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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 175 180
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +38
Contract jobs citing Spring 721 443 447
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.61% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.34% 6.31% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 307 323
10th Percentile £360 £324 £390
25th Percentile £437 £400 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £620 £575 £675
90th Percentile £725 £638 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 1
10th Percentile £55.00 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 9,826 7,020 8,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.21% 25.48% 24.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,471 4,762 5,262
10th Percentile £380 £355 £363
25th Percentile £447 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £666
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 170 176
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.57 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.37 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
% change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%

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 29 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 29 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

Spring
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 29 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 -18 373 £536 +1.13% 402
North of England -12 159 £550 +19.63% 127
Midlands +1 115 £525 +27.27% 45
West Midlands +26 109 £528 +5.50% 37
North West -16 90 £565 +31.40% 70
Yorkshire +4 54 £500 +25.00% 31
South West -23 32 £481 -4.70% 51
South East -58 31 £367 -4.61% 29
East of England - 17 £500 - 4
North East -33 16 £470 -14.55% 26
East Midlands -43 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 27 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 25 (3.47%) Apache
3 23 (3.19%) Confluence
4 11 (1.53%) Camunda
5 9 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.25%) nginx
6 8 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.11%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.55%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) MQSeries
7 4 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) Mule
9 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 398 (55.20%) AWS
2 129 (17.89%) GitHub
3 127 (17.61%) Azure
4 92 (12.76%) GCP
5 63 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (7.35%) Serverless
7 49 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (6.66%) Amazon S3
9 44 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.99%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
17 14 (1.94%) Anthropic Claude
17 14 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 12 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 11 (1.53%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.11%) HTTP
2 4 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (19.97%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.62%) MongoDB
3 85 (11.79%) NoSQL
4 80 (11.10%) Relational Database
5 36 (4.99%) MySQL
5 36 (4.99%) Redis
6 26 (3.61%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (3.47%) DynamoDB
8 19 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.64%) Flink
9 14 (1.94%) Big Data
9 14 (1.94%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.80%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.53%) Couchbase
13 10 (1.39%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.97%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 202 (28.02%) Git
2 177 (24.55%) Jenkins
3 143 (19.83%) JUnit
4 137 (19.00%) GitLab
5 102 (14.15%) Maven
6 83 (11.51%) Gradle
7 77 (10.68%) Mockito
8 60 (8.32%) SonarQube
9 51 (7.07%) Cucumber
10 42 (5.83%) Selenium
11 39 (5.41%) JIRA
12 31 (4.30%) Gatling
13 20 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.36%) Bitbucket
15 16 (2.22%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.53%) Claude Code
17 9 (1.25%) IntelliJ
18 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.11%) Flyway
19 6 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 165 (22.88%) Finance
3 110 (15.26%) Banking
4 100 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.02%) Retail
7 15 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.39%) Front Office
11 9 (1.25%) Back Office
12 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
13 7 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.83%) Law
14 6 (0.83%) Military
15 4 (0.55%) Games
15 4 (0.55%) iGaming
15 4 (0.55%) Police
15 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 367 (50.90%) Developer
2 300 (41.61%) Java Developer
3 167 (23.16%) Senior
4 146 (20.25%) Java Engineer
5 95 (13.18%) Senior Developer
6 88 (12.21%) Software Engineer
7 76 (10.54%) Lead
8 75 (10.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 54 (7.49%) Java Software Engineer
10 48 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 44 (6.10%) Backend Developer
12 39 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
13 31 (4.30%) Lead Developer
14 27 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (3.74%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.47%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.33%) Architect
16 24 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 21 (2.91%) Quality Engineer
18 20 (2.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 594 (82.39%) Spring Boot
2 242 (33.56%) Kafka
3 201 (27.88%) REST
4 154 (21.36%) RESTful
5 119 (16.50%) React
6 77 (10.68%) JPA
7 69 (9.57%) Hibernate
8 65 (9.02%) Terraform
9 61 (8.46%) Node.js
10 54 (7.49%) AngularJS
11 50 (6.93%) HTML
11 50 (6.93%) OpenAPI
12 48 (6.66%) RabbitMQ
13 42 (5.83%) Web Services
14 40 (5.55%) OAuth
15 39 (5.41%) CSS
15 39 (5.41%) Playwright
15 39 (5.41%) Swagger
16 37 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
16 37 (5.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 181 (25.10%) Cloud Native
2 125 (17.34%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (8.88%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.27%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.77%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.11%) Derivative
13 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.83%) Spread Betting
14 5 (0.69%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.66%) Linux
2 35 (4.85%) Unix
3 3 (0.42%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Mac OS X
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%) VMS
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (60.89%) CI/CD
2 434 (60.19%) Microservices
3 352 (48.82%) Agile
4 237 (32.87%) DevOps
5 224 (31.07%) Software Engineering
6 205 (28.43%) Test Automation
7 195 (27.05%) Containerisation
8 184 (25.52%) Event-Driven
9 149 (20.67%) Scrum
10 139 (19.28%) TDD
11 123 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 115 (15.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 109 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (14.84%) Code Quality
15 107 (14.84%) Observability
16 93 (12.90%) SDLC
17 80 (11.10%) Clean Code
18 76 (10.54%) AI
19 75 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 708 (98.20%) Java
2 224 (31.07%) SQL
3 91 (12.62%) JavaScript
4 88 (12.21%) TypeScript
5 75 (10.40%) Python
6 40 (5.55%) PL/SQL
7 31 (4.30%) Kotlin
8 25 (3.47%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.94%) Scala
10 12 (1.66%) Bash
11 5 (0.69%) C#
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.55%) Solidity
13 3 (0.42%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Go
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Bicep
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 208 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 175 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (4.02%) Degree
5 23 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.14%) CISSP
10 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (14.29%) QA
2 49 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.19%) WCAG
4 15 (2.08%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.39%) SEPA
6 7 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.28%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 333 (46.19%) Docker
2 4 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (43.69%) Kubernetes
2 58 (8.04%) Grafana
2 58 (8.04%) Prometheus
3 31 (4.30%) Kibana
4 29 (4.02%) Ansible
5 11 (1.53%) Control-M
6 9 (1.25%) Argo
7 7 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.55%) Bosun
8 4 (0.55%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 95 (13.18%) Oracle
2 36 (4.99%) Google
3 21 (2.91%) IBM
4 20 (2.77%) Splunk
5 17 (2.36%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.25%) Databricks
7 9 (1.25%) New Relic
7 9 (1.25%) Sybase
8 8 (1.11%) Solace
9 7 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.97%) TikTok
10 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.83%) Confluent
11 5 (0.69%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.69%) FIS
11 5 (0.69%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.42%) Veracode