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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 183 193
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 -51
Contract jobs citing Spring 685 340 443
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.43% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.54% 6.39% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 220 348
10th Percentile £381 £358 £375
25th Percentile £430 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -13.11%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £673 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £497 £525
% change year-on-year +0.70% -5.33% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 11
10th Percentile - £52.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £80.13 £67.50 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £80.25 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 8,020 5,318 7,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.25% 22.37% 20.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,295 3,686 5,352
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £794 £793
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 95 234
10th Percentile £30.87 £28.13 £22.58
25th Percentile £51.25 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.38 £66.63
90th Percentile £78.83 £81.01 £75.00
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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 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 +7 338 £525 -0.94% 77
North of England +27 161 £478 +2.69% 45
North West +34 115 £500 +24.38% 29
Midlands -40 74 £469 +11.67% 5
West Midlands -15 70 £470 +0.97% 1
South West +3 43 £409 -20.20% 17
South East -33 36 £513 +12.33% 19
Yorkshire -32 29 £463 -11.90% 13
East of England -3 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -7 24 £463 -0.54% 4
East Midlands -47 3 £402 +9.24% 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 41 (5.99%) Apache Spark
2 35 (5.11%) Confluence
3 20 (2.92%) Apache
4 14 (2.04%) Camunda
5 8 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.17%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.02%) Ethereum
6 7 (1.02%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.73%) nginx
9 4 (0.58%) 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 (0.73%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.29%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.15%) Quorum
4 1 (0.15%) Ripple
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 351 (51.24%) AWS
2 155 (22.63%) Azure
3 131 (19.12%) GitHub
4 107 (15.62%) GCP
5 74 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (10.36%) Amazon S3
7 67 (9.78%) Serverless
8 57 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
9 37 (5.40%) Amazon SQS
10 35 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 31 (4.53%) OpenShift
13 23 (3.36%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.21%) Route 53
15 20 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.77%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 16 (2.34%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.02%) HTTP
2 4 (0.58%) DNS
2 4 (0.58%) SSL
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.29%) Firewall
4 2 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (23.36%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (13.72%) NoSQL
3 78 (11.39%) MongoDB
4 71 (10.36%) Relational Database
5 53 (7.74%) DynamoDB
6 48 (7.01%) MySQL
7 42 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.92%) Big Data
10 20 (2.92%) Redis
10 20 (2.92%) SQL Server
11 14 (2.04%) Flink
12 12 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.61%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.31%) DocumentDB
15 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (1.02%) Hadoop
16 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 167 (24.38%) Git
2 152 (22.19%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.54%) JUnit
4 110 (16.06%) GitLab
5 66 (9.64%) Gradle
6 65 (9.49%) Maven
7 61 (8.91%) Mockito
8 60 (8.76%) JIRA
9 41 (5.99%) Cucumber
10 39 (5.69%) Selenium
11 36 (5.26%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.50%) IntelliJ
13 22 (3.21%) JMeter
14 18 (2.63%) REST Assured
15 17 (2.48%) Gatling
16 16 (2.34%) WebDriver
17 14 (2.04%) DbUnit
17 14 (2.04%) Liquibase
18 13 (1.90%) jMock
19 11 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 136 (19.85%) Finance
2 126 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 115 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 80 (11.68%) Banking
5 43 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.07%) Retail
7 14 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.31%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.17%) Law
11 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.88%) Automotive
13 4 (0.58%) Front Office
13 4 (0.58%) Military
13 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.58%) Publishing
14 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.44%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 379 (55.33%) Developer
2 268 (39.12%) Java Developer
3 137 (20.00%) Senior
4 116 (16.93%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.41%) Software Engineer
6 78 (11.39%) Senior Developer
7 74 (10.80%) Full-Stack Developer
8 73 (10.66%) Lead
9 61 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 46 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (6.57%) Backend Developer
12 28 (4.09%) Software Developer
13 24 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.50%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 21 (3.07%) Architect
15 21 (3.07%) Data Engineer
15 21 (3.07%) Senior Java Engineer
16 20 (2.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 14 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 555 (81.02%) Spring Boot
2 200 (29.20%) Kafka
3 164 (23.94%) RESTful
4 159 (23.21%) REST
5 137 (20.00%) React
6 100 (14.60%) Node.js
7 78 (11.39%) AngularJS
8 58 (8.47%) Hibernate
9 50 (7.30%) JPA
9 50 (7.30%) Spring Cloud
10 47 (6.86%) HTML
11 45 (6.57%) WireMock
12 44 (6.42%) Web Services
13 42 (6.13%) CSS
14 39 (5.69%) Spring MVC
15 38 (5.55%) OAuth
16 36 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
17 34 (4.96%) OAuth2
18 31 (4.53%) SOAP
19 30 (4.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 117 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 90 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.61%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.46%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.58%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.58%) NHS
12 4 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.72%) Linux
2 12 (1.75%) Unix
3 10 (1.46%) Windows
4 8 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.58%) 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
1 410 (59.85%) Microservices
2 373 (54.45%) CI/CD
3 267 (38.98%) Agile
4 237 (34.60%) DevOps
5 211 (30.80%) Containerisation
6 165 (24.09%) Software Engineering
7 144 (21.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 144 (21.02%) TDD
8 126 (18.39%) Event-Driven
8 126 (18.39%) Test Automation
9 114 (16.64%) Observability
10 113 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (14.31%) Code Quality
12 98 (14.31%) Scrum
13 82 (11.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 75 (10.95%) BDD
15 69 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (8.03%) Clean Code
17 54 (7.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 648 (94.60%) Java
2 205 (29.93%) SQL
3 101 (14.74%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.43%) TypeScript
5 81 (11.82%) Python
6 47 (6.86%) Kotlin
7 15 (2.19%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.04%) Go
9 12 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.31%) Scala
11 7 (1.02%) C#
12 6 (0.88%) Perl
12 6 (0.88%) Ruby
13 4 (0.58%) Bash
14 2 (0.29%) Korn
14 2 (0.29%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) PromQL
14 2 (0.29%) Solidity
15 1 (0.15%) Swift
15 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 210 (30.66%) Security Cleared
2 178 (25.99%) SC Cleared
3 28 (4.09%) Degree
4 20 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.29%) OCP
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.47%) QA
2 53 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.61%) WCAG
5 10 (1.46%) SEPA
6 6 (0.88%) GDPR
6 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.73%) PSD2
7 5 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.58%) NIST
9 2 (0.29%) EMIR
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 305 (44.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.61%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.29%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 307 (44.82%) Kubernetes
2 95 (13.87%) Grafana
3 66 (9.64%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.61%) Terraform
5 24 (3.50%) Ansible
6 12 (1.75%) Argo
7 10 (1.46%) Kibana
8 8 (1.17%) Istio
9 4 (0.58%) 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 53 (7.74%) Oracle
2 36 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 27 (3.94%) Splunk
4 25 (3.65%) Google
5 17 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.61%) Solace
10 10 (1.46%) IBM
10 10 (1.46%) Sybase
11 9 (1.31%) Checkmarx
12 7 (1.02%) Databricks
13 6 (0.88%) Confluent
14 5 (0.73%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.73%) Adobe
14 5 (0.73%) New Relic
14 5 (0.73%) Teradata
15 3 (0.44%) Informatica
15 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty