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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 179 192
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 708 432 459
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.38% 7.12% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 299 352
10th Percentile £364 £358 £375
25th Percentile £436 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.26% -9.17%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £688 £662 £800
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £65.00 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £55.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +19.88% -36.72%
75th Percentile £95.00 £68.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £77.50 £61.73
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +16.92% +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 8,450 6,067 7,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.84% 22.26% 21.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 4,172 5,263
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £745 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 135 243
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.84
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.61 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -13 361 £525 +0.96% 124
North of England +10 146 £523 +12.37% 32
North West -8 87 £540 +32.19% 17
Midlands -27 83 £475 +13.10% 21
West Midlands -7 80 £475 -3.55% 16
South West -1 49 £410 -21.06% 10
Yorkshire -13 43 £550 +2.33% 8
South East -45 39 £481 +5.48% 31
East of England +5 28 £510 +9.09%
North East -31 19 £450 -8.16% 8
East Midlands -41 2 £401 +6.93% 5
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 42 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 33 (4.66%) Confluence
3 22 (3.11%) Apache
4 15 (2.12%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.41%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.41%) Hyperledger
5 10 (1.41%) nginx
6 9 (1.27%) Camunda
7 7 (0.99%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 2 (0.28%) Drupal
10 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.28%) Mule
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Trello
2 1 (0.14%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.56%) Quorum
2 4 (0.56%) Ripple
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (51.13%) AWS
2 168 (23.73%) Azure
3 123 (17.37%) GitHub
4 122 (17.23%) GCP
5 70 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (8.62%) Amazon S3
7 58 (8.19%) Serverless
8 48 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (4.94%) OpenShift
12 32 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (2.97%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.54%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.54%) Route 53
17 16 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 13 (1.84%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.27%) HTTP
2 5 (0.71%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
4 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (23.31%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (12.01%) NoSQL
3 80 (11.30%) Relational Database
4 73 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 49 (6.92%) MySQL
6 43 (6.07%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.39%) Redis
10 23 (3.25%) SQL Server
11 19 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.68%) Flink
12 18 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.54%) Big Data
13 11 (1.55%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.27%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.99%) Couchbase
16 7 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.99%) Db2
Development Applications
1 190 (26.84%) Git
2 175 (24.72%) Jenkins
3 133 (18.79%) JUnit
4 91 (12.85%) GitLab
5 70 (9.89%) Maven
6 67 (9.46%) Gradle
7 60 (8.47%) JIRA
7 60 (8.47%) Mockito
8 41 (5.79%) Selenium
8 41 (5.79%) SonarQube
9 39 (5.51%) Cucumber
10 26 (3.67%) JMeter
11 19 (2.68%) WebDriver
12 18 (2.54%) REST Assured
13 17 (2.40%) Gatling
14 16 (2.26%) Liquibase
15 14 (1.98%) DbUnit
15 14 (1.98%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.84%) jMock
17 11 (1.55%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 156 (22.03%) Finance
2 145 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 103 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 86 (12.15%) Banking
5 59 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.81%) Retail
7 15 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.41%) Law
10 9 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.85%) Automotive
11 6 (0.85%) Military
11 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.71%) Police
13 4 (0.56%) Games
13 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Publishing
14 3 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 383 (54.10%) Developer
2 300 (42.37%) Java Developer
3 147 (20.76%) Senior
4 112 (15.82%) Java Engineer
5 84 (11.86%) Senior Developer
6 83 (11.72%) Software Engineer
7 75 (10.59%) Lead
8 65 (9.18%) Senior Java Developer
9 56 (7.91%) Backend Developer
10 48 (6.78%) Full-Stack Developer
11 45 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (3.95%) Software Developer
13 27 (3.81%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (3.67%) Lead Developer
14 26 (3.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.25%) Architect
17 21 (2.97%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 20 (2.82%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 573 (80.93%) Spring Boot
2 209 (29.52%) Kafka
3 174 (24.58%) REST
4 157 (22.18%) RESTful
5 125 (17.66%) React
6 83 (11.72%) Node.js
7 57 (8.05%) AngularJS
8 56 (7.91%) Hibernate
8 56 (7.91%) JPA
9 50 (7.06%) Web Services
10 46 (6.50%) HTML
11 42 (5.93%) CSS
11 42 (5.93%) Spring MVC
12 40 (5.65%) WireMock
13 39 (5.51%) Spring Cloud
14 35 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (4.52%) OAuth
16 30 (4.24%) Jakarta EE
16 30 (4.24%) SOAP
17 29 (4.10%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 138 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.82%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
4 19 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.84%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.13%) Derivative
12 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.85%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.20%) Linux
2 21 (2.97%) Unix
3 10 (1.41%) Windows
4 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.56%) VMS
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.42%) Solaris
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.28%) Android
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (60.73%) Microservices
2 425 (60.03%) CI/CD
3 313 (44.21%) Agile
4 257 (36.30%) DevOps
5 206 (29.10%) Containerisation
6 180 (25.42%) Software Engineering
7 155 (21.89%) TDD
7 155 (21.89%) Test Automation
8 144 (20.34%) Event-Driven
9 126 (17.80%) Full-Stack Development
9 126 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
10 122 (17.23%) Observability
11 121 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (16.95%) Scrum
13 110 (15.54%) Code Quality
14 96 (13.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 77 (10.88%) BDD
16 67 (9.46%) Design Patterns
17 64 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
18 60 (8.47%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 677 (95.62%) Java
2 219 (30.93%) SQL
3 93 (13.14%) JavaScript
4 89 (12.57%) Python
5 86 (12.15%) TypeScript
6 39 (5.51%) Kotlin
7 38 (5.37%) PL/SQL
8 16 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.84%) Scala
10 11 (1.55%) Go
11 8 (1.13%) C#
12 6 (0.85%) Bash
12 6 (0.85%) Perl
13 5 (0.71%) Ruby
13 5 (0.71%) Solidity
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 233 (32.91%) Security Cleared
2 198 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 28 (3.95%) Degree
4 24 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.12%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.17%) QA
2 45 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.99%) SEPA
4 7 (0.99%) WCAG
5 6 (0.85%) GDPR
5 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.56%) SLA
7 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 325 (45.90%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 302 (42.66%) Kubernetes
2 82 (11.58%) Grafana
3 70 (9.89%) Prometheus
4 52 (7.34%) Terraform
5 31 (4.38%) Ansible
6 13 (1.84%) Kibana
7 8 (1.13%) Control-M
8 5 (0.71%) Argo
8 5 (0.71%) Istio
9 2 (0.28%) Consul
9 2 (0.28%) Rancher
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.14%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) Kiali
10 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (11.72%) Oracle
2 39 (5.51%) Google
3 35 (4.94%) Microsoft
4 29 (4.10%) Splunk
5 17 (2.40%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.98%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.98%) IBM
8 12 (1.69%) Solace
9 11 (1.55%) Databricks
10 10 (1.41%) Sybase
11 9 (1.27%) Checkmarx
11 9 (1.27%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.99%) TikTok
13 6 (0.85%) New Relic
14 4 (0.56%) Ab Initio
14 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.56%) Teradata
15 3 (0.42%) Confluent
15 3 (0.42%) SAP