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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 178 180
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +39
Contract jobs citing Spring 719 438 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.59% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% 6.24% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 298 336
10th Percentile £353 £324 £380
25th Percentile £431 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £624 £550 £666
90th Percentile £737 £638 £797
UK median daily rate £520 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -8.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £87.80 £79.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -13.19% -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 9,779 7,022 8,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.46% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,428 4,778 5,448
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £441 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £667
90th Percentile £738 £749 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 168 180
10th Percentile £29.72 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £52.97 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%

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 21 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 21 September 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 21 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 -7 377 £541 +3.05% 592
North of England -6 158 £550 +18.28% 166
Midlands -16 102 £528 +27.11% 64
West Midlands +13 96 £551 +10.10% 48
North West -21 89 £560 +30.23% 100
Yorkshire +4 54 £500 +8.11% 37
South West -16 38 £410 -18.41% 74
South East -48 31 £367 -17.01% 50
East of England - 18 £500 - 7
North East -33 16 £450 -6.25% 29
East Midlands -40 5 £400 +6.67% 16
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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.20%) Confluence
3 21 (2.92%) Apache
4 13 (1.81%) Camunda
5 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.25%) nginx
7 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.11%) 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 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (54.94%) AWS
2 130 (18.08%) Azure
3 125 (17.39%) GitHub
4 99 (13.77%) GCP
5 65 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (7.65%) Serverless
7 51 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.68%) Amazon S3
9 42 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (5.15%) OpenShift
13 36 (5.01%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (1.95%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 13 (1.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 11 (1.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.97%) HTTP
2 4 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (20.58%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.38%) MongoDB
3 85 (11.82%) Relational Database
4 84 (11.68%) NoSQL
5 44 (6.12%) MySQL
6 37 (5.15%) Redis
7 29 (4.03%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.89%) DynamoDB
9 26 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (2.23%) Flink
12 15 (2.09%) Big Data
13 14 (1.95%) Oracle Database
14 13 (1.81%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
17 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
18 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 196 (27.26%) Git
2 179 (24.90%) Jenkins
3 136 (18.92%) JUnit
4 122 (16.97%) GitLab
5 99 (13.77%) Maven
6 82 (11.40%) Gradle
7 74 (10.29%) Mockito
8 58 (8.07%) SonarQube
9 43 (5.98%) Cucumber
10 41 (5.70%) JIRA
11 36 (5.01%) Selenium
12 25 (3.48%) Gatling
13 20 (2.78%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.36%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.23%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.53%) IntelliJ
17 9 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
17 9 (1.25%) Claude Code
18 8 (1.11%) Flyway
19 7 (0.97%) DbUnit
General
1 167 (23.23%) Finance
2 164 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.33%) Banking
4 98 (13.63%) Public Sector
5 67 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.89%) Retail
7 14 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.25%) Front Office
10 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.97%) Back Office
11 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.97%) Law
12 6 (0.83%) Military
13 5 (0.70%) Police
14 4 (0.56%) Games
14 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 378 (52.57%) Developer
2 308 (42.84%) Java Developer
3 163 (22.67%) Senior
4 137 (19.05%) Java Engineer
5 97 (13.49%) Senior Developer
6 88 (12.24%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.57%) Lead
8 75 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 53 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.12%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.73%) Senior Java Engineer
13 32 (4.45%) Lead Developer
14 31 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 29 (4.03%) Software Developer
16 26 (3.62%) Architect
16 26 (3.62%) Lead Java Developer
17 24 (3.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 22 (3.06%) Data Engineer
19 19 (2.64%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 599 (83.31%) Spring Boot
2 234 (32.55%) Kafka
3 201 (27.96%) REST
4 156 (21.70%) RESTful
5 126 (17.52%) React
6 73 (10.15%) JPA
7 69 (9.60%) Hibernate
8 64 (8.90%) Node.js
9 62 (8.62%) Terraform
10 58 (8.07%) AngularJS
11 55 (7.65%) HTML
12 49 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (5.98%) CSS
13 43 (5.98%) OpenAPI
14 42 (5.84%) Web Services
15 41 (5.70%) Spring MVC
16 40 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
17 36 (5.01%) OAuth
17 36 (5.01%) Swagger
18 34 (4.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 178 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 117 (16.27%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (9.04%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.50%) AI Agents
10 16 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 10 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.11%) Derivative
15 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
16 5 (0.70%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.40%) Linux
2 33 (4.59%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (60.36%) Microservices
2 424 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 347 (48.26%) Agile
4 240 (33.38%) DevOps
5 227 (31.57%) Software Engineering
6 203 (28.23%) Containerisation
7 194 (26.98%) Test Automation
8 180 (25.03%) Event-Driven
9 142 (19.75%) Scrum
10 137 (19.05%) TDD
11 123 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 122 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 114 (15.86%) Code Quality
15 111 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
16 109 (15.16%) Observability
17 96 (13.35%) SDLC
18 81 (11.27%) Clean Code
19 77 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
20 74 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 705 (98.05%) Java
2 226 (31.43%) SQL
3 99 (13.77%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.52%) TypeScript
5 76 (10.57%) Python
6 40 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.45%) Kotlin
8 23 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.95%) Scala
10 12 (1.67%) 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
1 212 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 178 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (4.31%) Degree
5 24 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (13.63%) QA
2 44 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.64%) WCAG
4 15 (2.09%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.39%) SEPA
6 8 (1.11%) 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 (46.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 307 (42.70%) Kubernetes
2 61 (8.48%) Grafana
2 61 (8.48%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.31%) Ansible
4 28 (3.89%) Kibana
5 11 (1.53%) Control-M
6 8 (1.11%) Argo
7 7 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.56%) Bosun
8 4 (0.56%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 100 (13.91%) Oracle
2 37 (5.15%) Google
3 22 (3.06%) IBM
4 20 (2.78%) Splunk
5 18 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.36%) Microsoft
7 9 (1.25%) Databricks
7 9 (1.25%) New Relic
7 9 (1.25%) Sybase
8 8 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (1.11%) Solace
9 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.97%) TikTok
10 6 (0.83%) Checkmarx
10 6 (0.83%) Confluent
11 5 (0.70%) FIS
11 5 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.56%) ION Trading
13 3 (0.42%) SAP