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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 178 180
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +43
Contract jobs citing Spring 720 440 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.57% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.33% 6.17% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 307 320
10th Percentile £363 £328 £390
25th Percentile £445 £400 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £627 £575 £675
90th Percentile £728 £638 £794
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.25 - £74.50
90th Percentile £90.63 £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 9,826 7,136 8,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.24% 25.50% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,461 4,810 5,235
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £449 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £794
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 172 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £36.00
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 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +8.33%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -9 375 £545 +3.81% 504
North of England +2 166 £540 +15.14% 135
Midlands -8 114 £525 +26.51% 46
West Midlands +23 108 £528 +5.50% 38
North West -7 97 £560 +25.84% 77
Yorkshire +6 52 £500 -4.76% 25
South West -24 30 £538 +6.44% 39
South East -60 27 £294 -30.82% 51
North East -30 18 £470 -14.55% 34
East of England - 14 £504 - 7
East Midlands -37 5 £400 +9.89% 8
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 (3.47%) Apache
2 24 (3.33%) Confluence
3 23 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.53%) Camunda
5 9 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.25%) nginx
6 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.56%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.56%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.56%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.42%) 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%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.56%) Quorum
1 4 (0.56%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.56%) Ripple
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (54.44%) AWS
2 128 (17.78%) GitHub
3 125 (17.36%) Azure
4 92 (12.78%) GCP
5 64 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (6.94%) Serverless
7 45 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (6.11%) Amazon S3
9 43 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (4.72%) OpenShift
12 33 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (3.47%) GitHub Copilot
15 19 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 11 (1.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.28%) 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
1 146 (20.28%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.36%) MongoDB
3 88 (12.22%) Relational Database
4 80 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 37 (5.14%) Redis
6 33 (4.58%) SQL Server
7 32 (4.44%) MySQL
8 24 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (2.78%) DynamoDB
10 19 (2.64%) Flink
11 18 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 13 (1.81%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.39%) Big Data
16 9 (1.25%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.11%) Metadata
18 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 205 (28.47%) Git
2 182 (25.28%) Jenkins
3 142 (19.72%) JUnit
4 137 (19.03%) GitLab
5 103 (14.31%) Maven
6 84 (11.67%) Gradle
7 77 (10.69%) Mockito
8 59 (8.19%) SonarQube
9 52 (7.22%) Cucumber
10 43 (5.97%) Selenium
11 39 (5.42%) JIRA
12 31 (4.31%) Gatling
13 21 (2.92%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.36%) Bitbucket
15 15 (2.08%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.94%) Claude Code
17 8 (1.11%) Flyway
17 8 (1.11%) IntelliJ
18 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
19 6 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
General
1 174 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 166 (23.06%) Finance
3 114 (15.83%) Banking
4 100 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 70 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.17%) Retail
7 21 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.94%) Back Office
9 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.67%) Front Office
11 8 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.83%) Law
13 6 (0.83%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.56%) Games
15 4 (0.56%) iGaming
15 4 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 361 (50.14%) Developer
2 296 (41.11%) Java Developer
3 169 (23.47%) Senior
4 150 (20.83%) Java Engineer
5 93 (12.92%) Senior Developer
6 91 (12.64%) Software Engineer
7 74 (10.28%) Senior Java Developer
8 71 (9.86%) Lead
9 55 (7.64%) Java Software Engineer
10 48 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.11%) Backend Developer
12 42 (5.83%) Senior Java Engineer
13 28 (3.89%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.47%) Architect
16 24 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 24 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
17 23 (3.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (3.19%) Software Developer
18 21 (2.92%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 593 (82.36%) Spring Boot
2 246 (34.17%) Kafka
3 214 (29.72%) REST
4 155 (21.53%) RESTful
5 116 (16.11%) React
6 78 (10.83%) JPA
7 70 (9.72%) Hibernate
8 69 (9.58%) Terraform
9 59 (8.19%) Node.js
10 58 (8.06%) AngularJS
11 52 (7.22%) HTML
12 49 (6.81%) RabbitMQ
13 48 (6.67%) OpenAPI
14 42 (5.83%) CSS
14 42 (5.83%) Web Services
15 39 (5.42%) OAuth
15 39 (5.42%) Playwright
16 37 (5.14%) Spring MVC
16 37 (5.14%) Swagger
17 36 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 185 (25.69%) Cloud Native
2 131 (18.19%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (8.61%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.69%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.92%) AI Agents
6 21 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.39%) Derivative
10 10 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.83%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.83%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.67%) Linux
2 35 (4.86%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Mac OS X
3 3 (0.42%) 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
1 442 (61.39%) CI/CD
2 435 (60.42%) Microservices
3 363 (50.42%) Agile
4 233 (32.36%) DevOps
5 225 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 211 (29.31%) Test Automation
7 192 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 188 (26.11%) Event-Driven
9 149 (20.69%) Scrum
10 137 (19.03%) TDD
11 123 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 120 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 110 (15.28%) Observability
14 110 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
15 99 (13.75%) Code Quality
16 93 (12.92%) SDLC
17 85 (11.81%) AI
18 79 (10.97%) Clean Code
19 74 (10.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 707 (98.19%) Java
2 226 (31.39%) SQL
3 96 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 94 (13.06%) JavaScript
5 69 (9.58%) Python
6 41 (5.69%) PL/SQL
7 29 (4.03%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.94%) Scala
10 13 (1.81%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Solidity
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Bicep
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Go
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 202 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 172 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (4.44%) Degree
5 24 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.42%) 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 (13.89%) QA
2 51 (7.08%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.19%) WCAG
4 14 (1.94%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.39%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.25%) SEPA
7 4 (0.56%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) 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
1 326 (45.28%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 317 (44.03%) Kubernetes
2 59 (8.19%) Grafana
3 55 (7.64%) Prometheus
4 31 (4.31%) Kibana
5 28 (3.89%) Ansible
6 11 (1.53%) Control-M
7 9 (1.25%) Argo
8 7 (0.97%) Istio
9 4 (0.56%) Bosun
9 4 (0.56%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 101 (14.03%) Oracle
2 38 (5.28%) Google
3 20 (2.78%) IBM
3 20 (2.78%) Splunk
4 17 (2.36%) Dynatrace
4 17 (2.36%) Microsoft
5 10 (1.39%) Databricks
6 9 (1.25%) New Relic
6 9 (1.25%) Sybase
7 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 7 (0.97%) Solace
7 7 (0.97%) 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 (0.56%) Checkmarx
10 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.42%) Veracode