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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 198 239
Rank change year-on-year +36 +41 -141
Contract jobs citing Spring 588 343 365
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 1.32% 0.97%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.86% 5.83% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 197 272
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £665 £786 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -18.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 8
10th Percentile £50.50 - £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 7,481 5,882 7,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.92% 22.57% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 3,808 5,553
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £753
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 74 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.80 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.13 £51.56 £45.44
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £76.37 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.60% +13.64% -15.38%

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 13 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 13 February 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 13 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 +7 275 £525 -8.70% 67
North of England +25 153 £475 +1.60% 28
North West +49 115 £465 +3.33% 21
Midlands -16 58 £475 -2.06% 16
South East +14 57 £400 +2.56% 38
West Midlands -13 55 £488 +0.52% 14
South West -6 25 £409 -25.64% 22
Yorkshire -56 24 £500 -4.76% 4
North East -4 21 £475 +5.56% 3
East of England -17 10 £600 +50.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 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 25 (4.25%) Confluence
2 18 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.89%) Apache
4 12 (2.04%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.87%) Camunda
6 9 (1.53%) JBoss
7 6 (1.02%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.02%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Drupal
8 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.51%) WordPress
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.34%) CICS
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) nginx
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Maya
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.87%) Fidessa
2 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 320 (54.42%) AWS
2 159 (27.04%) Azure
3 116 (19.73%) GitHub
4 102 (17.35%) GCP
5 60 (10.20%) Serverless
6 59 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
7 57 (9.69%) Amazon S3
8 50 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 31 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (3.57%) Azure AKS
14 17 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (2.72%) Cloud Run
16 15 (2.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 15 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.87%) HTTP
2 6 (1.02%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.85%) Kerberos
3 5 (0.85%) SSL
4 4 (0.68%) DNS
5 2 (0.34%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (22.28%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (14.97%) MongoDB
3 83 (14.12%) NoSQL
4 67 (11.39%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.31%) MySQL
6 38 (6.46%) DynamoDB
7 26 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (2.55%) DB2
10 15 (2.55%) RDBMS
11 13 (2.21%) Redis
12 12 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.87%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.70%) Big Data
14 10 (1.70%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.53%) HBase
16 8 (1.36%) BigQuery
17 7 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 152 (25.85%) Git
2 126 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 126 (21.43%) JUnit
3 110 (18.71%) GitLab
4 63 (10.71%) Maven
5 57 (9.69%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.18%) Gradle
7 51 (8.67%) JIRA
8 44 (7.48%) Mockito
9 32 (5.44%) Selenium
9 32 (5.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 22 (3.74%) IntelliJ
11 19 (3.23%) JMeter
12 17 (2.89%) Postman
13 14 (2.38%) SonarQube
14 13 (2.21%) Gatling
15 12 (2.04%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.04%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.70%) Eclipse
16 10 (1.70%) REST Assured
General
1 160 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.09%) Finance
3 93 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 81 (13.78%) Banking
5 30 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.55%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.87%) Retail
8 10 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.85%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.51%) Electronics
12 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.51%) Front Office
12 3 (0.51%) Law
12 3 (0.51%) Marketing
12 3 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 359 (61.05%) Developer
2 245 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 118 (20.07%) Senior
4 94 (15.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 89 (15.14%) Java Engineer
6 80 (13.61%) Senior Developer
7 70 (11.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 56 (9.52%) Lead
9 51 (8.67%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 28 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (4.08%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.91%) Backend Developer
15 21 (3.57%) Architect
16 20 (3.40%) AWS Developer
17 19 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 15 (2.55%) Software Developer
19 14 (2.38%) Lead Java Developer
20 13 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (77.55%) Spring Boot
2 186 (31.63%) Kafka
3 149 (25.34%) RESTful
4 136 (23.13%) REST
5 133 (22.62%) React
6 104 (17.69%) AngularJS
7 83 (14.12%) Hibernate
8 81 (13.78%) Node.js
9 71 (12.07%) HTML
10 53 (9.01%) CSS
11 41 (6.97%) JPA
12 35 (5.95%) JSON
12 35 (5.95%) OAuth
13 33 (5.61%) Playwright
14 32 (5.44%) OAuth2
15 31 (5.27%) Spring Cloud
16 29 (4.93%) HTML5
17 28 (4.76%) Spring MVC
17 28 (4.76%) Vue
18 27 (4.59%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 92 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.55%) Equities
6 14 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.19%) Derivative
12 6 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.85%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.68%) NHS
15 3 (0.51%) Data Centre
15 3 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 3 (0.51%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.52%) Linux
2 15 (2.55%) Unix
3 8 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.51%) VMS
4 3 (0.51%) Windows
5 2 (0.34%) Android
5 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (59.52%) Microservices
2 332 (56.46%) CI/CD
3 237 (40.31%) Agile
4 212 (36.05%) DevOps
5 175 (29.76%) Containerisation
6 153 (26.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 137 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (19.90%) Test Automation
9 115 (19.56%) Software Engineering
10 103 (17.52%) TDD
11 99 (16.84%) Event-Driven
12 85 (14.46%) Scrum
13 79 (13.44%) Code Quality
14 72 (12.24%) Observability
15 68 (11.56%) SDLC
16 62 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 59 (10.03%) Mentoring
18 55 (9.35%) User Experience
19 53 (9.01%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 565 (96.09%) Java
2 148 (25.17%) SQL
3 88 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 85 (14.46%) TypeScript
5 73 (12.41%) Python
6 35 (5.95%) Kotlin
7 21 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.38%) Go
9 13 (2.21%) Scala
10 11 (1.87%) Ruby
11 6 (1.02%) Groovy
11 6 (1.02%) Perl
12 5 (0.85%) Bash
12 5 (0.85%) C#
13 4 (0.68%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) C++
14 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.34%) Rust
15 1 (0.17%) Clojure
15 1 (0.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 162 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 137 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.10%) Degree
4 26 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.04%) OCP
6 12 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.17%) CCSP
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.17%) CISSP
11 1 (0.17%) OSCP
11 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (9.86%) QA
2 39 (6.63%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.74%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.89%) WCAG
5 14 (2.38%) PSD2
5 14 (2.38%) SEPA
6 10 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.85%) NIST
8 3 (0.51%) NCSC
9 2 (0.34%) HL7
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.17%) GDPR
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 239 (40.65%) Docker
2 7 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.51%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.51%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 284 (48.30%) Kubernetes
2 63 (10.71%) Terraform
3 59 (10.03%) Grafana
4 29 (4.93%) Ansible
5 25 (4.25%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.57%) Argo
7 14 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.87%) Kibana
9 8 (1.36%) Puppet
10 6 (1.02%) Istio
11 2 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.34%) Rancher
11 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 54 (9.18%) Oracle
2 35 (5.95%) Google
3 30 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 28 (4.76%) Splunk
5 23 (3.91%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.38%) VMware
7 13 (2.21%) Sybase
8 12 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.36%) Solace
9 8 (1.36%) webMethods
10 6 (1.02%) Adobe
10 6 (1.02%) Confluent
10 6 (1.02%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.85%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.68%) Databricks
12 4 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.68%) IBM
12 4 (0.68%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.68%) Jaspersoft