Spring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 176 149
Rank change year-on-year +24 -27 -9
Contract jobs citing Spring 218 246 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.71% 1.18% 1.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.17% 7.46% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 172 308
10th Percentile £315 £363 £438
25th Percentile £402 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £575 £670 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 25
10th Percentile £57.13 £35.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £60.31 £41.47 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £45.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.85% -34.46% +20.69%
75th Percentile £80.31 £48.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.38 £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +79.82% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Scotland +20 118 £450 - 45
North of England +11 54 £478 -10.12% 78
North West +11 32 £465 -11.43% 49
Midlands +34 22 £423 -6.11% 50
Yorkshire 0 16 £538 -2.27% 16
West Midlands +19 15 £455 +1.11% 29
South West +26 11 £513 -7.87% 41
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 13
East Midlands - 7 £402 - 18
South East +18 6 £456 -3.95% 91
Northern Ireland -6 6 £404 - 9
East of England +17 1 £468 +24.67% 31
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (6.42%) Confluence
2 6 (2.75%) JBoss
3 5 (2.29%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.29%) WebLogic
3 5 (2.29%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.38%) Camunda
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.92%) GemFire
5 2 (0.92%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 87 (39.91%) AWS
2 18 (8.26%) Amazon S3
3 13 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (5.96%) Azure
3 13 (5.96%) Serverless
4 12 (5.50%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.13%) Slack
7 7 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.21%) AWS KMS
7 7 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.21%) Route 53
8 6 (2.75%) Kong
8 6 (2.75%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.83%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.83%) GCP
9 4 (1.83%) GitHub
9 4 (1.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.29%) HTTP
2 2 (0.92%) SMS
3 1 (0.46%) FTP
3 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (28.90%) Relational Database
2 58 (26.61%) MongoDB
3 53 (24.31%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (16.97%) DB2
5 31 (14.22%) MySQL
6 19 (8.72%) RDBMS
7 18 (8.26%) NoSQL
8 17 (7.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (5.05%) DynamoDB
10 10 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (4.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.38%) MariaDB
14 3 (1.38%) Metadata
15 2 (0.92%) Apache Ignite
15 2 (0.92%) GIS
15 2 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (37.61%) JUnit
2 40 (18.35%) Jenkins
3 38 (17.43%) Git
4 27 (12.39%) Mockito
5 21 (9.63%) GitLab
6 20 (9.17%) JIRA
6 20 (9.17%) Maven
7 17 (7.80%) Gradle
8 14 (6.42%) Cucumber
9 10 (4.59%) Jasmine
9 10 (4.59%) Liquibase
9 10 (4.59%) SonarQube
10 8 (3.67%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.21%) Artifactory
11 7 (3.21%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (2.75%) Subversion
13 5 (2.29%) CA Release Automation
13 5 (2.29%) gulp
13 5 (2.29%) Selenium
General
1 85 (38.99%) Finance
2 47 (21.56%) Public Sector
3 40 (18.35%) Social Skills
4 38 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (17.43%) Banking
5 21 (9.63%) Front Office
6 19 (8.72%) Investment Banking
7 10 (4.59%) Electronics
7 10 (4.59%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.59%) Marketing
7 10 (4.59%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (77.98%) Developer
2 145 (66.51%) Java Developer
3 23 (10.55%) Full-Stack Developer
3 23 (10.55%) Senior
4 21 (9.63%) Java Engineer
4 21 (9.63%) Senior Developer
4 21 (9.63%) Software Engineer
5 19 (8.72%) Lead
6 17 (7.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (7.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 16 (7.34%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (7.34%) Lead Developer
7 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 16 (7.34%) SQL Developer
8 11 (5.05%) React Developer
9 9 (4.13%) Lead Java Developer
9 9 (4.13%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.67%) Linux Developer
11 7 (3.21%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 7 (3.21%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (72.48%) Spring Boot
2 61 (27.98%) Kafka
3 44 (20.18%) React
4 39 (17.89%) RESTful
5 34 (15.60%) Hibernate
5 34 (15.60%) REST
6 29 (13.30%) AngularJS
7 28 (12.84%) Web Services
8 26 (11.93%) JMS
9 23 (10.55%) Swagger
10 21 (9.63%) OpenAPI
11 20 (9.17%) Node.js
12 19 (8.72%) Spring Batch
13 17 (7.80%) SOAP
14 16 (7.34%) HTML
15 14 (6.42%) CSS
15 14 (6.42%) Spring Security
16 11 (5.05%) ActiveMQ
16 11 (5.05%) J2EE
16 11 (5.05%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) Data Structures
2 23 (10.55%) Equities
3 13 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.59%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (3.67%) Equity Derivative
5 8 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.75%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.29%) Derivative
7 5 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.46%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 71 (32.57%) Linux
2 13 (5.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (49.54%) Agile
2 99 (45.41%) Microservices
3 79 (36.24%) CI/CD
4 62 (28.44%) Software Engineering
5 58 (26.61%) TDD
6 47 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (21.10%) SDLC
8 40 (18.35%) DevOps
8 40 (18.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (16.97%) Open Source
10 35 (16.06%) Containerisation
11 32 (14.68%) Multithreading
12 30 (13.76%) Scrum
13 27 (12.39%) Test Automation
14 25 (11.47%) BDD
15 22 (10.09%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.09%) Process Improvement
16 21 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (9.17%) Project Delivery
18 19 (8.72%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 213 (97.71%) Java
2 99 (45.41%) SQL
3 46 (21.10%) Python
4 42 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 31 (14.22%) Shell Script
5 31 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.50%) Bash
7 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.92%) Perl
8 2 (0.92%) Scala
9 1 (0.46%) C#
9 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.83%) Degree
4 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.46%) OCP
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.46%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.13%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (3.21%) QA
3 3 (1.38%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (23.85%) Docker
2 5 (2.29%) Postfix
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (16.51%) Terraform
2 34 (15.60%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.50%) Grafana
4 6 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.83%) Puppet
7 3 (1.38%) Ansible
7 3 (1.38%) Kibana
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (15.14%) Sybase
2 20 (9.17%) Oracle
3 10 (4.59%) SAP
4 7 (3.21%) Splunk
5 6 (2.75%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (2.29%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.83%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.83%) IBM
7 4 (1.83%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.38%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.46%) Adobe
10 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.46%) Okta
10 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.46%) Talend
10 1 (0.46%) TIBCO