confluent
10 5 (0.69%) FIS
11 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.41%) SAP
12 3 (0.41%) webMethods