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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 180 181
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 679 439 445
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.58% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.99% 7.17% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 305 345
10th Percentile £362 £338 £381
25th Percentile £427 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £650
90th Percentile £704 £656 £782
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 5
10th Percentile £55.00 £53.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £62.50 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -2.22% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £91.40 £77.50 £67.20
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 8,502 6,121 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.02% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,556 4,186 5,034
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £816
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 158 225
10th Percentile £28.79 £31.25 £24.51
25th Percentile £46.53 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% +9.75% -16.67%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -6 371 £525 - 284
North of England -16 144 £505 +8.60% 58
North West -17 79 £540 +25.58% 35
Midlands -29 76 £463 +11.45% 24
West Midlands -6 73 £475 -5.00% 20
Yorkshire -4 47 £550 +53.08% 11
South West -25 37 £481 -4.70% 28
South East -58 31 £367 -19.51% 36
East of England -2 21 £507 +8.45% 1
North East -29 19 £450 -8.16% 13
East Midlands -48 2 £401 +6.93% 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 34 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 29 (4.27%) Confluence
3 23 (3.39%) Apache
4 12 (1.77%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.33%) nginx
7 7 (1.03%) Camunda
8 6 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.59%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.59%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.44%) CMS
11 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.29%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.29%) Mule
11 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Trello
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.59%) Quorum
1 4 (0.59%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.59%) Ripple
2 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 363 (53.46%) AWS
2 160 (23.56%) Azure
3 130 (19.15%) GitHub
4 114 (16.79%) GCP
5 74 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (7.66%) Serverless
7 48 (7.07%) Amazon S3
8 43 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 43 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (4.86%) OpenShift
13 32 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.06%) AWS KMS
15 14 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.06%) Route 53
16 13 (1.91%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.44%) Firewall
3 2 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
4 1 (0.15%) SMS
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (24.45%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (12.08%) NoSQL
3 72 (10.60%) Relational Database
4 63 (9.28%) MongoDB
5 46 (6.77%) MySQL
6 37 (5.45%) DynamoDB
7 32 (4.71%) Redis
8 29 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (3.39%) SQL Server
10 17 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 17 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (2.36%) Flink
12 14 (2.06%) Big Data
13 11 (1.62%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.47%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.47%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.33%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.03%) Db2
16 7 (1.03%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 181 (26.66%) Git
2 180 (26.51%) Jenkins
3 127 (18.70%) JUnit
4 99 (14.58%) GitLab
5 69 (10.16%) Gradle
6 66 (9.72%) Maven
7 62 (9.13%) Mockito
8 50 (7.36%) JIRA
9 41 (6.04%) Cucumber
9 41 (6.04%) SonarQube
10 36 (5.30%) Selenium
11 23 (3.39%) JMeter
12 19 (2.80%) Liquibase
12 19 (2.80%) WebDriver
13 16 (2.36%) Gatling
14 14 (2.06%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.91%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.77%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.62%) DbUnit
18 10 (1.47%) jMock
General
1 157 (23.12%) Finance
2 144 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 94 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 91 (13.40%) Banking
5 67 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.12%) Retail
7 17 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.21%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.47%) Law
10 7 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.03%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.88%) Back Office
11 6 (0.88%) Military
12 5 (0.74%) Police
13 4 (0.59%) Automotive
13 4 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 366 (53.90%) Developer
2 294 (43.30%) Java Developer
3 148 (21.80%) Senior
4 115 (16.94%) Java Engineer
5 88 (12.96%) Software Engineer
6 87 (12.81%) Senior Developer
7 70 (10.31%) Senior Java Developer
8 66 (9.72%) Lead
9 54 (7.95%) Java Software Engineer
10 53 (7.81%) Backend Developer
11 47 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 30 (4.42%) Software Developer
13 28 (4.12%) Senior Java Engineer
14 24 (3.53%) Architect
14 24 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.39%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 22 (3.24%) Data Engineer
17 17 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
17 17 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 545 (80.27%) Spring Boot
2 205 (30.19%) Kafka
3 175 (25.77%) REST
4 157 (23.12%) RESTful
5 116 (17.08%) React
6 72 (10.60%) Node.js
7 54 (7.95%) Hibernate
8 51 (7.51%) AngularJS
9 50 (7.36%) JPA
10 47 (6.92%) HTML
11 43 (6.33%) Web Services
12 42 (6.19%) Spring MVC
13 41 (6.04%) CSS
14 40 (5.89%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (5.45%) Spring Cloud
16 36 (5.30%) WireMock
17 33 (4.86%) OAuth
18 27 (3.98%) Jakarta EE
19 26 (3.83%) Redux
20 25 (3.68%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 155 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 124 (18.26%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 30 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.65%) Distributed Architecture
7 18 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (2.21%) Data Structures
9 15 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.62%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.18%) Derivative
12 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.74%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.74%) Spread Betting
13 5 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.63%) Linux
2 27 (3.98%) Unix
3 7 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.29%) Solaris
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (62.00%) Microservices
2 406 (59.79%) CI/CD
3 313 (46.10%) Agile
4 236 (34.76%) DevOps
5 197 (29.01%) Containerisation
5 197 (29.01%) Software Engineering
6 167 (24.59%) Test Automation
7 154 (22.68%) Event-Driven
8 144 (21.21%) TDD
9 124 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (17.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 118 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (16.64%) Observability
13 107 (15.76%) Scrum
14 102 (15.02%) Code Quality
15 98 (14.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 75 (11.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (10.46%) Design Patterns
18 70 (10.31%) Clean Code
19 69 (10.16%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 652 (96.02%) Java
2 227 (33.43%) SQL
3 85 (12.52%) JavaScript
4 84 (12.37%) Python
5 80 (11.78%) TypeScript
6 44 (6.48%) PL/SQL
7 31 (4.57%) Kotlin
8 15 (2.21%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.77%) Scala
10 10 (1.47%) Bash
11 7 (1.03%) C#
12 5 (0.74%) Ruby
13 4 (0.59%) Solidity
14 3 (0.44%) Go
15 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.29%) PromQL
16 1 (0.15%) Groovy
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 216 (31.81%) Security Cleared
2 182 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.39%) Degree
5 17 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.15%) CISSP
9 1 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.60%) QA
2 37 (5.45%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 8 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.18%) WCAG
5 7 (1.03%) SEPA
6 6 (0.88%) GDPR
6 6 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.44%) SLA
8 2 (0.29%) EMIR
8 2 (0.29%) MiFID
8 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) HL7
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.15%) ITGC
9 1 (0.15%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (47.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.18%) Postfix
3 2 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 292 (43.00%) Kubernetes
2 67 (9.87%) Grafana
3 63 (9.28%) Prometheus
4 59 (8.69%) Terraform
5 32 (4.71%) Ansible
6 17 (2.50%) Kibana
7 11 (1.62%) Control-M
8 7 (1.03%) Argo
9 4 (0.59%) Istio
10 3 (0.44%) Bosun
10 3 (0.44%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.29%) Consul
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.29%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.15%) Kiali
Vendors
1 87 (12.81%) Oracle
2 34 (5.01%) Google
3 26 (3.83%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.80%) Splunk
5 14 (2.06%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.91%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.77%) IBM
8 11 (1.62%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.47%) Solace
10 9 (1.33%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.33%) Databricks
10 9 (1.33%) Sybase
11 8 (1.18%) New Relic
12 7 (1.03%) TikTok
13 6 (0.88%) Confluent
14 4 (0.59%) FIS
14 4 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.59%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.59%) SAP
15 3 (0.44%) OpenAI