Spring Contract Job Trends

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 180 217
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 -126
Contract jobs citing Spring 620 496 482
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.46% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 6.68% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 310 361
10th Percentile £343 £356 £403
25th Percentile £410 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +2.38% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £638 £766 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 4
10th Percentile £40.00 - £51.53
25th Percentile £52.50 - £56.17
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £68.75
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.63
90th Percentile £62.13 - £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £68.75
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,305 7,429 9,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.92% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 4,710 6,717
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 92 173
10th Percentile £31.10 £21.33 £32.60
25th Percentile £44.01 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spring job vacancy trend in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 December 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
England +17 485 £485 -15.65% 310
UK excluding London +15 308 £462 +2.67% 231
London +8 254 £525 -10.26% 113
Work from Home +23 183 £500 +5.26% 207
North of England +10 121 £465 +3.33% 87
North West +25 87 £450 - 54
Scotland -5 81 £550 +29.41% 6
Midlands -23 44 £430 -26.89% 20
South East +5 43 £410 +5.13% 69
West Midlands -23 36 £455 -22.64% 11
Yorkshire -32 23 £475 -20.83% 24
North East -4 14 £475 +6.74% 10
South West -19 11 £500 -9.09% 30
Wales +7 10 £475 +18.75% 8
East Midlands - 8 £308 - 9
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -28 2 £450 +20.00% 13

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 22 (3.55%) Confluence
2 17 (2.74%) Apache
3 11 (1.77%) JBoss
3 11 (1.77%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.13%) CMS
5 5 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.65%) Mule
7 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.48%) Camunda
7 3 (0.48%) CICS
7 3 (0.48%) nginx
7 3 (0.48%) WordPress
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.32%) Apache TomEE
8 2 (0.32%) Drupal
8 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Fidessa
1 6 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 321 (51.77%) AWS
2 196 (31.61%) Azure
3 107 (17.26%) GCP
4 105 (16.94%) GitHub
5 57 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (8.06%) Serverless
7 46 (7.42%) OpenShift
8 38 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
10 26 (4.19%) Azure AKS
11 24 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (2.10%) Datadog
16 11 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.77%) Cloud Run
16 11 (1.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.45%) SSL
2 5 (0.81%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.65%) HTTP
3 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (19.84%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (18.87%) MongoDB
3 89 (14.35%) Relational Database
4 84 (13.55%) NoSQL
5 44 (7.10%) MySQL
6 31 (5.00%) DB2
7 29 (4.68%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.74%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 16 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
10 15 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.94%) Oracle Database
12 11 (1.77%) Redis
13 10 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.45%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.45%) HBase
15 8 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.13%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.65%) Big Data
17 4 (0.65%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 152 (24.52%) Git
2 140 (22.58%) JUnit
3 131 (21.13%) Jenkins
4 95 (15.32%) GitLab
5 57 (9.19%) Cucumber
6 48 (7.74%) Maven
7 46 (7.42%) Mockito
8 43 (6.94%) Gradle
8 43 (6.94%) JIRA
9 29 (4.68%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (4.35%) Selenium
11 21 (3.39%) JMeter
11 21 (3.39%) Postman
12 20 (3.23%) IntelliJ
13 19 (3.06%) SonarQube
14 15 (2.42%) Cypress.io
14 15 (2.42%) Eclipse
15 12 (1.94%) Artifactory
16 11 (1.77%) Gatling
17 9 (1.45%) Bitbucket
General
1 186 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 148 (23.87%) Finance
3 110 (17.74%) Banking
4 96 (15.48%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 14 (2.26%) Front Office
7 14 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.13%) Retail
10 5 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.81%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.81%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.48%) Electronics
12 3 (0.48%) Law
12 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 398 (64.19%) Developer
2 312 (50.32%) Java Developer
3 123 (19.84%) Senior
4 96 (15.48%) Senior Developer
5 85 (13.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 83 (13.39%) Senior Java Developer
7 78 (12.58%) Java Engineer
8 53 (8.55%) Lead
9 52 (8.39%) Software Engineer
10 43 (6.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 32 (5.16%) SQL Developer
12 27 (4.35%) Lead Developer
13 25 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
14 23 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 22 (3.55%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 21 (3.39%) Architect
17 20 (3.23%) AWS Developer
17 20 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
17 20 (3.23%) Linux Developer
18 19 (3.06%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 459 (74.03%) Spring Boot
2 198 (31.94%) Kafka
3 151 (24.35%) RESTful
4 135 (21.77%) React
5 119 (19.19%) REST
6 107 (17.26%) AngularJS
7 91 (14.68%) Hibernate
8 82 (13.23%) HTML
9 70 (11.29%) Node.js
10 57 (9.19%) CSS
11 54 (8.71%) JSON
12 42 (6.77%) JMS
13 39 (6.29%) OAuth
14 37 (5.97%) JPA
15 35 (5.65%) OAuth2
16 30 (4.84%) Spring Cloud
17 28 (4.52%) HTML5
18 27 (4.35%) SOAP
19 26 (4.19%) XML
20 25 (4.03%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 86 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.68%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.35%) Equities
5 26 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 25 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.29%) Derivative
12 7 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 73 (11.77%) Linux
2 21 (3.39%) Unix
3 8 (1.29%) Windows
4 6 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (59.52%) Microservices
2 342 (55.16%) CI/CD
3 268 (43.23%) Agile
4 202 (32.58%) DevOps
5 180 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 168 (27.10%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (23.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 116 (18.71%) Software Engineering
10 96 (15.48%) Event-Driven
11 92 (14.84%) TDD
12 90 (14.52%) SDLC
13 88 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
14 72 (11.61%) Scrum
15 69 (11.13%) Code Quality
16 64 (10.32%) Mentoring
17 62 (10.00%) Observability
18 61 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
19 57 (9.19%) API Design
20 54 (8.71%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 591 (95.32%) Java
2 175 (28.23%) SQL
3 103 (16.61%) JavaScript
4 87 (14.03%) Python
5 78 (12.58%) TypeScript
6 35 (5.65%) Shell Script
7 32 (5.16%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.58%) Ruby
9 13 (2.10%) Scala
10 10 (1.61%) Groovy
11 9 (1.45%) Bash
12 8 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.81%) C#
14 3 (0.48%) Go
14 3 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.32%) C++
15 2 (0.32%) COBOL
15 2 (0.32%) PHP
15 2 (0.32%) Rust
15 2 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 133 (21.45%) Security Cleared
2 111 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.16%) Degree
4 26 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.94%) OCP
6 12 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.48%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.16%) CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.32%) QA
2 36 (5.81%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.39%) ISO 20022
4 13 (2.10%) WCAG
5 12 (1.94%) PSD2
5 12 (1.94%) SEPA
6 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.65%) GDPR
8 3 (0.48%) HL7
9 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 257 (41.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 265 (42.74%) Kubernetes
2 88 (14.19%) Terraform
3 41 (6.61%) Grafana
4 38 (6.13%) Ansible
5 20 (3.23%) Argo
6 16 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.42%) Progress Chef
8 11 (1.77%) Kibana
9 9 (1.45%) Puppet
10 5 (0.81%) Istio
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Rancher
11 2 (0.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
12 1 (0.16%) Control-M
12 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (10.65%) Oracle
2 34 (5.48%) Google
3 30 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 27 (4.35%) Sybase
5 20 (3.23%) Splunk
6 18 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.42%) VMware
8 9 (1.45%) webMethods
9 7 (1.13%) CA Agile Central
9 7 (1.13%) IBM
10 6 (0.97%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.81%) Confluent
11 5 (0.81%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.81%) SAP
12 4 (0.65%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.65%) Solace
12 4 (0.65%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.48%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.48%) PagerDuty