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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 175 184
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Spring 726 436 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.56% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 6.12% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 303 318
10th Percentile £366 £326 £390
25th Percentile £447 £400 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £675
90th Percentile £725 £638 £796
UK median daily rate £520 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +5.58% -6.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 9,888 7,127 7,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,506 4,804 5,199
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £448 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 174
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.08
25th Percentile £55.00 £41.51 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £54.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -15.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £70.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
% change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -5 378 £545 +3.81% 517
North of England +1 168 £545 +16.20% 144
Midlands -2 114 £525 +26.51% 51
West Midlands +21 108 £528 +5.50% 40
North West -1 98 £560 +25.84% 84
Yorkshire +8 53 £500 +25.00% 27
South West -28 30 £538 +6.44% 47
South East -62 27 £294 -30.82% 58
North East -30 18 £470 -14.55% 34
East of England - 15 £504 - 9
East Midlands -42 5 £400 +9.89% 11
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 25 (3.44%) Apache
2 24 (3.31%) Confluence
3 23 (3.17%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.52%) Camunda
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.24%) nginx
6 8 (1.10%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.10%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Mule
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.28%) Solana
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.55%) Quorum
1 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.55%) Ripple
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (54.41%) AWS
2 126 (17.36%) Azure
2 126 (17.36%) GitHub
3 93 (12.81%) GCP
4 62 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
5 50 (6.89%) Serverless
6 45 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
6 45 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
7 43 (5.92%) Amazon S3
8 42 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
9 34 (4.68%) OpenShift
10 33 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (3.44%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 12 (1.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (1.52%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.10%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (19.97%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.26%) MongoDB
3 87 (11.98%) Relational Database
4 79 (10.88%) NoSQL
5 36 (4.96%) Redis
6 33 (4.55%) MySQL
7 31 (4.27%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.62%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.62%) Flink
10 16 (2.20%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.79%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.52%) Couchbase
13 10 (1.38%) Big Data
14 9 (1.24%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.96%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.96%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 204 (28.10%) Git
2 179 (24.66%) Jenkins
3 141 (19.42%) JUnit
4 138 (19.01%) GitLab
5 102 (14.05%) Maven
6 84 (11.57%) Gradle
7 76 (10.47%) Mockito
8 59 (8.13%) SonarQube
9 52 (7.16%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.79%) Selenium
11 39 (5.37%) JIRA
12 31 (4.27%) Gatling
13 21 (2.89%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.34%) Bitbucket
15 15 (2.07%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.93%) Claude Code
17 8 (1.10%) Flyway
17 8 (1.10%) IntelliJ
18 7 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
19 6 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
General
1 173 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 165 (22.73%) Finance
3 113 (15.56%) Banking
4 101 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 70 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.13%) Retail
7 20 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.93%) Back Office
8 14 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.65%) Front Office
10 8 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.96%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.83%) Law
12 6 (0.83%) Military
13 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.55%) Games
14 4 (0.55%) iGaming
14 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 367 (50.55%) Developer
2 299 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 168 (23.14%) Senior
4 149 (20.52%) Java Engineer
5 92 (12.67%) Senior Developer
5 92 (12.67%) Software Engineer
6 74 (10.19%) Lead
7 73 (10.06%) Senior Java Developer
8 55 (7.58%) Java Software Engineer
9 47 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 46 (6.34%) Backend Developer
11 42 (5.79%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (4.13%) Lead Developer
13 26 (3.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 25 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (3.44%) Lead Java Developer
14 25 (3.44%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.31%) Architect
15 24 (3.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (2.89%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (82.51%) Spring Boot
2 246 (33.88%) Kafka
3 212 (29.20%) REST
4 157 (21.63%) RESTful
5 117 (16.12%) React
6 77 (10.61%) JPA
7 69 (9.50%) Hibernate
8 67 (9.23%) Terraform
9 62 (8.54%) Node.js
10 56 (7.71%) AngularJS
11 50 (6.89%) HTML
12 48 (6.61%) OpenAPI
12 48 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (5.79%) Web Services
14 40 (5.51%) CSS
15 39 (5.37%) OAuth
15 39 (5.37%) Playwright
16 38 (5.23%) Spring MVC
17 37 (5.10%) Swagger
18 36 (4.96%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 183 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 132 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (8.68%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.89%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.79%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.38%) Derivative
11 10 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.75%) Linux
2 35 (4.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.41%) Mac OS X
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (61.57%) CI/CD
2 440 (60.61%) Microservices
3 365 (50.28%) Agile
4 237 (32.64%) DevOps
5 225 (30.99%) Software Engineering
6 210 (28.93%) Test Automation
7 195 (26.86%) Containerisation
8 188 (25.90%) Event-Driven
9 151 (20.80%) Scrum
10 138 (19.01%) TDD
11 125 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (17.08%) Full-Stack Development
13 120 (16.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 113 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (15.29%) Observability
16 102 (14.05%) Code Quality
17 92 (12.67%) SDLC
18 83 (11.43%) AI
19 81 (11.16%) Clean Code
20 74 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 712 (98.07%) Java
2 227 (31.27%) SQL
3 94 (12.95%) JavaScript
3 94 (12.95%) TypeScript
4 68 (9.37%) Python
5 41 (5.65%) PL/SQL
6 30 (4.13%) Kotlin
7 25 (3.44%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.93%) Scala
9 13 (1.79%) Bash
10 5 (0.69%) C#
11 4 (0.55%) Ruby
11 4 (0.55%) Solidity
12 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.28%) Bicep
13 2 (0.28%) Korn
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 206 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 175 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (4.27%) Degree
5 24 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (13.77%) QA
2 52 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.17%) WCAG
4 14 (1.93%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.24%) SEPA
6 4 (0.55%) GDPR
7 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 329 (45.32%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 320 (44.08%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.13%) Grafana
3 55 (7.58%) Prometheus
4 31 (4.27%) Kibana
5 29 (3.99%) Ansible
6 11 (1.52%) Control-M
7 9 (1.24%) Argo
8 7 (0.96%) Istio
9 4 (0.55%) Bosun
9 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 99 (13.64%) Oracle
2 37 (5.10%) Google
3 21 (2.89%) Splunk
4 20 (2.75%) IBM
5 17 (2.34%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 9 (1.24%) Databricks
6 9 (1.24%) New Relic
6 9 (1.24%) Sybase
7 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.96%) Solace
7 7 (0.96%) TikTok
8 6 (0.83%) Confluent
8 6 (0.83%) ION Trading
8 6 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.69%) FIS
10 4 (0.55%) Checkmarx
10 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.41%) Mistral