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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 175 191
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -46
Contract jobs citing Spring 702 375 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.53% 1.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.58% 6.79% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 246 351
10th Percentile £394 £358 £375
25th Percentile £438 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% -12.90%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £631
90th Percentile £677 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +3.66% -6.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 7 11
10th Percentile - £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +19.88% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 8,182 5,520 7,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.56% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,835 5,486
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £744 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 109 248
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.90 £22.68
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +27.64% -24.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% +21.21% -23.85%

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 11 June 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 11 June 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 11 June 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 +9 359 £525 - 79
North of England +13 153 £500 +7.53% 30
North West +17 105 £510 +29.77% 15
Midlands -49 71 £467 +9.84% 4
West Midlands -23 68 £475 -5.00% 3
South West +9 47 £409 -21.16% 21
South East -35 37 £513 +24.24% 19
Yorkshire -30 29 £463 -11.90% 11
East of England +2 27 £510 +9.09% 6
North East -10 24 £450 -4.76% 5
East Midlands -48 2 £401 +7.94% 1
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 43 (6.13%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.13%) Confluence
3 22 (3.13%) Apache
4 14 (1.99%) Camunda
5 10 (1.42%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.42%) Hyperledger
5 10 (1.42%) WebLogic
6 9 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.00%) nginx
7 7 (1.00%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.57%) JBoss
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.57%) Quorum
2 4 (0.57%) Ripple
3 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (51.42%) AWS
2 164 (23.36%) Azure
3 131 (18.66%) GitHub
4 117 (16.67%) GCP
5 79 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (9.69%) Amazon S3
7 63 (8.97%) Serverless
8 56 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.70%) OpenShift
12 32 (4.56%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (3.28%) Azure AKS
15 22 (3.13%) Route 53
16 19 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.56%) AWS KMS
18 16 (2.28%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.14%) HTTP
2 4 (0.57%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.28%) Firewall
4 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
5 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (23.93%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (12.96%) NoSQL
3 75 (10.68%) MongoDB
4 73 (10.40%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.55%) MySQL
6 51 (7.26%) DynamoDB
7 45 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (3.28%) Redis
11 20 (2.85%) Big Data
11 20 (2.85%) SQL Server
12 16 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.28%) Flink
13 13 (1.85%) RDBMS
14 8 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.14%) Db2
15 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 177 (25.21%) Git
2 169 (24.07%) Jenkins
3 135 (19.23%) JUnit
4 108 (15.38%) GitLab
5 68 (9.69%) Gradle
6 67 (9.54%) Maven
7 63 (8.97%) Mockito
8 62 (8.83%) JIRA
9 43 (6.13%) Cucumber
9 43 (6.13%) Selenium
10 36 (5.13%) SonarQube
11 25 (3.56%) JMeter
12 23 (3.28%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.71%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.56%) REST Assured
15 17 (2.42%) Gatling
16 16 (2.28%) Liquibase
17 14 (1.99%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.85%) jMock
19 11 (1.57%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 142 (20.23%) Finance
2 134 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 107 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 91 (12.96%) Banking
5 45 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.70%) Retail
7 15 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.42%) Law
10 9 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.85%) Automotive
13 5 (0.71%) Military
14 4 (0.57%) Front Office
14 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Publishing
15 3 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (53.85%) Developer
2 276 (39.32%) Java Developer
3 140 (19.94%) Senior
4 122 (17.38%) Java Engineer
5 91 (12.96%) Software Engineer
6 77 (10.97%) Senior Developer
7 70 (9.97%) Lead
8 67 (9.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 50 (7.12%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (6.13%) Backend Developer
12 29 (4.13%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (3.56%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
15 23 (3.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 22 (3.13%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.99%) Architect
18 20 (2.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 15 (2.14%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 571 (81.34%) Spring Boot
2 205 (29.20%) Kafka
3 170 (24.22%) REST
4 160 (22.79%) RESTful
5 136 (19.37%) React
6 102 (14.53%) Node.js
7 73 (10.40%) AngularJS
8 57 (8.12%) Hibernate
8 57 (8.12%) JPA
9 49 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
10 48 (6.84%) WireMock
11 47 (6.70%) HTML
12 44 (6.27%) Web Services
13 43 (6.13%) CSS
14 42 (5.98%) Spring MVC
15 34 (4.84%) OAuth
16 33 (4.70%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (4.42%) SOAP
18 30 (4.27%) OAuth2
19 28 (3.99%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 125 (17.81%) Cloud Native
2 96 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.71%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.00%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.85%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.85%) Derivative
13 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.57%) Equities
14 4 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.98%) Linux
2 17 (2.42%) Unix
3 11 (1.57%) Windows
4 9 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.71%) VMS
6 3 (0.43%) Solaris
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (59.12%) Microservices
2 395 (56.27%) CI/CD
3 285 (40.60%) Agile
4 251 (35.75%) DevOps
5 210 (29.91%) Containerisation
6 178 (25.36%) Software Engineering
7 148 (21.08%) TDD
8 145 (20.66%) Full-Stack Development
9 133 (18.95%) Event-Driven
10 131 (18.66%) Test Automation
11 122 (17.38%) Observability
12 110 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
13 105 (14.96%) Scrum
14 104 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 96 (13.68%) Code Quality
16 85 (12.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (10.97%) BDD
18 72 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
19 58 (8.26%) AI
20 57 (8.12%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 663 (94.44%) Java
2 211 (30.06%) SQL
3 100 (14.25%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 89 (12.68%) Python
6 42 (5.98%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.28%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.99%) Go
10 10 (1.42%) Scala
11 7 (1.00%) C#
11 7 (1.00%) Ruby
12 6 (0.85%) Perl
13 5 (0.71%) Solidity
14 4 (0.57%) Bash
15 2 (0.28%) Korn
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PromQL
16 1 (0.14%) Groovy
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 210 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 179 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 27 (3.85%) Degree
4 22 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.26%) QA
2 52 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.71%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.42%) SEPA
4 10 (1.42%) WCAG
5 7 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.85%) GDPR
6 6 (0.85%) PSD2
6 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.57%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 314 (44.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.57%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 309 (44.02%) Kubernetes
2 95 (13.53%) Grafana
3 68 (9.69%) Prometheus
4 63 (8.97%) Terraform
5 29 (4.13%) Ansible
6 12 (1.71%) Argo
7 11 (1.57%) Kibana
8 8 (1.14%) Istio
9 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) Consul
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
10 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.14%) Kiali
Vendors
1 66 (9.40%) Oracle
2 37 (5.27%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.56%) Google
4 26 (3.70%) Splunk
5 17 (2.42%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.99%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.85%) IBM
7 13 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.57%) Solace
8 11 (1.57%) Sybase
9 9 (1.28%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.28%) Databricks
10 6 (0.85%) Confluent
10 6 (0.85%) New Relic
11 5 (0.71%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.71%) Teradata
12 3 (0.43%) Adobe
12 3 (0.43%) Informatica
12 3 (0.43%) SAP