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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 176 189
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 -44
Contract jobs citing Spring 715 399 478
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.60% 1.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.67% 7.09% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 268 368
10th Percentile £382 £358 £375
25th Percentile £429 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -7.41% -12.55%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £677 £689 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%

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 8,250 5,629 7,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.10% 22.61% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,443 3,906 5,518
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 110 261
10th Percentile £30.66 £32.10 £22.75
25th Percentile £52.19 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.05 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% +10.29% -21.54%

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 20 June 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 20 June 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 20 June 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 +12 365 £525 - 77
North of England +7 159 £500 +7.53% 34
North West +6 106 £510 +24.85% 17
Midlands -45 72 £471 +12.12% 5
West Midlands -23 69 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +8 48 £409 -21.16% 20
South East -37 38 £481 +16.67% 19
Yorkshire -34 32 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -7 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -17 26 £450 -8.16% 5
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +7.94% 1
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 44 (6.15%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.17%) Confluence
3 24 (3.36%) Apache
4 14 (1.96%) Camunda
5 12 (1.68%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.40%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.40%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.26%) nginx
8 7 (0.98%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) Drupal
11 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.70%) 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
1 370 (51.75%) AWS
2 168 (23.50%) Azure
3 128 (17.90%) GitHub
4 116 (16.22%) GCP
5 75 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (9.65%) Amazon S3
7 63 (8.81%) Serverless
8 57 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (4.62%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.22%) Azure AKS
15 22 (3.08%) Route 53
16 19 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.52%) AWS KMS
18 17 (2.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 15 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.26%) HTTP
2 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (24.06%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (13.01%) NoSQL
3 76 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 76 (10.63%) Relational Database
4 55 (7.69%) MySQL
5 52 (7.27%) DynamoDB
6 45 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
8 25 (3.50%) Redis
9 23 (3.22%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (3.08%) SQL Server
11 20 (2.80%) Big Data
12 17 (2.38%) Flink
13 16 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.82%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.12%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.12%) Db2
16 7 (0.98%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (25.03%) Git
2 170 (23.78%) Jenkins
3 139 (19.44%) JUnit
4 104 (14.55%) GitLab
5 70 (9.79%) Maven
6 66 (9.23%) Gradle
7 65 (9.09%) Mockito
8 63 (8.81%) JIRA
9 43 (6.01%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.87%) Selenium
11 37 (5.17%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.50%) JMeter
13 20 (2.80%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.66%) WebDriver
15 17 (2.38%) Gatling
15 17 (2.38%) REST Assured
16 16 (2.24%) Liquibase
17 14 (1.96%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.82%) jMock
19 11 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 152 (21.26%) Finance
2 136 (19.02%) Social Skills
3 109 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 93 (13.01%) Banking
5 50 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.94%) Retail
7 16 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.40%) Law
10 9 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Automotive
11 6 (0.84%) Military
11 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.56%) Front Office
12 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.56%) Police
12 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Publishing
13 3 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 388 (54.27%) Developer
2 286 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 142 (19.86%) Senior
4 124 (17.34%) Java Engineer
5 90 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 77 (10.77%) Senior Developer
7 75 (10.49%) Lead
8 64 (8.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 59 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
10 50 (6.99%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.29%) Backend Developer
12 28 (3.92%) Lead Developer
12 28 (3.92%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
14 25 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 23 (3.22%) Data Engineer
16 22 (3.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 21 (2.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 20 (2.80%) Architect
19 17 (2.38%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 581 (81.26%) Spring Boot
2 213 (29.79%) Kafka
3 168 (23.50%) REST
4 165 (23.08%) RESTful
5 132 (18.46%) React
6 97 (13.57%) Node.js
7 67 (9.37%) AngularJS
8 59 (8.25%) Hibernate
8 59 (8.25%) JPA
9 48 (6.71%) Spring Cloud
9 48 (6.71%) WireMock
10 44 (6.15%) HTML
10 44 (6.15%) Web Services
11 42 (5.87%) Spring MVC
12 41 (5.73%) CSS
13 33 (4.62%) OAuth
14 31 (4.34%) SOAP
15 30 (4.20%) OAuth2
15 30 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (3.92%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 128 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 104 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.68%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.68%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.12%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.98%) Derivative
14 7 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.84%) Blockchain
16 5 (0.70%) AI Agents
17 4 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.71%) Linux
2 18 (2.52%) Unix
3 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.26%) Windows
4 5 (0.70%) VMS
5 3 (0.42%) Solaris
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (58.18%) Microservices
2 403 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 294 (41.12%) Agile
4 255 (35.66%) DevOps
5 204 (28.53%) Containerisation
6 176 (24.62%) Software Engineering
7 150 (20.98%) TDD
8 146 (20.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 145 (20.28%) Event-Driven
10 142 (19.86%) Test Automation
11 118 (16.50%) Observability
12 116 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
13 111 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 106 (14.83%) Scrum
15 97 (13.57%) Code Quality
16 95 (13.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (10.91%) BDD
18 65 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (7.97%) Performance Tuning
20 55 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 681 (95.24%) Java
2 221 (30.91%) SQL
3 96 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.01%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.73%) Python
6 41 (5.73%) Kotlin
7 29 (4.06%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.96%) Go
10 11 (1.54%) Scala
11 8 (1.12%) C#
12 7 (0.98%) Ruby
13 6 (0.84%) Perl
14 5 (0.70%) Bash
14 5 (0.70%) Solidity
15 2 (0.28%) Korn
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Groovy
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 218 (30.49%) Security Cleared
2 188 (26.29%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.64%) Degree
4 23 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.21%) QA
2 50 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.68%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.40%) SEPA
4 10 (1.40%) WCAG
5 7 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 6 (0.84%) GDPR
6 6 (0.84%) PSD2
6 6 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.70%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 318 (44.48%) Docker
2 11 (1.54%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 309 (43.22%) Kubernetes
2 89 (12.45%) Grafana
3 67 (9.37%) Prometheus
4 57 (7.97%) Terraform
5 29 (4.06%) Ansible
6 12 (1.68%) Kibana
7 7 (0.98%) Argo
8 4 (0.56%) Control-M
8 4 (0.56%) Istio
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 71 (9.93%) Oracle
2 39 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.48%) Google
4 27 (3.78%) Splunk
5 17 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (2.10%) IBM
7 14 (1.96%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.68%) Solace
8 12 (1.68%) Sybase
9 10 (1.40%) Databricks
10 9 (1.26%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.70%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.70%) Confluent
11 5 (0.70%) New Relic
11 5 (0.70%) Teradata
11 5 (0.70%) TikTok
12 4 (0.56%) Informatica
13 3 (0.42%) Adobe