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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 189 193
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 -55
Contract jobs citing Spring 689 355 450
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.48% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 6.56% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 228 351
10th Percentile £386 £358 £375
25th Percentile £438 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -6.98% -13.31%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £638
90th Percentile £673 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +3.06% -6.67% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +9.23% +41.67% -36.72%

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 8,085 5,408 7,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.51% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,327 3,749 5,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £630 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £789
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 100 239
10th Percentile £31.33 £30.13 £22.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.19 £66.88
90th Percentile £78.95 £81.01 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +17 346 £525 - 71
North of England +18 155 £478 +2.69% 43
North West +22 109 £500 +24.38% 26
Midlands -36 75 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -25 71 £470 -1.05% 2
South West -2 44 £409 -21.16% 18
South East -40 36 £513 +12.33% 16
Yorkshire -43 28 £450 -14.29% 12
East of England -5 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -7 25 £450 -4.76% 6
East Midlands -42 3 £402 +7.20% 4
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 43 (6.24%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.22%) Confluence
3 20 (2.90%) Apache
4 14 (2.03%) Camunda
5 10 (1.45%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.45%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.16%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.87%) nginx
8 6 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.58%) JBoss
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Drupal
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.73%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.58%) Quorum
2 4 (0.58%) Ripple
3 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 356 (51.67%) AWS
2 163 (23.66%) Azure
3 133 (19.30%) GitHub
4 111 (16.11%) GCP
5 78 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (10.01%) Amazon S3
7 66 (9.58%) Serverless
8 56 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (4.50%) OpenShift
14 23 (3.34%) Azure AKS
14 23 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (3.19%) Route 53
16 20 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.76%) AWS KMS
18 18 (2.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 16 (2.32%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (0.58%) DNS
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.44%) SSL
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (23.66%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (13.50%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.32%) MongoDB
4 69 (10.01%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.69%) DynamoDB
6 47 (6.82%) MySQL
7 44 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.05%) Big Data
11 20 (2.90%) Redis
11 20 (2.90%) SQL Server
12 14 (2.03%) Flink
13 13 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.60%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.16%) DocumentDB
16 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.02%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 169 (24.53%) Git
2 158 (22.93%) Jenkins
3 130 (18.87%) JUnit
4 113 (16.40%) GitLab
5 68 (9.87%) Gradle
6 65 (9.43%) Maven
7 63 (9.14%) Mockito
8 62 (9.00%) JIRA
9 43 (6.24%) Cucumber
10 42 (6.10%) Selenium
11 36 (5.22%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.48%) IntelliJ
12 24 (3.48%) JMeter
13 18 (2.61%) REST Assured
13 18 (2.61%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.47%) Gatling
15 16 (2.32%) Liquibase
16 14 (2.03%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.89%) jMock
18 11 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 135 (19.59%) Finance
2 128 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 112 (16.26%) Public Sector
4 83 (12.05%) Banking
5 44 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.19%) Retail
7 14 (2.03%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.31%) Law
10 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.87%) Automotive
13 4 (0.58%) Front Office
13 4 (0.58%) Military
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Publishing
14 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 375 (54.43%) Developer
2 267 (38.75%) Java Developer
3 139 (20.17%) Senior
4 121 (17.56%) Java Engineer
5 89 (12.92%) Software Engineer
6 79 (11.47%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.45%) Lead
8 70 (10.16%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (7.11%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.39%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.06%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.34%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.19%) Data Engineer
15 22 (3.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 22 (3.19%) Senior Java Engineer
16 21 (3.05%) Architect
17 20 (2.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 14 (2.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 557 (80.84%) Spring Boot
2 201 (29.17%) Kafka
3 163 (23.66%) REST
4 162 (23.51%) RESTful
5 137 (19.88%) React
6 103 (14.95%) Node.js
7 77 (11.18%) AngularJS
8 54 (7.84%) Hibernate
9 51 (7.40%) JPA
10 49 (7.11%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.82%) HTML
11 47 (6.82%) WireMock
12 44 (6.39%) Web Services
13 42 (6.10%) CSS
14 39 (5.66%) Spring MVC
15 36 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
16 35 (5.08%) OAuth
17 31 (4.50%) OAuth2
17 31 (4.50%) Playwright
17 31 (4.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (17.85%) Cloud Native
2 92 (13.35%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.61%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.60%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.87%) Blockchain
13 4 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.82%) Linux
2 12 (1.74%) Unix
3 10 (1.45%) Windows
4 9 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.58%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (59.80%) Microservices
2 380 (55.15%) CI/CD
3 272 (39.48%) Agile
4 239 (34.69%) DevOps
5 211 (30.62%) Containerisation
6 172 (24.96%) Software Engineering
7 144 (20.90%) TDD
8 143 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 128 (18.58%) Test Automation
10 127 (18.43%) Event-Driven
11 117 (16.98%) Observability
12 110 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
13 106 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (14.37%) Scrum
15 97 (14.08%) Code Quality
16 81 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 74 (10.74%) BDD
18 69 (10.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 55 (7.98%) Clean Code
19 55 (7.98%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 650 (94.34%) Java
2 207 (30.04%) SQL
3 99 (14.37%) JavaScript
4 98 (14.22%) TypeScript
5 83 (12.05%) Python
6 44 (6.39%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.32%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.03%) Go
9 12 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.45%) Scala
11 7 (1.02%) C#
12 6 (0.87%) Perl
12 6 (0.87%) Ruby
13 5 (0.73%) Solidity
14 4 (0.58%) Bash
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
15 2 (0.29%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 209 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 180 (26.12%) SC Cleared
3 27 (3.92%) Degree
4 22 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.29%) OCP
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.85%) QA
2 53 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.74%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.60%) WCAG
5 10 (1.45%) SEPA
6 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.87%) GDPR
7 6 (0.87%) PSD2
7 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) EMIR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) MiFID
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 309 (44.85%) Docker
2 11 (1.60%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.29%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 311 (45.14%) Kubernetes
2 96 (13.93%) Grafana
3 67 (9.72%) Prometheus
4 61 (8.85%) Terraform
5 25 (3.63%) Ansible
6 12 (1.74%) Argo
7 10 (1.45%) Kibana
8 8 (1.16%) Istio
9 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) Consul
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 55 (7.98%) Oracle
2 36 (5.22%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.92%) Splunk
4 26 (3.77%) Google
5 17 (2.47%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.89%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.60%) Solace
9 10 (1.45%) IBM
9 10 (1.45%) Sybase
10 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
11 7 (1.02%) Databricks
12 6 (0.87%) Confluent
13 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.73%) Adobe
13 5 (0.73%) New Relic
13 5 (0.73%) Teradata
14 3 (0.44%) Informatica
14 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty