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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 189 229
Rank change year-on-year +30 +40 -108
Contract jobs citing Spring 662 344 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.41% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.22% 6.29% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 213 289
10th Percentile £355 £382 £379
25th Percentile £420 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -14.00%
75th Percentile £574 £619 £635
90th Percentile £643 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -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% -32.03%
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% -33.27%

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 8,051 5,471 7,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.59% 22.47% 19.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,392 3,788 5,356
10th Percentile £359 £365 £349
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 88 161
10th Percentile £34.00 £26.85 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £62.96
90th Percentile £78.85 £83.27 £72.50
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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 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 -7 313 £525 -4.55% 58
North of England +14 156 £475 -0.52% 49
North West +46 117 £468 +1.08% 31
Midlands -5 77 £468 +10.75% 6
West Midlands -6 76 £469 +6.59% 3
South East +9 55 £405 -1.82% 18
South West -9 34 £409 -23.91% 14
Yorkshire -46 24 £475 -11.63% 11
North East -4 22 £450 -3.23% 7
East of England -13 19 £505 +8.02% 3
East Midlands -35 1 £450 +11.94% 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 39 (5.89%) Confluence
2 30 (4.53%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.87%) Apache
4 13 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.81%) Camunda
6 8 (1.21%) JBoss
7 7 (1.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.91%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.91%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.45%) nginx
11 2 (0.30%) CICS
11 2 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.30%) WordPress
12 1 (0.15%) CMS
12 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
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 (1.21%) 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
1 371 (56.04%) AWS
2 186 (28.10%) Azure
3 134 (20.24%) GitHub
4 118 (17.82%) GCP
5 83 (12.54%) Serverless
6 75 (11.33%) Amazon S3
7 74 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (5.59%) OpenShift
11 35 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.68%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
14 26 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (2.42%) AWS Fargate
17 16 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.66%) HTTP
2 7 (1.06%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.76%) 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
1 159 (24.02%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (15.11%) NoSQL
3 75 (11.33%) MongoDB
4 71 (10.73%) Relational Database
5 60 (9.06%) MySQL
6 55 (8.31%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 21 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 14 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 14 (2.11%) Big Data
11 13 (1.96%) Redis
12 12 (1.81%) DB2
12 12 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.51%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.51%) Flink
14 9 (1.36%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.21%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 179 (27.04%) Git
2 147 (22.21%) Jenkins
3 141 (21.30%) JUnit
4 116 (17.52%) GitLab
5 68 (10.27%) Maven
6 65 (9.82%) JIRA
7 60 (9.06%) Cucumber
8 54 (8.16%) Gradle
8 54 (8.16%) Mockito
9 43 (6.50%) Selenium
10 32 (4.83%) JMeter
11 26 (3.93%) SonarQube
12 22 (3.32%) IntelliJ
12 22 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (2.57%) WebDriver
14 16 (2.42%) Postman
15 14 (2.11%) Gatling
16 11 (1.66%) Cypress.io
17 10 (1.51%) jMock
18 9 (1.36%) Mocha
General
1 152 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.09%) Finance
3 106 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 66 (9.97%) Banking
5 39 (5.89%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.27%) Retail
7 12 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.76%) Law
10 5 (0.76%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.60%) Automotive
11 4 (0.60%) Front Office
11 4 (0.60%) Publishing
12 3 (0.45%) Electronics
12 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 395 (59.67%) Developer
2 274 (41.39%) Java Developer
3 125 (18.88%) Senior
4 94 (14.20%) Java Engineer
5 89 (13.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 76 (11.48%) Senior Developer
7 62 (9.37%) Software Engineer
8 61 (9.21%) Senior Java Developer
9 60 (9.06%) Lead
10 35 (5.29%) Backend Developer
11 31 (4.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 31 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (4.08%) Architect
14 25 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 24 (3.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 23 (3.47%) Lead Developer
17 16 (2.42%) AWS Developer
17 16 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
18 13 (1.96%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 523 (79.00%) Spring Boot
2 184 (27.79%) Kafka
3 180 (27.19%) RESTful
4 150 (22.66%) REST
5 145 (21.90%) React
6 101 (15.26%) Node.js
7 100 (15.11%) AngularJS
8 79 (11.93%) Hibernate
9 66 (9.97%) HTML
10 55 (8.31%) CSS
11 46 (6.95%) Spring MVC
12 45 (6.80%) JPA
13 42 (6.34%) WireMock
14 37 (5.59%) OAuth
15 35 (5.29%) Spring Cloud
16 34 (5.14%) OAuth2
16 34 (5.14%) Web Services
17 31 (4.68%) HTML5
17 31 (4.68%) Playwright
18 30 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 100 (15.11%) Cloud Native
2 77 (11.63%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.57%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.21%) Equities
12 7 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.06%) NHS
12 7 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.91%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.91%) Derivative
13 6 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.60%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.70%) Linux
2 14 (2.11%) Unix
3 9 (1.36%) Windows
4 8 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.91%) 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
1 408 (61.63%) Microservices
2 372 (56.19%) CI/CD
3 267 (40.33%) Agile
4 239 (36.10%) DevOps
5 195 (29.46%) Containerisation
6 159 (24.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 141 (21.30%) TDD
8 135 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (20.39%) Test Automation
9 133 (20.09%) Software Engineering
10 114 (17.22%) Event-Driven
11 105 (15.86%) Code Quality
12 103 (15.56%) Observability
13 96 (14.50%) Scrum
14 94 (14.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 69 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 67 (10.12%) BDD
17 60 (9.06%) API Design
18 59 (8.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 619 (93.50%) Java
2 179 (27.04%) SQL
3 94 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 93 (14.05%) TypeScript
5 80 (12.08%) Python
6 45 (6.80%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.57%) Go
8 15 (2.27%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.21%) Scala
10 7 (1.06%) Perl
11 6 (0.91%) C#
12 3 (0.45%) Bash
12 3 (0.45%) PHP
12 3 (0.45%) Ruby
13 1 (0.15%) Groovy
13 1 (0.15%) Korn
13 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 199 (30.06%) Security Cleared
2 166 (25.08%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.68%) Degree
4 24 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.21%) OCP
7 8 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.76%) 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 (10.12%) QA
2 49 (7.40%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.72%) WCAG
4 16 (2.42%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.51%) SEPA
6 9 (1.36%) PSD2
7 8 (1.21%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.76%) NIST
8 5 (0.76%) SLA
9 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.45%) GDPR
9 3 (0.45%) HL7
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
9 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 276 (41.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.21%) Postfix
3 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 315 (47.58%) Kubernetes
2 84 (12.69%) Grafana
3 62 (9.37%) Terraform
4 50 (7.55%) Prometheus
5 29 (4.38%) Ansible
6 12 (1.81%) Argo
7 10 (1.51%) Kibana
8 9 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.91%) 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 55 (8.31%) Oracle
2 44 (6.65%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.38%) Google
4 27 (4.08%) Splunk
5 14 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.66%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.66%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.51%) Sybase
8 9 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 9 (1.36%) Solace
8 9 (1.36%) VMware
9 8 (1.21%) IBM
10 7 (1.06%) Databricks
11 6 (0.91%) Adobe
12 5 (0.76%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.76%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.76%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.76%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.76%) SAP
12 5 (0.76%) Teradata