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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 197 239
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 -146
Contract jobs citing Spring 487 399 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.59% 1.29% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.08% 5.95% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 252 307
10th Percentile £327 £413 £413
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £713
90th Percentile £638 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £57.63
25th Percentile - - £64.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £77.65
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 6,879 6,706 8,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.52% 21.75% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,266 6,219
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 102 175
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.27% -13.26%

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 30 November 2025.

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
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 30 November 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 +9 263 £525 -10.26% 55
North of England +3 105 £452 +0.50% 26
North West +23 76 £450 - 15
Midlands -5 50 £426 -27.53% 12
South East +16 40 £400 -11.11% 50
West Midlands -11 36 £475 -19.15% 10
Yorkshire -28 20 £513 -18.00% 7
East Midlands - 14 £360 - 2
South West +5 13 £505 -9.21% 19
North East -6 10 £500 +12.36% 4
East of England -19 1 - - 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 17 (3.49%) Confluence
2 16 (3.29%) JBoss
3 12 (2.46%) Apache
4 11 (2.26%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.23%) Camunda
7 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.82%) Mule
8 3 (0.62%) CICS
8 3 (0.62%) WordPress
9 2 (0.41%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.41%) Drupal
9 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.41%) nginx
10 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.21%) CMS
10 1 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.21%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 266 (54.62%) AWS
2 153 (31.42%) Azure
3 88 (18.07%) GCP
4 79 (16.22%) GitHub
5 41 (8.42%) OpenShift
6 38 (7.80%) Serverless
7 31 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (6.37%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (6.16%) Amazon S3
9 22 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (4.11%) Azure AKS
12 18 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.46%) Datadog
16 11 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (2.26%) Apigee
17 10 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.03%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.82%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.41%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) FTP
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (22.18%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (14.37%) Relational Database
3 67 (13.76%) MongoDB
4 53 (10.88%) NoSQL
5 34 (6.98%) MySQL
6 23 (4.72%) DB2
6 23 (4.72%) DynamoDB
7 15 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.87%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.87%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.46%) Oracle Database
10 11 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.64%) HBase
12 8 (1.64%) Redis
13 5 (1.03%) Big Data
14 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.82%) Tick Data
15 3 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.62%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 136 (27.93%) JUnit
2 131 (26.90%) Git
3 103 (21.15%) Jenkins
4 63 (12.94%) GitLab
5 54 (11.09%) Maven
6 52 (10.68%) Cucumber
7 46 (9.45%) JIRA
8 42 (8.62%) Mockito
9 37 (7.60%) Gradle
10 33 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (4.93%) Selenium
12 21 (4.31%) Postman
13 17 (3.49%) SonarQube
14 16 (3.29%) JMeter
15 14 (2.87%) Eclipse
16 13 (2.67%) IntelliJ
17 12 (2.46%) Artifactory
18 11 (2.26%) Bitbucket
19 7 (1.44%) REST Assured
19 7 (1.44%) Subversion
General
1 165 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 114 (23.41%) Finance
3 86 (17.66%) Banking
4 59 (12.11%) Public Sector
5 52 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.52%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.62%) Automotive
11 3 (0.62%) Electronics
11 3 (0.62%) Front Office
11 3 (0.62%) Law
11 3 (0.62%) Marketing
12 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 316 (64.89%) Developer
2 256 (52.57%) Java Developer
3 105 (21.56%) Senior
4 84 (17.25%) Senior Developer
5 81 (16.63%) Senior Java Developer
6 57 (11.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 50 (10.27%) Java Engineer
8 49 (10.06%) Lead
9 32 (6.57%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 24 (4.93%) AWS Developer
11 24 (4.93%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.11%) Architect
12 20 (4.11%) Lead Java Developer
13 18 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 15 (3.08%) Backend Developer
14 15 (3.08%) SQL Developer
15 14 (2.87%) Investment Banking Java Developer
15 14 (2.87%) Linux Developer
15 14 (2.87%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 341 (70.02%) Spring Boot
2 155 (31.83%) Kafka
3 133 (27.31%) RESTful
4 114 (23.41%) REST
5 100 (20.53%) React
6 85 (17.45%) Hibernate
7 83 (17.04%) AngularJS
8 71 (14.58%) HTML
9 50 (10.27%) CSS
10 46 (9.45%) JSON
11 40 (8.21%) Node.js
12 37 (7.60%) OAuth
13 36 (7.39%) SOAP
14 35 (7.19%) JPA
15 32 (6.57%) JMS
16 30 (6.16%) OAuth2
17 28 (5.75%) Web Services
17 28 (5.75%) XML
18 25 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
19 23 (4.72%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.78%) Cloud Native
2 50 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.31%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.90%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.90%) Equities
4 19 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.64%) Derivative
8 7 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (0.82%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.82%) NHS
11 3 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.62%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
12 2 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.32%) Linux
2 28 (5.75%) Unix
3 6 (1.23%) Windows
4 5 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.41%) zOS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (61.81%) Microservices
2 273 (56.06%) CI/CD
3 234 (48.05%) Agile
4 158 (32.44%) DevOps
5 150 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 102 (20.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 96 (19.71%) TDD
9 94 (19.30%) Test Automation
10 83 (17.04%) Software Engineering
11 72 (14.78%) Event-Driven
12 71 (14.58%) SDLC
13 63 (12.94%) Scrum
14 57 (11.70%) Code Quality
15 55 (11.29%) Mentoring
16 53 (10.88%) Design Patterns
17 50 (10.27%) Infrastructure as Code
18 47 (9.65%) API Development
19 44 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
20 43 (8.83%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 477 (97.95%) Java
2 145 (29.77%) SQL
3 75 (15.40%) JavaScript
3 75 (15.40%) Python
4 59 (12.11%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.57%) Shell Script
6 19 (3.90%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.87%) Scala
8 11 (2.26%) Ruby
9 10 (2.05%) Groovy
10 9 (1.85%) Bash
11 6 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.03%) C#
12 5 (1.03%) C++
13 4 (0.82%) C
14 3 (0.62%) Go
14 3 (0.62%) Rust
15 2 (0.41%) COBOL
15 2 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 113 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.16%) Degree
4 26 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.26%) OCP
5 11 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CCSP
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.21%) CISSP
10 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.21%) OSCP
10 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (11.70%) QA
2 20 (4.11%) ISO 20022
3 16 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.26%) PSD2
4 11 (2.26%) SEPA
5 10 (2.05%) WCAG
6 6 (1.23%) GDPR
7 5 (1.03%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.41%) HL7
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
9 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 198 (40.66%) Docker
2 7 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.21%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 202 (41.48%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.06%) Terraform
3 31 (6.37%) Ansible
4 24 (4.93%) Grafana
5 15 (3.08%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.67%) Argo
7 10 (2.05%) Kibana
7 10 (2.05%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.64%) Puppet
9 5 (1.03%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
11 1 (0.21%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.21%) Consul
11 1 (0.21%) Control-M
11 1 (0.21%) logstash
11 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (11.91%) Oracle
2 35 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.75%) Google
4 20 (4.11%) Sybase
5 18 (3.70%) Splunk
6 17 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.87%) VMware
8 11 (2.26%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.05%) CA Agile Central
10 9 (1.85%) IBM
10 9 (1.85%) webMethods
11 5 (1.03%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.03%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.82%) Calypso
12 4 (0.82%) SAP
12 4 (0.82%) Solace
12 4 (0.82%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.82%) Virgin Media
13 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg