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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 183 187
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 676 439 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.58% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.01% 7.17% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 305 348
10th Percentile £362 £338 £382
25th Percentile £428 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £656
90th Percentile £706 £656 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 5
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £91.40 £77.50 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%

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 8,439 6,123 7,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.47% 22.03% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 4,186 5,028
10th Percentile £366 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 158 220
10th Percentile £28.58 £31.25 £24.16
25th Percentile £45.94 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.03 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -4 372 £525 - 232
North of England -12 142 £500 +7.53% 74
North West -17 78 £540 +25.58% 43
Midlands -31 74 £475 +14.46% 32
West Midlands -7 71 £475 -5.00% 26
Yorkshire +4 46 £525 +46.12% 15
South West -18 37 £481 -4.70% 31
South East -47 31 £367 -19.51% 34
East of England 0 21 £507 +8.45% 7
North East -31 19 £450 -8.16% 17
East Midlands -47 2 £401 +6.93% 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 33 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 28 (4.14%) Confluence
3 23 (3.40%) Apache
4 11 (1.63%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.33%) nginx
7 7 (1.04%) Camunda
8 6 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.59%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.59%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.44%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.30%) Mule
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.59%) Quorum
1 4 (0.59%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.59%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (53.40%) AWS
2 160 (23.67%) Azure
3 129 (19.08%) GitHub
4 114 (16.86%) GCP
5 74 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (7.69%) Serverless
7 48 (7.10%) Amazon S3
8 43 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (4.73%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.07%) AWS KMS
14 14 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (2.07%) Route 53
15 13 (1.92%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
3 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (24.70%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 72 (10.65%) Relational Database
4 61 (9.02%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.80%) MySQL
6 37 (5.47%) DynamoDB
7 32 (4.73%) Redis
8 29 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (2.37%) Flink
12 14 (2.07%) Big Data
13 11 (1.63%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.48%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.48%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.04%) Db2
16 7 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 180 (26.63%) Git
1 180 (26.63%) Jenkins
2 128 (18.93%) JUnit
3 99 (14.64%) GitLab
4 69 (10.21%) Gradle
5 66 (9.76%) Maven
6 63 (9.32%) Mockito
7 49 (7.25%) JIRA
8 41 (6.07%) Cucumber
8 41 (6.07%) SonarQube
9 35 (5.18%) Selenium
10 23 (3.40%) JMeter
11 19 (2.81%) Liquibase
11 19 (2.81%) WebDriver
12 15 (2.22%) Gatling
13 13 (1.92%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.92%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.78%) IntelliJ
15 11 (1.63%) DbUnit
16 10 (1.48%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 157 (23.22%) Finance
2 144 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 93 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 91 (13.46%) Banking
5 67 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.14%) Retail
7 17 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.48%) Law
10 7 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.89%) Back Office
12 5 (0.74%) Military
12 5 (0.74%) Police
13 4 (0.59%) Front Office
13 4 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 365 (53.99%) Developer
2 294 (43.49%) Java Developer
3 148 (21.89%) Senior
4 114 (16.86%) Java Engineer
5 87 (12.87%) Senior Developer
5 87 (12.87%) Software Engineer
6 70 (10.36%) Senior Java Developer
7 65 (9.62%) Lead
8 53 (7.84%) Backend Developer
8 53 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
9 47 (6.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 29 (4.29%) Software Developer
11 28 (4.14%) Senior Java Engineer
12 24 (3.55%) Architect
12 24 (3.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 23 (3.40%) Lead Developer
13 23 (3.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 22 (3.25%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 17 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (80.18%) Spring Boot
2 204 (30.18%) Kafka
3 175 (25.89%) REST
4 158 (23.37%) RESTful
5 116 (17.16%) React
6 72 (10.65%) Node.js
7 54 (7.99%) Hibernate
8 51 (7.54%) AngularJS
9 50 (7.40%) JPA
10 47 (6.95%) HTML
11 43 (6.36%) Spring MVC
11 43 (6.36%) Web Services
12 41 (6.07%) CSS
12 41 (6.07%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (5.33%) Spring Cloud
13 36 (5.33%) WireMock
14 34 (5.03%) OAuth
15 27 (3.99%) Jakarta EE
16 26 (3.85%) Redux
17 25 (3.70%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 156 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 124 (18.34%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.66%) Distributed Architecture
7 18 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.63%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.18%) Derivative
12 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.74%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.74%) Spread Betting
13 5 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.51%) Linux
2 27 (3.99%) Unix
3 7 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Solaris
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (62.13%) Microservices
2 405 (59.91%) CI/CD
3 313 (46.30%) Agile
4 236 (34.91%) DevOps
5 198 (29.29%) Containerisation
6 195 (28.85%) Software Engineering
7 167 (24.70%) Test Automation
8 155 (22.93%) Event-Driven
9 144 (21.30%) TDD
10 124 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
12 118 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
13 112 (16.57%) Observability
14 106 (15.68%) Scrum
15 102 (15.09%) Code Quality
16 99 (14.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
18 71 (10.50%) Clean Code
18 71 (10.50%) Design Patterns
19 68 (10.06%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 649 (96.01%) Java
2 225 (33.28%) SQL
3 85 (12.57%) JavaScript
4 83 (12.28%) Python
5 80 (11.83%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.36%) PL/SQL
7 31 (4.59%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.07%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.78%) Scala
10 10 (1.48%) Bash
11 7 (1.04%) C#
12 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Solidity
14 3 (0.44%) Go
15 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.30%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 213 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 179 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.40%) Degree
5 17 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) CISSP
9 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.65%) QA
2 36 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.48%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.18%) WCAG
5 7 (1.04%) SEPA
6 6 (0.89%) GDPR
6 6 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) EMIR
8 2 (0.30%) MiFID
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (47.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.18%) Postfix
3 2 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 291 (43.05%) Kubernetes
2 66 (9.76%) Grafana
3 62 (9.17%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.73%) Terraform
5 32 (4.73%) Ansible
6 17 (2.51%) Kibana
7 11 (1.63%) Control-M
8 7 (1.04%) Argo
9 4 (0.59%) Istio
10 3 (0.44%) Bosun
10 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.30%) Consul
11 2 (0.30%) Rancher
11 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.30%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 86 (12.72%) Oracle
2 34 (5.03%) Google
3 26 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.66%) Splunk
5 14 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.78%) IBM
8 11 (1.63%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.48%) Solace
10 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.33%) Databricks
10 9 (1.33%) Sybase
11 8 (1.18%) New Relic
12 7 (1.04%) TikTok
13 6 (0.89%) Confluent
14 4 (0.59%) FIS
14 4 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.59%) SAP
15 3 (0.44%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.44%) Red Hat