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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 173 187
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Spring 683 443 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.61% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 7.25% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 310 339
10th Percentile £365 £336 £375
25th Percentile £438 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -11.57% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £694 £651 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £62.00 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%
75th Percentile £77.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +3.85% +27.29% -29.57%

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 8,394 6,108 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.72% 22.21% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 4,214 5,117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 142 232
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £24.02
25th Percentile £50.56 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -10 358 £525 +1.94% 150
North of England -10 135 £515 +13.88% 44
Midlands -38 85 £475 +14.46% 26
West Midlands -7 82 £475 -5.00% 21
North West -21 76 £545 +35.57% 24
Yorkshire -10 41 £525 +46.12% 10
South West -11 41 £410 -19.41% 19
South East -43 37 £450 +9.09% 26
East of England +8 27 £510 +9.09%
North East -36 19 £450 -6.25% 11
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 5
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 40 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.98%) Confluence
3 22 (3.22%) Apache
4 15 (2.20%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.46%) nginx
6 7 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.88%) Camunda
8 4 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.59%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.59%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.44%) CMS
9 3 (0.44%) JBoss
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.59%) Quorum
1 4 (0.59%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.59%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 352 (51.54%) AWS
2 164 (24.01%) Azure
3 121 (17.72%) GitHub
4 116 (16.98%) GCP
5 70 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 53 (7.76%) Serverless
8 43 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 41 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
10 34 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (4.98%) OpenShift
11 32 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.93%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.64%) AWS KMS
15 18 (2.64%) Route 53
16 16 (2.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (1.61%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.88%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.15%) SMS
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (24.45%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (11.71%) NoSQL
3 72 (10.54%) Relational Database
4 63 (9.22%) MongoDB
5 47 (6.88%) MySQL
6 42 (6.15%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (4.10%) Redis
9 22 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (3.07%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (2.64%) Flink
13 17 (2.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 16 (2.34%) Big Data
15 10 (1.46%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.32%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.17%) Db2
17 8 (1.17%) Oracle Database
18 7 (1.02%) Couchbase
18 7 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 182 (26.65%) Git
2 175 (25.62%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.59%) JUnit
4 88 (12.88%) GitLab
5 68 (9.96%) Maven
6 66 (9.66%) Gradle
7 63 (9.22%) Mockito
8 57 (8.35%) JIRA
9 42 (6.15%) SonarQube
10 38 (5.56%) Cucumber
11 34 (4.98%) Selenium
12 23 (3.37%) JMeter
13 19 (2.78%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.49%) Liquibase
15 14 (2.05%) DbUnit
15 14 (2.05%) REST Assured
16 13 (1.90%) Gatling
16 13 (1.90%) jMock
17 12 (1.76%) IntelliJ
18 11 (1.61%) Bitbucket
General
1 157 (22.99%) Finance
2 142 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.79%) Public Sector
4 87 (12.74%) Banking
5 59 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.25%) Retail
7 16 (2.34%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.46%) Law
9 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Automotive
11 5 (0.73%) Military
11 5 (0.73%) Police
12 4 (0.59%) Back Office
12 4 (0.59%) Games
12 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 371 (54.32%) Developer
2 297 (43.48%) Java Developer
3 139 (20.35%) Senior
4 109 (15.96%) Java Engineer
5 84 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 83 (12.15%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.25%) Lead
8 67 (9.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 53 (7.76%) Backend Developer
10 49 (7.17%) Java Software Engineer
11 41 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.39%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.51%) Architect
13 24 (3.51%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.51%) Senior Java Engineer
14 23 (3.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (3.07%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (2.78%) Lead Java Developer
17 18 (2.64%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (80.23%) Spring Boot
2 199 (29.14%) Kafka
3 172 (25.18%) REST
4 157 (22.99%) RESTful
5 115 (16.84%) React
6 77 (11.27%) Node.js
7 62 (9.08%) Hibernate
8 54 (7.91%) AngularJS
8 54 (7.91%) JPA
9 51 (7.47%) Web Services
10 44 (6.44%) HTML
11 41 (6.00%) Spring MVC
12 40 (5.86%) CSS
13 37 (5.42%) Spring Cloud
13 37 (5.42%) WireMock
14 35 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (4.54%) OAuth
15 31 (4.54%) SOAP
16 27 (3.95%) Jakarta EE
17 26 (3.81%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 146 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 123 (18.01%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.90%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.46%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.17%) Derivative
13 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.17%) Linux
2 23 (3.37%) Unix
3 9 (1.32%) Windows
4 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) VMS
5 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (61.35%) Microservices
2 413 (60.47%) CI/CD
3 301 (44.07%) Agile
4 243 (35.58%) DevOps
5 206 (30.16%) Containerisation
6 186 (27.23%) Software Engineering
7 150 (21.96%) TDD
7 150 (21.96%) Test Automation
8 146 (21.38%) Event-Driven
9 120 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (17.28%) Observability
11 116 (16.98%) Scrum
12 112 (16.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 104 (15.23%) Code Quality
14 97 (14.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 73 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 69 (10.10%) BDD
17 68 (9.96%) Design Patterns
18 64 (9.37%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 656 (96.05%) Java
2 222 (32.50%) SQL
3 91 (13.32%) Python
4 87 (12.74%) JavaScript
5 78 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 42 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 40 (5.86%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.90%) Scala
10 7 (1.02%) Bash
11 6 (0.88%) C#
12 5 (0.73%) Go
12 5 (0.73%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Solidity
14 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 223 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 189 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.10%) Degree
4 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.05%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) CISSP
9 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.69%) QA
2 39 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.32%) ISO 20022
4 7 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.88%) GDPR
5 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.88%) SEPA
5 6 (0.88%) WCAG
6 4 (0.59%) SLA
7 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 320 (46.85%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 295 (43.19%) Kubernetes
2 76 (11.13%) Grafana
3 65 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 54 (7.91%) Terraform
5 33 (4.83%) Ansible
6 13 (1.90%) Kibana
7 10 (1.46%) Control-M
8 5 (0.73%) Argo
9 4 (0.59%) Istio
10 3 (0.44%) Bosun
11 2 (0.29%) Consul
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
12 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 80 (11.71%) Oracle
2 40 (5.86%) Google
3 32 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.66%) Splunk
5 17 (2.49%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.49%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.05%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.05%) IBM
7 12 (1.76%) Solace
8 10 (1.46%) Databricks
8 10 (1.46%) Sybase
9 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.32%) New Relic
10 8 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.02%) TikTok
12 4 (0.59%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.44%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.44%) Confluent
13 3 (0.44%) FIS
13 3 (0.44%) SAP