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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 198 229
Rank change year-on-year +42 +31 -129
Contract jobs citing Spring 611 339 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 1.34% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 5.90% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 203 287
10th Percentile £350 £405 £384
25th Percentile £414 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -15.69%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £770 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 9
10th Percentile £50.75 - £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £58.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 7,646 5,743 7,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.65% 22.68% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,129 3,784 5,482
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £428 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.94% -7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 79 211
10th Percentile £35.08 £26.98 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.00 £40.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £81.23 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -17 283 £525 -5.83% 60
North of England +19 145 £475 -5.00% 51
North West +39 107 £450 -2.70% 27
Midlands +2 79 £469 +10.35% 21
West Midlands +11 76 £470 +10.47% 15
South East +19 58 £400 +2.56% 52
South West -5 28 £409 -27.29% 30
Yorkshire -54 24 £500 -4.76% 15
North East -1 21 £475 +4.40% 9
East of England -18 11 £600 - 20
East Midlands -33 3 £308 -28.74% 6
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 (6.22%) Confluence
2 21 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.11%) Apache
4 17 (2.78%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.96%) Camunda
6 11 (1.80%) JBoss
7 6 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.98%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.98%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.49%) nginx
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.33%) CICS
10 2 (0.33%) Drupal
10 2 (0.33%) WordPress
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.80%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 346 (56.63%) AWS
2 168 (27.50%) Azure
3 127 (20.79%) GitHub
4 111 (18.17%) GCP
5 68 (11.13%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (10.97%) Amazon S3
7 66 (10.80%) Serverless
8 55 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.02%) OpenShift
10 35 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.60%) Azure AKS
16 17 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.78%) Datadog
17 15 (2.45%) AWS Fargate
17 15 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) HTTP
2 7 (1.15%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.82%) SSL
4 4 (0.65%) DNS
5 2 (0.33%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (23.90%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (13.91%) MongoDB
3 83 (13.58%) NoSQL
4 64 (10.47%) Relational Database
5 44 (7.20%) DynamoDB
6 43 (7.04%) MySQL
7 34 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.11%) SQL Server
11 15 (2.45%) RDBMS
12 14 (2.29%) DB2
13 12 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.96%) Redis
14 10 (1.64%) Big Data
14 10 (1.64%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.47%) Flink
15 9 (1.47%) HBase
15 9 (1.47%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.31%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 167 (27.33%) Git
2 142 (23.24%) JUnit
3 141 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 111 (18.17%) GitLab
5 70 (11.46%) Cucumber
5 70 (11.46%) Maven
6 60 (9.82%) JIRA
7 52 (8.51%) Gradle
8 46 (7.53%) Mockito
9 45 (7.36%) Selenium
10 32 (5.24%) JMeter
10 32 (5.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 22 (3.60%) IntelliJ
12 18 (2.95%) SonarQube
13 16 (2.62%) Postman
14 15 (2.45%) Gatling
15 13 (2.13%) WebDriver
16 12 (1.96%) Artifactory
16 12 (1.96%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.64%) REST Assured
General
1 165 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.48%) Finance
3 102 (16.69%) Public Sector
4 74 (12.11%) Banking
5 37 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.45%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.29%) Retail
8 10 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.82%) Front Office
10 5 (0.82%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.65%) Military
11 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.49%) Electronics
12 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.49%) Law
12 3 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 375 (61.37%) Developer
2 259 (42.39%) Java Developer
3 118 (19.31%) Senior
4 93 (15.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 86 (14.08%) Java Engineer
6 76 (12.44%) Senior Developer
7 66 (10.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 59 (9.66%) Lead
9 52 (8.51%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (4.58%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (4.26%) Backend Developer
13 24 (3.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 22 (3.60%) AWS Developer
15 20 (3.27%) Architect
15 20 (3.27%) Lead Developer
16 16 (2.62%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.13%) DevOps Engineer
18 11 (1.80%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (75.61%) Spring Boot
2 187 (30.61%) Kafka
3 158 (25.86%) RESTful
4 139 (22.75%) REST
5 133 (21.77%) React
6 108 (17.68%) AngularJS
7 89 (14.57%) Hibernate
8 86 (14.08%) Node.js
9 69 (11.29%) HTML
10 55 (9.00%) CSS
11 43 (7.04%) JPA
12 37 (6.06%) WireMock
13 34 (5.56%) JSON
13 34 (5.56%) Playwright
14 33 (5.40%) OAuth
14 33 (5.40%) Spring Cloud
15 32 (5.24%) SOAP
16 31 (5.07%) Spring MVC
16 31 (5.07%) Web Services
17 30 (4.91%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 89 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 56 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.13%) Equities
6 13 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
8 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.31%) Derivative
9 8 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.98%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.82%) NHS
13 4 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 59 (9.66%) Linux
2 17 (2.78%) Unix
3 9 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.31%) Windows
5 3 (0.49%) VMS
6 2 (0.33%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) Solaris
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (60.39%) Microservices
2 346 (56.63%) CI/CD
3 246 (40.26%) Agile
4 211 (34.53%) DevOps
5 179 (29.30%) Containerisation
6 150 (24.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 139 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 117 (19.15%) TDD
10 110 (18.00%) Software Engineering
11 104 (17.02%) Event-Driven
12 90 (14.73%) Scrum
13 86 (14.08%) Observability
14 80 (13.09%) Code Quality
15 71 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (9.66%) SDLC
18 58 (9.49%) Mentoring
19 57 (9.33%) BDD
19 57 (9.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 576 (94.27%) Java
2 156 (25.53%) SQL
3 89 (14.57%) JavaScript
4 83 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 73 (11.95%) Python
6 39 (6.38%) Kotlin
7 19 (3.11%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.29%) Go
9 13 (2.13%) Scala
10 10 (1.64%) Ruby
11 8 (1.31%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.15%) Perl
13 5 (0.82%) C#
14 3 (0.49%) Bash
14 3 (0.49%) Groovy
14 3 (0.49%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.16%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) Clojure
16 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 161 (26.35%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.75%) Degree
4 24 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.96%) OCP
6 12 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CCSP
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) OSCP
12 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.49%) QA
2 40 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.95%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.78%) WCAG
5 10 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.64%) PSD2
5 10 (1.64%) SEPA
6 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.82%) NIST
7 4 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.49%) NCSC
9 2 (0.33%) HL7
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.16%) GDPR
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 249 (40.75%) Docker
2 7 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.98%) Postfix
4 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 290 (47.46%) Kubernetes
2 78 (12.77%) Grafana
3 62 (10.15%) Terraform
4 40 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.24%) Ansible
6 21 (3.44%) Argo
7 14 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.80%) Kibana
9 8 (1.31%) Puppet
10 6 (0.98%) Istio
11 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.33%) Rancher
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 51 (8.35%) Oracle
2 32 (5.24%) Google
3 31 (5.07%) Microsoft
4 28 (4.58%) Splunk
5 24 (3.93%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.29%) VMware
7 13 (2.13%) Sybase
8 11 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.31%) Solace
10 8 (1.31%) webMethods
11 7 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.98%) Adobe
12 6 (0.98%) Databricks
12 6 (0.98%) IBM
12 6 (0.98%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.82%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.65%) Confluent
14 4 (0.65%) ION Trading