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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 178 179
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +41
Contract jobs citing Spring 723 449 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.61% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 6.27% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 311 324
10th Percentile £360 £325 £390
25th Percentile £437 £401 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.98%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £675
90th Percentile £725 £638 £800
UK median daily rate £524 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.70% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £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 9,886 7,159 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.62% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,508 4,850 5,253
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.68%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 171 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.61 £35.50
25th Percentile £53.43 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -6 374 £537 +1.32% 515
North of England -2 162 £550 +19.63% 149
Midlands -10 115 £525 +27.27% 52
West Midlands +32 109 £528 +5.50% 41
North West -15 92 £565 +31.40% 89
Yorkshire +4 54 £500 +25.00% 31
South West -20 31 £500 -0.99% 65
South East -53 30 £297 -28.00% 47
North East -29 17 £470 -14.55% 29
East of England - 17 £500 - 6
East Midlands -41 5 £400 +6.67% 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 26 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.46%) Apache
3 24 (3.32%) Confluence
4 10 (1.38%) Camunda
5 9 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.24%) nginx
6 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.11%) 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 SOA Suite
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
1 397 (54.91%) AWS
2 129 (17.84%) GitHub
3 127 (17.57%) Azure
4 91 (12.59%) GCP
5 63 (8.71%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (7.33%) Serverless
7 49 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.64%) Amazon S3
9 44 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.84%) OpenShift
13 29 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
16 14 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 12 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 11 (1.52%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.11%) 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%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (20.06%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.45%) MongoDB
3 83 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 80 (11.07%) Relational Database
5 36 (4.98%) Redis
6 35 (4.84%) MySQL
7 26 (3.60%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.46%) DynamoDB
9 19 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.63%) Flink
10 14 (1.94%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.80%) Big Data
11 13 (1.80%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.52%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
15 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 202 (27.94%) Git
2 178 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 143 (19.78%) JUnit
4 137 (18.95%) GitLab
5 102 (14.11%) Maven
6 83 (11.48%) Gradle
7 77 (10.65%) Mockito
8 60 (8.30%) SonarQube
9 51 (7.05%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.81%) Selenium
11 39 (5.39%) JIRA
12 31 (4.29%) Gatling
13 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.35%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.21%) Liquibase
16 12 (1.66%) Claude Code
17 9 (1.24%) IntelliJ
18 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.11%) Flyway
19 6 (0.83%) DbUnit
General
1 168 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 165 (22.82%) Finance
3 109 (15.08%) Banking
4 102 (14.11%) Public Sector
5 66 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.15%) Retail
7 15 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.38%) Back Office
10 10 (1.38%) Front Office
11 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.97%) 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%) Police
15 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 367 (50.76%) Developer
2 301 (41.63%) Java Developer
3 167 (23.10%) Senior
4 146 (20.19%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.28%) Senior Developer
6 90 (12.45%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.51%) Lead
7 76 (10.51%) Senior Java Developer
8 54 (7.47%) Java Software Engineer
9 47 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (6.09%) Backend Developer
11 39 (5.39%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (4.29%) Lead Developer
13 27 (3.73%) Software Developer
14 26 (3.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.46%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.32%) Architect
16 24 (3.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 22 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 595 (82.30%) Spring Boot
2 242 (33.47%) Kafka
3 203 (28.08%) REST
4 157 (21.72%) RESTful
5 118 (16.32%) React
6 77 (10.65%) JPA
7 69 (9.54%) Hibernate
8 65 (8.99%) Terraform
9 62 (8.58%) Node.js
10 54 (7.47%) AngularJS
11 50 (6.92%) OpenAPI
12 49 (6.78%) HTML
13 48 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
14 42 (5.81%) Web Services
15 40 (5.53%) OAuth
16 39 (5.39%) Playwright
16 39 (5.39%) Swagger
17 38 (5.26%) CSS
18 37 (5.12%) Spring Cloud
19 36 (4.98%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 182 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 126 (17.43%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (8.85%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.77%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 10 (1.38%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.11%) Derivative
14 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.83%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.92%) Linux
2 36 (4.98%) Unix
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
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
1 440 (60.86%) CI/CD
2 436 (60.30%) Microservices
3 354 (48.96%) Agile
4 238 (32.92%) DevOps
5 226 (31.26%) Software Engineering
6 205 (28.35%) Test Automation
7 197 (27.25%) Containerisation
8 185 (25.59%) Event-Driven
9 149 (20.61%) Scrum
10 139 (19.23%) TDD
11 123 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (17.01%) Full-Stack Development
12 116 (16.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 109 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (14.80%) Observability
15 106 (14.66%) Code Quality
16 92 (12.72%) SDLC
17 80 (11.07%) Clean Code
18 78 (10.79%) AI
19 75 (10.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 710 (98.20%) Java
2 222 (30.71%) SQL
3 90 (12.45%) JavaScript
3 90 (12.45%) TypeScript
4 73 (10.10%) Python
5 40 (5.53%) PL/SQL
6 31 (4.29%) Kotlin
7 25 (3.46%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.94%) Scala
9 13 (1.80%) 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%) Go
13 2 (0.28%) Korn
13 2 (0.28%) PromQL
14 1 (0.14%) Bicep
14 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 209 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 177 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (4.01%) Degree
5 23 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (14.25%) QA
2 51 (7.05%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.18%) WCAG
4 15 (2.07%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.38%) SEPA
6 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 334 (46.20%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 316 (43.71%) Kubernetes
2 60 (8.30%) Grafana
3 59 (8.16%) Prometheus
4 32 (4.43%) Kibana
5 29 (4.01%) Ansible
6 11 (1.52%) Control-M
7 9 (1.24%) Argo
8 7 (0.97%) 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 95 (13.14%) Oracle
2 36 (4.98%) Google
3 20 (2.77%) IBM
3 20 (2.77%) Splunk
4 16 (2.21%) Dynatrace
4 16 (2.21%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.24%) Databricks
5 9 (1.24%) New Relic
5 9 (1.24%) Sybase
6 8 (1.11%) Solace
7 7 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.97%) TikTok
8 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
8 6 (0.83%) Confluent
9 5 (0.69%) Checkmarx
9 5 (0.69%) FIS
9 5 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.41%) Mistral