Spring Security Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spring Security (Acegi)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spring Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 353 397
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 +69
Contract jobs citing Spring Security 10 10 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.060% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.35% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 20
10th Percentile £501 £400 £400
25th Percentile £501 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £469 £455
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +3.02% -6.90%
75th Percentile £554 £486 £486
90th Percentile £582 £492 £504
UK median daily rate £503 £484 £474
% change year-on-year +3.88% +2.00% -2.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Spring Security 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,215 2,885 3,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.09% 17.34% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 1,762 2,618
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £502 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.13% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 92 145
10th Percentile £30.95 £25.14 £45.11
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.53 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%

Spring Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Spring Security job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spring Security
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spring Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spring Security

Spring Security
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
South West - 5 £503 -
North West -20 3 - - 1
North of England -40 3 - - 1
Scotland -3 2 £600 +27.93% 1
Spring Security
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Spring Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Mockito
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leader
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Java Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (70.00%) SOAP
3 6 (60.00%) Web Services
4 5 (50.00%) Middleware
4 5 (50.00%) OAuth
4 5 (50.00%) OAuth2
5 4 (40.00%) RESTful
6 3 (30.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (30.00%) JAX-RS
6 3 (30.00%) Kafka
6 3 (30.00%) Spring Batch
7 2 (20.00%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (20.00%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (20.00%) XML
8 1 (10.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) MVC
1 5 (50.00%) User Stories
2 4 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) System Testing
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat