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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 187 209
Rank change year-on-year +31 +22 -78
Contract jobs citing Spring 687 337 430
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.38% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.71% 6.16% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 216 331
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -13.11%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £669 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 11
10th Percentile - £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £42.94
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £79.25 £72.81 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -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 7,883 5,472 7,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.38% 22.35% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,221 3,793 5,322
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 104 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.20 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 11 May 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 11 May 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 11 May 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 +17 337 £525 -4.55% 68
North of England +24 168 £475 - 44
North West +34 122 £470 +8.42% 31
Midlands -27 68 £469 +11.67% 10
West Midlands -9 67 £469 +6.59% 7
South East -24 41 £423 -15.50% 25
South West -7 38 £409 -20.20% 14
Yorkshire -40 28 £475 -11.63% 7
East of England -5 26 £510 +9.09% 3
North East +1 25 £463 -0.54% 6
East Midlands -46 1 £450 +21.13% 3
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 41 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.24%) Confluence
3 22 (3.20%) Apache
4 14 (2.04%) Camunda
5 8 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.16%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.87%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.87%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.58%) JBoss
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 370 (53.86%) AWS
2 174 (25.33%) Azure
3 131 (19.07%) GitHub
4 117 (17.03%) GCP
5 76 (11.06%) Serverless
6 74 (10.77%) Amazon S3
6 74 (10.77%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
10 32 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (4.66%) OpenShift
11 31 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (4.51%) Azure AKS
12 25 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (2.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.62%) Route 53
16 15 (2.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.31%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.73%) SSL
3 4 (0.58%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (23.00%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 71 (10.33%) MongoDB
4 65 (9.46%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.71%) DynamoDB
5 53 (7.71%) MySQL
6 38 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (2.91%) SQL Server
10 18 (2.62%) Big Data
10 18 (2.62%) Redis
11 14 (2.04%) Flink
12 13 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (1.46%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.31%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.16%) DB2
16 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 167 (24.31%) Git
2 145 (21.11%) Jenkins
3 125 (18.20%) JUnit
4 117 (17.03%) GitLab
5 65 (9.46%) Gradle
6 64 (9.32%) Maven
7 61 (8.88%) JIRA
8 57 (8.30%) Mockito
9 43 (6.26%) Cucumber
10 33 (4.80%) SonarQube
11 32 (4.66%) Selenium
12 24 (3.49%) JMeter
13 23 (3.35%) IntelliJ
14 16 (2.33%) WebDriver
15 12 (1.75%) Gatling
16 11 (1.60%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.60%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.60%) jMock
17 10 (1.46%) CircleCI
17 10 (1.46%) Liquibase
General
1 134 (19.51%) Finance
2 132 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.47%) Public Sector
4 74 (10.77%) Banking
5 37 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.47%) Retail
7 12 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.87%) Automotive
10 6 (0.87%) Law
10 6 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.58%) Front Office
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 388 (56.48%) Developer
2 269 (39.16%) Java Developer
3 135 (19.65%) Senior
4 108 (15.72%) Java Engineer
5 81 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (11.50%) Software Engineer
7 77 (11.21%) Senior Developer
8 67 (9.75%) Lead
9 60 (8.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 41 (5.97%) Backend Developer
11 40 (5.82%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.08%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.78%) Architect
14 25 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (3.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.35%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.06%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.47%) Senior Java Engineer
18 16 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (81.22%) Spring Boot
2 189 (27.51%) Kafka
3 169 (24.60%) RESTful
4 152 (22.13%) REST
5 137 (19.94%) React
6 101 (14.70%) Node.js
7 93 (13.54%) AngularJS
8 62 (9.02%) Hibernate
9 54 (7.86%) HTML
10 47 (6.84%) CSS
11 44 (6.40%) Spring MVC
11 44 (6.40%) WireMock
12 43 (6.26%) Spring Cloud
13 41 (5.97%) JPA
14 39 (5.68%) Web Services
15 35 (5.09%) OAuth
16 33 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
17 32 (4.66%) OAuth2
18 28 (4.08%) Swagger
19 27 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.47%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.18%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) NHS
13 4 (0.58%) Equities
13 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.58%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.40%) Linux
2 12 (1.75%) Unix
3 10 (1.46%) Windows
4 8 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.58%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (60.41%) Microservices
2 383 (55.75%) CI/CD
3 266 (38.72%) Agile
4 242 (35.23%) DevOps
5 227 (33.04%) Containerisation
6 158 (23.00%) Software Engineering
7 151 (21.98%) TDD
8 150 (21.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 135 (19.65%) Test Automation
10 127 (18.49%) Event-Driven
11 118 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
12 108 (15.72%) Code Quality
13 107 (15.57%) Observability
14 96 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (12.95%) Scrum
16 80 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 79 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (10.19%) BDD
19 57 (8.30%) Design Patterns
20 56 (8.15%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 646 (94.03%) Java
2 193 (28.09%) SQL
3 100 (14.56%) JavaScript
4 97 (14.12%) TypeScript
5 89 (12.95%) Python
6 47 (6.84%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.47%) Go
8 14 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.46%) Scala
11 6 (0.87%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) C#
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.58%) Bash
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 217 (31.59%) Security Cleared
2 184 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.51%) Degree
4 24 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.58%) OCP
9 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.17%) QA
2 49 (7.13%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.18%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.75%) SEPA
4 12 (1.75%) WCAG
5 8 (1.16%) PSD2
6 7 (1.02%) GDPR
6 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.44%) HL7
10 3 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) EMIR
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 306 (44.54%) Docker
2 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 327 (47.60%) Kubernetes
2 88 (12.81%) Grafana
3 71 (10.33%) Terraform
4 58 (8.44%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.35%) Ansible
6 13 (1.89%) Argo
7 11 (1.60%) Kibana
8 7 (1.02%) Istio
9 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 52 (7.57%) Oracle
2 41 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.37%) Google
4 26 (3.78%) Splunk
5 14 (2.04%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.60%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.31%) IBM
8 9 (1.31%) Solace
9 7 (1.02%) Databricks
10 6 (0.87%) Adobe
10 6 (0.87%) Confluent
10 6 (0.87%) Sybase
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
12 3 (0.44%) New Relic