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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 190 239
Rank change year-on-year +16 +49 -147
Contract jobs citing Spring 553 357 368
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.34% 0.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.58% 6.01% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 207 282
10th Percentile £350 £400 £401
25th Percentile £413 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £650
90th Percentile £650 £786 £787
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 7
10th Percentile £50.00 - £41.53
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
75th Percentile £81.00 - £57.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £70.95
UK median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -28.25%

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 7,296 5,937 7,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.09% 22.34% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 3,773 5,640
10th Percentile £357 £363 £356
25th Percentile £415 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 77 183
10th Percentile £34.60 £26.25 £25.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.80 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 30 January 2026.

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +3 275 £525 -10.26% 79
North of England +26 155 £475 - 29
North West +53 117 £465 +3.33% 22
South East +20 50 £400 +2.56% 57
Midlands -46 40 £446 -18.95% 15
West Midlands -35 37 £469 -14.73% 13
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -2 21 £475 +6.74% 2
South West -16 20 £417 -24.18% 28
East of England -24 3 £450 +20.00% 4
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 19 (3.44%) Confluence
2 16 (2.89%) Apache
3 11 (1.99%) Camunda
4 10 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.81%) JBoss
4 10 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 6 (1.08%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.72%) Drupal
6 4 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.72%) WordPress
7 3 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) CICS
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
9 1 (0.18%) Mule
9 1 (0.18%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.99%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 306 (55.33%) AWS
2 153 (27.67%) Azure
3 112 (20.25%) GitHub
4 98 (17.72%) GCP
5 57 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (9.95%) Serverless
7 47 (8.50%) Amazon S3
8 46 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (8.32%) OpenShift
9 30 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (3.44%) Azure AKS
13 15 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (2.35%) Datadog
15 12 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
15 12 (2.17%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.81%) HTTP
2 5 (0.90%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.90%) SSL
3 4 (0.72%) DNS
3 4 (0.72%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (22.06%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (15.55%) MongoDB
3 77 (13.92%) NoSQL
4 67 (12.12%) Relational Database
5 43 (7.78%) MySQL
6 33 (5.97%) DynamoDB
7 21 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.07%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 15 (2.71%) DB2
11 13 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 12 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (2.17%) Redis
13 11 (1.99%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.81%) DocumentDB
15 9 (1.63%) HBase
16 8 (1.45%) Big Data
16 8 (1.45%) BigQuery
17 7 (1.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 140 (25.32%) Git
2 123 (22.24%) JUnit
3 119 (21.52%) Jenkins
4 105 (18.99%) GitLab
5 57 (10.31%) Maven
6 56 (10.13%) Cucumber
7 53 (9.58%) Gradle
8 45 (8.14%) JIRA
9 38 (6.87%) Mockito
10 32 (5.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (5.42%) Selenium
12 22 (3.98%) IntelliJ
13 21 (3.80%) Postman
14 19 (3.44%) JMeter
15 12 (2.17%) Artifactory
15 12 (2.17%) Cypress.io
15 12 (2.17%) Gatling
16 10 (1.81%) Eclipse
16 10 (1.81%) REST Assured
16 10 (1.81%) SonarQube
General
1 155 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 123 (22.24%) Finance
3 90 (16.27%) Public Sector
4 88 (15.91%) Banking
5 34 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.07%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.45%) Retail
9 6 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.90%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Electronics
12 3 (0.54%) Front Office
12 3 (0.54%) Law
12 3 (0.54%) Marketing
12 3 (0.54%) Military
13 2 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 345 (62.39%) Developer
2 240 (43.40%) Java Developer
3 124 (22.42%) Senior
4 90 (16.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 86 (15.55%) Senior Developer
6 81 (14.65%) Java Engineer
7 76 (13.74%) Senior Java Developer
8 47 (8.50%) Lead
9 46 (8.32%) Software Engineer
10 29 (5.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 25 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 25 (4.52%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (4.16%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.98%) Backend Developer
14 20 (3.62%) Architect
14 20 (3.62%) AWS Developer
15 18 (3.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 14 (2.53%) Software Developer
17 13 (2.35%) Lead Java Developer
17 13 (2.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (76.85%) Spring Boot
2 175 (31.65%) Kafka
3 144 (26.04%) RESTful
4 129 (23.33%) React
5 125 (22.60%) REST
6 103 (18.63%) AngularJS
7 77 (13.92%) Hibernate
8 73 (13.20%) Node.js
9 72 (13.02%) HTML
10 54 (9.76%) CSS
11 40 (7.23%) JSON
12 37 (6.69%) JPA
13 34 (6.15%) OAuth
14 32 (5.79%) OAuth2
15 31 (5.61%) Playwright
16 29 (5.24%) JMS
16 29 (5.24%) Vue
17 28 (5.06%) HTML5
18 27 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
18 27 (4.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.07%) Equities
6 14 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 12 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.27%) Derivative
11 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.72%) NHS
14 3 (0.54%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.54%) Public Cloud
15 2 (0.36%) Hybrid Cloud
15 2 (0.36%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (9.22%) Linux
2 14 (2.53%) Unix
3 6 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.90%) Windows
5 3 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (59.49%) Microservices
2 309 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 230 (41.59%) Agile
4 196 (35.44%) DevOps
5 166 (30.02%) Containerisation
6 153 (27.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 138 (24.95%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (21.16%) Test Automation
9 100 (18.08%) Software Engineering
10 94 (17.00%) Event-Driven
11 93 (16.82%) TDD
12 71 (12.84%) Code Quality
12 71 (12.84%) Scrum
13 69 (12.48%) SDLC
14 61 (11.03%) Observability
15 60 (10.85%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (9.40%) API Development
17 52 (9.40%) Mentoring
18 51 (9.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 530 (95.84%) Java
2 145 (26.22%) SQL
3 87 (15.73%) JavaScript
4 81 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 67 (12.12%) Python
6 27 (4.88%) Kotlin
7 21 (3.80%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.35%) Scala
9 12 (2.17%) Go
10 11 (1.99%) Ruby
11 7 (1.27%) Groovy
12 6 (1.08%) C#
13 5 (0.90%) Bash
14 4 (0.72%) PHP
15 3 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.36%) C++
16 2 (0.36%) Perl
16 2 (0.36%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.36%) Rust
17 1 (0.18%) Swift
Qualifications
1 149 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 126 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.34%) Degree
4 19 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.17%) OCP
6 12 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.18%) CCSP
10 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.18%) CISSP
10 1 (0.18%) OSCP
10 1 (0.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.40%) QA
2 38 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.34%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.89%) PSD2
4 16 (2.89%) SEPA
5 15 (2.71%) WCAG
6 9 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) NCSC
9 2 (0.36%) HL7
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.18%) GDPR
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 235 (42.50%) Docker
2 7 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.54%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 268 (48.46%) Kubernetes
2 66 (11.93%) Terraform
3 48 (8.68%) Grafana
4 31 (5.61%) Ansible
5 21 (3.80%) Argo
6 20 (3.62%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.99%) Kibana
9 8 (1.45%) Puppet
10 6 (1.08%) Istio
11 2 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.36%) Rancher
11 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.18%) Consul
Vendors
1 57 (10.31%) Oracle
2 33 (5.97%) Google
3 23 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.16%) Splunk
4 21 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.53%) Sybase
5 14 (2.53%) VMware
6 10 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.45%) webMethods
8 6 (1.08%) Confluent
8 6 (1.08%) PagerDuty
8 6 (1.08%) Solace
9 5 (0.90%) Adobe
9 5 (0.90%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (0.72%) IBM
10 4 (0.72%) ION Trading
11 3 (0.54%) Informatica
11 3 (0.54%) Qualys
11 3 (0.54%) Tradeweb