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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 201 203
Rank change year-on-year +48 +2 -77
Contract jobs citing Spring 682 335 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.38% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 6.17% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 215 331
10th Percentile £357 £365 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -12.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £638
90th Percentile £666 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 11
10th Percentile - £51.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £42.94
Median hourly rate £62.00 £60.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +30.78% -36.72%
75th Percentile £79.25 £72.81 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £82.38 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -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 7,916 5,429 7,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.42% 22.34% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,250 3,761 5,335
10th Percentile £363 £365 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 103 228
10th Percentile £34.75 £33.25 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.95 £75.00
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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +9 336 £525 -4.55% 73
North of England +20 165 £475 - 54
North West +37 121 £468 +7.84% 35
Midlands -20 68 £469 +11.67% 10
West Midlands -6 67 £469 +6.59% 8
South East -30 43 £423 -15.50% 30
South West -9 36 £409 -20.20% 14
Yorkshire -41 27 £475 -11.63% 11
East of England -14 25 £510 +9.09% 4
North East -1 24 £475 +2.15% 8
East Midlands -44 1 £450 +22.28% 2
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 40 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 36 (5.28%) Confluence
3 21 (3.08%) Apache
4 14 (2.05%) Camunda
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.59%) JBoss
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.44%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) CICS
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Drupal
10 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 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 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (53.81%) AWS
2 173 (25.37%) Azure
3 134 (19.65%) GitHub
4 117 (17.16%) GCP
5 76 (11.14%) GitHub Actions
5 76 (11.14%) Serverless
6 74 (10.85%) Amazon S3
7 64 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (4.99%) OpenShift
10 33 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
11 32 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (4.55%) Azure AKS
13 25 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
14 23 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.64%) Route 53
17 15 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.32%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.73%) SSL
3 4 (0.59%) DNS
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.49%) NoSQL
3 70 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 66 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 54 (7.92%) MySQL
6 53 (7.77%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
9 21 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.93%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.64%) Big Data
12 17 (2.49%) Redis
13 13 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.91%) Flink
14 10 (1.47%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.32%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.32%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.17%) DB2
17 7 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 167 (24.49%) Git
2 146 (21.41%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.62%) JUnit
4 117 (17.16%) GitLab
5 63 (9.24%) Gradle
5 63 (9.24%) Maven
6 61 (8.94%) JIRA
7 57 (8.36%) Mockito
8 44 (6.45%) Cucumber
9 32 (4.69%) Selenium
9 32 (4.69%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.81%) JMeter
11 23 (3.37%) IntelliJ
12 16 (2.35%) WebDriver
13 12 (1.76%) Gatling
14 11 (1.61%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.61%) DbUnit
14 11 (1.61%) jMock
14 11 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (1.47%) Liquibase
General
1 134 (19.65%) Finance
2 131 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 120 (17.60%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.56%) Banking
5 35 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.49%) Retail
7 12 (1.76%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Automotive
9 6 (0.88%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.88%) Law
9 6 (0.88%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.59%) Front Office
11 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.59%) Publishing
12 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.44%) Military
12 3 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 385 (56.45%) Developer
2 267 (39.15%) Java Developer
3 134 (19.65%) Senior
4 108 (15.84%) Java Engineer
5 82 (12.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 79 (11.58%) Software Engineer
7 76 (11.14%) Senior Developer
8 67 (9.82%) Lead
9 59 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
10 41 (6.01%) Backend Developer
10 41 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 27 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 27 (3.96%) Software Developer
12 26 (3.81%) Architect
12 26 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 23 (3.37%) Lead Developer
13 23 (3.37%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 21 (3.08%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.49%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 553 (81.09%) Spring Boot
2 190 (27.86%) Kafka
3 169 (24.78%) RESTful
4 150 (21.99%) REST
5 137 (20.09%) React
6 102 (14.96%) Node.js
7 93 (13.64%) AngularJS
8 65 (9.53%) Hibernate
9 54 (7.92%) HTML
10 47 (6.89%) CSS
11 45 (6.60%) Spring MVC
12 44 (6.45%) WireMock
13 42 (6.16%) Spring Cloud
14 41 (6.01%) JPA
15 39 (5.72%) Web Services
16 35 (5.13%) OAuth
17 33 (4.84%) OpenTelemetry
18 32 (4.69%) OAuth2
19 27 (3.96%) RabbitMQ
19 27 (3.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 116 (17.01%) Cloud Native
2 81 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.03%) NHS
13 4 (0.59%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.74%) Linux
2 12 (1.76%) Unix
3 10 (1.47%) Windows
4 8 (1.17%) 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 2 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (60.41%) Microservices
2 381 (55.87%) CI/CD
3 265 (38.86%) Agile
4 240 (35.19%) DevOps
5 223 (32.70%) Containerisation
6 155 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 152 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 150 (21.99%) TDD
9 134 (19.65%) Test Automation
10 124 (18.18%) Event-Driven
11 116 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (16.13%) Code Quality
13 107 (15.69%) Observability
14 96 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 89 (13.05%) Scrum
16 77 (11.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 69 (10.12%) BDD
18 57 (8.36%) Design Patterns
19 56 (8.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 641 (93.99%) Java
2 192 (28.15%) SQL
3 100 (14.66%) JavaScript
4 97 (14.22%) TypeScript
5 89 (13.05%) Python
6 46 (6.74%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.49%) Go
8 14 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.47%) Scala
11 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.73%) C#
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.29%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 217 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 185 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.55%) Degree
4 24 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.59%) OCP
9 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.29%) 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 63 (9.24%) QA
2 49 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.05%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.76%) WCAG
5 11 (1.61%) SEPA
6 8 (1.17%) PSD2
7 7 (1.03%) GDPR
7 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.73%) NIST
9 5 (0.73%) SLA
10 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.44%) HL7
11 3 (0.44%) NCSC
12 2 (0.29%) EMIR
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.29%) MiFID
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 304 (44.57%) Docker
2 10 (1.47%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 326 (47.80%) Kubernetes
2 87 (12.76%) Grafana
3 70 (10.26%) Terraform
4 57 (8.36%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.37%) Ansible
6 13 (1.91%) Argo
7 10 (1.47%) Kibana
8 6 (0.88%) Istio
9 4 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 52 (7.62%) Oracle
2 41 (6.01%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.40%) Google
4 26 (3.81%) Splunk
5 14 (2.05%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.61%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.61%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.32%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.32%) IBM
8 9 (1.32%) Solace
9 7 (1.03%) Databricks
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
10 6 (0.88%) Sybase
11 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.73%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) Teradata
12 4 (0.59%) VMware