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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 191 202
Rank change year-on-year +35 +11 -71
Contract jobs citing Spring 683 333 430
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.37% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.71% 6.13% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 213 331
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -12.90%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £638
90th Percentile £670 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 11
10th Percentile - £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £42.94
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £79.25 £72.81 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%

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 7,844 5,430 7,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.32% 22.34% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,194 3,769 5,324
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 103 228
10th Percentile £32.50 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

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 12 May 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

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 12 May 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 +18 336 £525 -3.23% 70
North of England +19 167 £475 - 43
North West +37 121 £468 +7.90% 30
Midlands -19 67 £469 +11.67% 10
West Midlands -15 66 £470 +6.70% 7
South East -24 40 £436 -12.75% 26
South West -5 38 £409 -20.20% 14
Yorkshire -42 28 £475 -11.63% 7
East of England -3 26 £510 +9.09% 3
North East +1 25 £463 -0.54% 6
East Midlands -46 1 £450 +21.13% 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 41 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.27%) Confluence
3 22 (3.22%) Apache
4 14 (2.05%) Camunda
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.59%) JBoss
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 368 (53.88%) AWS
2 171 (25.04%) Azure
3 130 (19.03%) GitHub
4 116 (16.98%) GCP
5 76 (11.13%) Serverless
6 74 (10.83%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (9.37%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.54%) OpenShift
13 29 (4.25%) Azure AKS
14 25 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
16 21 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.64%) Route 53
18 15 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.32%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.73%) SSL
3 4 (0.59%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (22.99%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (13.32%) NoSQL
3 70 (10.25%) MongoDB
4 65 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.76%) DynamoDB
6 52 (7.61%) MySQL
7 38 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.93%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.64%) Big Data
11 18 (2.64%) Redis
12 14 (2.05%) Flink
13 13 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.46%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.17%) DB2
17 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (24.30%) Git
2 144 (21.08%) Jenkins
3 124 (18.16%) JUnit
4 117 (17.13%) GitLab
5 65 (9.52%) Gradle
6 64 (9.37%) Maven
7 61 (8.93%) JIRA
8 57 (8.35%) Mockito
9 41 (6.00%) Cucumber
10 33 (4.83%) SonarQube
11 32 (4.69%) Selenium
12 23 (3.37%) IntelliJ
12 23 (3.37%) JMeter
13 16 (2.34%) WebDriver
14 12 (1.76%) Gatling
15 11 (1.61%) Cypress.io
15 11 (1.61%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.61%) jMock
16 10 (1.46%) CircleCI
16 10 (1.46%) Liquibase
General
1 133 (19.47%) Finance
2 128 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 75 (10.98%) Banking
5 37 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.49%) Retail
7 13 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.88%) Automotive
10 6 (0.88%) Law
10 6 (0.88%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.44%) Military
13 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 389 (56.95%) Developer
2 269 (39.39%) Java Developer
3 135 (19.77%) Senior
4 107 (15.67%) Java Engineer
5 80 (11.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 78 (11.42%) Software Engineer
7 77 (11.27%) Senior Developer
8 67 (9.81%) Lead
9 60 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
10 42 (6.15%) Backend Developer
11 40 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.10%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.37%) Architect
15 23 (3.37%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.07%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.49%) Senior Java Engineer
18 16 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 554 (81.11%) Spring Boot
2 189 (27.67%) Kafka
3 168 (24.60%) RESTful
4 151 (22.11%) REST
5 136 (19.91%) React
6 101 (14.79%) Node.js
7 90 (13.18%) AngularJS
8 61 (8.93%) Hibernate
9 54 (7.91%) HTML
10 47 (6.88%) CSS
11 44 (6.44%) Spring MVC
11 44 (6.44%) WireMock
12 43 (6.30%) Spring Cloud
13 41 (6.00%) JPA
14 39 (5.71%) Web Services
15 35 (5.12%) OAuth
16 33 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
17 32 (4.69%) OAuth2
18 27 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (3.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 118 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 79 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) NHS
13 4 (0.59%) Derivative
13 4 (0.59%) Equities
13 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.30%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Unix
3 10 (1.46%) Windows
4 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) VMS
6 3 (0.44%) Android
6 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (60.32%) Microservices
2 380 (55.64%) CI/CD
3 264 (38.65%) Agile
4 240 (35.14%) DevOps
5 224 (32.80%) Containerisation
6 157 (22.99%) Software Engineering
7 151 (22.11%) TDD
8 149 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (19.47%) Test Automation
10 126 (18.45%) Event-Driven
11 118 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (15.67%) Code Quality
12 107 (15.67%) Observability
13 96 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 88 (12.88%) Scrum
15 78 (11.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
17 69 (10.10%) BDD
18 56 (8.20%) Design Patterns
18 56 (8.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 642 (94.00%) Java
2 190 (27.82%) SQL
3 100 (14.64%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 87 (12.74%) Python
6 47 (6.88%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.49%) Go
8 13 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.46%) Scala
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) C#
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 214 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 181 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.54%) Degree
4 24 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.59%) OCP
9 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.29%) 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 62 (9.08%) QA
2 49 (7.17%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.20%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.76%) SEPA
4 12 (1.76%) WCAG
5 8 (1.17%) PSD2
6 7 (1.02%) GDPR
6 7 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 5 (0.73%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.44%) HL7
10 3 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) EMIR
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 304 (44.51%) Docker
2 10 (1.46%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 324 (47.44%) Kubernetes
2 88 (12.88%) Grafana
3 69 (10.10%) Terraform
4 58 (8.49%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.22%) Ansible
6 13 (1.90%) Argo
7 11 (1.61%) Kibana
8 7 (1.02%) Istio
9 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (7.61%) Oracle
2 38 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.25%) Google
4 26 (3.81%) Splunk
5 14 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.32%) IBM
8 9 (1.32%) Solace
9 7 (1.02%) Databricks
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
10 6 (0.88%) Sybase
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
12 3 (0.44%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.44%) New Relic