Spring Contracts in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 183 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 -23 -62
Contract jobs citing Spring 420 485 769
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.58% 1.30% 1.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 6.10% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 375 599
10th Percentile £358 £375 £456
25th Percentile £408 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £610
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -11.48% +1.67%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £718
90th Percentile £670 £793 £800
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £585
% change year-on-year -9.52% -10.26% +0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 36
10th Percentile £53.00 £35.00 £53.75
25th Percentile - £40.00 £60.59
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -34.46% +7.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.90 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -34.46% +7.69%

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 5,958 7,946 10,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.47% 21.32% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 5,538 8,031
10th Percentile £355 £350 £385
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 266 142
10th Percentile £30.55 £23.80 £31.18
25th Percentile £44.38 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +21.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.41 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Daily rate trend for Spring in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 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 +7 260 £525 -8.70% 543
Midlands +61 61 £420 -6.67% 62
North of England -9 59 £465 -15.45% 126
North West -3 46 £415 -20.95% 76
West Midlands +29 31 £493 +9.44% 45
East Midlands - 30 £375 - 17
South East +9 14 £456 +1.39% 67
South West +18 12 £519 -3.49% 44
North East +6 8 £490 -10.91% 18
Yorkshire -9 6 £525 -6.67% 32
East of England +13 1 £468 +24.67% 12
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.29%) JBoss
2 14 (3.33%) Tomcat
3 12 (2.86%) Confluence
4 11 (2.62%) Apache
5 10 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.38%) Camunda
6 6 (1.43%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.19%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.95%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.48%) CMS
10 2 (0.48%) nginx
11 1 (0.24%) CICS
11 1 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.24%) Mule
11 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.24%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.48%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 195 (46.43%) AWS
2 56 (13.33%) Azure
3 46 (10.95%) GCP
4 37 (8.81%) Amazon S3
5 34 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 28 (6.67%) Serverless
8 27 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
9 24 (5.71%) GitHub
10 21 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.62%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (2.38%) AWS KMS
14 10 (2.38%) Route 53
15 9 (2.14%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (2.14%) Kong
16 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
17 6 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.67%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.19%) HTTP
3 3 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.71%) SSL
4 2 (0.48%) Internet
4 2 (0.48%) Kerberos
4 2 (0.48%) LAN
4 2 (0.48%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (30.24%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 83 (19.76%) MongoDB
4 44 (10.48%) NoSQL
5 43 (10.24%) MySQL
6 28 (6.67%) DB2
7 27 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (5.48%) DynamoDB
9 18 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 16 (3.81%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.86%) Redis
12 11 (2.62%) Big Data
13 9 (2.14%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.90%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
16 6 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
17 5 (1.19%) Hadoop
18 4 (0.95%) KDB
19 3 (0.71%) Hazelcast
20 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 140 (33.33%) JUnit
2 134 (31.90%) Jenkins
3 97 (23.10%) Git
4 89 (21.19%) Maven
5 66 (15.71%) Mockito
6 65 (15.48%) Gradle
7 47 (11.19%) GitLab
8 40 (9.52%) JIRA
9 33 (7.86%) SonarQube
10 32 (7.62%) Cucumber
11 30 (7.14%) Liquibase
12 22 (5.24%) IntelliJ
13 17 (4.05%) Bitbucket
14 16 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
15 15 (3.57%) Artifactory
15 15 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
16 8 (1.90%) DbUnit
16 8 (1.90%) Eclipse
16 8 (1.90%) jMock
16 8 (1.90%) Subversion
General
1 114 (27.14%) Finance
2 104 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 79 (18.81%) Public Sector
4 67 (15.95%) Banking
5 54 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 22 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 21 (5.00%) Electronics
8 21 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 21 (5.00%) Marketing
9 6 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.19%) Retail
11 4 (0.95%) Front Office
12 3 (0.71%) Automotive
12 3 (0.71%) Back Office
12 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Police
14 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (67.14%) Developer
2 232 (55.24%) Java Developer
3 78 (18.57%) Senior
4 62 (14.76%) Senior Developer
5 59 (14.05%) Senior Java Developer
6 46 (10.95%) Lead
7 44 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 42 (10.00%) Java Engineer
9 41 (9.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 37 (8.81%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.90%) Lead Developer
12 27 (6.43%) Lead Java Developer
13 24 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
14 22 (5.24%) AWS Developer
15 21 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 19 (4.52%) Architect
17 17 (4.05%) React Developer
18 16 (3.81%) Linux Developer
18 16 (3.81%) SQL Developer
19 15 (3.57%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 283 (67.38%) Spring Boot
2 132 (31.43%) Kafka
3 104 (24.76%) React
4 98 (23.33%) RESTful
5 93 (22.14%) REST
6 87 (20.71%) Hibernate
7 75 (17.86%) AngularJS
8 65 (15.48%) Web Services
9 49 (11.67%) SOAP
10 47 (11.19%) JPA
11 46 (10.95%) HTML
12 44 (10.48%) Swagger
13 38 (9.05%) OpenAPI
14 37 (8.81%) Node.js
15 29 (6.90%) CSS
15 29 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
16 25 (5.95%) J2EE
16 25 (5.95%) OAuth
17 24 (5.71%) JMS
18 22 (5.24%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 25 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (3.57%) Equities
4 13 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.38%) PKI
6 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.95%) Derivative
8 4 (0.95%) Mainframe
8 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.95%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.71%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.71%) State Machine
10 2 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 64 (15.24%) Linux
2 28 (6.67%) Unix
3 6 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.43%) Windows
4 4 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (59.52%) Microservices
2 216 (51.43%) Agile
3 174 (41.43%) CI/CD
4 124 (29.52%) TDD
5 118 (28.10%) DevOps
6 101 (24.05%) Containerisation
7 100 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (20.71%) Software Engineering
9 70 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 64 (15.24%) Scrum
11 60 (14.29%) SDLC
12 55 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
13 47 (11.19%) Migration
14 46 (10.95%) API Development
15 45 (10.71%) Event-Driven
16 44 (10.48%) Code Quality
17 43 (10.24%) Clean Code
18 39 (9.29%) BDD
18 39 (9.29%) Test Automation
19 38 (9.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 409 (97.38%) Java
2 162 (38.57%) SQL
3 76 (18.10%) Python
4 69 (16.43%) JavaScript
5 68 (16.19%) TypeScript
6 36 (8.57%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.62%) Perl
7 11 (2.62%) Scala
8 9 (2.14%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.67%) Bash
9 7 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.43%) C#
10 6 (1.43%) Groovy
11 5 (1.19%) C
11 5 (1.19%) C++
11 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.95%) Rust
13 3 (0.71%) Ruby
14 2 (0.48%) Go
15 1 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 122 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 108 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.19%) Degree
4 17 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) OCP
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Sun Certification
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.19%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) GDPR
3 10 (2.38%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) SEPA
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (40.95%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) Postfix
3 3 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.71%) Lustre
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.81%) Terraform
3 30 (7.14%) Grafana
4 26 (6.19%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.29%) Ansible
6 12 (2.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 8 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.67%) Puppet
9 6 (1.43%) Kibana
10 5 (1.19%) Istio
11 3 (0.71%) Control-M
11 3 (0.71%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.71%) Podman
11 3 (0.71%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.48%) Argo
13 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 50 (11.90%) Oracle
2 28 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.71%) Splunk
4 23 (5.48%) Sybase
5 21 (5.00%) SAP
6 16 (3.81%) CA Agile Central
6 16 (3.81%) IBM
7 11 (2.62%) Dynatrace
7 11 (2.62%) Google
7 11 (2.62%) Ping Identity
7 11 (2.62%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.19%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.48%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.48%) Virgin Media
12 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
12 1 (0.24%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.24%) WSO2