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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 181 181
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +24
Contract jobs citing Spring 702 425 457
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.53% 1.54% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.17% 6.21% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 288 345
10th Percentile £387 £339 £380
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £620 £558 £650
90th Percentile £725 £640 £780
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 3
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.00 £39.25
25th Percentile £62.50 - £45.63
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £68.75 £65.38
90th Percentile £89.60 £77.50 £70.85
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%

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 9,788 6,843 8,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.38% 24.84% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,447 4,702 5,580
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 164 185
10th Percentile £29.35 £31.25 £27.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.24 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -13.04% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £75.00 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.83%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -12 374 £530 - 295
North of England 0 167 £520 +11.83% 89
North West -15 97 £555 +24.72% 56
Midlands -27 76 £551 +34.27% 31
West Midlands -10 70 £570 +14.00% 27
Yorkshire 0 52 £500 +39.16% 16
South West -6 37 £481 -4.70% 45
South East -43 30 £367 -26.55% 35
East of England +1 21 £500 +6.95% 2
North East -28 19 £450 -8.16% 17
East Midlands -42 5 £400 +6.67% 4
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 33 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.99%) Apache
3 17 (2.42%) Confluence
4 11 (1.57%) Camunda
5 10 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.28%) nginx
7 8 (1.14%) WebLogic
8 7 (1.00%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.57%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.57%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.43%) CMS
10 3 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.28%) Mule
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.57%) Quorum
1 4 (0.57%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.57%) Ripple
2 3 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 379 (53.99%) AWS
2 149 (21.23%) Azure
3 129 (18.38%) GitHub
4 104 (14.81%) GCP
5 67 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (7.41%) Serverless
7 44 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (5.98%) Amazon S3
9 36 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
10 35 (4.99%) OpenShift
11 34 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (2.85%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (1.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 12 (1.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) HTTP
2 3 (0.43%) Firewall
2 3 (0.43%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) SMS
3 1 (0.14%) SSL
3 1 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (20.80%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 77 (10.97%) Relational Database
4 74 (10.54%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.55%) MySQL
6 35 (4.99%) Redis
7 31 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.27%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.99%) Big Data
12 14 (1.99%) Flink
12 14 (1.99%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.71%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.57%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.28%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
16 7 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (25.50%) Git
2 172 (24.50%) Jenkins
3 126 (17.95%) JUnit
4 111 (15.81%) GitLab
5 74 (10.54%) Gradle
6 71 (10.11%) Maven
7 64 (9.12%) Mockito
8 47 (6.70%) SonarQube
9 36 (5.13%) JIRA
10 34 (4.84%) Cucumber
11 30 (4.27%) Selenium
12 20 (2.85%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.71%) Gatling
14 17 (2.42%) REST Assured
15 15 (2.14%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.71%) IntelliJ
17 10 (1.42%) JMeter
18 8 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
18 8 (1.14%) Flyway
19 7 (1.00%) DbUnit
General
1 163 (23.22%) Finance
2 156 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 93 (13.25%) Banking
4 92 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.99%) Retail
7 13 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.42%) Law
9 9 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.00%) Back Office
10 7 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.00%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.71%) Military
11 5 (0.71%) Police
12 4 (0.57%) Automotive
12 4 (0.57%) Games
12 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 373 (53.13%) Developer
2 300 (42.74%) Java Developer
3 152 (21.65%) Senior
4 130 (18.52%) Java Engineer
5 94 (13.39%) Software Engineer
6 90 (12.82%) Senior Developer
7 72 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 66 (9.40%) Lead
9 56 (7.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 52 (7.41%) Backend Developer
11 51 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
13 29 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 28 (3.99%) Architect
15 27 (3.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 27 (3.85%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.13%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.99%) Lead Java Developer
17 21 (2.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (82.05%) Spring Boot
2 225 (32.05%) Kafka
3 180 (25.64%) REST
4 155 (22.08%) RESTful
5 129 (18.38%) React
6 70 (9.97%) Node.js
7 61 (8.69%) Terraform
8 54 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 53 (7.55%) HTML
10 52 (7.41%) JPA
11 49 (6.98%) AngularJS
12 45 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (6.27%) CSS
14 40 (5.70%) Spring MVC
15 39 (5.56%) Web Services
16 37 (5.27%) OAuth
17 35 (4.99%) OpenAPI
18 31 (4.42%) Spring Cloud
19 29 (4.13%) Swagger
20 28 (3.99%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 170 (24.22%) Cloud Native
2 120 (17.09%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (2.14%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.85%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.00%) Derivative
14 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.85%) Spread Betting
16 5 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 4 (0.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.70%) Linux
2 27 (3.85%) Unix
3 4 (0.57%) VMS
3 4 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.14%) Android
5 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) Solaris
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (61.40%) Microservices
2 413 (58.83%) CI/CD
3 331 (47.15%) Agile
4 238 (33.90%) DevOps
5 220 (31.34%) Software Engineering
6 193 (27.49%) Containerisation
7 175 (24.93%) Test Automation
8 171 (24.36%) Event-Driven
9 136 (19.37%) TDD
10 127 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 116 (16.52%) Scrum
12 114 (16.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 112 (15.95%) Observability
14 111 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
15 110 (15.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 107 (15.24%) Code Quality
17 79 (11.25%) SDLC
18 76 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
19 75 (10.68%) Clean Code
20 71 (10.11%) AI
Programming Languages
1 686 (97.72%) Java
2 227 (32.34%) SQL
3 92 (13.11%) JavaScript
4 89 (12.68%) TypeScript
5 85 (12.11%) Python
6 40 (5.70%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.70%) Kotlin
8 17 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.71%) Bash
9 12 (1.71%) Scala
10 6 (0.85%) C#
11 5 (0.71%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Solidity
13 3 (0.43%) Go
13 3 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Korn
14 2 (0.28%) PromQL
15 1 (0.14%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 205 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 170 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.85%) Degree
5 21 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Azure Certification
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 79 (11.25%) QA
2 43 (6.13%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.85%) WCAG
4 11 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.00%) SEPA
7 6 (0.85%) GDPR
7 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.28%) EMIR
8 2 (0.28%) MiFID
8 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.14%) HL7
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.14%) ITGC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 323 (46.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) Postfix
3 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 303 (43.16%) Kubernetes
2 54 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 52 (7.41%) Grafana
4 32 (4.56%) Ansible
5 21 (2.99%) Kibana
6 11 (1.57%) Control-M
7 7 (1.00%) Argo
7 7 (1.00%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Bosun
8 3 (0.43%) Kustomize
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%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.14%) Kiali
10 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 93 (13.25%) Oracle
2 35 (4.99%) Google
3 29 (4.13%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.71%) IBM
4 19 (2.71%) Splunk
5 18 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 10 (1.42%) Solace
7 9 (1.28%) Checkmarx
7 9 (1.28%) Databricks
8 8 (1.14%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.00%) New Relic
9 7 (1.00%) Sybase
9 7 (1.00%) TikTok
10 6 (0.85%) Confluent
11 4 (0.57%) FIS
11 4 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.57%) SAP
12 2 (0.28%) Informatica