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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 194 205
Rank change year-on-year +41 +11 -78
Contract jobs citing Spring 675 332 418
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.36% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.51% 6.09% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 211 324
10th Percentile £357 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -13.60%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £631
90th Percentile £665 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 3 10
10th Percentile £51.50 £56.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -36.72%
75th Percentile £79.25 £78.13 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.50 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -30.30% +79.82% -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 7,932 5,452 7,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.67% 22.41% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,285 3,781 5,352
10th Percentile £363 £370 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -1.90% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 100 216
10th Percentile £34.75 £30.13 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £42.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +12 332 £525 -4.55% 60
North of England +11 157 £475 -0.52% 36
North West +34 118 £465 - 24
Midlands -22 70 £468 +10.75% 7
West Midlands -7 69 £469 +3.08% 5
South East -7 49 £423 -7.40% 24
South West -9 34 £409 -21.16% 15
Yorkshire -48 25 £475 -11.63% 5
East of England -15 24 £510 +9.09% 4
North East -3 21 £450 -3.23% 7
East Midlands -34 1 £450 +11.94% 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 38 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 37 (5.48%) Confluence
3 20 (2.96%) Apache
4 14 (2.07%) Camunda
5 10 (1.48%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.89%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.89%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.74%) JBoss
8 5 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.30%) CICS
10 2 (0.30%) CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 369 (54.67%) AWS
2 178 (26.37%) Azure
3 135 (20.00%) GitHub
4 122 (18.07%) GCP
5 77 (11.41%) Serverless
6 76 (11.26%) Amazon S3
6 76 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
7 65 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
9 34 (5.04%) OpenShift
10 31 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (4.59%) Azure AKS
11 30 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.67%) Route 53
16 15 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.63%) HTTP
2 7 (1.04%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.74%) SSL
4 4 (0.59%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (13.63%) NoSQL
3 70 (10.37%) MongoDB
4 65 (9.63%) Relational Database
5 57 (8.44%) MySQL
6 53 (7.85%) DynamoDB
7 37 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.81%) SQL Server
11 16 (2.37%) Big Data
11 16 (2.37%) Redis
12 13 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.78%) Flink
14 10 (1.48%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.33%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.19%) DB2
17 7 (1.04%) Hadoop
17 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 171 (25.33%) Git
2 148 (21.93%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.81%) JUnit
4 112 (16.59%) GitLab
5 63 (9.33%) Maven
6 62 (9.19%) JIRA
7 60 (8.89%) Gradle
8 53 (7.85%) Mockito
9 47 (6.96%) Cucumber
10 33 (4.89%) Selenium
11 32 (4.74%) SonarQube
12 27 (4.00%) JMeter
13 23 (3.41%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.52%) WebDriver
15 15 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
16 13 (1.93%) Gatling
17 12 (1.78%) Postman
18 11 (1.63%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.63%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.63%) jMock
General
1 136 (20.15%) Finance
2 133 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 118 (17.48%) Public Sector
4 68 (10.07%) Banking
5 36 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.52%) Retail
7 12 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.89%) Automotive
10 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.89%) Law
10 6 (0.89%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.59%) Front Office
12 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 392 (58.07%) Developer
2 273 (40.44%) Java Developer
3 125 (18.52%) Senior
4 101 (14.96%) Java Engineer
5 85 (12.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 73 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 69 (10.22%) Software Engineer
8 64 (9.48%) Lead
9 56 (8.30%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (5.63%) Backend Developer
11 37 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 27 (4.00%) Architect
14 26 (3.85%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 24 (3.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (3.41%) Lead Developer
18 17 (2.52%) Data Engineer
19 16 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
20 13 (1.93%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (79.70%) Spring Boot
2 185 (27.41%) Kafka
3 177 (26.22%) RESTful
4 148 (21.93%) REST
5 134 (19.85%) React
6 104 (15.41%) Node.js
7 93 (13.78%) AngularJS
8 70 (10.37%) Hibernate
9 57 (8.44%) HTML
10 48 (7.11%) CSS
11 45 (6.67%) Spring MVC
12 43 (6.37%) WireMock
13 41 (6.07%) JPA
14 40 (5.93%) Spring Cloud
15 38 (5.63%) Web Services
16 35 (5.19%) OAuth
17 32 (4.74%) OAuth2
17 32 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
18 27 (4.00%) SOAP
19 26 (3.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 111 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 81 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.52%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.04%) Equities
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.04%) NHS
11 7 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.89%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.74%) Derivative
14 4 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.26%) Linux
2 13 (1.93%) Unix
3 9 (1.33%) Windows
4 8 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.89%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Android
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Solaris
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (60.89%) Microservices
2 378 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 262 (38.81%) Agile
4 237 (35.11%) DevOps
5 218 (32.30%) Containerisation
6 152 (22.52%) TDD
7 151 (22.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 142 (21.04%) Software Engineering
9 131 (19.41%) Test Automation
10 122 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (17.93%) Event-Driven
12 109 (16.15%) Code Quality
13 105 (15.56%) Observability
14 95 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
15 91 (13.48%) Scrum
16 74 (10.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 73 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
18 70 (10.37%) BDD
19 60 (8.89%) Design Patterns
20 56 (8.30%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 634 (93.93%) Java
2 188 (27.85%) SQL
3 99 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.78%) TypeScript
5 89 (13.19%) Python
6 44 (6.52%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.52%) Go
8 14 (2.07%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.33%) Scala
11 7 (1.04%) Perl
12 5 (0.74%) C#
12 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
15 2 (0.30%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) COBOL
16 1 (0.15%) JCL
16 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.15%) XPath
Qualifications
1 210 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 179 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.74%) Degree
4 25 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (1.48%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.89%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.89%) OCP
7 6 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.63%) QA
2 49 (7.26%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.07%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.78%) WCAG
5 10 (1.48%) SEPA
6 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.19%) PSD2
7 6 (0.89%) GDPR
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) NIST
8 5 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.44%) HL7
10 3 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 301 (44.59%) Docker
2 10 (1.48%) Postfix
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 324 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 85 (12.59%) Grafana
3 68 (10.07%) Terraform
4 55 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.41%) Ansible
6 12 (1.78%) Argo
7 10 (1.48%) Kibana
8 6 (0.89%) Istio
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.59%) Rancher
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
12 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (7.85%) Oracle
2 42 (6.22%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.59%) Google
4 27 (4.00%) Splunk
5 14 (2.07%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.78%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.63%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.48%) Solace
9 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.19%) IBM
11 7 (1.04%) Databricks
12 6 (0.89%) Adobe
12 6 (0.89%) Confluent
12 6 (0.89%) Sybase
13 5 (0.74%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.74%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.74%) Teradata
13 5 (0.74%) VMware