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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 199 245
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -154
Contract jobs citing Spring 489 383 363
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.31% 0.96%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.05% 5.99% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 244 283
10th Percentile £325 £413 £413
25th Percentile £402 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £675
90th Percentile £638 £800 £820
UK median daily rate £478 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £61.50
25th Percentile £46.25 - £65.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - £77.75
90th Percentile £64.75 - £77.90
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 6,941 6,399 8,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.33% 21.82% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,632 4,087 6,018
10th Percentile £350 £357 £370
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £665 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £772
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 89 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.77 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

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 14 December 2025.

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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +5 259 £525 -10.26% 49
North of England +18 116 £460 +2.17% 58
North West +33 87 £450 -2.70% 27
Midlands -15 50 £429 -26.98% 19
South East +28 43 £410 -8.89% 53
West Midlands -27 36 £455 -22.64% 12
Yorkshire -39 21 £500 -20.00% 23
East Midlands - 14 £375 - 6
North East -10 11 £475 +6.74% 9
South West -16 8 £574 +4.36% 20
East of England -29 2 £450 +20.00% 14
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 15 (3.07%) Confluence
2 12 (2.45%) Apache
3 11 (2.25%) WebLogic
4 9 (1.84%) JBoss
5 4 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.82%) Camunda
5 4 (0.82%) Mule
6 3 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.61%) CICS
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Drupal
7 2 (0.41%) Mule ESB
7 2 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.23%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 269 (55.01%) AWS
2 151 (30.88%) Azure
3 88 (18.00%) GCP
4 82 (16.77%) GitHub
5 42 (8.59%) Serverless
6 35 (7.16%) OpenShift
7 34 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (6.54%) Amazon S3
8 32 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (4.09%) Azure AKS
11 18 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.45%) Datadog
14 11 (2.25%) Apigee
15 10 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.02%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.82%) HTTP
2 4 (0.82%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.61%) SSL
4 2 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (21.27%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 67 (13.70%) Relational Database
4 55 (11.25%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.13%) MySQL
6 25 (5.11%) DynamoDB
7 21 (4.29%) DB2
8 15 (3.07%) RDBMS
8 15 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.45%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.45%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.84%) HBase
11 9 (1.84%) Redis
12 7 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.82%) Big Data
13 4 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.82%) Tick Data
14 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.61%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 124 (25.36%) JUnit
2 123 (25.15%) Git
3 97 (19.84%) Jenkins
4 72 (14.72%) GitLab
5 54 (11.04%) Cucumber
6 44 (9.00%) Maven
7 41 (8.38%) Mockito
8 38 (7.77%) JIRA
9 37 (7.57%) Gradle
10 28 (5.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (5.32%) Selenium
12 21 (4.29%) Postman
13 17 (3.48%) IntelliJ
13 17 (3.48%) JMeter
14 15 (3.07%) SonarQube
15 13 (2.66%) Eclipse
16 12 (2.45%) Artifactory
17 10 (2.04%) Bitbucket
18 9 (1.84%) REST Assured
19 7 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 162 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 117 (23.93%) Finance
3 86 (17.59%) Banking
4 64 (13.09%) Public Sector
5 46 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.82%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.61%) Automotive
12 3 (0.61%) Electronics
12 3 (0.61%) Front Office
12 3 (0.61%) Law
12 3 (0.61%) Marketing
13 2 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 313 (64.01%) Developer
2 249 (50.92%) Java Developer
3 105 (21.47%) Senior
4 83 (16.97%) Senior Developer
5 78 (15.95%) Senior Java Developer
6 60 (12.27%) Full-Stack Developer
7 58 (11.86%) Java Engineer
8 44 (9.00%) Lead
9 36 (7.36%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 22 (4.50%) AWS Developer
11 22 (4.50%) Lead Developer
12 20 (4.09%) Architect
13 19 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 18 (3.68%) Backend Developer
14 18 (3.68%) Lead Java Developer
15 16 (3.27%) Java Software Engineer
16 13 (2.66%) SQL Developer
17 12 (2.45%) Engineering Manager
17 12 (2.45%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (72.60%) Spring Boot
2 155 (31.70%) Kafka
3 128 (26.18%) RESTful
4 108 (22.09%) REST
5 99 (20.25%) React
6 86 (17.59%) AngularJS
7 83 (16.97%) Hibernate
8 73 (14.93%) HTML
9 54 (11.04%) CSS
10 45 (9.20%) JSON
10 45 (9.20%) Node.js
11 35 (7.16%) OAuth
12 31 (6.34%) JPA
13 30 (6.13%) JMS
14 29 (5.93%) OAuth2
15 27 (5.52%) HTML5
16 25 (5.11%) SOAP
16 25 (5.11%) XML
17 23 (4.70%) Vue
18 22 (4.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.91%) Onboarding
4 21 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.48%) Equities
6 12 (2.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 11 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.64%) Derivative
10 7 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.23%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.82%) NHS
14 3 (0.61%) Mainframe
15 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
15 2 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 52 (10.63%) Linux
2 18 (3.68%) Unix
3 6 (1.23%) Windows
4 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.82%) Android
6 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.41%) zOS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (62.17%) Microservices
2 278 (56.85%) CI/CD
3 228 (46.63%) Agile
4 158 (32.31%) DevOps
5 148 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
6 136 (27.81%) Containerisation
7 107 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 97 (19.84%) Test Automation
9 95 (19.43%) TDD
10 85 (17.38%) Software Engineering
11 74 (15.13%) Event-Driven
12 72 (14.72%) SDLC
13 60 (12.27%) Scrum
14 57 (11.66%) Code Quality
15 53 (10.84%) Mentoring
16 52 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
17 49 (10.02%) API Development
17 49 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (9.61%) API Design
19 45 (9.20%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 479 (97.96%) Java
2 141 (28.83%) SQL
3 78 (15.95%) JavaScript
4 68 (13.91%) Python
5 63 (12.88%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.93%) Kotlin
7 25 (5.11%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.86%) Scala
9 10 (2.04%) Groovy
9 10 (2.04%) Ruby
10 9 (1.84%) Bash
11 6 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.02%) C#
13 3 (0.61%) C++
13 3 (0.61%) Go
14 2 (0.41%) C
14 2 (0.41%) COBOL
14 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.41%) Rust
14 2 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 111 (22.70%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.13%) Degree
4 24 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.66%) OCP
5 13 (2.66%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CCSP
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) CISSP
10 1 (0.20%) OSCP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.45%) QA
2 23 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.09%) ISO 20022
4 11 (2.25%) PSD2
4 11 (2.25%) SEPA
4 11 (2.25%) WCAG
5 6 (1.23%) GDPR
6 5 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.41%) HL7
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 196 (40.08%) Docker
2 7 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 214 (43.76%) Kubernetes
2 51 (10.43%) Terraform
3 31 (6.34%) Grafana
4 30 (6.13%) Ansible
5 15 (3.07%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.66%) Argo
7 10 (2.04%) Kibana
7 10 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.64%) Puppet
9 5 (1.02%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.41%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.41%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.20%) Consul
11 1 (0.20%) Control-M
11 1 (0.20%) logstash
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (11.45%) Oracle
2 31 (6.34%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.73%) Google
4 19 (3.89%) Splunk
5 18 (3.68%) Sybase
6 16 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.86%) VMware
8 12 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
10 9 (1.84%) IBM
10 9 (1.84%) webMethods
11 6 (1.23%) Virgin Media
12 5 (1.02%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.02%) Ping Identity
12 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.82%) Calypso
13 4 (0.82%) Confluent
13 4 (0.82%) SAP
13 4 (0.82%) Solace
13 4 (0.82%) TIBCO