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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 190 177
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing Spring 696 430 462
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.56% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.13% 6.29% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 296 347
10th Percentile £385 £329 £381
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £552 £650
90th Percentile £724 £650 £777
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 4
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.00 £41.38
25th Percentile £62.50 - £50.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 £69.03
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%

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 9,767 6,839 8,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.82% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,436 4,711 5,585
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 164 190
10th Percentile £29.26 £31.25 £26.84
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -11.35% -4.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £77.59 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -7 373 £530 +0.95% 108
North of England -5 160 £510 +9.68% 54
North West -20 92 £550 +23.60% 32
Midlands -33 76 £530 +28.48% 19
West Midlands -16 70 £551 +10.10% 16
Yorkshire +4 50 £500 +39.16% 7
South West -20 37 £481 -4.70% 40
South East -56 30 £367 -26.55% 12
East of England -4 21 £500 +6.95% 1
North East -30 19 £450 -8.16% 15
East Midlands -39 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Spring
UK

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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 33 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.16%) Apache
3 19 (2.73%) Confluence
4 10 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.29%) Camunda
5 9 (1.29%) nginx
6 8 (1.15%) WebLogic
7 7 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.57%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.57%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.43%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.57%) Quorum
1 4 (0.57%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.57%) Ripple
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 374 (53.74%) AWS
2 152 (21.84%) Azure
3 130 (18.68%) GitHub
4 106 (15.23%) GCP
5 70 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (7.33%) Serverless
7 43 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (5.89%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
11 34 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (4.74%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
14 24 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (2.59%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) HTTP
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (21.41%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 76 (10.92%) Relational Database
4 70 (10.06%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.61%) MySQL
6 35 (5.03%) Redis
7 31 (4.45%) DynamoDB
8 28 (4.02%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.16%) Flink
12 14 (2.01%) Big Data
12 14 (2.01%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.58%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (1.01%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 180 (25.86%) Git
2 172 (24.71%) Jenkins
3 125 (17.96%) JUnit
4 110 (15.80%) GitLab
5 71 (10.20%) Gradle
6 68 (9.77%) Maven
7 62 (8.91%) Mockito
8 43 (6.18%) SonarQube
9 38 (5.46%) JIRA
10 36 (5.17%) Cucumber
11 33 (4.74%) Selenium
12 20 (2.87%) Gatling
12 20 (2.87%) Liquibase
13 15 (2.16%) Bitbucket
13 15 (2.16%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.01%) JMeter
15 12 (1.72%) IntelliJ
16 10 (1.44%) WebDriver
17 8 (1.15%) Flyway
18 7 (1.01%) DbUnit
General
1 161 (23.13%) Finance
2 156 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.79%) Banking
5 57 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.17%) Retail
7 14 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.44%) Law
10 7 (1.01%) Back Office
10 7 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.01%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.72%) Military
11 5 (0.72%) Police
12 4 (0.57%) Automotive
12 4 (0.57%) Games
12 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
12 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 368 (52.87%) Developer
2 295 (42.39%) Java Developer
3 153 (21.98%) Senior
4 129 (18.53%) Java Engineer
5 93 (13.36%) Software Engineer
6 90 (12.93%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
8 64 (9.20%) Lead
9 56 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.47%) Backend Developer
11 49 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.31%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 27 (3.88%) Architect
15 25 (3.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 24 (3.45%) Lead Developer
17 22 (3.16%) Data Engineer
18 21 (3.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 19 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
20 18 (2.59%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 566 (81.32%) Spring Boot
2 216 (31.03%) Kafka
3 174 (25.00%) REST
4 155 (22.27%) RESTful
5 125 (17.96%) React
6 69 (9.91%) Node.js
7 60 (8.62%) Terraform
8 53 (7.61%) Hibernate
9 50 (7.18%) HTML
9 50 (7.18%) JPA
10 48 (6.90%) AngularJS
11 45 (6.47%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (6.18%) Spring MVC
13 42 (6.03%) CSS
14 38 (5.46%) Web Services
15 37 (5.32%) OAuth
16 35 (5.03%) OpenAPI
17 31 (4.45%) Spring Cloud
18 29 (4.17%) Swagger
18 29 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 167 (23.99%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (7.18%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (1.58%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.01%) Derivative
13 6 (0.86%) Spread Betting
13 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.72%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 4 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.60%) Linux
2 27 (3.88%) Unix
3 5 (0.72%) Windows
4 4 (0.57%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Android
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (61.21%) Microservices
2 410 (58.91%) CI/CD
3 324 (46.55%) Agile
4 233 (33.48%) DevOps
5 214 (30.75%) Software Engineering
6 192 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 170 (24.43%) Test Automation
8 167 (23.99%) Event-Driven
9 135 (19.40%) TDD
10 123 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 116 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 114 (16.38%) Observability
13 112 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (16.09%) Scrum
14 107 (15.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 105 (15.09%) Code Quality
16 76 (10.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 75 (10.78%) SDLC
18 73 (10.49%) Clean Code
19 71 (10.20%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 678 (97.41%) Java
2 222 (31.90%) SQL
3 88 (12.64%) JavaScript
4 87 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 85 (12.21%) Python
6 40 (5.75%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.60%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.59%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.72%) Bash
9 12 (1.72%) Scala
10 6 (0.86%) C#
11 5 (0.72%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Solidity
13 3 (0.43%) Go
13 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) Korn
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 205 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 169 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.45%) Degree
5 18 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.21%) QA
2 42 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.87%) WCAG
4 10 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.15%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.01%) SEPA
7 6 (0.86%) GDPR
7 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 323 (46.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.72%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 302 (43.39%) Kubernetes
2 57 (8.19%) Prometheus
3 56 (8.05%) Grafana
4 33 (4.74%) Ansible
5 21 (3.02%) Kibana
6 11 (1.58%) Control-M
7 7 (1.01%) Argo
8 6 (0.86%) Istio
9 3 (0.43%) Bosun
9 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.29%) Consul
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 92 (13.22%) Oracle
2 34 (4.89%) Google
3 29 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.59%) Splunk
5 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.30%) IBM
7 10 (1.44%) Solace
8 9 (1.29%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.29%) Databricks
9 8 (1.15%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.15%) New Relic
10 7 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.01%) Confluent
10 7 (1.01%) Sybase
10 7 (1.01%) TikTok
11 4 (0.57%) FIS
11 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.57%) SAP
12 3 (0.43%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.29%) Informatica