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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 176 191
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 710 439 461
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.61% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.38% 7.22% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 306 353
10th Percentile £364 £356 £375
25th Percentile £429 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £691 £665 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +15.38% +41.67% -36.72%

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 8,468 6,083 7,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.87% 22.25% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,549 4,191 5,234
10th Percentile £363 £353 £356
25th Percentile £430 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £801
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £543
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 136 243
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -12 363 £525 +1.94% 127
North of England +10 147 £523 +12.37% 39
North West -6 88 £540 +32.19% 20
Midlands -39 82 £475 +14.46% 27
West Midlands -13 79 £475 -5.00% 22
South West -1 49 £410 -20.10% 16
Yorkshire -9 43 £550 +2.33% 9
South East -44 39 £463 +12.12% 32
East of England +2 28 £510 +9.09% 1
North East -27 19 £450 -8.16% 11
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 5
Spring
UK

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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 42 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 32 (4.51%) Confluence
3 22 (3.10%) Apache
4 15 (2.11%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.41%) nginx
6 7 (0.99%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.85%) Camunda
7 6 (0.85%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.85%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
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
1 369 (51.97%) AWS
2 167 (23.52%) Azure
3 127 (17.89%) GitHub
4 123 (17.32%) GCP
5 70 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (8.59%) Serverless
7 60 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 51 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (4.65%) OpenShift
14 29 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.82%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.54%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.54%) Route 53
17 16 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 13 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.70%) HTTP
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (24.08%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (11.97%) NoSQL
3 81 (11.41%) Relational Database
4 72 (10.14%) MongoDB
5 52 (7.32%) MySQL
6 46 (6.48%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.80%) Redis
9 25 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (3.24%) SQL Server
11 19 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.68%) Flink
12 18 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.39%) Big Data
14 11 (1.55%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
17 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.99%) Db2
Development Applications
1 189 (26.62%) Git
2 176 (24.79%) Jenkins
3 132 (18.59%) JUnit
4 91 (12.82%) GitLab
5 71 (10.00%) Maven
6 69 (9.72%) Gradle
7 62 (8.73%) Mockito
8 56 (7.89%) JIRA
9 41 (5.77%) Selenium
9 41 (5.77%) SonarQube
10 39 (5.49%) Cucumber
11 26 (3.66%) JMeter
12 19 (2.68%) WebDriver
13 18 (2.54%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.39%) Gatling
15 16 (2.25%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.97%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.83%) IntelliJ
17 13 (1.83%) jMock
18 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 159 (22.39%) Finance
2 143 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 85 (11.97%) Banking
5 60 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.23%) Retail
7 16 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.41%) Law
10 9 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
11 6 (0.85%) Military
11 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.70%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Games
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
14 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 383 (53.94%) Developer
2 298 (41.97%) Java Developer
3 146 (20.56%) Senior
4 116 (16.34%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.11%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.69%) Senior Developer
7 74 (10.42%) Lead
8 65 (9.15%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.89%) Backend Developer
10 48 (6.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (6.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.23%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 25 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (3.52%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.38%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 22 (3.10%) Architect
17 21 (2.96%) Data Engineer
18 19 (2.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 19 (2.68%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 574 (80.85%) Spring Boot
2 214 (30.14%) Kafka
3 179 (25.21%) REST
4 163 (22.96%) RESTful
5 126 (17.75%) React
6 83 (11.69%) Node.js
7 60 (8.45%) Hibernate
8 57 (8.03%) JPA
9 54 (7.61%) AngularJS
10 51 (7.18%) Web Services
11 46 (6.48%) HTML
12 43 (6.06%) Spring MVC
13 42 (5.92%) CSS
14 40 (5.63%) WireMock
15 39 (5.49%) Spring Cloud
16 37 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (4.51%) OAuth
18 30 (4.23%) SOAP
19 26 (3.66%) Jakarta EE
19 26 (3.66%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 143 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 124 (17.46%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 18 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.39%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.13%) Derivative
12 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.70%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.18%) Linux
2 23 (3.24%) Unix
3 10 (1.41%) Windows
4 8 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.56%) VMS
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.42%) Solaris
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (61.27%) Microservices
2 426 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 312 (43.94%) Agile
4 261 (36.76%) DevOps
5 210 (29.58%) Containerisation
6 187 (26.34%) Software Engineering
7 159 (22.39%) Test Automation
8 154 (21.69%) TDD
9 151 (21.27%) Event-Driven
10 128 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (17.89%) Observability
12 126 (17.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 123 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 117 (16.48%) Scrum
15 110 (15.49%) Code Quality
16 102 (14.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (10.85%) BDD
18 70 (9.86%) Infrastructure as Code
19 68 (9.58%) Design Patterns
20 63 (8.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 681 (95.92%) Java
2 225 (31.69%) SQL
3 94 (13.24%) JavaScript
4 90 (12.68%) Python
5 81 (11.41%) TypeScript
6 40 (5.63%) PL/SQL
7 39 (5.49%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.83%) Scala
10 11 (1.55%) Go
11 8 (1.13%) C#
12 6 (0.85%) Bash
13 5 (0.70%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) Ruby
13 5 (0.70%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 232 (32.68%) Security Cleared
2 195 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.94%) Degree
4 24 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (10.28%) QA
2 44 (6.20%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.99%) SEPA
4 7 (0.99%) WCAG
5 6 (0.85%) GDPR
5 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.56%) SLA
7 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 329 (46.34%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 305 (42.96%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.55%) Grafana
3 70 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.31%) Terraform
5 31 (4.37%) Ansible
6 13 (1.83%) Kibana
7 9 (1.27%) Control-M
8 5 (0.70%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) Istio
9 3 (0.42%) Bosun
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 85 (11.97%) Oracle
2 40 (5.63%) Google
3 34 (4.79%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.08%) Splunk
5 17 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.97%) IBM
8 12 (1.69%) Solace
9 11 (1.55%) Databricks
10 10 (1.41%) Sybase
11 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.27%) New Relic
12 8 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.99%) TikTok
14 4 (0.56%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.56%) Teradata
15 3 (0.42%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.42%) SAP