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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 186 192
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 -52
Contract jobs citing Spring 680 357 452
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.47% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.45% 6.53% 5.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 230 351
10th Percentile £388 £358 £375
25th Percentile £438 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -6.98% -12.60%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £638
90th Percentile £675 £707 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% -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 £70.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +10.77% +41.67% -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 8,043 5,467 7,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.23% 22.55% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 3,783 5,413
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £661 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £538
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 106 242
10th Percentile £31.03 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.01 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 1 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 1 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 1 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 +8 342 £525 - 95
North of England +23 153 £478 +2.69% 50
North West +21 107 £500 +24.38% 31
Midlands -28 75 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -14 71 £470 -1.05% 2
South West +5 44 £409 -22.10% 22
South East -39 34 £525 +15.07% 14
Yorkshire -38 28 £450 -14.29% 12
East of England -6 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -9 25 £450 -4.76% 8
East Midlands -46 3 £402 +7.20% 4
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 43 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.15%) Confluence
3 20 (2.94%) Apache
4 14 (2.06%) Camunda
5 10 (1.47%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.47%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.18%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.88%) nginx
8 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.59%) JBoss
10 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.29%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Drupal
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 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 (0.74%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.74%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.59%) Quorum
2 4 (0.59%) Ripple
3 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 349 (51.32%) AWS
2 162 (23.82%) Azure
3 130 (19.12%) GitHub
4 110 (16.18%) GCP
5 77 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (10.15%) Amazon S3
7 66 (9.71%) Serverless
8 56 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.44%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.56%) OpenShift
13 23 (3.38%) Azure AKS
13 23 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.24%) Route 53
15 19 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (2.79%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (2.35%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.03%) HTTP
2 4 (0.59%) DNS
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
4 2 (0.29%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (23.68%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (13.38%) NoSQL
3 76 (11.18%) MongoDB
4 69 (10.15%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.79%) DynamoDB
6 47 (6.91%) MySQL
7 44 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.94%) Big Data
11 19 (2.79%) Redis
11 19 (2.79%) SQL Server
12 14 (2.06%) Flink
13 12 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.62%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.03%) DB2
16 7 (1.03%) DocumentDB
16 7 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 168 (24.71%) Git
2 156 (22.94%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.68%) JUnit
4 112 (16.47%) GitLab
5 67 (9.85%) Gradle
6 65 (9.56%) Maven
7 62 (9.12%) Mockito
8 61 (8.97%) JIRA
9 42 (6.18%) Cucumber
9 42 (6.18%) Selenium
10 36 (5.29%) SonarQube
11 24 (3.53%) IntelliJ
11 24 (3.53%) JMeter
12 18 (2.65%) REST Assured
12 18 (2.65%) WebDriver
13 17 (2.50%) Gatling
14 16 (2.35%) Liquibase
15 14 (2.06%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.91%) jMock
17 11 (1.62%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 132 (19.41%) Finance
2 127 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 111 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 82 (12.06%) Banking
5 44 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.24%) Retail
7 13 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.32%) Law
10 8 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.88%) Automotive
13 4 (0.59%) Front Office
13 4 (0.59%) Military
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Publishing
14 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 368 (54.12%) Developer
2 263 (38.68%) Java Developer
3 137 (20.15%) Senior
4 118 (17.35%) Java Engineer
5 89 (13.09%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.47%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.59%) Lead
8 68 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 49 (7.21%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (6.18%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.12%) Software Developer
13 25 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.38%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.24%) Data Engineer
15 22 (3.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 21 (3.09%) Architect
16 21 (3.09%) Senior Java Engineer
17 20 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 14 (2.06%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 549 (80.74%) Spring Boot
2 198 (29.12%) Kafka
3 161 (23.68%) REST
4 159 (23.38%) RESTful
5 136 (20.00%) React
6 102 (15.00%) Node.js
7 75 (11.03%) AngularJS
8 53 (7.79%) Hibernate
9 51 (7.50%) JPA
10 49 (7.21%) Spring Cloud
11 47 (6.91%) WireMock
12 44 (6.47%) HTML
12 44 (6.47%) Web Services
13 40 (5.88%) CSS
14 39 (5.74%) Spring MVC
15 36 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
16 33 (4.85%) OAuth
17 31 (4.56%) Playwright
17 31 (4.56%) SOAP
18 30 (4.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 122 (17.94%) Cloud Native
2 92 (13.53%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.76%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.88%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.91%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Unix
3 10 (1.47%) Windows
4 9 (1.32%) 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 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (59.56%) Microservices
2 374 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 270 (39.71%) Agile
4 238 (35.00%) DevOps
5 209 (30.74%) Containerisation
6 171 (25.15%) Software Engineering
7 142 (20.88%) TDD
8 141 (20.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 125 (18.38%) Test Automation
10 123 (18.09%) Event-Driven
11 116 (17.06%) Observability
12 106 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (14.56%) Scrum
15 97 (14.26%) Code Quality
16 78 (11.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 72 (10.59%) BDD
18 69 (10.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 55 (8.09%) Clean Code
19 55 (8.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 642 (94.41%) Java
2 206 (30.29%) SQL
3 97 (14.26%) TypeScript
4 96 (14.12%) JavaScript
5 83 (12.21%) Python
6 42 (6.18%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.35%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.06%) Go
9 12 (1.76%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.47%) Scala
11 7 (1.03%) C#
12 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 6 (0.88%) Ruby
13 5 (0.74%) Solidity
14 4 (0.59%) Bash
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
15 2 (0.29%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 207 (30.44%) Security Cleared
2 179 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 27 (3.97%) Degree
4 22 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) OCP
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.97%) QA
2 52 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.76%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.62%) WCAG
5 10 (1.47%) SEPA
6 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.88%) GDPR
7 6 (0.88%) PSD2
7 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) EMIR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.29%) MiFID
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 305 (44.85%) Docker
2 11 (1.62%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.29%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 306 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 96 (14.12%) Grafana
3 67 (9.85%) Prometheus
4 61 (8.97%) Terraform
5 25 (3.68%) Ansible
6 12 (1.76%) Argo
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 8 (1.18%) Istio
9 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.29%) Consul
10 2 (0.29%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 54 (7.94%) Oracle
2 36 (5.29%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.97%) Splunk
4 26 (3.82%) Google
5 17 (2.50%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.06%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.91%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.91%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.62%) Solace
9 10 (1.47%) IBM
9 10 (1.47%) Sybase
10 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
11 7 (1.03%) Databricks
12 6 (0.88%) Confluent
13 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.74%) Adobe
13 5 (0.74%) New Relic
13 5 (0.74%) Teradata
14 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.44%) SAP