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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 173 188
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing Spring 708 438 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.35% 7.21% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 306 349
10th Percentile £363 £353 £375
25th Percentile £425 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £692 £665 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 8,480 6,079 7,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.22% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,191 5,215
10th Percentile £363 £354 £357
25th Percentile £430 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £507 £545
% change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 138 240
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.25 £23.98
25th Percentile £50.88 £43.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -1.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 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 -11 366 £525 +2.69% 139
North of England +12 143 £538 +16.22% 42
North West -8 84 £550 +36.82% 17
Midlands -33 83 £475 +14.46% 33
West Midlands -12 80 £475 -5.00% 25
South West -6 48 £410 -20.10% 13
Yorkshire -4 43 £550 - 12
South East -40 39 £463 +12.12% 35
East of England +8 28 £510 +9.09% 1
North East -24 19 £450 -8.16% 14
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 8
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 42 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.52%) Confluence
3 22 (3.11%) Apache
4 15 (2.12%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.41%) nginx
6 7 (0.99%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.85%) Camunda
8 5 (0.71%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.71%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.42%) CMS
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.56%) Quorum
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (51.84%) AWS
2 165 (23.31%) Azure
3 127 (17.94%) GitHub
4 120 (16.95%) GCP
5 72 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (8.76%) Serverless
7 61 (8.62%) Amazon S3
8 52 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (5.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (4.80%) OpenShift
14 30 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (2.82%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.54%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.54%) Route 53
18 16 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 13 (1.84%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.56%) HTTP
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (24.01%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (11.72%) NoSQL
3 82 (11.58%) Relational Database
4 69 (9.75%) MongoDB
5 50 (7.06%) MySQL
6 46 (6.50%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.81%) Redis
9 24 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (3.25%) SQL Server
11 19 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.68%) Flink
12 18 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.40%) Big Data
14 12 (1.69%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.55%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.99%) Db2
17 7 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 187 (26.41%) Git
2 179 (25.28%) Jenkins
3 130 (18.36%) JUnit
4 89 (12.57%) GitLab
5 71 (10.03%) Maven
6 69 (9.75%) Gradle
7 62 (8.76%) Mockito
8 56 (7.91%) JIRA
9 41 (5.79%) SonarQube
10 39 (5.51%) Cucumber
11 38 (5.37%) Selenium
12 23 (3.25%) JMeter
13 19 (2.68%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.54%) REST Assured
15 17 (2.40%) Gatling
16 16 (2.26%) Liquibase
17 14 (1.98%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.84%) IntelliJ
18 13 (1.84%) jMock
19 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 160 (22.60%) Finance
2 145 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 85 (12.01%) Banking
5 59 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.24%) Retail
7 16 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.41%) Law
10 9 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
11 6 (0.85%) Military
11 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.71%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Games
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
14 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 383 (54.10%) Developer
2 299 (42.23%) Java Developer
3 145 (20.48%) Senior
4 115 (16.24%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.01%) Senior Developer
6 84 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 74 (10.45%) Lead
8 67 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.91%) Backend Developer
10 48 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (6.50%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.67%) Senior Java Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 22 (3.11%) Architect
17 21 (2.97%) Data Engineer
18 19 (2.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 19 (2.68%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 572 (80.79%) Spring Boot
2 210 (29.66%) Kafka
3 178 (25.14%) REST
4 161 (22.74%) RESTful
5 122 (17.23%) React
6 81 (11.44%) Node.js
7 61 (8.62%) Hibernate
8 56 (7.91%) JPA
9 54 (7.63%) AngularJS
10 51 (7.20%) Web Services
11 46 (6.50%) HTML
12 43 (6.07%) Spring MVC
13 42 (5.93%) CSS
14 39 (5.51%) Spring Cloud
14 39 (5.51%) WireMock
15 35 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (4.38%) OAuth
17 30 (4.24%) SOAP
18 28 (3.95%) Jakarta EE
19 26 (3.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 125 (17.66%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.07%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 18 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 18 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.13%) Derivative
11 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.71%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.20%) Linux
2 23 (3.25%) Unix
3 10 (1.41%) Windows
4 8 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.56%) VMS
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.42%) Solaris
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (61.02%) Microservices
2 424 (59.89%) CI/CD
3 310 (43.79%) Agile
4 261 (36.86%) DevOps
5 211 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 187 (26.41%) Software Engineering
7 156 (22.03%) Test Automation
8 151 (21.33%) TDD
9 149 (21.05%) Event-Driven
10 127 (17.94%) Observability
11 125 (17.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 125 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (16.24%) Scrum
14 111 (15.68%) Code Quality
15 100 (14.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (10.88%) BDD
17 71 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
18 69 (9.75%) Design Patterns
19 64 (9.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 679 (95.90%) Java
2 228 (32.20%) SQL
3 91 (12.85%) Python
4 90 (12.71%) JavaScript
5 76 (10.73%) TypeScript
6 42 (5.93%) PL/SQL
7 39 (5.51%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.84%) Scala
10 8 (1.13%) C#
11 7 (0.99%) Go
12 6 (0.85%) Bash
13 5 (0.71%) Perl
13 5 (0.71%) Ruby
14 4 (0.56%) Solidity
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
16 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 231 (32.63%) Security Cleared
2 195 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.95%) Degree
4 24 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 74 (10.45%) QA
2 43 (6.07%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.99%) SEPA
5 6 (0.85%) GDPR
5 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.85%) WCAG
6 4 (0.56%) SLA
7 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 332 (46.89%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 303 (42.80%) Kubernetes
2 80 (11.30%) Grafana
3 68 (9.60%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.33%) Terraform
5 33 (4.66%) Ansible
6 13 (1.84%) Kibana
7 9 (1.27%) Control-M
8 6 (0.85%) Argo
9 5 (0.71%) Istio
10 3 (0.42%) Bosun
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 87 (12.29%) Oracle
2 40 (5.65%) Google
3 34 (4.80%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.10%) Splunk
5 17 (2.40%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.98%) IBM
7 12 (1.69%) Solace
8 11 (1.55%) Databricks
9 10 (1.41%) Sybase
10 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.27%) New Relic
11 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.99%) TikTok
13 4 (0.56%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.56%) Teradata
14 3 (0.42%) Confluent
14 3 (0.42%) SAP