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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 169 191
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Spring 717 405 475
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.61% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.66% 7.13% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 275 366
10th Percentile £385 £358 £375
25th Percentile £433 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -11.91%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £678 £683 £767
UK median daily rate £512 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +7.17% -9.05% -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 10
10th Percentile £52.50 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.75 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £91.50 £68.75 £54.30
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £58.08
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%

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 8,282 5,682 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.07% 22.64% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,471 3,948 5,519
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 £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £538
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 116 263
10th Percentile £30.61 £31.78 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.25 £49.06 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +4.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 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 +9 375 £525 - 55
North of England +6 151 £500 +7.53% 35
North West +9 101 £510 +24.85% 17
Midlands -48 73 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -21 70 £475 -5.00% 5
South West -11 46 £409 -21.16% 21
South East -37 39 £481 +16.67% 16
Yorkshire -29 32 £500 -4.76% 13
East of England 0 27 £510 +9.09% 4
North East -20 23 £450 -8.16% 6
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 1
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 44 (6.14%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.16%) Confluence
3 24 (3.35%) Apache
4 14 (1.95%) Camunda
5 12 (1.67%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.39%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.39%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.39%) nginx
7 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.42%) JBoss
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 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
1 370 (51.60%) AWS
2 168 (23.43%) Azure
3 126 (17.57%) GitHub
4 116 (16.18%) GCP
5 73 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (9.62%) Amazon S3
7 63 (8.79%) Serverless
8 57 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (5.02%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (4.74%) OpenShift
13 33 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (3.21%) Azure AKS
16 22 (3.07%) Route 53
17 19 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.51%) AWS KMS
19 17 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
20 15 (2.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.26%) 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 (24.13%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (12.55%) NoSQL
3 77 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 75 (10.46%) MongoDB
5 54 (7.53%) MySQL
6 52 (7.25%) DynamoDB
7 45 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.49%) Redis
10 23 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.21%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.79%) Big Data
12 17 (2.37%) Flink
13 16 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.81%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.12%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.12%) Db2
16 7 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (25.10%) Git
2 173 (24.13%) Jenkins
3 141 (19.67%) JUnit
4 102 (14.23%) GitLab
5 72 (10.04%) Maven
6 68 (9.48%) Mockito
7 65 (9.07%) Gradle
8 63 (8.79%) JIRA
9 44 (6.14%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.86%) Selenium
11 38 (5.30%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.49%) JMeter
13 19 (2.65%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.37%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.37%) REST Assured
15 16 (2.23%) Gatling
15 16 (2.23%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.95%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.81%) jMock
18 11 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 152 (21.20%) Finance
2 140 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 111 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 91 (12.69%) Banking
5 51 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.07%) Retail
7 17 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.39%) Law
10 9 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Automotive
11 6 (0.84%) Military
11 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.56%) Front Office
12 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.56%) Police
12 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Publishing
13 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 392 (54.67%) Developer
2 294 (41.00%) Java Developer
3 141 (19.67%) Senior
4 121 (16.88%) Java Engineer
5 87 (12.13%) Software Engineer
6 77 (10.74%) Lead
7 76 (10.60%) Senior Developer
8 59 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (8.23%) Senior Java Developer
9 53 (7.39%) Backend Developer
10 47 (6.56%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 27 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
13 25 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (3.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 25 (3.49%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.21%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.79%) Architect
16 19 (2.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (2.65%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 574 (80.06%) Spring Boot
2 214 (29.85%) Kafka
3 169 (23.57%) REST
4 164 (22.87%) RESTful
5 130 (18.13%) React
6 96 (13.39%) Node.js
7 67 (9.34%) AngularJS
8 61 (8.51%) JPA
9 60 (8.37%) Hibernate
10 49 (6.83%) WireMock
11 47 (6.56%) Spring Cloud
12 46 (6.42%) HTML
13 44 (6.14%) Web Services
14 42 (5.86%) CSS
15 41 (5.72%) Spring MVC
16 32 (4.46%) OAuth
17 31 (4.32%) SOAP
18 30 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
19 29 (4.04%) OAuth2
20 28 (3.91%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 131 (18.27%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.50%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
4 18 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.12%) Derivative
10 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.84%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.83%) Linux
2 18 (2.51%) Unix
3 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.26%) 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
1 416 (58.02%) Microservices
2 412 (57.46%) CI/CD
3 299 (41.70%) Agile
4 257 (35.84%) DevOps
5 212 (29.57%) Containerisation
6 174 (24.27%) Software Engineering
7 157 (21.90%) TDD
8 146 (20.36%) Event-Driven
9 143 (19.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 143 (19.94%) Test Automation
10 121 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (16.32%) Observability
12 111 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 108 (15.06%) Scrum
14 102 (14.23%) Code Quality
15 95 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 79 (11.02%) BDD
17 64 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (8.09%) Design Patterns
19 56 (7.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 683 (95.26%) Java
2 222 (30.96%) SQL
3 96 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.55%) TypeScript
5 89 (12.41%) Python
6 38 (5.30%) Kotlin
7 31 (4.32%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.37%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.95%) Go
10 11 (1.53%) Scala
11 8 (1.12%) C#
12 7 (0.98%) Ruby
13 6 (0.84%) Perl
14 5 (0.70%) Bash
14 5 (0.70%) Solidity
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Groovy
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 229 (31.94%) Security Cleared
2 197 (27.48%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.63%) Degree
4 24 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (10.32%) QA
2 48 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.53%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.26%) SEPA
4 9 (1.26%) WCAG
5 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.84%) GDPR
6 6 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.70%) PSD2
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 327 (45.61%) Docker
2 11 (1.53%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (43.93%) Kubernetes
2 85 (11.85%) Grafana
3 66 (9.21%) Prometheus
4 57 (7.95%) Terraform
5 28 (3.91%) Ansible
6 14 (1.95%) Kibana
7 6 (0.84%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) Control-M
9 4 (0.56%) Istio
10 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 74 (10.32%) Oracle
2 39 (5.44%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.60%) Google
4 27 (3.77%) Splunk
5 17 (2.37%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.09%) IBM
7 14 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.67%) Solace
8 12 (1.67%) Sybase
9 10 (1.39%) Databricks
10 9 (1.26%) Checkmarx
11 6 (0.84%) TikTok
12 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.70%) New Relic
12 5 (0.70%) Teradata
13 4 (0.56%) Confluent
13 4 (0.56%) Informatica
14 3 (0.42%) PagerDuty