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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 181 179
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +28
Contract jobs citing Spring 717 433 454
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.58% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.30% 6.32% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 294 333
10th Percentile £360 £327 £379
25th Percentile £434 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £620 £571 £656
90th Percentile £727 £638 £779
UK median daily rate £515 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +4.67% -6.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -1.51%
75th Percentile £76.50 £68.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £91.40 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -9.72% -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 9,824 6,855 8,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.25% 25.05% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,456 4,670 5,469
10th Percentile £375 £353 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -5.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 161 177
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% -13.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.46
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -3 382 £535 +1.90% 550
North of England -5 161 £540 +16.13% 168
Midlands -12 95 £525 +27.27% 61
North West -15 91 £560 +25.84% 105
West Midlands +6 89 £540 +8.05% 48
Yorkshire +10 54 £500 +8.11% 34
South West -27 37 £438 -12.94% 75
South East -48 31 £297 -40.60% 53
East of England -12 18 £500 +6.95% 9
North East -29 17 £450 -8.16% 29
East Midlands -36 5 £400 +6.67% 13
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 30 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.35%) Confluence
3 19 (2.65%) Apache
4 13 (1.81%) Camunda
5 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.26%) nginx
7 8 (1.12%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.12%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.56%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.56%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.56%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
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 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 388 (54.11%) AWS
2 137 (19.11%) Azure
3 121 (16.88%) GitHub
4 101 (14.09%) GCP
5 65 (9.07%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.11%) Serverless
7 47 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (6.28%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.16%) OpenShift
12 33 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.07%) GitHub Copilot
15 19 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (1.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
18 11 (1.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.98%) HTTP
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (21.34%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (12.27%) Relational Database
3 86 (11.99%) MongoDB
3 86 (11.99%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.28%) MySQL
5 36 (5.02%) Redis
6 29 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 28 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 24 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (2.09%) Big Data
10 15 (2.09%) Flink
11 14 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (1.95%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.81%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.98%) Db2
16 7 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 189 (26.36%) Git
2 181 (25.24%) Jenkins
3 132 (18.41%) JUnit
4 116 (16.18%) GitLab
5 94 (13.11%) Maven
6 85 (11.85%) Gradle
7 73 (10.18%) Mockito
8 54 (7.53%) SonarQube
9 42 (5.86%) JIRA
10 37 (5.16%) Cucumber
11 32 (4.46%) Selenium
12 21 (2.93%) Gatling
13 20 (2.79%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.65%) Liquibase
15 17 (2.37%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.53%) IntelliJ
17 9 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.12%) Claude Code
18 8 (1.12%) Flyway
19 7 (0.98%) JMeter
General
1 166 (23.15%) Finance
2 164 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 102 (14.23%) Banking
4 99 (13.81%) Public Sector
5 68 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.63%) Retail
7 14 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.12%) Law
10 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.98%) Back Office
11 7 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.98%) Front Office
12 6 (0.84%) Military
13 5 (0.70%) Police
14 4 (0.56%) Games
14 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 379 (52.86%) Developer
2 310 (43.24%) Java Developer
3 164 (22.87%) Senior
4 133 (18.55%) Java Engineer
5 96 (13.39%) Senior Developer
6 90 (12.55%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.60%) Lead
7 76 (10.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 53 (7.39%) Java Software Engineer
9 52 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 44 (6.14%) Backend Developer
11 33 (4.60%) Senior Java Engineer
12 31 (4.32%) Lead Developer
13 29 (4.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (4.04%) Software Developer
14 26 (3.63%) Architect
15 25 (3.49%) Lead Java Developer
16 22 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 20 (2.79%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 601 (83.82%) Spring Boot
2 233 (32.50%) Kafka
3 199 (27.75%) REST
4 161 (22.45%) RESTful
5 133 (18.55%) React
6 69 (9.62%) JPA
7 66 (9.21%) Hibernate
8 65 (9.07%) Node.js
9 60 (8.37%) Terraform
10 59 (8.23%) AngularJS
11 57 (7.95%) HTML
12 49 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
13 45 (6.28%) CSS
14 43 (6.00%) Web Services
15 41 (5.72%) OpenAPI
15 41 (5.72%) Spring MVC
16 40 (5.58%) Spring Cloud
17 37 (5.16%) Swagger
18 36 (5.02%) OAuth
19 32 (4.46%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 178 (24.83%) Cloud Native
2 115 (16.04%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (8.93%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.95%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (0.98%) Derivative
13 7 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.70%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.28%) Linux
2 33 (4.60%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) VMS
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (60.81%) Microservices
2 423 (59.00%) CI/CD
3 339 (47.28%) Agile
4 239 (33.33%) DevOps
5 225 (31.38%) Software Engineering
6 208 (29.01%) Containerisation
7 190 (26.50%) Test Automation
8 176 (24.55%) Event-Driven
9 135 (18.83%) TDD
10 132 (18.41%) Scrum
11 127 (17.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 122 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (16.46%) Code Quality
14 115 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (15.90%) Observability
16 112 (15.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (12.97%) SDLC
18 80 (11.16%) Clean Code
19 75 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
20 74 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 703 (98.05%) Java
2 228 (31.80%) SQL
3 100 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.60%) Python
6 40 (5.58%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.46%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.81%) Scala
10 11 (1.53%) Bash
11 5 (0.70%) C#
12 4 (0.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Solidity
13 3 (0.42%) Go
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 211 (29.43%) Security Cleared
2 176 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (4.60%) Degree
5 25 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.83%) QA
2 39 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.09%) WCAG
4 14 (1.95%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.26%) SEPA
6 8 (1.12%) Data Quality
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%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 331 (46.16%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 304 (42.40%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.65%) Grafana
2 62 (8.65%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.32%) Ansible
4 25 (3.49%) Kibana
5 11 (1.53%) Control-M
6 8 (1.12%) Argo
7 7 (0.98%) Istio
8 4 (0.56%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) Bosun
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 99 (13.81%) Oracle
2 36 (5.02%) Google
3 22 (3.07%) IBM
4 19 (2.65%) Dynatrace
4 19 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.65%) Splunk
5 10 (1.39%) Solace
6 9 (1.26%) Databricks
6 9 (1.26%) Sybase
7 8 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (0.98%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.98%) New Relic
8 7 (0.98%) TikTok
9 6 (0.84%) Checkmarx
9 6 (0.84%) Confluent
9 6 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.70%) FIS
10 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.42%) Mistral
11 3 (0.42%) Veracode