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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 177 190
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 704 441 448
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.60% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.32% 7.20% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 308 341
10th Percentile £363 £335 £375
25th Percentile £426 £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 £688 £653 £800
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 6
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £62.38 - £41.47
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +37.27% +7.71% -29.57%
75th Percentile £78.38 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £90.80 £77.50 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £65.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +10.77% +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 8,459 6,129 7,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.79% 22.20% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,555 4,226 5,157
10th Percentile £363 £350 £360
25th Percentile £430 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £803
UK median daily rate £525 £505 £550
% change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 233
10th Percentile £29.44 £31.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £79.87 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +18.45% +4.52% -12.50%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 27 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 27 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 27 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 -8 367 £525 +2.69% 127
North of England -1 142 £529 +16.34% 40
Midlands -33 84 £475 +14.46% 27
North West -16 82 £550 +36.82% 22
West Midlands -2 81 £475 -5.00% 24
South West -8 46 £410 -19.51% 14
Yorkshire -11 43 £550 +53.08% 8
South East -48 38 £450 +9.09% 28
East of England +8 28 £510 +9.09%
North East -28 20 £450 -8.16% 11
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 3
Spring
UK

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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 42 (5.97%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.69%) Confluence
3 22 (3.13%) Apache
4 15 (2.13%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.42%) nginx
6 6 (0.85%) Camunda
6 6 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.71%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
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 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) 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 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.57%) Quorum
2 4 (0.57%) Ripple
3 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (52.13%) AWS
2 168 (23.86%) Azure
3 126 (17.90%) GitHub
4 120 (17.05%) GCP
5 71 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (8.38%) Serverless
7 58 (8.24%) Amazon S3
8 49 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 35 (4.97%) OpenShift
12 34 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (2.84%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.56%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.56%) Route 53
18 16 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 11 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.85%) HTTPS
2 4 (0.57%) HTTP
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (24.01%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (11.93%) NoSQL
3 80 (11.36%) Relational Database
4 69 (9.80%) MongoDB
5 50 (7.10%) MySQL
6 43 (6.11%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.98%) Redis
9 23 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 19 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.70%) Flink
12 18 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (2.41%) Big Data
14 10 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.28%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
16 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.99%) Db2
Development Applications
1 186 (26.42%) Git
2 178 (25.28%) Jenkins
3 130 (18.47%) JUnit
4 92 (13.07%) GitLab
5 68 (9.66%) Maven
6 67 (9.52%) Gradle
7 63 (8.95%) Mockito
8 58 (8.24%) JIRA
9 41 (5.82%) SonarQube
10 38 (5.40%) Cucumber
10 38 (5.40%) Selenium
11 23 (3.27%) JMeter
12 19 (2.70%) WebDriver
13 18 (2.56%) REST Assured
14 17 (2.41%) Gatling
15 16 (2.27%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.99%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.85%) jMock
18 12 (1.70%) IntelliJ
19 11 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 162 (23.01%) Finance
2 144 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 88 (12.50%) Banking
5 59 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.12%) Retail
7 16 (2.27%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.42%) Law
9 9 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Automotive
10 6 (0.85%) Military
10 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.71%) Police
12 4 (0.57%) Games
12 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
13 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 381 (54.12%) Developer
2 301 (42.76%) Java Developer
3 142 (20.17%) Senior
4 112 (15.91%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.07%) Senior Developer
5 85 (12.07%) Software Engineer
6 73 (10.37%) Lead
7 67 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
8 55 (7.81%) Backend Developer
9 49 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
10 44 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (4.26%) Software Developer
12 24 (3.41%) Lead Developer
12 24 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 24 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
13 23 (3.27%) Architect
14 22 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 21 (2.98%) Data Engineer
16 19 (2.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (2.70%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 570 (80.97%) Spring Boot
2 210 (29.83%) Kafka
3 179 (25.43%) REST
4 161 (22.87%) RESTful
5 119 (16.90%) React
6 79 (11.22%) Node.js
7 63 (8.95%) Hibernate
8 57 (8.10%) JPA
9 55 (7.81%) AngularJS
10 51 (7.24%) Web Services
11 45 (6.39%) HTML
12 43 (6.11%) Spring MVC
13 41 (5.82%) CSS
14 40 (5.68%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (5.26%) WireMock
16 36 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
17 32 (4.55%) OAuth
18 31 (4.40%) SOAP
19 28 (3.98%) Jakarta EE
20 27 (3.84%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 146 (20.74%) Cloud Native
2 125 (17.76%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.85%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.56%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.14%) Derivative
12 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.71%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.10%) Linux
2 23 (3.27%) Unix
3 9 (1.28%) Windows
4 8 (1.14%) 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 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (61.51%) Microservices
2 424 (60.23%) CI/CD
3 309 (43.89%) Agile
4 255 (36.22%) DevOps
5 211 (29.97%) Containerisation
6 188 (26.70%) Software Engineering
7 155 (22.02%) Test Automation
8 152 (21.59%) TDD
9 148 (21.02%) Event-Driven
10 126 (17.90%) Observability
11 122 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 116 (16.48%) Scrum
15 109 (15.48%) Code Quality
16 99 (14.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 74 (10.51%) BDD
18 72 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
19 69 (9.80%) Design Patterns
20 64 (9.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 677 (96.16%) Java
2 227 (32.24%) SQL
3 93 (13.21%) Python
4 90 (12.78%) JavaScript
5 77 (10.94%) TypeScript
6 43 (6.11%) PL/SQL
7 40 (5.68%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.85%) Scala
10 8 (1.14%) C#
11 7 (0.99%) Bash
11 7 (0.99%) Go
12 5 (0.71%) Perl
12 5 (0.71%) Ruby
13 4 (0.57%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 228 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 193 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.98%) Degree
4 24 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) 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 74 (10.51%) QA
2 43 (6.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.28%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.99%) SEPA
5 6 (0.85%) GDPR
5 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.85%) WCAG
6 4 (0.57%) SLA
7 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 329 (46.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 304 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 81 (11.51%) Grafana
3 70 (9.94%) Prometheus
4 58 (8.24%) Terraform
5 33 (4.69%) Ansible
6 13 (1.85%) Kibana
7 10 (1.42%) Control-M
8 5 (0.71%) Argo
9 4 (0.57%) Istio
10 3 (0.43%) Bosun
11 2 (0.28%) Consul
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.28%) 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 84 (11.93%) Oracle
2 40 (5.68%) Google
3 34 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.12%) Splunk
5 17 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.41%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.99%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.99%) IBM
7 12 (1.70%) Solace
8 11 (1.56%) Databricks
9 10 (1.42%) Sybase
10 9 (1.28%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.28%) New Relic
11 8 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.99%) TikTok
13 4 (0.57%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.57%) Teradata
14 3 (0.43%) Confluent
14 3 (0.43%) FIS