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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 193 256
Rank change year-on-year +14 +63 -167
Contract jobs citing Spring 497 401 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.31% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 5.98% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 253 284
10th Percentile £326 £413 £413
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £675
90th Percentile £638 £800 £818
UK median daily rate £486 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -10.57% +3.57% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 6,977 6,709 8,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 21.86% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,695 4,275 6,087
10th Percentile £350 £360 £369
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.51%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 98 175
10th Percentile £31.15 £26.43 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.30 £65.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% +19.27% -16.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.30 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 5 December 2025.

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
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 5 December 2025. 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 +4 268 £525 -10.26% 48
North of England +5 111 £450 - 52
North West +28 81 £450 - 30
Midlands -6 49 £423 -28.09% 8
South East +14 41 £400 -11.11% 44
West Midlands -18 35 £455 -22.64% 5
Yorkshire -27 20 £513 -18.00% 14
East Midlands - 14 £360 - 3
South West -11 12 £503 -8.64% 21
North East -5 11 £500 +12.36% 9
East of England -24 1 - - 2
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 18 (3.62%) Confluence
2 15 (3.02%) JBoss
3 12 (2.41%) Apache
4 11 (2.21%) WebLogic
5 8 (1.61%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.01%) Camunda
7 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.80%) Mule
8 3 (0.60%) CICS
8 3 (0.60%) WordPress
9 2 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.40%) Drupal
9 2 (0.40%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.40%) nginx
10 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 276 (55.53%) AWS
2 155 (31.19%) Azure
3 90 (18.11%) GCP
4 80 (16.10%) GitHub
5 41 (8.25%) OpenShift
5 41 (8.25%) Serverless
6 32 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (6.44%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (6.24%) Amazon S3
8 22 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (4.02%) Azure AKS
11 18 (3.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.41%) Datadog
14 11 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (2.21%) Apigee
15 9 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.01%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.80%) HTTP
2 4 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.60%) SSL
4 2 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (21.73%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 70 (14.08%) Relational Database
4 56 (11.27%) NoSQL
5 33 (6.64%) MySQL
6 24 (4.83%) DynamoDB
7 23 (4.63%) DB2
8 15 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 14 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.82%) RDBMS
10 13 (2.62%) Oracle Database
11 12 (2.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (1.81%) HBase
12 9 (1.81%) Redis
13 8 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.01%) Big Data
15 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (0.80%) Tick Data
16 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.60%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 136 (27.36%) JUnit
2 131 (26.36%) Git
3 104 (20.93%) Jenkins
4 64 (12.88%) GitLab
5 53 (10.66%) Cucumber
6 52 (10.46%) Maven
7 47 (9.46%) JIRA
8 42 (8.45%) Mockito
9 37 (7.44%) Gradle
10 34 (6.84%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (4.83%) Selenium
12 21 (4.23%) Postman
13 16 (3.22%) JMeter
13 16 (3.22%) SonarQube
14 14 (2.82%) Eclipse
15 13 (2.62%) Artifactory
16 12 (2.41%) IntelliJ
17 11 (2.21%) Bitbucket
18 7 (1.41%) REST Assured
18 7 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 167 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 119 (23.94%) Finance
3 88 (17.71%) Banking
4 63 (12.68%) Public Sector
5 52 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.63%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.60%) Automotive
11 3 (0.60%) Electronics
11 3 (0.60%) Front Office
11 3 (0.60%) Law
11 3 (0.60%) Marketing
12 2 (0.40%) Police
12 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 325 (65.39%) Developer
2 261 (52.52%) Java Developer
3 105 (21.13%) Senior
4 84 (16.90%) Senior Developer
5 80 (16.10%) Senior Java Developer
6 59 (11.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (10.46%) Java Engineer
8 48 (9.66%) Lead
9 31 (6.24%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.03%) AWS Developer
10 25 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 24 (4.83%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.02%) Architect
12 20 (4.02%) Lead Java Developer
13 19 (3.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (3.42%) Backend Developer
15 15 (3.02%) SQL Developer
16 14 (2.82%) Linux Developer
16 14 (2.82%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
16 14 (2.82%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (71.23%) Spring Boot
2 158 (31.79%) Kafka
3 137 (27.57%) RESTful
4 114 (22.94%) REST
5 99 (19.92%) React
6 86 (17.30%) AngularJS
7 85 (17.10%) Hibernate
8 73 (14.69%) HTML
9 53 (10.66%) CSS
10 45 (9.05%) JSON
11 43 (8.65%) Node.js
12 38 (7.65%) OAuth
13 35 (7.04%) SOAP
14 33 (6.64%) JPA
15 32 (6.44%) JMS
15 32 (6.44%) OAuth2
16 27 (5.43%) Web Services
16 27 (5.43%) XML
17 26 (5.23%) HTML5
18 25 (5.03%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 74 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.46%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.63%) Onboarding
4 20 (4.02%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.82%) Data Structures
5 19 (3.82%) Equities
6 12 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.61%) Derivative
9 7 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.21%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (0.80%) NHS
12 3 (0.60%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.40%) Fixed Income
13 2 (0.40%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 59 (11.87%) Linux
2 27 (5.43%) Unix
3 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.01%) Windows
4 3 (0.60%) Android
5 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
5 2 (0.40%) zOS
6 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (62.58%) Microservices
2 279 (56.14%) CI/CD
3 237 (47.69%) Agile
4 159 (31.99%) DevOps
5 156 (31.39%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (27.97%) Containerisation
7 105 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (19.52%) TDD
8 97 (19.52%) Test Automation
9 83 (16.70%) Software Engineering
10 75 (15.09%) Event-Driven
10 75 (15.09%) SDLC
11 63 (12.68%) Scrum
12 58 (11.67%) Code Quality
13 56 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 55 (11.07%) Design Patterns
15 51 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (9.86%) API Development
17 47 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (9.26%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 486 (97.79%) Java
2 147 (29.58%) SQL
3 78 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 73 (14.69%) Python
5 62 (12.47%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.44%) Shell Script
7 21 (4.23%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.82%) Scala
9 10 (2.01%) Groovy
9 10 (2.01%) Ruby
10 9 (1.81%) Bash
11 6 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.01%) C#
13 4 (0.80%) C++
14 3 (0.60%) C
14 3 (0.60%) Go
15 2 (0.40%) COBOL
15 2 (0.40%) Korn
15 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 117 (23.54%) Security Cleared
2 93 (18.71%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.84%) Degree
4 25 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.62%) OCP
5 13 (2.62%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.20%) OSCP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.27%) QA
2 20 (4.02%) ISO 20022
3 17 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.21%) PSD2
4 11 (2.21%) SEPA
5 10 (2.01%) WCAG
6 6 (1.21%) GDPR
7 5 (1.01%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) HL7
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 201 (40.44%) Docker
2 7 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 207 (41.65%) Kubernetes
2 50 (10.06%) Terraform
3 31 (6.24%) Ansible
4 23 (4.63%) Grafana
5 15 (3.02%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.62%) Argo
7 10 (2.01%) Kibana
7 10 (2.01%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.61%) Puppet
9 5 (1.01%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.40%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.40%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Control-M
11 1 (0.20%) logstash
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (12.07%) Oracle
2 34 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.63%) Google
4 20 (4.02%) Sybase
5 18 (3.62%) Splunk
6 16 (3.22%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.82%) VMware
8 12 (2.41%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.01%) CA Agile Central
10 9 (1.81%) IBM
10 9 (1.81%) webMethods
11 5 (1.01%) ION Trading
11 5 (1.01%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.01%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.80%) Calypso
12 4 (0.80%) SAP
12 4 (0.80%) Solace
12 4 (0.80%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg