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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 175 195
Rank change year-on-year +12 +20 -48
Contract jobs citing Spring 711 385 466
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.56% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.69% 6.92% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 254 357
10th Percentile £387 £358 £375
25th Percentile £435 £406 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -6.54% -13.01%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £631
90th Percentile £677 £692 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +4.08% -6.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%

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 8,179 5,565 7,818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 22.49% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,859 5,456
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 110 257
10th Percentile £30.55 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.56 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +12 364 £525 - 90
North of England +19 157 £500 +7.53% 81
North West +19 105 £510 +32.81% 39
Midlands -41 73 £471 +12.12% 33
West Midlands -16 70 £475 -5.00% 18
South West +7 46 £409 -21.16% 42
South East -33 37 £500 +21.21% 60
Yorkshire -32 31 £488 -7.14% 29
East of England -1 27 £510 +9.09% 33
North East -14 26 £450 -8.16% 15
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +7.94% 15
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 43 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.20%) Confluence
3 22 (3.09%) Apache
4 14 (1.97%) Camunda
5 12 (1.69%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.41%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.41%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (1.13%) nginx
9 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.42%) JBoss
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.28%) Drupal
12 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.70%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.56%) Quorum
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 364 (51.20%) AWS
2 168 (23.63%) Azure
3 133 (18.71%) GitHub
4 121 (17.02%) GCP
5 81 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (9.70%) Amazon S3
7 64 (9.00%) Serverless
8 57 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.64%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.09%) Route 53
15 19 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.53%) AWS KMS
17 16 (2.25%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.27%) HTTP
2 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (24.33%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 75 (10.55%) MongoDB
3 75 (10.55%) Relational Database
4 56 (7.88%) MySQL
5 51 (7.17%) DynamoDB
6 45 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (3.52%) Redis
9 24 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.81%) Big Data
12 16 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.25%) Flink
13 13 (1.83%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.13%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.13%) Db2
15 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (25.32%) Git
2 173 (24.33%) Jenkins
3 137 (19.27%) JUnit
4 109 (15.33%) GitLab
5 70 (9.85%) Maven
6 67 (9.42%) Gradle
7 64 (9.00%) Mockito
8 62 (8.72%) JIRA
9 42 (5.91%) Selenium
10 41 (5.77%) Cucumber
11 37 (5.20%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.52%) JMeter
13 20 (2.81%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.67%) WebDriver
15 17 (2.39%) Gatling
15 17 (2.39%) REST Assured
16 16 (2.25%) Liquibase
17 14 (1.97%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.83%) jMock
19 11 (1.55%) Serenity BDD
General
1 144 (20.25%) Finance
2 135 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.52%) Banking
5 48 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.52%) Retail
7 15 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.41%) Law
10 9 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Automotive
12 5 (0.70%) Military
12 5 (0.70%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.56%) Front Office
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
14 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 387 (54.43%) Developer
2 285 (40.08%) Java Developer
3 145 (20.39%) Senior
4 121 (17.02%) Java Engineer
5 88 (12.38%) Software Engineer
6 78 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.13%) Lead
8 66 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.44%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (6.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.33%) Backend Developer
12 28 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (3.66%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (3.09%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 22 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 21 (2.95%) Architect
18 16 (2.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 578 (81.29%) Spring Boot
2 212 (29.82%) Kafka
3 171 (24.05%) REST
4 165 (23.21%) RESTful
5 139 (19.55%) React
6 104 (14.63%) Node.js
7 71 (9.99%) AngularJS
8 60 (8.44%) Hibernate
9 58 (8.16%) JPA
10 49 (6.89%) WireMock
11 48 (6.75%) Spring Cloud
12 45 (6.33%) HTML
13 44 (6.19%) Web Services
14 43 (6.05%) Spring MVC
15 42 (5.91%) CSS
16 33 (4.64%) OAuth
17 31 (4.36%) OpenTelemetry
18 30 (4.22%) OAuth2
18 30 (4.22%) RabbitMQ
18 30 (4.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 102 (14.35%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.41%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.84%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.84%) Derivative
15 4 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.75%) Linux
2 18 (2.53%) Unix
3 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.27%) Windows
4 5 (0.70%) VMS
5 3 (0.42%) Solaris
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (58.65%) Microservices
2 401 (56.40%) CI/CD
3 289 (40.65%) Agile
4 258 (36.29%) DevOps
5 210 (29.54%) Containerisation
6 175 (24.61%) Software Engineering
7 148 (20.82%) TDD
8 145 (20.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 142 (19.97%) Event-Driven
10 138 (19.41%) Test Automation
11 124 (17.44%) Observability
12 114 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 107 (15.05%) Scrum
15 96 (13.50%) Code Quality
16 92 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (10.83%) BDD
18 71 (9.99%) Infrastructure as Code
19 59 (8.30%) AI
19 59 (8.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 671 (94.37%) Java
2 219 (30.80%) SQL
3 98 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.22%) TypeScript
5 90 (12.66%) Python
6 40 (5.63%) Kotlin
7 28 (3.94%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.97%) Go
10 10 (1.41%) Scala
11 7 (0.98%) C#
11 7 (0.98%) Ruby
12 6 (0.84%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) Bash
13 5 (0.70%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 217 (30.52%) Security Cleared
2 187 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 25 (3.52%) Degree
4 20 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.84%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.85%) QA
2 51 (7.17%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.55%) WCAG
5 10 (1.41%) SEPA
6 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.84%) GDPR
7 6 (0.84%) PSD2
7 6 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.70%) SLA
9 4 (0.56%) NIST
10 2 (0.28%) EMIR
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.28%) MiFID
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) HL7
11 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 321 (45.15%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 311 (43.74%) Kubernetes
2 91 (12.80%) Grafana
3 69 (9.70%) Prometheus
4 62 (8.72%) Terraform
5 29 (4.08%) Ansible
6 12 (1.69%) Argo
6 12 (1.69%) Kibana
7 9 (1.27%) Istio
8 4 (0.56%) Control-M
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 70 (9.85%) Oracle
2 37 (5.20%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.06%) Google
4 27 (3.80%) Splunk
5 17 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.11%) IBM
8 14 (1.97%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.69%) Solace
9 12 (1.69%) Sybase
10 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.27%) Databricks
11 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.70%) Confluent
11 5 (0.70%) New Relic
11 5 (0.70%) Teradata
11 5 (0.70%) TikTok
12 3 (0.42%) Informatica
12 3 (0.42%) SAP