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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 180 182
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +33
Contract jobs citing Spring 719 438 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.59% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.28% 6.34% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 301 334
10th Percentile £382 £336 £382
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £620 £556 £661
90th Percentile £725 £638 £780
UK median daily rate £515 £484 £525
% change year-on-year +6.46% -7.86% -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 9,871 6,904 8,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.31% 25.02% 24.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,481 4,728 5,472
10th Percentile £380 £356 £363
25th Percentile £438 £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 269 162 177
10th Percentile £29.81 £31.29 £27.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.20 £71.80 £74.65
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £61.80
% change year-on-year +27.62% -15.05% -1.12%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -9 385 £535 +1.90% 440
North of England -4 166 £540 +16.13% 104
North West -18 97 £550 +25.71% 65
Midlands -23 88 £540 +30.97% 45
West Midlands +6 82 £551 +10.10% 37
Yorkshire +7 53 £500 +8.11% 21
South West -27 35 £463 -7.96% 50
South East -53 30 £294 -41.20% 45
East of England -3 21 £500 +6.95% 7
North East -37 17 £450 -8.16% 18
East Midlands -39 5 £400 +6.67% 8
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 31 (4.31%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.48%) Confluence
3 19 (2.64%) Apache
4 13 (1.81%) Camunda
5 10 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.25%) nginx
7 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.56%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.56%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.42%) CMS
10 3 (0.42%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.28%) Mule
11 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.56%) Quorum
1 4 (0.56%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.56%) Ripple
2 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (54.52%) AWS
2 147 (20.45%) Azure
3 133 (18.50%) GitHub
4 105 (14.60%) GCP
5 69 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (7.51%) Serverless
7 49 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (6.40%) Amazon S3
9 39 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (5.01%) OpenShift
12 33 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 13 (1.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.81%) Anthropic Claude
17 13 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.97%) HTTP
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
2 3 (0.42%) 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
1 153 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.66%) NoSQL
3 81 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 78 (10.85%) MongoDB
5 45 (6.26%) MySQL
6 36 (5.01%) Redis
7 30 (4.17%) DynamoDB
8 28 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 25 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (1.95%) Big Data
11 14 (1.95%) Flink
11 14 (1.95%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.81%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 189 (26.29%) Git
2 183 (25.45%) Jenkins
3 137 (19.05%) JUnit
4 118 (16.41%) GitLab
5 84 (11.68%) Maven
6 80 (11.13%) Gradle
7 73 (10.15%) Mockito
8 54 (7.51%) SonarQube
9 43 (5.98%) JIRA
10 38 (5.29%) Cucumber
11 33 (4.59%) Selenium
12 21 (2.92%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.78%) Gatling
14 19 (2.64%) REST Assured
15 16 (2.23%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.67%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.39%) JMeter
18 9 (1.25%) Bitbucket Server
19 8 (1.11%) Claude Code
19 8 (1.11%) Flyway
General
1 167 (23.23%) Finance
2 164 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.77%) Banking
4 96 (13.35%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.76%) Retail
7 13 (1.81%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.39%) Law
10 7 (0.97%) Back Office
10 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.97%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.83%) Front Office
12 5 (0.70%) Games
12 5 (0.70%) Military
12 5 (0.70%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Automotive
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 378 (52.57%) Developer
2 305 (42.42%) Java Developer
3 162 (22.53%) Senior
4 132 (18.36%) Java Engineer
5 94 (13.07%) Senior Developer
6 93 (12.93%) Software Engineer
7 74 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
8 73 (10.15%) Lead
9 55 (7.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 50 (6.95%) Backend Developer
11 49 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 32 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (4.17%) Architect
13 30 (4.17%) Lead Developer
14 28 (3.89%) Software Developer
15 27 (3.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 24 (3.34%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (3.06%) Data Engineer
17 22 (3.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 595 (82.75%) Spring Boot
2 235 (32.68%) Kafka
3 191 (26.56%) REST
4 160 (22.25%) RESTful
5 129 (17.94%) React
6 65 (9.04%) JPA
6 65 (9.04%) Node.js
7 62 (8.62%) Hibernate
8 61 (8.48%) Terraform
9 55 (7.65%) HTML
10 54 (7.51%) AngularJS
11 50 (6.95%) RabbitMQ
12 43 (5.98%) CSS
13 41 (5.70%) Spring MVC
13 41 (5.70%) Web Services
14 39 (5.42%) OpenAPI
15 38 (5.29%) OAuth
15 38 (5.29%) Spring Cloud
16 33 (4.59%) Swagger
17 29 (4.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 180 (25.03%) Cloud Native
2 118 (16.41%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (7.93%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.23%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 16 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.97%) Derivative
13 7 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.70%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.56%) Linux
2 27 (3.76%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) VMS
3 3 (0.42%) 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%) 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 (61.47%) Microservices
2 426 (59.25%) CI/CD
3 340 (47.29%) Agile
4 245 (34.08%) DevOps
5 229 (31.85%) Software Engineering
6 204 (28.37%) Containerisation
7 191 (26.56%) Test Automation
8 177 (24.62%) Event-Driven
9 144 (20.03%) TDD
10 128 (17.80%) Scrum
11 126 (17.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 125 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.55%) Observability
14 116 (16.13%) Code Quality
15 113 (15.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 112 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
17 90 (12.52%) SDLC
18 78 (10.85%) Clean Code
19 77 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
20 75 (10.43%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 703 (97.77%) Java
2 224 (31.15%) SQL
3 93 (12.93%) JavaScript
4 92 (12.80%) TypeScript
5 82 (11.40%) Python
6 40 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.87%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.50%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.95%) Scala
10 13 (1.81%) Bash
11 6 (0.83%) C#
12 5 (0.70%) Ruby
13 4 (0.56%) Go
13 4 (0.56%) Solidity
14 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.28%) Korn
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 211 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 176 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (4.03%) Degree
5 23 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.81%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.14%) CISSP
8 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (12.24%) QA
2 40 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.09%) WCAG
4 13 (1.81%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.97%) SEPA
7 4 (0.56%) GDPR
7 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 331 (46.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 306 (42.56%) Kubernetes
2 63 (8.76%) Grafana
2 63 (8.76%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.31%) Ansible
4 24 (3.34%) Kibana
5 11 (1.53%) Control-M
6 8 (1.11%) Argo
7 7 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.56%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) 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 98 (13.63%) Oracle
2 36 (5.01%) Google
3 24 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.06%) IBM
5 19 (2.64%) Splunk
6 18 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.39%) Solace
8 9 (1.25%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.25%) Databricks
9 8 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.11%) Sybase
10 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.97%) New Relic
10 7 (0.97%) TikTok
11 6 (0.83%) Confluent
11 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.56%) FIS
12 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.42%) Mistral
13 3 (0.42%) Veracode