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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 191 227
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 -114
Contract jobs citing Spring 640 340 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.40% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 6.24% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 211 287
10th Percentile £356 £381 £384
25th Percentile £420 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £644 £738 £780
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -6.33% +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 7,928 5,449 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.77% 22.48% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,311 3,760 5,406
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -2.11% -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 242 88 168
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £37.02
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 £64.06
90th Percentile £78.63 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -19 297 £525 -4.55% 58
North of England +9 155 £475 -0.52% 49
North West +38 116 £465 -7.00% 31
Midlands -13 78 £469 +10.35% 6
West Midlands +3 77 £469 +6.59% 3
South East 0 54 £405 -1.82% 18
South West -3 34 £409 -23.91% 14
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 -6.98% 11
North East -2 22 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -13 16 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -36 1 £450 +11.94% 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 39 (6.09%) Confluence
2 28 (4.38%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.97%) Apache
4 13 (2.03%) Camunda
4 13 (2.03%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.25%) JBoss
6 7 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.94%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) CICS
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.31%) WordPress
11 1 (0.16%) CMS
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 8 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 357 (55.78%) AWS
2 178 (27.81%) Azure
3 131 (20.47%) GitHub
4 113 (17.66%) GCP
5 78 (12.19%) Serverless
6 73 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (10.94%) Amazon S3
8 63 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (5.47%) OpenShift
11 31 (4.84%) Azure AKS
12 27 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (2.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 16 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
16 14 (2.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.72%) HTTP
2 7 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.78%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) DNS
5 3 (0.47%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.31%) VPN
7 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (23.91%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.72%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.63%) Relational Database
5 56 (8.75%) MySQL
6 50 (7.81%) DynamoDB
7 34 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.44%) SQL Server
10 20 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (1.88%) Big Data
11 12 (1.88%) DB2
11 12 (1.88%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.88%) Redis
12 10 (1.56%) DocumentDB
12 10 (1.56%) Flink
13 9 (1.41%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.25%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 176 (27.50%) Git
2 148 (23.13%) Jenkins
3 139 (21.72%) JUnit
4 114 (17.81%) GitLab
5 65 (10.16%) Maven
6 64 (10.00%) JIRA
7 61 (9.53%) Cucumber
8 51 (7.97%) Gradle
8 51 (7.97%) Mockito
9 43 (6.72%) Selenium
10 32 (5.00%) JMeter
11 24 (3.75%) SonarQube
12 23 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (3.28%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.66%) WebDriver
15 16 (2.50%) Postman
16 14 (2.19%) Gatling
17 11 (1.72%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.41%) jMock
18 9 (1.41%) Mocha
General
1 153 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 128 (20.00%) Finance
3 103 (16.09%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.47%) Banking
5 38 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.34%) Retail
7 14 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.94%) Law
11 5 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Automotive
12 4 (0.63%) Front Office
12 4 (0.63%) Military
12 4 (0.63%) Publishing
13 3 (0.47%) Electronics
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 382 (59.69%) Developer
2 263 (41.09%) Java Developer
3 123 (19.22%) Senior
4 92 (14.38%) Java Engineer
5 88 (13.75%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (11.41%) Senior Developer
7 62 (9.69%) Software Engineer
8 59 (9.22%) Senior Java Developer
9 55 (8.59%) Lead
10 32 (5.00%) Backend Developer
10 32 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 27 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (4.06%) Architect
14 24 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (3.28%) Software Developer
16 20 (3.13%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.66%) AWS Developer
18 16 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
19 14 (2.19%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 499 (77.97%) Spring Boot
2 181 (28.28%) Kafka
3 173 (27.03%) RESTful
4 147 (22.97%) REST
5 144 (22.50%) React
6 100 (15.63%) AngularJS
7 95 (14.84%) Node.js
8 78 (12.19%) Hibernate
9 65 (10.16%) HTML
10 55 (8.59%) CSS
11 44 (6.88%) Spring MVC
12 43 (6.72%) JPA
13 42 (6.56%) WireMock
14 35 (5.47%) OAuth
15 34 (5.31%) Spring Cloud
16 33 (5.16%) Web Services
17 32 (5.00%) HTML5
17 32 (5.00%) OAuth2
17 32 (5.00%) Playwright
18 29 (4.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 75 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.66%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.25%) Derivative
10 8 (1.25%) Equities
11 7 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.94%) NHS
13 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.63%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.97%) Linux
2 12 (1.88%) Unix
3 9 (1.41%) 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 (61.41%) Microservices
2 358 (55.94%) CI/CD
3 260 (40.63%) Agile
4 229 (35.78%) DevOps
5 186 (29.06%) Containerisation
6 155 (24.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (21.56%) TDD
8 133 (20.78%) Test Automation
9 130 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
10 127 (19.84%) Software Engineering
11 113 (17.66%) Event-Driven
12 97 (15.16%) Observability
13 96 (15.00%) Code Quality
14 93 (14.53%) Scrum
15 87 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 70 (10.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (10.16%) BDD
17 65 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (9.06%) SDLC
18 58 (9.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 598 (93.44%) Java
2 172 (26.88%) SQL
3 92 (14.38%) JavaScript
3 92 (14.38%) TypeScript
4 75 (11.72%) Python
5 43 (6.72%) Kotlin
6 16 (2.50%) Go
7 15 (2.34%) 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%) Groovy
12 1 (0.16%) JCL
12 1 (0.16%) Korn
12 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 191 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 159 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.84%) Degree
4 24 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.41%) OCP
7 9 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) 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 63 (9.84%) QA
2 49 (7.66%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.97%) WCAG
4 16 (2.50%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.41%) PSD2
5 9 (1.41%) SEPA
6 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.78%) NIST
6 5 (0.78%) SLA
7 3 (0.47%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) HL7
7 3 (0.47%) NCSC
7 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 263 (41.09%) Docker
2 7 (1.09%) Postfix
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 308 (48.13%) Kubernetes
2 81 (12.66%) Grafana
3 58 (9.06%) Terraform
4 46 (7.19%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.69%) Ansible
6 12 (1.88%) Argo
7 9 (1.41%) Kibana
7 9 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.94%) Istio
9 4 (0.63%) Puppet
9 4 (0.63%) 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 (8.75%) Oracle
2 44 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.53%) Google
4 26 (4.06%) Splunk
5 14 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.72%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.56%) Sybase
8 9 (1.41%) Solace
8 9 (1.41%) 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 (0.63%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.63%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.63%) webMethods