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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 194 204
Rank change year-on-year +36 +10 -78
Contract jobs citing Spring 671 335 421
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.37% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 6.13% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 213 325
10th Percentile £356 £382 £375
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -1.85% -13.60%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £630
90th Percentile £666 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £523
% change year-on-year -0.50% -3.83% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 10
10th Percentile £51.75 £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £41.47
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £78.38 £72.81 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.98% +60.75% -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 7,879 5,468 7,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.56% 22.43% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,784 5,309
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £422 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 102 223
10th Percentile £33.50 £30.55 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year - +38.77% -27.94%

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 4 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 4 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 4 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 +15 331 £525 -4.55% 70
North of England +24 160 £475 -0.52% 43
North West +34 117 £470 +1.08% 29
Midlands -27 68 £469 +8.50% 9
West Midlands -10 67 £469 +3.08% 6
South East -17 45 £423 -7.40% 27
South West -11 34 £409 -20.20% 19
Yorkshire -37 26 £475 -11.63% 6
North East -3 24 £475 +2.15% 8
East of England -13 24 £510 +9.09% 6
East Midlands -40 1 £450 +11.94% 3
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 38 (5.66%) Apache Spark
1 38 (5.66%) Confluence
2 19 (2.83%) Apache
3 14 (2.09%) Camunda
4 8 (1.19%) WebLogic
5 7 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.89%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.89%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.60%) JBoss
9 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.30%) CICS
10 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 363 (54.10%) AWS
2 174 (25.93%) Azure
3 132 (19.67%) GitHub
4 116 (17.29%) GCP
5 76 (11.33%) Serverless
6 75 (11.18%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
10 34 (5.07%) OpenShift
11 33 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.62%) Azure AKS
13 25 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.68%) Route 53
16 15 (2.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.34%) HTTP
2 5 (0.75%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.75%) SSL
3 4 (0.60%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (22.95%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.71%) NoSQL
3 68 (10.13%) MongoDB
4 64 (9.54%) Relational Database
5 54 (8.05%) MySQL
6 53 (7.90%) DynamoDB
7 37 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.87%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.98%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.53%) Big Data
12 16 (2.38%) Redis
13 13 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.79%) Flink
15 10 (1.49%) DocumentDB
16 9 (1.34%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.19%) DB2
18 7 (1.04%) Hadoop
18 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (24.59%) Git
2 144 (21.46%) Jenkins
3 124 (18.48%) JUnit
4 112 (16.69%) GitLab
5 63 (9.39%) JIRA
6 62 (9.24%) Maven
7 59 (8.79%) Gradle
8 54 (8.05%) Mockito
9 46 (6.86%) Cucumber
10 32 (4.77%) Selenium
10 32 (4.77%) SonarQube
11 26 (3.87%) JMeter
12 23 (3.43%) IntelliJ
13 17 (2.53%) WebDriver
14 14 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
15 13 (1.94%) Gatling
16 11 (1.64%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.64%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.64%) jMock
17 10 (1.49%) CircleCI
General
1 132 (19.67%) Finance
2 131 (19.52%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.59%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.13%) Banking
5 34 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.53%) Retail
7 12 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 6 (0.89%) Automotive
9 6 (0.89%) Law
9 6 (0.89%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.60%) Front Office
11 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Publishing
12 3 (0.45%) Military
12 3 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 384 (57.23%) Developer
2 267 (39.79%) Java Developer
3 129 (19.23%) Senior
4 106 (15.80%) Java Engineer
5 82 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
6 74 (11.03%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.43%) Software Engineer
8 66 (9.84%) Lead
9 57 (8.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 39 (5.81%) Backend Developer
10 39 (5.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (4.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 26 (3.87%) Architect
12 26 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.43%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 20 (2.98%) Data Engineer
16 16 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.24%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 537 (80.03%) Spring Boot
2 185 (27.57%) Kafka
3 169 (25.19%) RESTful
4 148 (22.06%) REST
5 131 (19.52%) React
6 104 (15.50%) Node.js
7 91 (13.56%) AngularJS
8 65 (9.69%) Hibernate
9 54 (8.05%) HTML
10 47 (7.00%) CSS
11 45 (6.71%) Spring MVC
12 43 (6.41%) WireMock
13 40 (5.96%) JPA
13 40 (5.96%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (5.66%) Web Services
15 33 (4.92%) OAuth
16 32 (4.77%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (4.47%) OAuth2
18 26 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (3.87%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 80 (11.92%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.53%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.24%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.04%) Equities
12 7 (1.04%) NHS
12 7 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
14 4 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (7.00%) Linux
2 12 (1.79%) Unix
3 9 (1.34%) Windows
4 7 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Solaris
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (60.21%) Microservices
2 373 (55.59%) CI/CD
3 259 (38.60%) Agile
4 236 (35.17%) DevOps
5 218 (32.49%) Containerisation
6 151 (22.50%) TDD
7 149 (22.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 143 (21.31%) Software Engineering
9 132 (19.67%) Test Automation
10 123 (18.33%) Event-Driven
11 116 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (16.39%) Code Quality
13 104 (15.50%) Observability
14 95 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (13.26%) Scrum
16 76 (11.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (10.43%) BDD
19 57 (8.49%) Design Patterns
20 55 (8.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 630 (93.89%) Java
2 184 (27.42%) SQL
3 97 (14.46%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 91 (13.56%) Python
6 46 (6.86%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.53%) Go
8 14 (2.09%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.64%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.34%) Scala
11 6 (0.89%) Perl
12 5 (0.75%) C#
12 5 (0.75%) Ruby
13 4 (0.60%) Bash
14 3 (0.45%) PHP
15 2 (0.30%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 211 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 180 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.47%) Degree
4 23 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.75%) OCP
8 5 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.69%) QA
2 49 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.94%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.79%) WCAG
5 10 (1.49%) SEPA
6 8 (1.19%) PSD2
7 7 (1.04%) GDPR
7 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.75%) NIST
8 5 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.75%) SLA
9 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.45%) HL7
10 3 (0.45%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 297 (44.26%) Docker
2 10 (1.49%) Postfix
3 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 322 (47.99%) Kubernetes
2 85 (12.67%) Grafana
3 69 (10.28%) Terraform
4 55 (8.20%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.13%) Ansible
6 12 (1.79%) Argo
7 10 (1.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
9 4 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.60%) Rancher
10 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 51 (7.60%) Oracle
2 42 (6.26%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.47%) Google
4 25 (3.73%) Splunk
5 14 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.49%) Solace
8 9 (1.34%) Checkmarx
9 8 (1.19%) IBM
10 7 (1.04%) Databricks
11 6 (0.89%) Adobe
11 6 (0.89%) Confluent
11 6 (0.89%) Sybase
12 5 (0.75%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.75%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.75%) Teradata
13 4 (0.60%) VMware