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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 194 247
Rank change year-on-year +18 +53 -156
Contract jobs citing Spring 490 394 372
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.30% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.10% 5.96% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 251 286
10th Percentile £326 £413 £413
25th Percentile £402 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £675
90th Percentile £638 £800 £813
UK median daily rate £490 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 9 December 2025.

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
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 9 December 2025. 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 +4 266 £525 -10.26% 101
North of England +4 107 £460 +2.17% 101
North West +32 77 £450 - 52
Midlands -10 49 £426 -27.53% 44
South East +10 41 £400 -11.11% 76
West Midlands -17 36 £455 -22.64% 23
Yorkshire -36 20 £513 -18.00% 39
East Midlands - 13 £341 - 18
South West -16 12 £503 -8.64% 39
North East -3 11 £500 +12.36% 11
East of England -21 1 - - 31
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 17 (3.47%) Confluence
2 12 (2.45%) Apache
3 11 (2.24%) WebLogic
4 10 (2.04%) JBoss
5 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.82%) Camunda
5 4 (0.82%) Mule
6 3 (0.61%) CICS
6 3 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.41%) Drupal
7 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.22%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 271 (55.31%) AWS
2 155 (31.63%) Azure
3 90 (18.37%) GCP
4 80 (16.33%) GitHub
5 41 (8.37%) Serverless
6 36 (7.35%) OpenShift
7 32 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 22 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (4.08%) Azure AKS
12 18 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.45%) Datadog
15 11 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (2.24%) Apigee
16 9 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.82%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.61%) SSL
4 2 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (21.84%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.49%) MongoDB
3 68 (13.88%) Relational Database
4 56 (11.43%) NoSQL
5 33 (6.73%) MySQL
6 24 (4.90%) DynamoDB
7 22 (4.49%) DB2
8 15 (3.06%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.86%) RDBMS
10 12 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.45%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.84%) HBase
11 9 (1.84%) Redis
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.02%) Big Data
14 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.82%) Tick Data
15 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.61%) KDB
Development Applications
1 128 (26.12%) JUnit
2 125 (25.51%) Git
3 98 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 63 (12.86%) GitLab
5 53 (10.82%) Cucumber
6 47 (9.59%) Maven
7 41 (8.37%) JIRA
7 41 (8.37%) Mockito
8 31 (6.33%) Gradle
9 29 (5.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (4.90%) Selenium
11 21 (4.29%) Postman
12 16 (3.27%) JMeter
12 16 (3.27%) SonarQube
13 14 (2.86%) Eclipse
14 12 (2.45%) Artifactory
14 12 (2.45%) IntelliJ
15 10 (2.04%) Bitbucket
16 7 (1.43%) REST Assured
16 7 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 163 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 118 (24.08%) Finance
3 84 (17.14%) Banking
4 64 (13.06%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.49%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.61%) Automotive
11 3 (0.61%) Electronics
11 3 (0.61%) Front Office
11 3 (0.61%) Law
11 3 (0.61%) Marketing
12 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 317 (64.69%) Developer
2 253 (51.63%) Java Developer
3 103 (21.02%) Senior
4 82 (16.73%) Senior Developer
5 78 (15.92%) Senior Java Developer
6 59 (12.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 54 (11.02%) Java Engineer
8 48 (9.80%) Lead
9 31 (6.33%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 23 (4.69%) Lead Developer
12 21 (4.29%) AWS Developer
13 20 (4.08%) Architect
14 19 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.88%) Lead Java Developer
15 17 (3.47%) Backend Developer
16 14 (2.86%) SQL Developer
17 13 (2.65%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 13 (2.65%) Linux Developer
17 13 (2.65%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 349 (71.22%) Spring Boot
2 154 (31.43%) Kafka
3 136 (27.76%) RESTful
4 108 (22.04%) REST
5 97 (19.80%) React
6 86 (17.55%) AngularJS
7 85 (17.35%) Hibernate
8 73 (14.90%) HTML
9 53 (10.82%) CSS
10 45 (9.18%) JSON
11 43 (8.78%) Node.js
12 38 (7.76%) OAuth
13 32 (6.53%) JPA
13 32 (6.53%) OAuth2
14 31 (6.33%) JMS
15 30 (6.12%) SOAP
16 27 (5.51%) Web Services
16 27 (5.51%) XML
17 26 (5.31%) HTML5
18 24 (4.90%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.67%) Equities
6 12 (2.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 11 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.63%) Derivative
10 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (0.82%) NHS
13 3 (0.61%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
14 2 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 53 (10.82%) Linux
2 22 (4.49%) Unix
3 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.02%) Windows
4 3 (0.61%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) VMS
5 2 (0.41%) zOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (62.04%) Microservices
2 277 (56.53%) CI/CD
3 234 (47.76%) Agile
4 157 (32.04%) DevOps
5 151 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (28.16%) Containerisation
7 105 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (19.59%) TDD
9 95 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 82 (16.73%) Software Engineering
11 74 (15.10%) Event-Driven
12 73 (14.90%) SDLC
13 63 (12.86%) Scrum
14 58 (11.84%) Code Quality
15 56 (11.43%) Mentoring
16 51 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 50 (10.20%) Design Patterns
18 49 (10.00%) API Development
19 47 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
20 46 (9.39%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 479 (97.76%) Java
2 147 (30.00%) SQL
3 77 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 72 (14.69%) Python
5 61 (12.45%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.31%) Shell Script
7 21 (4.29%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.86%) Scala
9 10 (2.04%) Groovy
9 10 (2.04%) Ruby
10 9 (1.84%) Bash
11 6 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.02%) C#
13 4 (0.82%) C++
14 3 (0.61%) C
14 3 (0.61%) Go
15 2 (0.41%) COBOL
15 2 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 118 (24.08%) Security Cleared
2 94 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.92%) Degree
4 25 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.65%) OCP
5 13 (2.65%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.20%) OSCP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.43%) QA
2 20 (4.08%) ISO 20022
3 17 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.24%) PSD2
4 11 (2.24%) SEPA
5 10 (2.04%) WCAG
6 6 (1.22%) GDPR
7 5 (1.02%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 200 (40.82%) Docker
2 7 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 209 (42.65%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.20%) Terraform
3 31 (6.33%) Ansible
4 23 (4.69%) Grafana
5 15 (3.06%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.65%) Argo
7 10 (2.04%) Kibana
7 10 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.63%) Puppet
9 5 (1.02%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Control-M
11 1 (0.20%) logstash
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (11.22%) Oracle
2 33 (6.73%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.71%) Google
4 19 (3.88%) Sybase
5 18 (3.67%) Splunk
6 16 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.86%) VMware
8 12 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
10 9 (1.84%) IBM
10 9 (1.84%) webMethods
11 5 (1.02%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.02%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.02%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.82%) Calypso
12 4 (0.82%) SAP
12 4 (0.82%) Solace
12 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.61%) Bloomberg