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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 174 178
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 +22
Contract jobs citing Spring 668 436 460
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.58% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.80% 6.37% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 300 350
10th Percentile £365 £332 £382
25th Percentile £440 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £552 £650
90th Percentile £713 £651 £780
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 5
10th Percentile £56.40 £53.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £91.40 £77.50 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 9,818 6,843 8,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.50% 24.83% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,465 4,702 5,616
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% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 209
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.47% -1.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.61 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%

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 21 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 21 August 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 21 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 -1 371 £528 +0.48% 74
North of England -8 150 £510 +9.68% 46
North West -16 84 £540 +21.35% 24
Midlands -46 61 £475 +14.46% 19
West Midlands -21 56 £525 +5.00% 16
Yorkshire -1 48 £525 +46.12% 9
South West -25 36 £500 -0.99% 27
South East -50 30 £367 -26.55% 28
East of England +5 20 £504 +7.70% 1
North East -25 19 £450 -8.16% 14
East Midlands -45 4 £400 +6.67% 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 32 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.29%) Apache
3 19 (2.84%) Confluence
4 10 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.35%) Camunda
6 8 (1.20%) nginx
7 7 (1.05%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.60%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.60%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.60%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.60%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.45%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.30%) Mule
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.60%) Quorum
1 4 (0.60%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.60%) Ripple
2 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 355 (53.14%) AWS
2 151 (22.60%) Azure
3 123 (18.41%) GitHub
4 106 (15.87%) GCP
5 69 (10.33%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (7.34%) Serverless
7 42 (6.29%) Amazon S3
8 41 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
11 33 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (4.79%) OpenShift
13 27 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (1.80%) Azure AKS
18 11 (1.65%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) HTTP
2 3 (0.45%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (22.75%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (12.43%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.23%) Relational Database
4 65 (9.73%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.89%) MySQL
6 34 (5.09%) Redis
7 33 (4.94%) DynamoDB
8 26 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.10%) Big Data
11 14 (2.10%) Flink
12 12 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.65%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.50%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.35%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (1.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 173 (25.90%) Jenkins
2 171 (25.60%) Git
3 117 (17.51%) JUnit
4 97 (14.52%) GitLab
5 72 (10.78%) Gradle
6 64 (9.58%) Maven
7 61 (9.13%) Mockito
8 39 (5.84%) JIRA
8 39 (5.84%) SonarQube
9 32 (4.79%) Cucumber
10 27 (4.04%) Selenium
11 20 (2.99%) Liquibase
12 15 (2.25%) Gatling
13 14 (2.10%) JMeter
13 14 (2.10%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.95%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.80%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.50%) WebDriver
17 8 (1.20%) DbUnit
17 8 (1.20%) Flyway
General
1 158 (23.65%) Finance
2 144 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 89 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 88 (13.17%) Banking
5 58 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.34%) Retail
7 13 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.50%) Law
10 7 (1.05%) Back Office
10 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.75%) Military
11 5 (0.75%) Police
12 4 (0.60%) Automotive
12 4 (0.60%) Front Office
12 4 (0.60%) Games
12 4 (0.60%) Publishing
12 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 358 (53.59%) Developer
2 286 (42.81%) Java Developer
3 149 (22.31%) Senior
4 118 (17.66%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.92%) Software Engineer
6 88 (13.17%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (8.83%) Lead
9 56 (8.38%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.78%) Backend Developer
11 47 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (4.34%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (4.34%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.04%) Architect
14 24 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.44%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.29%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 17 (2.54%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 547 (81.89%) Spring Boot
2 206 (30.84%) Kafka
3 175 (26.20%) REST
4 158 (23.65%) RESTful
5 119 (17.81%) React
6 68 (10.18%) Node.js
7 59 (8.83%) Terraform
8 53 (7.93%) Hibernate
9 49 (7.34%) JPA
10 48 (7.19%) AngularJS
11 47 (7.04%) HTML
12 42 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
12 42 (6.29%) Spring MVC
13 39 (5.84%) CSS
13 39 (5.84%) Web Services
14 34 (5.09%) OAuth
15 33 (4.94%) Spring Cloud
16 28 (4.19%) OpenAPI
17 26 (3.89%) Redux
17 26 (3.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 161 (24.10%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.96%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.95%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.65%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.05%) Derivative
13 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.75%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.75%) Spread Betting
14 5 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.99%) Linux
2 27 (4.04%) Unix
3 5 (0.75%) Windows
4 4 (0.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) 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
1 412 (61.68%) Microservices
2 400 (59.88%) CI/CD
3 305 (45.66%) Agile
4 233 (34.88%) DevOps
5 204 (30.54%) Software Engineering
6 193 (28.89%) Containerisation
7 164 (24.55%) Test Automation
8 161 (24.10%) Event-Driven
9 131 (19.61%) TDD
10 122 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 114 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (16.32%) Observability
12 109 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (15.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 102 (15.27%) Code Quality
15 101 (15.12%) Scrum
16 75 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (10.63%) Clean Code
18 70 (10.48%) Design Patterns
19 68 (10.18%) AI
Programming Languages
1 650 (97.31%) Java
2 220 (32.93%) SQL
3 84 (12.57%) TypeScript
4 83 (12.43%) JavaScript
5 81 (12.13%) Python
6 38 (5.69%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.94%) Kotlin
8 15 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.80%) Scala
10 10 (1.50%) Bash
11 7 (1.05%) C#
12 5 (0.75%) Ruby
13 4 (0.60%) Solidity
14 3 (0.45%) Go
15 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.30%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 201 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 164 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.29%) Degree
5 16 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.30%) 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 72 (10.78%) QA
2 37 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.50%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.20%) WCAG
5 7 (1.05%) SEPA
6 6 (0.90%) GDPR
6 6 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.30%) EMIR
7 2 (0.30%) MiFID
7 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.15%) ITGC
8 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 315 (47.16%) Docker
2 6 (0.90%) Postfix
3 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 288 (43.11%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.23%) Grafana
3 54 (8.08%) Prometheus
4 32 (4.79%) Ansible
5 17 (2.54%) Kibana
6 11 (1.65%) Control-M
7 7 (1.05%) Argo
8 6 (0.90%) Istio
9 3 (0.45%) Bosun
9 3 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.30%) Consul
10 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 88 (13.17%) Oracle
2 34 (5.09%) Google
3 27 (4.04%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.69%) Splunk
5 14 (2.10%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.95%) IBM
7 10 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.50%) Solace
8 9 (1.35%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.20%) Databricks
9 8 (1.20%) New Relic
10 7 (1.05%) Sybase
10 7 (1.05%) TikTok
11 6 (0.90%) Confluent
12 4 (0.60%) FIS
12 4 (0.60%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.60%) SAP
13 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.30%) Informatica