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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 180 179
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Spring 675 437 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.58% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.84% 6.37% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 300 349
10th Percentile £367 £332 £381
25th Percentile £436 £400 £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 £712 £651 £781
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 5
10th Percentile £57.10 £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 £76.25 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +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 9,865 6,864 8,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.51% 24.88% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,717 5,610
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 271 165 197
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £26.36
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% -3.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £77.22 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +20.37% -8.33% -5.75%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 22 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 22 August 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 22 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 -6 372 £528 +0.48% 77
North of England -3 152 £510 +9.68% 46
North West -20 86 £540 +21.35% 24
Midlands -42 65 £475 +14.46% 20
West Midlands -16 59 £500 - 17
Yorkshire +1 48 £525 +46.12% 9
South West -18 36 £500 -0.99% 31
South East -53 30 £367 -26.55% 28
East of England -2 20 £504 +7.70% 1
North East -32 19 £450 -8.16% 14
East Midlands -43 5 £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 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.26%) Apache
3 19 (2.81%) Confluence
4 10 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.33%) Camunda
6 8 (1.19%) nginx
7 7 (1.04%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.59%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.59%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.44%) 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 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.59%) Quorum
1 4 (0.59%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.59%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (53.63%) AWS
2 151 (22.37%) Azure
3 126 (18.67%) GitHub
4 106 (15.70%) GCP
5 69 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.56%) Serverless
7 43 (6.37%) Amazon S3
7 43 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 36 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (4.74%) OpenShift
13 27 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (1.78%) Azure AKS
18 11 (1.63%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.74%) HTTP
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (22.52%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.26%) Relational Database
4 65 (9.63%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.81%) MySQL
6 34 (5.04%) Redis
7 33 (4.89%) DynamoDB
8 26 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.07%) Big Data
11 14 (2.07%) Flink
12 13 (1.93%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.63%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.48%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 174 (25.78%) Git
2 173 (25.63%) Jenkins
3 120 (17.78%) JUnit
4 101 (14.96%) GitLab
5 72 (10.67%) Gradle
6 65 (9.63%) Maven
7 61 (9.04%) Mockito
8 42 (6.22%) SonarQube
9 39 (5.78%) JIRA
10 35 (5.19%) Cucumber
11 30 (4.44%) Selenium
12 20 (2.96%) Liquibase
13 18 (2.67%) Gatling
14 14 (2.07%) JMeter
14 14 (2.07%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.93%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.78%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.48%) WebDriver
18 8 (1.19%) DbUnit
18 8 (1.19%) Flyway
General
1 158 (23.41%) Finance
2 148 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 91 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 88 (13.04%) Banking
5 58 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.30%) Retail
7 13 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.48%) Law
10 7 (1.04%) Back Office
10 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.74%) Military
11 5 (0.74%) Police
12 4 (0.59%) Automotive
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Games
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
12 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 360 (53.33%) Developer
2 288 (42.67%) Java Developer
3 149 (22.07%) Senior
4 119 (17.63%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.78%) Software Engineer
6 88 (13.04%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.37%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (8.74%) Lead
9 56 (8.30%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.70%) Backend Developer
11 47 (6.96%) Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (4.30%) Senior Java Engineer
12 29 (4.30%) Software Developer
13 27 (4.00%) Architect
14 24 (3.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.41%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 22 (3.26%) Data Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 18 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 551 (81.63%) Spring Boot
2 208 (30.81%) Kafka
3 177 (26.22%) REST
4 158 (23.41%) RESTful
5 119 (17.63%) React
6 69 (10.22%) Node.js
7 60 (8.89%) Terraform
8 54 (8.00%) Hibernate
9 49 (7.26%) JPA
10 48 (7.11%) AngularJS
11 47 (6.96%) HTML
12 42 (6.22%) RabbitMQ
12 42 (6.22%) Spring MVC
13 40 (5.93%) Web Services
14 39 (5.78%) CSS
15 34 (5.04%) OAuth
16 33 (4.89%) Spring Cloud
17 28 (4.15%) OpenAPI
17 28 (4.15%) WireMock
18 26 (3.85%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 164 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 121 (17.93%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.63%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.04%) Derivative
13 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.74%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.74%) Spread Betting
14 5 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.93%) Linux
2 27 (4.00%) Unix
3 5 (0.74%) Windows
4 4 (0.59%) 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
1 418 (61.93%) Microservices
2 404 (59.85%) CI/CD
3 309 (45.78%) Agile
4 233 (34.52%) DevOps
5 206 (30.52%) Software Engineering
6 195 (28.89%) Containerisation
7 168 (24.89%) Test Automation
8 163 (24.15%) Event-Driven
9 134 (19.85%) TDD
10 122 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 114 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 110 (16.30%) Observability
12 110 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (15.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 104 (15.41%) Scrum
14 102 (15.11%) Code Quality
15 76 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 71 (10.52%) Clean Code
17 70 (10.37%) Design Patterns
18 68 (10.07%) AI
Programming Languages
1 657 (97.33%) Java
2 220 (32.59%) SQL
3 85 (12.59%) TypeScript
4 83 (12.30%) JavaScript
5 82 (12.15%) Python
6 38 (5.63%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.89%) Kotlin
8 15 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.78%) Scala
10 11 (1.63%) Bash
11 7 (1.04%) C#
12 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Solidity
14 3 (0.44%) Go
15 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.30%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 203 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 166 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.41%) Degree
5 16 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.48%) 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 76 (11.26%) QA
2 40 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.63%) WCAG
4 10 (1.48%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.04%) SEPA
7 6 (0.89%) GDPR
7 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.30%) EMIR
8 2 (0.30%) MiFID
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 320 (47.41%) Docker
2 6 (0.89%) Postfix
3 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 293 (43.41%) Kubernetes
2 55 (8.15%) Grafana
3 54 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 32 (4.74%) Ansible
5 17 (2.52%) Kibana
6 11 (1.63%) Control-M
7 7 (1.04%) Argo
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
9 3 (0.44%) Bosun
9 3 (0.44%) 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 (13.04%) Oracle
2 34 (5.04%) Google
3 27 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.67%) Splunk
5 14 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.93%) IBM
7 10 (1.48%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.48%) Solace
8 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.19%) Databricks
9 8 (1.19%) New Relic
10 7 (1.04%) Sybase
10 7 (1.04%) TikTok
11 6 (0.89%) Confluent
12 4 (0.59%) FIS
12 4 (0.59%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.59%) SAP
13 3 (0.44%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.30%) Informatica