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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 184 183
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +27
Contract jobs citing Spring 700 426 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.54% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.16% 6.23% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 289 342
10th Percentile £387 £339 £379
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £556 £650
90th Percentile £725 £646 £780
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 4
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.00 £41.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £50.94
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 £60.81
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 £69.03
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 9,776 6,836 8,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.77% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,706 5,575
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £437 £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 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 163 187
10th Percentile £29.16 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.05 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.70 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -11.77% -4.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £75.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -2.22%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +1 375 £530 - 466
North of England +3 164 £515 +10.75% 132
North West -20 94 £550 +23.60% 84
Midlands -33 76 £551 +33.45% 45
West Midlands -6 70 £570 +14.00% 40
Yorkshire -5 52 £500 +39.16% 22
South West -18 37 £481 -4.70% 58
South East -41 30 £367 -26.55% 47
East of England -2 21 £500 +6.95% 6
North East -30 19 £450 -8.16% 26
East Midlands -39 5 £400 +6.67% 5
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 33 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.14%) Apache
3 16 (2.29%) Confluence
4 10 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.43%) Camunda
5 9 (1.29%) nginx
6 8 (1.14%) WebLogic
7 7 (1.00%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.57%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.57%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.43%) CMS
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.57%) Quorum
1 4 (0.57%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.57%) Ripple
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 377 (53.86%) AWS
2 149 (21.29%) Azure
3 128 (18.29%) GitHub
4 104 (14.86%) GCP
5 67 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.29%) Serverless
7 43 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (5.86%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (4.86%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.71%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (1.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 12 (1.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) HTTP
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (20.86%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.14%) NoSQL
3 77 (11.00%) Relational Database
4 74 (10.57%) MongoDB
5 47 (6.71%) MySQL
6 35 (5.00%) Redis
7 31 (4.43%) DynamoDB
8 29 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.14%) Flink
12 14 (2.00%) Big Data
12 14 (2.00%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.71%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.57%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 178 (25.43%) Git
2 171 (24.43%) Jenkins
3 125 (17.86%) JUnit
4 110 (15.71%) GitLab
5 73 (10.43%) Gradle
6 71 (10.14%) Maven
7 63 (9.00%) Mockito
8 46 (6.57%) SonarQube
9 35 (5.00%) JIRA
10 34 (4.86%) Cucumber
11 30 (4.29%) Selenium
12 20 (2.86%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.71%) Gatling
14 16 (2.29%) REST Assured
15 15 (2.14%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.71%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.43%) JMeter
18 8 (1.14%) Flyway
19 7 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
19 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
General
1 162 (23.14%) Finance
2 155 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.14%) Banking
3 92 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (4.14%) Retail
6 14 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.43%) Law
8 9 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.00%) Back Office
9 7 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.00%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.71%) Military
10 5 (0.71%) Police
11 4 (0.57%) Automotive
11 4 (0.57%) Games
11 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 373 (53.29%) Developer
2 300 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 153 (21.86%) Senior
4 129 (18.43%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.29%) Software Engineer
6 91 (13.00%) Senior Developer
7 73 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
8 65 (9.29%) Lead
9 56 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.43%) Backend Developer
11 50 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.29%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 28 (4.00%) Architect
15 26 (3.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.71%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.14%) Data Engineer
17 21 (3.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 20 (2.86%) Lead Java Developer
19 19 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 572 (81.71%) Spring Boot
2 223 (31.86%) Kafka
3 178 (25.43%) REST
4 155 (22.14%) RESTful
5 127 (18.14%) React
6 70 (10.00%) Node.js
7 61 (8.71%) Terraform
8 53 (7.57%) Hibernate
9 52 (7.43%) HTML
10 51 (7.29%) JPA
11 49 (7.00%) AngularJS
12 45 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (6.29%) CSS
14 42 (6.00%) Spring MVC
15 39 (5.57%) Web Services
16 37 (5.29%) OAuth
17 35 (5.00%) OpenAPI
18 31 (4.43%) Spring Cloud
19 29 (4.14%) Swagger
20 28 (4.00%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 169 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 118 (16.86%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (7.29%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (2.00%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.86%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
14 9 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.00%) Derivative
16 6 (0.86%) Public Cloud
16 6 (0.86%) Spread Betting
16 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 5 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 4 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.86%) Linux
2 28 (4.00%) Unix
3 5 (0.71%) Windows
4 4 (0.57%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (61.14%) Microservices
2 410 (58.57%) CI/CD
3 329 (47.00%) Agile
4 238 (34.00%) DevOps
5 217 (31.00%) Software Engineering
6 193 (27.57%) Containerisation
7 171 (24.43%) Test Automation
8 170 (24.29%) Event-Driven
9 136 (19.43%) TDD
10 124 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 115 (16.43%) Scrum
12 112 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (15.86%) Observability
14 109 (15.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 106 (15.14%) Code Quality
16 78 (11.14%) SDLC
17 76 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (10.57%) Clean Code
19 71 (10.14%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 684 (97.71%) Java
2 224 (32.00%) SQL
3 90 (12.86%) JavaScript
4 87 (12.43%) TypeScript
5 85 (12.14%) Python
6 40 (5.71%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.71%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.43%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.71%) Bash
9 12 (1.71%) Scala
10 6 (0.86%) C#
11 5 (0.71%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Solidity
13 3 (0.43%) Go
13 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) Korn
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 205 (29.29%) Security Cleared
2 170 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (3.71%) Degree
5 20 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.86%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.14%) QA
2 43 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.86%) WCAG
4 11 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.00%) SEPA
7 6 (0.86%) GDPR
7 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 323 (46.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 302 (43.14%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.71%) Prometheus
3 52 (7.43%) Grafana
4 32 (4.57%) Ansible
5 21 (3.00%) Kibana
6 11 (1.57%) Control-M
7 7 (1.00%) Argo
7 7 (1.00%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Bosun
8 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.29%) Consul
9 2 (0.29%) Rancher
9 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) Kiali
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 93 (13.29%) Oracle
2 35 (5.00%) Google
3 29 (4.14%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.71%) Splunk
5 18 (2.57%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.57%) IBM
6 10 (1.43%) Solace
7 9 (1.29%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.29%) Databricks
8 8 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.00%) New Relic
9 7 (1.00%) Sybase
9 7 (1.00%) TikTok
10 6 (0.86%) Confluent
11 4 (0.57%) FIS
11 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.57%) SAP
12 3 (0.43%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.29%) Informatica