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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 189 228
Rank change year-on-year +29 +39 -104
Contract jobs citing Spring 665 346 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.42% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.35% 6.30% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 219 289
10th Percentile £355 £385 £375
25th Percentile £420 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -13.60%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £635
90th Percentile £644 £738 £765
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 2 10
10th Percentile £51.25 £63.88 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £65.94 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +60.75% -29.42%
75th Percentile £80.13 £83.44 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £86.63 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £86.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year -36.23% +87.99% -32.03%

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 7,963 5,488 7,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.38% 22.51% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,325 3,809 5,299
10th Percentile £358 £367 £350
25th Percentile £419 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 90 170
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.46 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £36.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.93 £83.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -16 313 £525 -4.55% 64
North of England +11 156 £475 -1.04% 32
North West +37 118 £473 -0.53% 16
Midlands -12 75 £466 +10.28% 3
West Midlands -2 74 £467 +6.10% 2
South East +2 55 £405 -1.82% 25
South West -7 35 £409 -23.91% 16
Yorkshire -53 24 £475 -11.63% 6
East of England -7 23 £540 +15.51% 4
North East -5 21 £450 -3.23% 10
East Midlands -38 1 £450 +11.94% 1
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 39 (5.86%) Confluence
2 30 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.86%) Apache
4 13 (1.95%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.80%) Camunda
6 8 (1.20%) JBoss
7 7 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.90%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.90%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.30%) CICS
11 2 (0.30%) CMS
11 2 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.30%) nginx
11 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.30%) WordPress
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 369 (55.49%) AWS
2 183 (27.52%) Azure
3 134 (20.15%) GitHub
4 120 (18.05%) GCP
5 82 (12.33%) Serverless
6 76 (11.43%) Amazon S3
7 71 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.96%) OpenShift
12 32 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.66%) Azure AKS
14 28 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (2.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 16 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
18 16 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.65%) HTTP
2 7 (1.05%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.75%) SSL
4 4 (0.60%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (24.06%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (15.04%) NoSQL
3 73 (10.98%) MongoDB
4 69 (10.38%) Relational Database
5 61 (9.17%) MySQL
6 56 (8.42%) DynamoDB
7 39 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (3.16%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.11%) Big Data
11 14 (2.11%) Redis
12 12 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.65%) DB2
14 10 (1.50%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.50%) Flink
15 9 (1.35%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 177 (26.62%) Git
2 145 (21.80%) Jenkins
3 139 (20.90%) JUnit
4 111 (16.69%) GitLab
5 66 (9.92%) Maven
6 64 (9.62%) JIRA
7 55 (8.27%) Gradle
8 53 (7.97%) Cucumber
9 51 (7.67%) Mockito
10 40 (6.02%) Selenium
11 30 (4.51%) JMeter
11 30 (4.51%) SonarQube
12 26 (3.91%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (2.56%) WebDriver
15 14 (2.11%) Gatling
15 14 (2.11%) Postman
16 11 (1.65%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.50%) jMock
18 9 (1.35%) Mocha
General
1 146 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 132 (19.85%) Finance
3 110 (16.54%) Public Sector
4 67 (10.08%) Banking
5 38 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.26%) Retail
7 12 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.75%) Automotive
11 5 (0.75%) Law
11 5 (0.75%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.60%) Front Office
12 4 (0.60%) Publishing
13 3 (0.45%) Electronics
13 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.45%) Marketing
13 3 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 395 (59.40%) Developer
2 276 (41.50%) Java Developer
3 122 (18.35%) Senior
4 97 (14.59%) Java Engineer
5 90 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (10.98%) Senior Developer
7 64 (9.62%) Lead
8 63 (9.47%) Software Engineer
9 58 (8.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (5.26%) Backend Developer
11 33 (4.96%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (4.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (4.36%) Architect
14 26 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (3.76%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 25 (3.76%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.56%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 13 (1.95%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 527 (79.25%) Spring Boot
2 183 (27.52%) Kafka
3 180 (27.07%) RESTful
4 151 (22.71%) REST
5 140 (21.05%) React
6 102 (15.34%) Node.js
7 100 (15.04%) AngularJS
8 77 (11.58%) Hibernate
9 62 (9.32%) HTML
10 53 (7.97%) CSS
11 46 (6.92%) Spring MVC
12 42 (6.32%) JPA
13 41 (6.17%) WireMock
14 36 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
15 35 (5.26%) Web Services
16 34 (5.11%) OAuth
17 31 (4.66%) OAuth2
18 30 (4.51%) HTML5
18 30 (4.51%) OpenTelemetry
18 30 (4.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 101 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.58%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.56%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.80%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.05%) Equities
11 7 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.05%) NHS
12 6 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.90%) Derivative
12 6 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.52%) Linux
2 16 (2.41%) Unix
3 9 (1.35%) Windows
4 8 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.90%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Solaris
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (61.50%) Microservices
2 373 (56.09%) CI/CD
3 264 (39.70%) Agile
4 237 (35.64%) DevOps
5 198 (29.77%) Containerisation
6 157 (23.61%) Full-Stack Development
7 144 (21.65%) TDD
8 134 (20.15%) Software Engineering
9 133 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 130 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (17.44%) Event-Driven
12 109 (16.39%) Code Quality
13 103 (15.49%) Observability
14 95 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (14.14%) Scrum
16 72 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
17 69 (10.38%) BDD
17 69 (10.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 61 (9.17%) SDLC
19 59 (8.87%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 622 (93.53%) Java
2 182 (27.37%) SQL
3 94 (14.14%) JavaScript
4 91 (13.68%) TypeScript
5 79 (11.88%) Python
6 45 (6.77%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.56%) Go
8 14 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.20%) Scala
11 7 (1.05%) Perl
12 6 (0.90%) C#
13 4 (0.60%) Bash
14 3 (0.45%) PHP
14 3 (0.45%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) COBOL
15 1 (0.15%) JCL
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 203 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.66%) Degree
4 24 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.20%) OCP
7 8 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (10.08%) QA
2 49 (7.37%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.26%) ISO 20022
3 15 (2.26%) WCAG
4 9 (1.35%) SEPA
5 8 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.20%) PSD2
6 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) NIST
6 5 (0.75%) SLA
7 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.45%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) HL7
7 3 (0.45%) NCSC
7 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 284 (42.71%) Docker
2 8 (1.20%) Postfix
3 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 83 (12.48%) Grafana
3 63 (9.47%) Terraform
4 50 (7.52%) Prometheus
5 27 (4.06%) Ansible
6 10 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.35%) Kibana
8 7 (1.05%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.90%) Istio
10 4 (0.60%) Puppet
10 4 (0.60%) Rancher
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 52 (7.82%) Oracle
2 43 (6.47%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.96%) Google
4 27 (4.06%) Splunk
5 12 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
5 12 (1.80%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 9 (1.35%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.35%) Solace
7 9 (1.35%) Sybase
8 8 (1.20%) IBM
9 7 (1.05%) Databricks
9 7 (1.05%) VMware
10 6 (0.90%) Adobe
11 5 (0.75%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.75%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.75%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.75%) SAP
11 5 (0.75%) Teradata