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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 179 207
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 -115
Contract jobs citing Spring 433 454 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.58% 1.39% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.10% 6.23% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 333 380
10th Percentile £327 £379 £413
25th Percentile £402 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -7.17% -1.25%
75th Percentile £571 £656 £725
90th Percentile £638 £779 £848
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 26
10th Percentile £53.00 - £55.00
25th Percentile - £69.50 £63.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £73.11
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% -1.51% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.50 £77.13
90th Percentile £77.50 - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £72.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -9.72% -0.69% +10.89%

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 6,097 7,292 9,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 22.37% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,129 4,834 6,898
10th Percentile £350 £357 £375
25th Percentile £410 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £676
90th Percentile £750 £813 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 176 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £42.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.47 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

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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 15 September 2025.

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 -10 251 £525 -4.55% 111
North of England +4 80 £465 -15.45% 33
North West +13 61 £445 -17.21% 27
Midlands +17 57 £413 -29.79% 8
East Midlands - 30 £375 - 2
West Midlands -12 27 £500 -14.89% 6
South West +17 15 £503 -6.51% 9
South East +10 15 £500 +25.00% 75
Yorkshire -21 11 £463 -15.91% 3
North East +2 8 £490 -13.66% 3
East of England -9 1 £468 +24.67% 2
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.93%) JBoss
2 15 (3.46%) Tomcat
3 11 (2.54%) Confluence
4 6 (1.39%) Apache
4 6 (1.39%) WebLogic
5 5 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.15%) Camunda
5 5 (1.15%) Mule
6 4 (0.92%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.69%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.69%) CICS
7 3 (0.69%) nginx
7 3 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.69%) WordPress
8 2 (0.46%) CMS
8 2 (0.46%) Drupal
8 2 (0.46%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.23%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 188 (43.42%) AWS
2 84 (19.40%) Azure
3 54 (12.47%) GCP
4 31 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (6.47%) Amazon S3
6 27 (6.24%) Serverless
7 26 (6.00%) GitHub
8 25 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (5.54%) OpenShift
10 21 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 11 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.08%) Route 53
16 8 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
16 8 (1.85%) AWS KMS
17 7 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.62%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.92%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) SSL
4 2 (0.46%) Firewall
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
4 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.46%) LAN
4 2 (0.46%) SMS
5 1 (0.23%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (27.71%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (19.63%) Relational Database
3 62 (14.32%) MongoDB
4 49 (11.32%) NoSQL
5 29 (6.70%) DB2
5 29 (6.70%) MySQL
6 23 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (5.08%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (3.23%) Oracle Database
9 13 (3.00%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.31%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.08%) Big Data
12 7 (1.62%) Redis
13 6 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.92%) KDB
14 4 (0.92%) MariaDB
15 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.69%) HPCC
16 2 (0.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 136 (31.41%) JUnit
2 115 (26.56%) Git
3 112 (25.87%) Jenkins
4 67 (15.47%) Maven
5 66 (15.24%) Mockito
6 52 (12.01%) Gradle
7 45 (10.39%) GitLab
8 44 (10.16%) JIRA
9 32 (7.39%) SonarQube
10 26 (6.00%) Cucumber
10 26 (6.00%) Liquibase
11 17 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (3.23%) Bitbucket
13 12 (2.77%) Postman
14 10 (2.31%) Artifactory
14 10 (2.31%) IntelliJ
14 10 (2.31%) Subversion
15 9 (2.08%) Bitbucket Server
16 8 (1.85%) Eclipse
17 7 (1.62%) JMeter
General
1 124 (28.64%) Finance
2 112 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 84 (19.40%) Banking
4 67 (15.47%) Public Sector
5 45 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 20 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 19 (4.39%) Electronics
8 19 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 19 (4.39%) Marketing
9 8 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.15%) Front Office
11 4 (0.92%) Back Office
11 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Automotive
13 2 (0.46%) Police
13 2 (0.46%) Retail
14 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 274 (63.28%) Developer
2 235 (54.27%) Java Developer
3 84 (19.40%) Senior
4 70 (16.17%) Senior Developer
4 70 (16.17%) Senior Java Developer
5 53 (12.24%) Lead
6 48 (11.09%) Java Engineer
7 43 (9.93%) Software Engineer
8 34 (7.85%) Full-Stack Developer
9 30 (6.93%) Lead Developer
10 29 (6.70%) Lead Java Developer
10 29 (6.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 26 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
12 21 (4.85%) AWS Developer
13 19 (4.39%) Architect
14 17 (3.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 17 (3.93%) Linux Developer
14 17 (3.93%) SQL Developer
15 16 (3.70%) Investment Banking Java Developer
15 16 (3.70%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (70.21%) Spring Boot
2 145 (33.49%) Kafka
3 109 (25.17%) REST
4 107 (24.71%) React
5 106 (24.48%) RESTful
6 87 (20.09%) Hibernate
7 66 (15.24%) AngularJS
8 58 (13.39%) Web Services
9 46 (10.62%) SOAP
10 44 (10.16%) HTML
11 43 (9.93%) JPA
12 41 (9.47%) Swagger
13 34 (7.85%) CSS
13 34 (7.85%) OAuth
13 34 (7.85%) Spring Cloud
14 33 (7.62%) Node.js
15 28 (6.47%) JSON
16 27 (6.24%) OpenAPI
17 26 (6.00%) JMS
18 24 (5.54%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 50 (11.55%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.31%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.70%) Equities
5 15 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.69%) Derivative
13 3 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.69%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.69%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.69%) State Machine
14 2 (0.46%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 54 (12.47%) Linux
2 28 (6.47%) Unix
3 6 (1.39%) Windows
4 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.69%) Android
6 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.46%) zOS
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (57.74%) Microservices
2 232 (53.58%) Agile
3 195 (45.03%) CI/CD
4 121 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (27.71%) DevOps
6 112 (25.87%) TDD
7 111 (25.64%) Containerisation
8 89 (20.55%) Software Engineering
9 73 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (15.47%) SDLC
11 66 (15.24%) Scrum
12 57 (13.16%) Event-Driven
13 51 (11.78%) API Development
14 47 (10.85%) Test Automation
15 46 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (10.62%) Migration
16 44 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
16 44 (10.16%) Design Patterns
17 42 (9.70%) Clean Code
18 40 (9.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 426 (98.38%) Java
2 169 (39.03%) SQL
3 75 (17.32%) JavaScript
4 66 (15.24%) Python
4 66 (15.24%) TypeScript
5 38 (8.78%) Shell Script
6 11 (2.54%) Groovy
6 11 (2.54%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.31%) Kotlin
8 9 (2.08%) Bash
9 8 (1.85%) Scala
10 7 (1.62%) C#
11 6 (1.39%) C
11 6 (1.39%) C++
12 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.92%) Ruby
14 3 (0.69%) Perl
14 3 (0.69%) Rust
15 2 (0.46%) COBOL
15 2 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 96 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 84 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.08%) Degree
4 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.23%) OCP
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.62%) QA
2 14 (3.23%) GDPR
3 11 (2.54%) HIPAA
4 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.62%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.39%) PSD2
6 6 (1.39%) SEPA
7 3 (0.69%) WCAG
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 171 (39.49%) Docker
2 6 (1.39%) Postfix
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (30.48%) Kubernetes
2 34 (7.85%) Terraform
3 16 (3.70%) Ansible
3 16 (3.70%) Grafana
4 14 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 13 (3.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.69%) Kibana
8 2 (0.46%) CA Endevor
8 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) Control-M
9 1 (0.23%) logstash
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (13.39%) Oracle
2 37 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.62%) SAP
3 20 (4.62%) Sybase
4 19 (4.39%) IBM
5 17 (3.93%) Splunk
6 16 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
7 14 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.77%) Ping Identity
9 10 (2.31%) Google
10 8 (1.85%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.62%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.62%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.92%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.92%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.69%) Confluent
14 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.69%) VMware
15 2 (0.46%) ION Trading