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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 169 215
Rank change year-on-year +11 +46 -127
Contract jobs citing Spring 624 531 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.45% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.68% 6.69% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 351 409
10th Percentile £339 £365 £400
25th Percentile £408 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £638 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.63% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £44.50 - £58.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 8,130 7,934 10,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 21.66% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 5,021 7,460
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 114 190
10th Percentile £29.50 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.19 £36.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 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
England +15 485 £500 -9.09% 307
UK excluding London +10 312 £465 +3.33% 184
London -3 263 £525 -10.26% 156
Work from Home +29 198 £500 - 203
Scotland +1 91 £538 +26.47% 16
North of England -5 87 £473 +5.00% 55
Midlands +8 64 £429 -26.98% 20
North West +2 60 £465 +4.79% 38
West Midlands -8 46 £500 -14.89% 14
South East +24 41 £405 -10.00% 54
East Midlands - 18 £368 - 6
Yorkshire -21 17 £525 +16.67% 10
South West -4 16 £503 -7.59% 23
Wales +13 13 £475 +13.43% 4
North East -9 10 £550 +23.60% 7
Northern Ireland -10 2 £425 -10.53% 8
East of England -29 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 20 (3.21%) JBoss
2 19 (3.04%) Confluence
3 17 (2.72%) Apache
4 14 (2.24%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.76%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.28%) CMS
7 7 (1.12%) Camunda
8 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.64%) Mule
10 3 (0.48%) Alfresco
10 3 (0.48%) nginx
10 3 (0.48%) WordPress
11 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.32%) CICS
11 2 (0.32%) Drupal
11 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
12 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.16%) Apache TomEE
12 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Fidessa
1 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 310 (49.68%) AWS
2 183 (29.33%) Azure
3 102 (16.35%) GCP
4 86 (13.78%) GitHub
5 53 (8.49%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.21%) Serverless
7 43 (6.89%) Amazon S3
8 41 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
10 38 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (5.77%) Amazon SQS
12 24 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (3.53%) Azure AKS
15 19 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (2.08%) Datadog
18 12 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
19 11 (1.76%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.64%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LAN
4 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (22.60%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (18.59%) MongoDB
3 106 (16.99%) Relational Database
4 71 (11.38%) NoSQL
5 49 (7.85%) MySQL
6 44 (7.05%) DB2
7 38 (6.09%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.04%) RDBMS
11 17 (2.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.56%) SQL Server
13 14 (2.24%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.44%) Redis
15 8 (1.28%) HBase
16 5 (0.80%) Big Data
16 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
17 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 4 (0.64%) Tick Data
18 3 (0.48%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 192 (30.77%) JUnit
2 166 (26.60%) Git
3 143 (22.92%) Jenkins
4 71 (11.38%) Maven
5 70 (11.22%) Cucumber
6 64 (10.26%) GitLab
7 57 (9.13%) Mockito
8 52 (8.33%) JIRA
9 43 (6.89%) Gradle
10 35 (5.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (5.29%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.85%) Selenium
13 21 (3.37%) Postman
14 20 (3.21%) JMeter
15 17 (2.72%) Eclipse
16 15 (2.40%) Artifactory
16 15 (2.40%) IntelliJ
17 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
18 10 (1.60%) Cypress.io
18 10 (1.60%) Subversion
General
1 204 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 158 (25.32%) Finance
3 118 (18.91%) Banking
4 77 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 73 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (6.57%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.37%) Front Office
8 20 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.64%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.48%) Automotive
14 3 (0.48%) Electronics
14 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Retail
14 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 417 (66.83%) Developer
2 351 (56.25%) Java Developer
3 119 (19.07%) Senior
4 95 (15.22%) Senior Developer
5 92 (14.74%) Senior Java Developer
6 72 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 66 (10.58%) Java Engineer
8 64 (10.26%) Lead
9 51 (8.17%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.37%) SQL Developer
11 42 (6.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 32 (5.13%) AWS Developer
12 32 (5.13%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 32 (5.13%) Lead Developer
13 29 (4.65%) Linux Developer
14 28 (4.49%) Lead Java Developer
15 24 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
16 22 (3.53%) Architect
17 20 (3.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 16 (2.56%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (66.51%) Spring Boot
2 206 (33.01%) Kafka
3 156 (25.00%) RESTful
4 138 (22.12%) React
5 134 (21.47%) REST
6 112 (17.95%) Hibernate
7 102 (16.35%) AngularJS
8 75 (12.02%) HTML
9 58 (9.29%) CSS
10 54 (8.65%) JSON
10 54 (8.65%) SOAP
11 52 (8.33%) JPA
12 50 (8.01%) Node.js
13 47 (7.53%) JMS
14 44 (7.05%) Web Services
15 40 (6.41%) OAuth
16 38 (6.09%) Spring Cloud
17 34 (5.45%) XML
18 32 (5.13%) J2EE
19 29 (4.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 76 (12.18%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.41%) Data Structures
4 37 (5.93%) Equities
5 24 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.04%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.76%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.44%) Derivative
11 9 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
16 3 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
17 2 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
17 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.19%) Linux
2 36 (5.77%) Unix
3 8 (1.28%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (57.69%) Microservices
2 329 (52.72%) CI/CD
3 320 (51.28%) Agile
4 186 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (29.17%) DevOps
6 155 (24.84%) Containerisation
7 137 (21.96%) Full-Stack Development
8 123 (19.71%) Software Engineering
9 105 (16.83%) Test Automation
10 102 (16.35%) SDLC
11 99 (15.87%) TDD
12 90 (14.42%) Scrum
13 71 (11.38%) Event-Driven
14 66 (10.58%) Mentoring
15 65 (10.42%) Code Quality
15 65 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 65 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 61 (9.78%) Multithreading
17 58 (9.29%) Performance Tuning
18 55 (8.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 610 (97.76%) Java
2 210 (33.65%) SQL
3 103 (16.51%) Python
4 92 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 75 (12.02%) TypeScript
6 53 (8.49%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.04%) Ruby
8 14 (2.24%) Scala
9 13 (2.08%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.60%) Groovy
10 10 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.44%) Bash
12 6 (0.96%) C#
12 6 (0.96%) C++
12 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.80%) C
13 5 (0.80%) Perl
14 3 (0.48%) Rust
15 2 (0.32%) Go
15 2 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 120 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 100 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.29%) Degree
4 28 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.76%) OCP
6 11 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
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%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.06%) QA
2 23 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.56%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.60%) WCAG
5 8 (1.28%) GDPR
5 8 (1.28%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.28%) PSD2
5 8 (1.28%) SEPA
6 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) HL7
System Software
1 246 (39.42%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.64%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 225 (36.06%) Kubernetes
2 65 (10.42%) Terraform
3 36 (5.77%) Ansible
3 36 (5.77%) Grafana
4 16 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.40%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.08%) Argo
7 9 (1.44%) Kibana
7 9 (1.44%) Puppet
7 9 (1.44%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.32%) Rancher
8 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 70 (11.22%) Oracle
2 47 (7.53%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.41%) Sybase
4 30 (4.81%) Google
5 23 (3.69%) Splunk
6 18 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.72%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
8 16 (2.56%) IBM
8 16 (2.56%) VMware
9 10 (1.60%) webMethods
10 9 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.28%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.80%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.64%) Calypso
13 4 (0.64%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.64%) SAP
13 4 (0.64%) TIBCO