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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 175 186
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 685 447 451
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.62% 1.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 7.30% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 313 346
10th Percentile £375 £333 £379
25th Percentile £442 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £612 £550 £650
90th Percentile £697 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 5
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £93.20 £77.50 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%

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 8,454 6,126 7,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.17% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,206 5,037
10th Percentile £363 £350 £358
25th Percentile £431 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 152 226
10th Percentile £28.72 £31.25 £24.09
25th Percentile £46.39 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.91 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%

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 11 August 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 August 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 August 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 -15 368 £525 +1.45% 279
North of England -11 139 £510 +9.68% 60
Midlands -30 89 £475 +14.46% 22
West Midlands +1 86 £480 -4.00% 19
North West -16 78 £540 +25.58% 36
Yorkshire -9 43 £500 +39.16% 13
South West -13 37 £500 -1.72% 24
South East -57 32 £438 -4.11% 36
East of England 0 21 £507 +8.45% 1
North East -31 19 £450 -8.16% 12
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +6.93% 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 36 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 30 (4.38%) Confluence
3 21 (3.07%) Apache
4 14 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.46%) nginx
6 8 (1.17%) Camunda
7 7 (1.02%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.58%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.58%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.58%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.44%) CMS
9 3 (0.44%) JBoss
10 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) Mule
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Trello
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.58%) Quorum
1 4 (0.58%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.58%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (52.70%) AWS
2 154 (22.48%) Azure
3 126 (18.39%) GitHub
4 114 (16.64%) GCP
5 72 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (7.88%) Serverless
7 52 (7.59%) Amazon S3
8 45 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 45 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (5.11%) OpenShift
12 34 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.34%) AWS KMS
14 16 (2.34%) Route 53
15 14 (2.04%) Azure AKS
15 14 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (24.53%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (11.53%) NoSQL
3 71 (10.36%) Relational Database
4 64 (9.34%) MongoDB
5 47 (6.86%) MySQL
6 40 (5.84%) DynamoDB
7 31 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.38%) Redis
9 21 (3.07%) SQL Server
10 20 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.34%) Flink
14 15 (2.19%) Big Data
15 11 (1.61%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.46%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.46%) Oracle Database
17 9 (1.31%) Data Lake
18 7 (1.02%) Db2
18 7 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 187 (27.30%) Git
2 179 (26.13%) Jenkins
3 129 (18.83%) JUnit
4 99 (14.45%) GitLab
5 67 (9.78%) Gradle
5 67 (9.78%) Maven
6 62 (9.05%) Mockito
7 53 (7.74%) JIRA
8 44 (6.42%) SonarQube
9 42 (6.13%) Cucumber
10 38 (5.55%) Selenium
11 23 (3.36%) JMeter
12 19 (2.77%) Liquibase
12 19 (2.77%) WebDriver
13 17 (2.48%) Gatling
14 14 (2.04%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.90%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.75%) DbUnit
16 12 (1.75%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.61%) jMock
General
1 154 (22.48%) Finance
2 145 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 98 (14.31%) Public Sector
4 90 (13.14%) Banking
5 62 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.23%) Retail
7 17 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.19%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.46%) Law
10 9 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.73%) Automotive
12 5 (0.73%) Back Office
12 5 (0.73%) Military
12 5 (0.73%) Police
13 4 (0.58%) Front Office
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Publishing
13 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 365 (53.28%) Developer
2 290 (42.34%) Java Developer
3 140 (20.44%) Senior
4 117 (17.08%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.55%) Software Engineer
6 84 (12.26%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.22%) Lead
8 67 (9.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 54 (7.88%) Backend Developer
10 52 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (6.13%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.38%) Software Developer
13 26 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
14 25 (3.65%) Architect
15 23 (3.36%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 17 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
18 17 (2.48%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 542 (79.12%) Spring Boot
2 200 (29.20%) Kafka
3 170 (24.82%) REST
4 154 (22.48%) RESTful
5 117 (17.08%) React
6 74 (10.80%) Node.js
7 59 (8.61%) Hibernate
8 53 (7.74%) JPA
9 50 (7.30%) AngularJS
10 47 (6.86%) Web Services
11 44 (6.42%) HTML
12 42 (6.13%) Spring MVC
13 39 (5.69%) CSS
14 38 (5.55%) WireMock
15 37 (5.40%) RabbitMQ
16 36 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
17 32 (4.67%) OAuth
18 30 (4.38%) Jakarta EE
19 28 (4.09%) SOAP
20 26 (3.80%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 154 (22.48%) Cloud Native
2 123 (17.96%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 18 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.17%) Derivative
13 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.88%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.72%) Linux
2 24 (3.50%) Unix
3 9 (1.31%) Windows
4 7 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.58%) VMS
5 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (61.02%) Microservices
2 409 (59.71%) CI/CD
3 309 (45.11%) Agile
4 232 (33.87%) DevOps
5 202 (29.49%) Containerisation
6 194 (28.32%) Software Engineering
7 162 (23.65%) Test Automation
8 146 (21.31%) TDD
9 145 (21.17%) Event-Driven
10 123 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (16.93%) Scrum
12 115 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (16.64%) Observability
14 112 (16.35%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (14.74%) Code Quality
16 93 (13.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 71 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (10.22%) Design Patterns
19 68 (9.93%) BDD
20 67 (9.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 658 (96.06%) Java
2 225 (32.85%) SQL
3 87 (12.70%) JavaScript
3 87 (12.70%) Python
4 76 (11.09%) TypeScript
5 45 (6.57%) PL/SQL
6 33 (4.82%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.34%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.75%) Scala
9 9 (1.31%) Bash
10 7 (1.02%) C#
11 5 (0.73%) Ruby
12 4 (0.58%) Solidity
13 3 (0.44%) Go
13 3 (0.44%) Perl
14 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
15 1 (0.15%) Groovy
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 222 (32.41%) Security Cleared
2 188 (27.45%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (3.21%) Degree
5 18 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) CISSP
9 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.95%) QA
2 39 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.46%) ISO 20022
3 10 (1.46%) WCAG
4 7 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.02%) SEPA
5 6 (0.88%) GDPR
5 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.58%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) EMIR
7 2 (0.29%) MiFID
7 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.15%) HL7
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.15%) ITGC
8 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 325 (47.45%) Docker
2 9 (1.31%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 299 (43.65%) Kubernetes
2 71 (10.36%) Grafana
3 65 (9.49%) Prometheus
4 56 (8.18%) Terraform
5 34 (4.96%) Ansible
6 16 (2.34%) Kibana
7 11 (1.61%) Control-M
8 7 (1.02%) Argo
9 4 (0.58%) Istio
10 3 (0.44%) Bosun
11 2 (0.29%) Consul
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
12 1 (0.15%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 85 (12.41%) Oracle
2 36 (5.26%) Google
3 27 (3.94%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.92%) Splunk
5 15 (2.19%) Dynatrace
5 15 (2.19%) Jaspersoft
6 13 (1.90%) IBM
7 12 (1.75%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.46%) Solace
9 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.31%) Sybase
10 8 (1.17%) Databricks
10 8 (1.17%) New Relic
11 7 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.02%) TikTok
12 5 (0.73%) Confluent
13 4 (0.58%) FIS
13 4 (0.58%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.44%) Ab Initio
14 3 (0.44%) SAP