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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 183 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -43
Contract jobs citing Spring 676 353 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.47% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.44% 6.55% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 229 351
10th Percentile £391 £358 £375
25th Percentile £447 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -6.98% -12.96%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £638
90th Percentile £675 £709 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.77% +41.67% -36.72%

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 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +5 341 £525 - 100
North of England +14 149 £479 +3.09% 51
North West +27 104 £500 +24.38% 32
Midlands -29 76 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -15 72 £470 -1.16% 2
South West +6 44 £409 -23.91% 21
South East -40 34 £525 +27.27% 15
Yorkshire -38 28 £450 -14.29% 13
East of England -4 27 £510 +9.09% 6
North East -12 24 £450 -4.76% 7
East Midlands -46 3 £402 +7.20% 4
Spring
UK

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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 43 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.33%) Confluence
3 20 (2.96%) Apache
4 14 (2.07%) Camunda
5 10 (1.48%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.48%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.18%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.89%) nginx
8 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.59%) JBoss
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.30%) CMS
12 2 (0.30%) Drupal
12 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.74%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.59%) Quorum
2 4 (0.59%) Ripple
3 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 346 (51.18%) AWS
2 161 (23.82%) Azure
3 131 (19.38%) GitHub
4 110 (16.27%) GCP
5 78 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (9.91%) Amazon S3
7 63 (9.32%) Serverless
8 55 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.59%) OpenShift
12 23 (3.40%) Azure AKS
12 23 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (3.25%) Route 53
14 19 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.66%) AWS KMS
16 16 (2.37%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.04%) HTTP
2 4 (0.59%) DNS
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.30%) Firewall
4 2 (0.30%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (23.82%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (13.31%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.09%) MongoDB
4 68 (10.06%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.54%) DynamoDB
6 46 (6.80%) MySQL
7 44 (6.51%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.96%) Big Data
11 19 (2.81%) Redis
11 19 (2.81%) SQL Server
12 14 (2.07%) Flink
13 12 (1.78%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.04%) DB2
16 7 (1.04%) DocumentDB
16 7 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 167 (24.70%) Git
2 157 (23.22%) Jenkins
3 128 (18.93%) JUnit
4 112 (16.57%) GitLab
5 67 (9.91%) Gradle
6 65 (9.62%) Maven
7 62 (9.17%) JIRA
7 62 (9.17%) Mockito
8 43 (6.36%) Cucumber
8 43 (6.36%) Selenium
9 36 (5.33%) SonarQube
10 25 (3.70%) JMeter
11 24 (3.55%) IntelliJ
12 19 (2.81%) WebDriver
13 18 (2.66%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.51%) Gatling
15 16 (2.37%) Liquibase
16 14 (2.07%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.92%) jMock
18 11 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 132 (19.53%) Finance
2 126 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 107 (15.83%) Public Sector
4 82 (12.13%) Banking
5 44 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.25%) Retail
7 13 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.33%) Law
10 7 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.89%) Automotive
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Military
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (53.70%) Developer
2 259 (38.31%) Java Developer
3 138 (20.41%) Senior
4 118 (17.46%) Java Engineer
5 91 (13.46%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 71 (10.50%) Lead
8 67 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (7.25%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (6.21%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.14%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.40%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.25%) Data Engineer
15 22 (3.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 21 (3.11%) Architect
16 21 (3.11%) Senior Java Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 14 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (80.62%) Spring Boot
2 197 (29.14%) Kafka
3 161 (23.82%) REST
4 156 (23.08%) RESTful
5 135 (19.97%) React
6 100 (14.79%) Node.js
7 72 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 52 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 50 (7.40%) JPA
10 48 (7.10%) Spring Cloud
10 48 (7.10%) WireMock
11 44 (6.51%) Web Services
12 42 (6.21%) HTML
13 38 (5.62%) CSS
14 37 (5.47%) Spring MVC
15 36 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
16 33 (4.88%) OAuth
17 31 (4.59%) SOAP
18 30 (4.44%) Playwright
18 30 (4.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 121 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 92 (13.61%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.66%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.89%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.59%) Derivative
13 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.95%) Linux
2 12 (1.78%) Unix
3 10 (1.48%) Windows
4 9 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (59.47%) Microservices
2 375 (55.47%) CI/CD
3 268 (39.64%) Agile
4 236 (34.91%) DevOps
5 209 (30.92%) Containerisation
6 172 (25.44%) Software Engineering
7 141 (20.86%) TDD
8 139 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 124 (18.34%) Test Automation
10 123 (18.20%) Event-Driven
11 117 (17.31%) Observability
12 103 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
13 98 (14.50%) Scrum
14 96 (14.20%) Code Quality
15 78 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 73 (10.80%) BDD
17 68 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
18 56 (8.28%) Performance Tuning
19 54 (7.99%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 637 (94.23%) Java
2 205 (30.33%) SQL
3 95 (14.05%) JavaScript
3 95 (14.05%) TypeScript
4 83 (12.28%) Python
5 42 (6.21%) Kotlin
6 16 (2.37%) PL/SQL
7 14 (2.07%) Go
8 12 (1.78%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.48%) Scala
10 7 (1.04%) C#
11 6 (0.89%) Perl
11 6 (0.89%) Ruby
12 5 (0.74%) Solidity
13 4 (0.59%) Bash
14 2 (0.30%) Korn
14 2 (0.30%) PHP
14 2 (0.30%) PromQL
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 206 (30.47%) Security Cleared
2 179 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 27 (3.99%) Degree
4 21 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.04%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.17%) QA
2 52 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.78%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.63%) WCAG
5 10 (1.48%) SEPA
6 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.89%) GDPR
7 6 (0.89%) PSD2
7 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) NIST
10 2 (0.30%) EMIR
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 305 (45.12%) Docker
2 11 (1.63%) Postfix
3 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 306 (45.27%) Kubernetes
2 97 (14.35%) Grafana
3 67 (9.91%) Prometheus
4 60 (8.88%) Terraform
5 25 (3.70%) Ansible
6 12 (1.78%) Argo
7 10 (1.48%) Kibana
8 8 (1.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.30%) Consul
10 2 (0.30%) Rancher
10 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 53 (7.84%) Oracle
2 36 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 26 (3.85%) Google
3 26 (3.85%) Splunk
4 17 (2.51%) Jaspersoft
5 14 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 13 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.63%) Solace
9 10 (1.48%) IBM
9 10 (1.48%) Sybase
10 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
11 7 (1.04%) Databricks
12 6 (0.89%) Confluent
13 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.74%) New Relic
13 5 (0.74%) Teradata
14 4 (0.59%) Adobe
15 3 (0.44%) Informatica
15 3 (0.44%) SAP