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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 173 194
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 696 439 444
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.20% 7.18% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 309 336
10th Percentile £365 £335 £375
25th Percentile £448 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £694 £652 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £62.00 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%
75th Percentile £77.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +3.85% +27.29% -29.57%

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 8,492 6,113 7,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.74% 22.21% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 4,223 5,101
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £503 £550
% change year-on-year +4.48% -8.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 145 233
10th Percentile £28.93 £31.25 £24.04
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.47 £79.48 £74.44
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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -5 363 £525 +1.94% 158
North of England -7 136 £515 +13.31% 46
Midlands -25 92 £480 +15.66% 22
West Midlands -3 89 £498 -0.50% 18
North West -28 77 £545 +33.41% 29
Yorkshire -18 41 £525 +46.12% 8
South West -15 40 £436 -14.25% 18
South East -41 38 £450 -1.37% 26
East of England +7 27 £510 +9.09%
North East -33 19 £450 -6.25% 10
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 4
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 40 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 34 (4.89%) Confluence
3 22 (3.16%) Apache
4 15 (2.16%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.44%) nginx
6 7 (1.01%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.86%) Camunda
8 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.57%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.57%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.43%) CMS
9 3 (0.43%) 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 3 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.57%) Quorum
1 4 (0.57%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.57%) Ripple
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (51.87%) AWS
2 165 (23.71%) Azure
3 125 (17.96%) GitHub
4 118 (16.95%) GCP
5 71 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 55 (7.90%) Serverless
8 45 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.89%) OpenShift
13 33 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.87%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.59%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.59%) Route 53
17 16 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 11 (1.58%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) HTTP
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (24.57%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (11.78%) NoSQL
3 72 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 64 (9.20%) MongoDB
5 48 (6.90%) MySQL
6 43 (6.18%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.17%) Redis
9 22 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 20 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.59%) Flink
12 17 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (2.30%) Big Data
14 10 (1.44%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.29%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.15%) Couchbase
16 8 (1.15%) Db2
16 8 (1.15%) Oracle Database
17 7 (1.01%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 188 (27.01%) Git
2 177 (25.43%) Jenkins
3 133 (19.11%) JUnit
4 94 (13.51%) GitLab
5 69 (9.91%) Maven
6 67 (9.63%) Gradle
7 66 (9.48%) Mockito
8 57 (8.19%) JIRA
9 44 (6.32%) SonarQube
10 41 (5.89%) Cucumber
11 37 (5.32%) Selenium
12 23 (3.30%) JMeter
13 19 (2.73%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.59%) Liquibase
15 16 (2.30%) Gatling
16 14 (2.01%) DbUnit
16 14 (2.01%) REST Assured
17 13 (1.87%) jMock
18 12 (1.72%) IntelliJ
19 11 (1.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 158 (22.70%) Finance
2 147 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 87 (12.50%) Banking
5 59 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.31%) Retail
7 16 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.44%) Law
9 9 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.86%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.72%) Automotive
12 5 (0.72%) Military
12 5 (0.72%) Police
13 4 (0.57%) Back Office
13 4 (0.57%) Games
13 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 376 (54.02%) Developer
2 300 (43.10%) Java Developer
3 139 (19.97%) Senior
4 113 (16.24%) Java Engineer
5 86 (12.36%) Software Engineer
6 83 (11.93%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.34%) Lead
8 67 (9.63%) Senior Java Developer
9 54 (7.76%) Backend Developer
10 51 (7.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.31%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.45%) Architect
13 24 (3.45%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
14 23 (3.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 21 (3.02%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 19 (2.73%) Lead Java Developer
18 18 (2.59%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 556 (79.89%) Spring Boot
2 202 (29.02%) Kafka
3 175 (25.14%) REST
4 160 (22.99%) RESTful
5 118 (16.95%) React
6 78 (11.21%) Node.js
7 62 (8.91%) Hibernate
8 55 (7.90%) AngularJS
8 55 (7.90%) JPA
9 52 (7.47%) Web Services
10 44 (6.32%) HTML
11 42 (6.03%) Spring MVC
12 40 (5.75%) CSS
13 39 (5.60%) WireMock
14 37 (5.32%) Spring Cloud
15 36 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (4.45%) OAuth
16 31 (4.45%) SOAP
17 27 (3.88%) Jakarta EE
18 26 (3.74%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 151 (21.70%) Cloud Native
2 126 (18.10%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.73%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.58%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.15%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.15%) Derivative
13 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
14 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.72%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.04%) Linux
2 23 (3.30%) Unix
3 9 (1.29%) Windows
4 8 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.57%) VMS
5 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.43%) Solaris
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (61.21%) Microservices
2 423 (60.78%) CI/CD
3 312 (44.83%) Agile
4 247 (35.49%) DevOps
5 210 (30.17%) Containerisation
6 191 (27.44%) Software Engineering
7 156 (22.41%) Test Automation
8 154 (22.13%) TDD
9 150 (21.55%) Event-Driven
10 125 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 123 (17.67%) Scrum
12 120 (17.24%) Observability
12 120 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (16.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 106 (15.23%) Code Quality
15 101 (14.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 75 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (10.20%) BDD
18 69 (9.91%) Design Patterns
19 66 (9.48%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 669 (96.12%) Java
2 227 (32.61%) SQL
3 93 (13.36%) Python
4 88 (12.64%) JavaScript
5 80 (11.49%) TypeScript
6 42 (6.03%) PL/SQL
7 40 (5.75%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.87%) Scala
10 7 (1.01%) Bash
10 7 (1.01%) C#
11 5 (0.72%) Go
11 5 (0.72%) Perl
11 5 (0.72%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Solidity
13 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.29%) PromQL
14 1 (0.14%) Groovy
14 1 (0.14%) Korn
14 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 225 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 191 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.02%) Degree
4 25 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.87%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.92%) QA
2 42 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.29%) ISO 20022
3 9 (1.29%) WCAG
4 7 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 6 (0.86%) GDPR
5 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.86%) SEPA
6 4 (0.57%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 328 (47.13%) Docker
2 11 (1.58%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 303 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 76 (10.92%) Grafana
3 65 (9.34%) Prometheus
4 56 (8.05%) Terraform
5 33 (4.74%) Ansible
6 14 (2.01%) Kibana
7 10 (1.44%) Control-M
8 5 (0.72%) Argo
9 4 (0.57%) Istio
10 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.14%) Kiali
12 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 82 (11.78%) Oracle
2 40 (5.75%) Google
3 32 (4.60%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.59%) Splunk
5 17 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.01%) Atlassian
6 14 (2.01%) IBM
7 12 (1.72%) Solace
8 10 (1.44%) Databricks
8 10 (1.44%) Sybase
9 9 (1.29%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.29%) New Relic
10 8 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.01%) TikTok
12 4 (0.57%) FIS
12 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.43%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.43%) SAP
13 3 (0.43%) Teradata