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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 150 173
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -18
Contract jobs citing Spring 883 587 606
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.92% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.82% 8.44% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 385 452
10th Percentile £368 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -9.52% -10.26%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £630 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +6.11% -2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 9
10th Percentile £48.50 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £59.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.36% +19.88% -34.46%

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 10,014 6,956 9,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.73% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,566 4,715 6,337
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -4.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 141 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £27.50 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 30 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 30 June 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
England +15 733 £525 +5.00% 128
UK excluding London -35 395 £478 +6.11% 99
London +5 383 £525 - 60
Work from Home -38 214 £481 -3.80% 65
North of England +10 155 £500 +7.53% 32
North West +2 98 £518 +26.68% 16
Midlands -49 74 £475 +13.10% 11
West Midlands -16 71 £475 -5.00% 10
Scotland -51 49 £405 -10.11% 6
South West +6 47 £409 -21.16% 17
South East -38 41 £450 +9.09% 17
Yorkshire -19 39 £488 -7.14% 11
East of England 0 27 £510 +9.09% 4
North East -19 23 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -13 5 £375 -21.05% 9
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 3

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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 47 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.64%) Confluence
3 29 (3.28%) Apache
4 14 (1.59%) Camunda
5 12 (1.36%) WebLogic
6 11 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.13%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.13%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.13%) nginx
8 7 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.57%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 464 (52.55%) AWS
2 220 (24.92%) Azure
3 150 (16.99%) GCP
4 148 (16.76%) GitHub
5 89 (10.08%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (8.49%) Amazon S3
7 71 (8.04%) Serverless
8 63 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
10 38 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
11 34 (3.85%) OpenShift
12 31 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (2.94%) Azure AKS
14 22 (2.49%) Route 53
15 18 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.04%) AWS KMS
16 16 (1.81%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.25%) HTTP
2 4 (0.45%) DNS
2 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (22.76%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (12.80%) NoSQL
3 92 (10.42%) MongoDB
3 92 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 66 (7.47%) MySQL
5 52 (5.89%) DynamoDB
6 50 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
8 29 (3.28%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.83%) Redis
10 24 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 22 (2.49%) Flink
12 21 (2.38%) Big Data
13 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.59%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.13%) Db2
16 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.91%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 218 (24.69%) Git
2 214 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 160 (18.12%) JUnit
4 120 (13.59%) GitLab
5 85 (9.63%) Maven
6 74 (8.38%) Gradle
7 73 (8.27%) Mockito
8 70 (7.93%) JIRA
9 45 (5.10%) Selenium
10 44 (4.98%) Cucumber
11 38 (4.30%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.17%) JMeter
13 19 (2.15%) Gatling
13 19 (2.15%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.15%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.04%) IntelliJ
14 18 (2.04%) Liquibase
15 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.47%) jMock
16 13 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 182 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.05%) Finance
3 151 (17.10%) Public Sector
4 100 (11.33%) Banking
5 57 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.94%) Retail
7 19 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Law
8 12 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.02%) Military
11 6 (0.68%) Automotive
11 6 (0.68%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Publishing
11 6 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.45%) Police
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 497 (56.29%) Developer
2 388 (43.94%) Java Developer
3 174 (19.71%) Senior
4 145 (16.42%) Java Engineer
5 104 (11.78%) Software Engineer
6 95 (10.76%) Lead
7 93 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 75 (8.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 72 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
11 57 (6.46%) Backend Developer
12 39 (4.42%) Lead Developer
13 30 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 30 (3.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 30 (3.40%) Senior Java Engineer
14 29 (3.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 29 (3.28%) Software Developer
15 28 (3.17%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (2.83%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.49%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 719 (81.43%) Spring Boot
2 249 (28.20%) Kafka
3 213 (24.12%) REST
4 210 (23.78%) RESTful
5 155 (17.55%) React
6 117 (13.25%) Node.js
7 79 (8.95%) AngularJS
8 71 (8.04%) Hibernate
8 71 (8.04%) JPA
9 58 (6.57%) HTML
10 55 (6.23%) Web Services
11 52 (5.89%) CSS
12 51 (5.78%) Spring MVC
12 51 (5.78%) WireMock
13 49 (5.55%) Spring Cloud
14 39 (4.42%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (4.19%) OAuth
16 33 (3.74%) OAuth2
17 32 (3.62%) Redux
17 32 (3.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 161 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 120 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.91%) Derivative
13 8 (0.91%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.68%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.78%) Linux
2 21 (2.38%) Unix
3 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.02%) Windows
4 5 (0.57%) VMS
5 3 (0.34%) Solaris
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (57.87%) CI/CD
2 506 (57.30%) Microservices
3 372 (42.13%) Agile
4 323 (36.58%) DevOps
5 263 (29.78%) Containerisation
6 211 (23.90%) Software Engineering
7 196 (22.20%) TDD
8 177 (20.05%) Test Automation
9 174 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
10 168 (19.03%) Event-Driven
11 150 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
12 140 (15.86%) Scrum
13 134 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 133 (15.06%) Observability
15 122 (13.82%) Code Quality
16 107 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (10.53%) BDD
18 85 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
19 75 (8.49%) Design Patterns
19 75 (8.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 849 (96.15%) Java
2 262 (29.67%) SQL
3 124 (14.04%) JavaScript
4 110 (12.46%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.10%) Python
6 46 (5.21%) Kotlin
7 32 (3.62%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.93%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.59%) Go
10 13 (1.47%) Scala
11 10 (1.13%) C#
12 9 (1.02%) Ruby
13 8 (0.91%) Bash
14 6 (0.68%) Perl
15 5 (0.57%) Solidity
16 2 (0.23%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 265 (30.01%) Security Cleared
2 230 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.74%) Degree
5 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.65%) QA
2 69 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.25%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.13%) WCAG
5 9 (1.02%) SEPA
6 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.79%) GDPR
7 7 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.57%) PSD2
8 5 (0.57%) SLA
9 4 (0.45%) NIST
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 389 (44.05%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 378 (42.81%) Kubernetes
2 91 (10.31%) Grafana
3 88 (9.97%) Terraform
4 72 (8.15%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.08%) Ansible
6 14 (1.59%) Kibana
7 7 (0.79%) Istio
8 6 (0.68%) Argo
9 5 (0.57%) Control-M
10 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
Vendors
1 92 (10.42%) Oracle
2 46 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.42%) Google
4 34 (3.85%) Splunk
5 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.81%) IBM
7 15 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.47%) Solace
10 12 (1.36%) Sybase
11 11 (1.25%) Databricks
11 11 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.02%) Checkmarx
13 7 (0.79%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.68%) New Relic
14 6 (0.68%) Okta
14 6 (0.68%) TikTok
15 5 (0.57%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.57%) Informatica