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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 184 227
Rank change year-on-year +21 +43 -117
Contract jobs citing Spring 634 331 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.36% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.09% 6.04% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 204 290
10th Percentile £356 £395 £381
25th Percentile £420 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -0.74% -14.68%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £789
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -13.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -32.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £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 7,832 5,477 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.88% 22.56% 19.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,762 5,367
10th Percentile £359 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 86 178
10th Percentile £35.25 £27.30 £20.81
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -9 292 £525 -4.55% 55
North of England +14 151 £475 - 51
North West +39 114 £468 -1.58% 31
Midlands -6 80 £469 +10.35% 6
West Midlands +9 78 £469 +10.35% 3
South East +6 55 £416 +0.91% 16
South West 0 33 £409 -25.64% 12
Yorkshire -53 23 £500 -4.76% 13
North East +1 21 £450 +1.12% 7
East of England -18 16 £510 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -35 2 £335 -22.36% 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 (6.47%) Confluence
2 25 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.84%) Apache
4 13 (2.05%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.74%) Camunda
6 8 (1.26%) JBoss
7 7 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.95%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.95%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.63%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.47%) nginx
11 2 (0.32%) CICS
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.32%) WordPress
12 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.16%) CMS
12 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 355 (55.99%) AWS
2 181 (28.55%) Azure
3 142 (22.40%) GitHub
4 117 (18.45%) GCP
5 75 (11.83%) Serverless
6 72 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (11.04%) Amazon S3
8 60 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (6.31%) OpenShift
10 38 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
11 36 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (4.57%) Azure AKS
13 27 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (2.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 16 (2.52%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (2.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) HTTP
2 7 (1.10%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.79%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.79%) SSL
4 4 (0.63%) DNS
5 2 (0.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (24.45%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (14.83%) NoSQL
3 77 (12.15%) MongoDB
4 62 (9.78%) Relational Database
5 49 (7.73%) DynamoDB
6 48 (7.57%) MySQL
7 36 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.00%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (2.05%) DB2
12 12 (1.89%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.74%) Big Data
14 10 (1.58%) DocumentDB
14 10 (1.58%) Redis
15 9 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.42%) Flink
15 9 (1.42%) HBase
16 8 (1.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (28.39%) Git
2 152 (23.97%) Jenkins
3 143 (22.56%) JUnit
4 114 (17.98%) GitLab
5 67 (10.57%) Maven
6 64 (10.09%) Cucumber
6 64 (10.09%) JIRA
7 53 (8.36%) Gradle
8 51 (8.04%) Mockito
9 43 (6.78%) Selenium
10 32 (5.05%) JMeter
11 27 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (3.47%) SonarQube
13 20 (3.15%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.68%) WebDriver
15 16 (2.52%) Postman
16 15 (2.37%) Gatling
17 11 (1.74%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.74%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.42%) Mocha
General
1 164 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 121 (19.09%) Finance
3 104 (16.40%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.73%) Banking
5 38 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (2.37%) Retail
7 13 (2.05%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.10%) Law
10 5 (0.79%) Front Office
11 4 (0.63%) Automotive
11 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.63%) Military
11 4 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.47%) Marketing
12 3 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 382 (60.25%) Developer
2 260 (41.01%) Java Developer
3 122 (19.24%) Senior
4 89 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 88 (13.88%) Java Engineer
6 74 (11.67%) Senior Developer
7 61 (9.62%) Senior Java Developer
8 60 (9.46%) Software Engineer
9 55 (8.68%) Lead
10 32 (5.05%) Backend Developer
10 32 (5.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (4.26%) Architect
12 26 (4.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (3.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (3.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 20 (3.15%) AWS Developer
15 19 (3.00%) Lead Developer
15 19 (3.00%) Software Developer
16 15 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (76.18%) Spring Boot
2 181 (28.55%) Kafka
3 168 (26.50%) RESTful
4 142 (22.40%) REST
5 141 (22.24%) React
6 104 (16.40%) AngularJS
7 97 (15.30%) Node.js
8 78 (12.30%) Hibernate
9 67 (10.57%) HTML
10 58 (9.15%) CSS
11 42 (6.62%) JPA
11 42 (6.62%) WireMock
12 40 (6.31%) Spring MVC
13 35 (5.52%) OAuth
14 33 (5.21%) Web Services
15 32 (5.05%) OAuth2
15 32 (5.05%) Playwright
15 32 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (4.73%) JSON
17 29 (4.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 99 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 74 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.68%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 12 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.74%) Equities
9 10 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.26%) Derivative
11 7 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.95%) NHS
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.47%) Distributed Applications
14 3 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.36%) Linux
2 13 (2.05%) Unix
3 9 (1.42%) Windows
4 8 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.95%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) Solaris
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (61.36%) Microservices
2 362 (57.10%) CI/CD
3 259 (40.85%) Agile
4 232 (36.59%) DevOps
5 184 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 152 (23.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
8 133 (20.98%) TDD
9 130 (20.50%) Test Automation
10 120 (18.93%) Software Engineering
11 110 (17.35%) Event-Driven
12 94 (14.83%) Code Quality
13 93 (14.67%) Observability
13 93 (14.67%) Scrum
14 83 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (10.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 64 (10.09%) BDD
16 64 (10.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 57 (8.99%) SDLC
17 57 (8.99%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 593 (93.53%) Java
2 167 (26.34%) SQL
3 95 (14.98%) TypeScript
4 93 (14.67%) JavaScript
5 82 (12.93%) Python
6 44 (6.94%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.52%) Go
7 16 (2.52%) Shell Script
8 10 (1.58%) Ruby
8 10 (1.58%) Scala
9 8 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.10%) Perl
11 6 (0.95%) C#
12 3 (0.47%) Bash
12 3 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.16%) C++
13 1 (0.16%) Clojure
13 1 (0.16%) COBOL
13 1 (0.16%) Groovy
13 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 194 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 165 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.52%) Degree
4 29 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.89%) OCP
6 12 (1.89%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) CCSP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) CISSP
11 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.16%) OSCP
11 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.78%) QA
2 46 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.84%) WCAG
4 17 (2.68%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.42%) PSD2
6 9 (1.42%) SEPA
7 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.79%) NIST
7 5 (0.79%) SLA
8 3 (0.47%) GDPR
8 3 (0.47%) HL7
8 3 (0.47%) NCSC
8 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 266 (41.96%) Docker
2 7 (1.10%) Postfix
3 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 309 (48.74%) Kubernetes
2 84 (13.25%) Grafana
3 58 (9.15%) Terraform
4 46 (7.26%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.73%) Ansible
6 20 (3.15%) Argo
7 10 (1.58%) Kibana
8 9 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.95%) Istio
10 4 (0.63%) Puppet
10 4 (0.63%) Rancher
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 50 (7.89%) Oracle
2 42 (6.62%) Microsoft
3 35 (5.52%) Google
4 27 (4.26%) Splunk
5 22 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.74%) Sybase
7 10 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
7 10 (1.58%) Solace
8 9 (1.42%) VMware
9 8 (1.26%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.95%) Adobe
10 6 (0.95%) Databricks
10 6 (0.95%) IBM
10 6 (0.95%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.79%) SAP
12 4 (0.63%) Confluent
12 4 (0.63%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.63%) webMethods