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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 194 237
Rank change year-on-year +38 +43 -138
Contract jobs citing Spring 614 343 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.32% 1.00%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 5.89% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 200 281
10th Percentile £350 £406 £388
25th Percentile £413 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -13.73%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £650 £781 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -17.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 8
10th Percentile £50.75 - £42.62
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.89
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.78
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

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 7,604 5,828 7,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.83% 22.46% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,099 3,802 5,504
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.59% -7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 75 192
10th Percentile £35.15 £26.74 £24.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.38 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.63 £68.13
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.09 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -6 285 £525 -8.70% 85
North of England +20 150 £475 -5.00% 36
North West +48 112 £450 -2.70% 23
Midlands +7 75 £469 +10.35% 16
West Midlands +9 72 £473 +11.18% 13
South East +21 58 £400 +2.56% 41
South West -3 27 £409 -28.87% 18
Yorkshire -57 24 £500 -4.76% 10
North East -5 21 £475 +4.40% 3
East of England -18 11 £600 - 3
East Midlands -24 3 £308 -5.67% 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 35 (5.70%) Confluence
2 21 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.93%) Apache
4 17 (2.77%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.95%) Camunda
6 11 (1.79%) JBoss
7 6 (0.98%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.98%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.33%) CICS
10 2 (0.33%) Drupal
10 2 (0.33%) nginx
10 2 (0.33%) WordPress
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Maya
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 337 (54.89%) AWS
2 166 (27.04%) Azure
3 124 (20.20%) GitHub
4 113 (18.40%) GCP
5 66 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (10.59%) Serverless
7 63 (10.26%) Amazon S3
8 54 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (8.14%) OpenShift
10 35 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.58%) Azure AKS
15 20 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (2.77%) Cloud Run
17 17 (2.77%) Datadog
18 16 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) HTTP
2 7 (1.14%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.81%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.81%) SSL
4 4 (0.65%) DNS
5 2 (0.33%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (23.13%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (14.66%) MongoDB
3 85 (13.84%) NoSQL
4 67 (10.91%) Relational Database
5 44 (7.17%) MySQL
6 41 (6.68%) DynamoDB
7 30 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (3.09%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.77%) DB2
11 15 (2.44%) RDBMS
12 14 (2.28%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.95%) Redis
14 10 (1.63%) Big Data
14 10 (1.63%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.47%) HBase
15 9 (1.47%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.30%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.30%) Flink
Development Applications
1 160 (26.06%) Git
2 139 (22.64%) JUnit
3 137 (22.31%) Jenkins
4 113 (18.40%) GitLab
5 66 (10.75%) Cucumber
6 63 (10.26%) Maven
7 58 (9.45%) JIRA
8 52 (8.47%) Gradle
9 44 (7.17%) Mockito
10 42 (6.84%) Selenium
11 32 (5.21%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (4.56%) JMeter
13 22 (3.58%) IntelliJ
14 16 (2.61%) Postman
15 15 (2.44%) SonarQube
16 14 (2.28%) Gatling
17 12 (1.95%) Artifactory
17 12 (1.95%) Cypress.io
18 10 (1.63%) Eclipse
18 10 (1.63%) WebDriver
General
1 166 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 119 (19.38%) Finance
3 101 (16.45%) Public Sector
4 78 (12.70%) Banking
5 38 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.77%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (1.95%) Retail
8 10 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.81%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.65%) Front Office
11 4 (0.65%) Military
11 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.49%) Electronics
12 3 (0.49%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.49%) Law
12 3 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 376 (61.24%) Developer
2 258 (42.02%) Java Developer
3 123 (20.03%) Senior
4 95 (15.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 87 (14.17%) Java Engineer
6 81 (13.19%) Senior Developer
7 71 (11.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 61 (9.93%) Lead
9 52 (8.47%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (4.56%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (4.23%) Backend Developer
13 25 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.75%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.58%) AWS Developer
15 22 (3.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 21 (3.42%) Architect
17 16 (2.61%) Software Developer
18 13 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
18 13 (2.12%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (75.90%) Spring Boot
2 193 (31.43%) Kafka
3 158 (25.73%) RESTful
4 136 (22.15%) REST
5 134 (21.82%) React
6 106 (17.26%) AngularJS
7 84 (13.68%) Hibernate
7 84 (13.68%) Node.js
8 71 (11.56%) HTML
9 55 (8.96%) CSS
10 40 (6.51%) JPA
11 35 (5.70%) JSON
12 34 (5.54%) OAuth
12 34 (5.54%) Playwright
13 33 (5.37%) WireMock
14 31 (5.05%) OAuth2
14 31 (5.05%) Spring Cloud
15 29 (4.72%) Vue
16 28 (4.56%) HTML5
16 28 (4.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 93 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.44%) Equities
6 14 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 12 (1.95%) Mobile App
8 11 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 10 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.30%) Derivative
10 8 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.81%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.81%) NHS
13 4 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.49%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.77%) Linux
2 15 (2.44%) Unix
3 10 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.81%) Windows
5 3 (0.49%) VMS
6 2 (0.33%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (60.26%) Microservices
2 347 (56.51%) CI/CD
3 247 (40.23%) Agile
4 213 (34.69%) DevOps
5 180 (29.32%) Containerisation
6 153 (24.92%) Full-Stack Development
7 142 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
8 125 (20.36%) Test Automation
9 116 (18.89%) Software Engineering
10 112 (18.24%) TDD
11 103 (16.78%) Event-Driven
12 92 (14.98%) Scrum
13 84 (13.68%) Observability
14 81 (13.19%) Code Quality
15 71 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 63 (10.26%) SDLC
17 62 (10.10%) Mentoring
18 56 (9.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 55 (8.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 582 (94.79%) Java
2 155 (25.24%) SQL
3 88 (14.33%) JavaScript
4 85 (13.84%) TypeScript
5 77 (12.54%) Python
6 37 (6.03%) Kotlin
7 20 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.28%) Go
9 13 (2.12%) Scala
10 11 (1.79%) Ruby
11 7 (1.14%) Perl
11 7 (1.14%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.81%) Bash
12 5 (0.81%) Groovy
13 4 (0.65%) C#
14 3 (0.49%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.33%) Rust
16 1 (0.16%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 180 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 155 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.89%) Degree
4 26 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.95%) OCP
6 12 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.16%) CCSP
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.16%) CISSP
12 1 (0.16%) OSCP
12 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (9.28%) QA
2 41 (6.68%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.93%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.77%) WCAG
5 10 (1.63%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.63%) PSD2
5 10 (1.63%) SEPA
6 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.81%) NIST
7 3 (0.49%) NCSC
8 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.16%) GDPR
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 250 (40.72%) Docker
2 7 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.65%) Postfix
4 3 (0.49%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 295 (48.05%) Kubernetes
2 71 (11.56%) Grafana
3 62 (10.10%) Terraform
4 36 (5.86%) Prometheus
5 31 (5.05%) Ansible
6 21 (3.42%) Argo
7 14 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.79%) Kibana
9 8 (1.30%) Puppet
10 6 (0.98%) Istio
11 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.33%) Rancher
11 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 50 (8.14%) Oracle
2 36 (5.86%) Google
3 31 (5.05%) Microsoft
4 28 (4.56%) Splunk
5 25 (4.07%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.44%) Sybase
7 14 (2.28%) VMware
8 12 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.30%) Solace
9 8 (1.30%) webMethods
10 6 (0.98%) Adobe
10 6 (0.98%) Databricks
10 6 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (0.98%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.81%) IBM
11 5 (0.81%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.65%) Confluent
12 4 (0.65%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.65%) ION Trading