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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 191 232
Rank change year-on-year +26 +41 -120
Contract jobs citing Spring 632 333 388
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.37% 1.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.05% 6.08% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 205 293
10th Percentile £353 £396 £382
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 £644 £738 £785
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -13.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -32.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -15.38% +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 7,852 5,477 7,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.91% 22.57% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,768 5,388
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -0.51% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £672
90th Percentile £738 £792 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 86 174
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.79
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.86
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 26 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 26 March 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 26 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 -9 289 £525 -7.08% 58
North of England +19 155 £475 -5.00% 49
North West +40 116 £465 -2.11% 31
Midlands -1 80 £469 +10.35% 6
West Midlands +1 78 £469 +10.35% 3
South East +1 55 £416 +0.91% 18
South West -8 30 £409 -25.64% 14
Yorkshire -47 24 £500 -6.98% 11
North East +1 22 £450 +1.12% 7
East of England -13 16 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -35 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 (6.33%) Confluence
2 25 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.85%) Apache
4 13 (2.06%) Camunda
4 13 (2.06%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.27%) JBoss
6 7 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.47%) nginx
10 2 (0.32%) CICS
10 2 (0.32%) Drupal
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) WordPress
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 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 (1.42%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 354 (56.01%) AWS
2 178 (28.16%) Azure
3 133 (21.04%) GitHub
4 113 (17.88%) GCP
5 77 (12.18%) Serverless
6 72 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (11.08%) Amazon S3
8 62 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (6.01%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (5.22%) OpenShift
12 29 (4.59%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (2.53%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) HTTP
2 7 (1.11%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.79%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.79%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) DNS
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (24.05%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (15.03%) NoSQL
3 77 (12.18%) MongoDB
4 66 (10.44%) Relational Database
5 51 (8.07%) MySQL
6 50 (7.91%) DynamoDB
7 36 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.32%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.06%) DB2
11 12 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (1.90%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.74%) Big Data
12 11 (1.74%) Redis
13 10 (1.58%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.42%) Flink
15 8 (1.27%) HBase
15 8 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 175 (27.69%) Git
2 150 (23.73%) Jenkins
3 144 (22.78%) JUnit
4 115 (18.20%) GitLab
5 65 (10.28%) JIRA
5 65 (10.28%) Maven
6 64 (10.13%) Cucumber
7 52 (8.23%) Gradle
8 51 (8.07%) Mockito
9 43 (6.80%) Selenium
10 32 (5.06%) JMeter
11 26 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (3.64%) SonarQube
13 21 (3.32%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.69%) WebDriver
15 16 (2.53%) Postman
16 15 (2.37%) Gatling
17 11 (1.74%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.74%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.42%) Mocha
General
1 159 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 124 (19.62%) Finance
3 103 (16.30%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.76%) Banking
5 38 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.37%) Retail
7 14 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.95%) Law
11 5 (0.79%) Front Office
11 5 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Automotive
12 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.63%) Military
12 4 (0.63%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
13 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (59.81%) Developer
2 261 (41.30%) Java Developer
3 124 (19.62%) Senior
4 89 (14.08%) Java Engineer
5 86 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
6 75 (11.87%) Senior Developer
7 61 (9.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 61 (9.65%) Software Engineer
8 56 (8.86%) Lead
9 32 (5.06%) Backend Developer
9 32 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (4.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (4.27%) Architect
12 25 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 25 (3.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 20 (3.16%) AWS Developer
13 20 (3.16%) Lead Developer
13 20 (3.16%) Software Developer
14 15 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.06%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (77.85%) Spring Boot
2 184 (29.11%) Kafka
3 172 (27.22%) RESTful
4 146 (23.10%) REST
5 138 (21.84%) React
6 100 (15.82%) AngularJS
7 90 (14.24%) Node.js
8 79 (12.50%) Hibernate
9 61 (9.65%) HTML
10 51 (8.07%) CSS
11 44 (6.96%) JPA
12 42 (6.65%) WireMock
13 40 (6.33%) Spring MVC
14 35 (5.54%) OAuth
15 33 (5.22%) Spring Cloud
15 33 (5.22%) Web Services
16 32 (5.06%) OAuth2
16 32 (5.06%) Playwright
17 30 (4.75%) JSON
18 29 (4.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 76 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.69%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 12 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.42%) Equities
10 8 (1.27%) Derivative
11 7 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.95%) NHS
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
14 3 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.23%) Linux
2 12 (1.90%) Unix
3 9 (1.42%) Windows
4 8 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.95%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Solaris
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (61.39%) Microservices
2 358 (56.65%) CI/CD
3 259 (40.98%) Agile
4 227 (35.92%) DevOps
5 180 (28.48%) Containerisation
6 150 (23.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 135 (21.36%) TDD
8 133 (21.04%) Test Automation
9 132 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (19.46%) Software Engineering
11 113 (17.88%) Event-Driven
12 95 (15.03%) Observability
13 94 (14.87%) Scrum
14 90 (14.24%) Code Quality
15 83 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (10.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (10.28%) BDD
18 64 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (9.02%) SDLC
19 57 (9.02%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 591 (93.51%) Java
2 168 (26.58%) SQL
3 89 (14.08%) TypeScript
4 86 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 74 (11.71%) Python
6 43 (6.80%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.53%) Go
7 16 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 9 (1.42%) Scala
9 8 (1.27%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.11%) Perl
11 6 (0.95%) C#
12 3 (0.47%) Bash
12 3 (0.47%) PHP
12 3 (0.47%) Ruby
13 1 (0.16%) Groovy
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
13 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 187 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 157 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.75%) Degree
4 23 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.90%) OCP
6 12 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.32%) 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 63 (9.97%) QA
2 48 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.01%) WCAG
4 17 (2.69%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.42%) PSD2
6 9 (1.42%) SEPA
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.79%) NIST
7 5 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.47%) GDPR
8 3 (0.47%) HL7
8 3 (0.47%) NCSC
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 261 (41.30%) Docker
2 7 (1.11%) Postfix
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 303 (47.94%) Kubernetes
2 84 (13.29%) Grafana
3 58 (9.18%) Terraform
4 46 (7.28%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.75%) Ansible
6 12 (1.90%) Argo
7 10 (1.58%) Kibana
8 9 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.95%) Istio
10 4 (0.63%) Puppet
10 4 (0.63%) Rancher
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 54 (8.54%) Oracle
2 42 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.75%) Google
4 27 (4.27%) Splunk
5 14 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.74%) Sybase
7 10 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.42%) Solace
8 9 (1.42%) VMware
9 8 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.11%) IBM
11 6 (0.95%) Adobe
11 6 (0.95%) Databricks
11 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.79%) SAP
13 4 (0.63%) Confluent
13 4 (0.63%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.63%) webMethods