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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 173 187
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 741 423 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.57% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.72% 7.02% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 292 377
10th Percentile £381 £358 £375
25th Percentile £438 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £689 £670 £790
UK median daily rate £515 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 9
10th Percentile £53.25 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £69.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £77.50 £59.90
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%

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 8,500 6,027 7,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.01% 22.34% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,603 4,138 5,570
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £428 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 134 265
10th Percentile £30.35 £30.90 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -10.31%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.61 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -1 385 £525 - 144
North of England +5 155 £500 +7.53% 45
North West +5 94 £525 +26.51% 27
Midlands -44 77 £475 +13.10% 20
West Midlands -22 74 £475 -3.55% 17
South West +3 50 £410 -20.96% 73
Yorkshire -14 42 £500 -4.76% 10
South East -28 41 £450 -1.37% 19
East of England +3 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -16 24 £450 -8.16% 8
East Midlands -41 2 £401 +6.93% 3
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 45 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.99%) Confluence
3 26 (3.51%) Apache
4 14 (1.89%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.62%) Camunda
6 11 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.35%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.35%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.35%) nginx
8 7 (0.94%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.54%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.40%) JBoss
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Drupal
11 2 (0.27%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.27%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.67%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Quorum
2 4 (0.54%) Ripple
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 374 (50.47%) AWS
2 175 (23.62%) Azure
3 129 (17.41%) GitHub
4 121 (16.33%) GCP
5 72 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (8.91%) Amazon S3
7 62 (8.37%) Serverless
8 53 (7.15%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 30 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (3.10%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.56%) Route 53
17 18 (2.43%) AWS KMS
18 17 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 16 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.21%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.13%) SMS
3 1 (0.13%) SSL
3 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (12.42%) NoSQL
3 80 (10.80%) MongoDB
4 79 (10.66%) Relational Database
5 49 (6.61%) MySQL
6 47 (6.34%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.51%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.97%) Redis
11 20 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.70%) Big Data
12 18 (2.43%) Flink
13 17 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.89%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.21%) Db2
16 8 (1.08%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.94%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 187 (25.24%) Git
2 177 (23.89%) Jenkins
3 146 (19.70%) JUnit
4 101 (13.63%) GitLab
5 74 (9.99%) Maven
6 66 (8.91%) Mockito
7 65 (8.77%) Gradle
8 63 (8.50%) JIRA
9 42 (5.67%) Selenium
10 41 (5.53%) Cucumber
11 38 (5.13%) SonarQube
12 26 (3.51%) JMeter
13 19 (2.56%) WebDriver
14 17 (2.29%) REST Assured
15 16 (2.16%) Gatling
15 16 (2.16%) Liquibase
16 15 (2.02%) IntelliJ
17 14 (1.89%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.75%) jMock
19 11 (1.48%) Postman
General
1 159 (21.46%) Finance
2 147 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 117 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 93 (12.55%) Banking
5 53 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.37%) Retail
7 18 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.35%) Law
10 9 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.94%) Military
11 7 (0.94%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.81%) Automotive
13 4 (0.54%) Front Office
13 4 (0.54%) Games
13 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.54%) Police
13 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 409 (55.20%) Developer
2 307 (41.43%) Java Developer
3 147 (19.84%) Senior
4 122 (16.46%) Java Engineer
5 84 (11.34%) Software Engineer
6 81 (10.93%) Senior Developer
7 78 (10.53%) Lead
8 62 (8.37%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (8.37%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (7.69%) Backend Developer
10 45 (6.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (3.91%) Lead Developer
12 28 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
13 27 (3.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.64%) Software Developer
14 26 (3.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (3.24%) Data Engineer
16 22 (2.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 20 (2.70%) Lead Java Developer
18 19 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 591 (79.76%) Spring Boot
2 221 (29.82%) Kafka
3 178 (24.02%) REST
4 163 (22.00%) RESTful
5 133 (17.95%) React
6 99 (13.36%) Node.js
7 65 (8.77%) AngularJS
8 59 (7.96%) JPA
9 58 (7.83%) Hibernate
10 49 (6.61%) WireMock
11 48 (6.48%) HTML
12 46 (6.21%) Web Services
13 43 (5.80%) CSS
14 42 (5.67%) Spring Cloud
15 41 (5.53%) Spring MVC
16 33 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (4.18%) SOAP
18 30 (4.05%) OAuth
19 28 (3.78%) Spring Batch
20 27 (3.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 135 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 108 (14.57%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.35%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.08%) Derivative
13 7 (0.94%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.94%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.81%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.75%) Linux
2 19 (2.56%) Unix
3 10 (1.35%) Windows
4 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.67%) VMS
6 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.40%) Solaris
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
8 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (58.84%) Microservices
2 433 (58.43%) CI/CD
3 315 (42.51%) Agile
4 269 (36.30%) DevOps
5 221 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 177 (23.89%) Software Engineering
7 163 (22.00%) TDD
8 156 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 152 (20.51%) Event-Driven
10 147 (19.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 125 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (15.79%) Observability
13 116 (15.65%) Scrum
14 114 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 107 (14.44%) Code Quality
16 96 (12.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (10.53%) BDD
18 65 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
19 57 (7.69%) Design Patterns
19 57 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 708 (95.55%) Java
2 226 (30.50%) SQL
3 98 (13.23%) JavaScript
4 93 (12.55%) TypeScript
5 92 (12.42%) Python
6 38 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 33 (4.45%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.89%) Scala
10 12 (1.62%) Go
11 9 (1.21%) C#
12 7 (0.94%) Ruby
13 6 (0.81%) Perl
14 5 (0.67%) Bash
14 5 (0.67%) Solidity
15 2 (0.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PromQL
16 1 (0.13%) Groovy
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 238 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 202 (27.26%) SC Cleared
3 29 (3.91%) Degree
4 26 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.13%) CISSP
10 1 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (10.12%) QA
2 49 (6.61%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.35%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.21%) WCAG
5 8 (1.08%) SEPA
6 7 (0.94%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.81%) GDPR
7 6 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.67%) SLA
9 4 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.54%) PSD2
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ITGC
11 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 338 (45.61%) Docker
2 11 (1.48%) Postfix
3 2 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 323 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.20%) Grafana
3 66 (8.91%) Prometheus
4 57 (7.69%) Terraform
5 30 (4.05%) Ansible
6 14 (1.89%) Kibana
7 6 (0.81%) Control-M
8 5 (0.67%) Argo
9 4 (0.54%) Istio
10 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.27%) Consul
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 78 (10.53%) Oracle
2 41 (5.53%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.86%) Google
4 30 (4.05%) Splunk
5 17 (2.29%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.16%) IBM
7 15 (2.02%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.89%) Solace
9 12 (1.62%) Sybase
10 11 (1.48%) Databricks
11 10 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.21%) Checkmarx
13 6 (0.81%) New Relic
13 6 (0.81%) TikTok
14 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.67%) Informatica
14 5 (0.67%) Teradata
15 4 (0.54%) MuleSoft
16 3 (0.40%) Confluent