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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 179 183
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +37
Contract jobs citing Spring 723 437 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.57% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.33% 6.26% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 299 340
10th Percentile £371 £335 £382
25th Percentile £445 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.76%
75th Percentile £620 £560 £656
90th Percentile £727 £638 £780
UK median daily rate £520 £491 £525
% change year-on-year +5.91% -6.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 1
10th Percentile £56.50 £53.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -23.61% -2.32%
75th Percentile £76.50 £68.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £91.40 £77.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - -9.72% -1.51%

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 9,867 6,979 8,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.29% 25.08% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,774 5,525
10th Percentile £381 £355 £363
25th Percentile £440 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 164 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.36 £27.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £71.40 £74.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -1 386 £535 +1.42% 308
North of England -13 164 £540 +16.13% 88
North West -17 94 £555 +26.86% 60
Midlands -18 93 £530 +28.48% 37
West Midlands +7 87 £551 +10.10% 32
Yorkshire -2 54 £500 +8.11% 15
South West -22 35 £463 -7.96% 41
South East -42 31 £297 -40.60% 47
East of England -1 21 £500 +6.95% 6
North East -36 17 £450 -8.16% 13
East Midlands -42 5 £400 +6.67% 5
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 30 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 24 (3.32%) Confluence
3 18 (2.49%) Apache
4 13 (1.80%) Camunda
5 10 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.24%) nginx
7 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.55%) Quorum
1 4 (0.55%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.55%) Ripple
2 3 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (54.22%) AWS
2 139 (19.23%) Azure
3 125 (17.29%) GitHub
4 105 (14.52%) GCP
5 65 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (7.33%) Serverless
7 48 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (6.36%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.12%) OpenShift
12 32 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (1.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.80%) Anthropic Claude
18 11 (1.52%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.97%) HTTP
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (21.30%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (12.31%) NoSQL
3 87 (12.03%) Relational Database
4 85 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.36%) MySQL
6 36 (4.98%) Redis
7 30 (4.15%) DynamoDB
8 28 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.07%) Big Data
12 14 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.94%) Flink
12 14 (1.94%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.80%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.52%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.97%) Db2
17 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 190 (26.28%) Git
2 184 (25.45%) Jenkins
3 136 (18.81%) JUnit
4 116 (16.04%) GitLab
5 92 (12.72%) Maven
6 85 (11.76%) Gradle
7 75 (10.37%) Mockito
8 57 (7.88%) SonarQube
9 42 (5.81%) JIRA
10 36 (4.98%) Cucumber
11 30 (4.15%) Selenium
12 20 (2.77%) Gatling
12 20 (2.77%) Liquibase
12 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
13 17 (2.35%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.66%) IntelliJ
15 9 (1.24%) Bitbucket Server
16 8 (1.11%) Claude Code
16 8 (1.11%) Flyway
17 7 (0.97%) JMeter
General
1 169 (23.37%) Finance
2 162 (22.41%) Social Skills
3 101 (13.97%) Banking
4 98 (13.55%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.73%) Retail
7 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.24%) Law
11 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.97%) Back Office
12 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.97%) Front Office
13 6 (0.83%) Military
14 5 (0.69%) Games
14 5 (0.69%) Police
15 4 (0.55%) Automotive
15 4 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 383 (52.97%) Developer
2 312 (43.15%) Java Developer
3 165 (22.82%) Senior
4 134 (18.53%) Java Engineer
5 97 (13.42%) Senior Developer
6 93 (12.86%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.51%) Senior Java Developer
8 75 (10.37%) Lead
9 55 (7.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 50 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 48 (6.64%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.56%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (4.29%) Lead Developer
13 31 (4.29%) Software Developer
14 28 (3.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.60%) Architect
16 25 (3.46%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (3.04%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 20 (2.77%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 606 (83.82%) Spring Boot
2 237 (32.78%) Kafka
3 196 (27.11%) REST
4 163 (22.54%) RESTful
5 131 (18.12%) React
6 68 (9.41%) JPA
6 68 (9.41%) Node.js
7 65 (8.99%) Hibernate
8 60 (8.30%) Terraform
9 58 (8.02%) AngularJS
10 56 (7.75%) HTML
11 49 (6.78%) RabbitMQ
12 44 (6.09%) CSS
13 43 (5.95%) Web Services
14 41 (5.67%) Spring MVC
15 40 (5.53%) OpenAPI
15 40 (5.53%) Spring Cloud
16 36 (4.98%) OAuth
16 36 (4.98%) Swagger
17 32 (4.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 179 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 114 (15.77%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (8.58%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.21%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.38%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (0.97%) Derivative
14 7 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
16 5 (0.69%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.22%) Linux
2 32 (4.43%) Unix
3 3 (0.41%) VMS
3 3 (0.41%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (61.13%) Microservices
2 426 (58.92%) CI/CD
3 341 (47.16%) Agile
4 243 (33.61%) DevOps
5 227 (31.40%) Software Engineering
6 208 (28.77%) Containerisation
7 192 (26.56%) Test Automation
8 177 (24.48%) Event-Driven
9 140 (19.36%) TDD
10 132 (18.26%) Scrum
11 127 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 121 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.46%) Code Quality
14 114 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
15 113 (15.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 113 (15.63%) Observability
16 92 (12.72%) SDLC
17 79 (10.93%) Clean Code
18 76 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 74 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 710 (98.20%) Java
2 229 (31.67%) SQL
3 96 (13.28%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.00%) TypeScript
5 80 (11.07%) Python
6 40 (5.53%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.56%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.63%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.94%) Scala
10 11 (1.52%) Bash
11 6 (0.83%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Go
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 212 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 177 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (4.15%) Degree
5 23 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.80%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (12.72%) QA
2 39 (5.39%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.07%) WCAG
4 13 (1.80%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.11%) SEPA
6 4 (0.55%) GDPR
7 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 334 (46.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 304 (42.05%) Kubernetes
2 62 (8.58%) Grafana
2 62 (8.58%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.29%) Ansible
4 25 (3.46%) Kibana
5 11 (1.52%) Control-M
6 8 (1.11%) Argo
7 7 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.41%) Bosun
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
11 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 99 (13.69%) Oracle
2 39 (5.39%) Google
3 22 (3.04%) IBM
4 19 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 19 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.63%) Splunk
5 10 (1.38%) Solace
6 9 (1.24%) Checkmarx
6 9 (1.24%) Databricks
6 9 (1.24%) Sybase
7 8 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
8 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 7 (0.97%) New Relic
8 7 (0.97%) TikTok
9 6 (0.83%) Confluent
9 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.69%) FIS
10 5 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.41%) Mistral
11 3 (0.41%) Veracode