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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 150 167
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 883 642 561
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.94% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.68% 8.59% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 430 417
10th Percentile £353 £332 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -7.57%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £633 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 6
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.00 £41.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year - +27.29% -29.57%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £92.50 £65.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +15.45% +7.71% -27.05%

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 10,178 7,470 8,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.15% 22.56% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,634 5,045 5,852
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £635 £665
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 166 248
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.13 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% +2.21% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.11 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.58 £79.35 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.10%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -7 695 £525 +9.38% 292
UK excluding London -42 405 £475 +5.56% 160
London -3 364 £525 +3.45% 193
Work from Home -47 226 £490 -2.00% 154
North of England -8 137 £510 +12.21% 48
Midlands -21 91 £480 +15.66% 21
West Midlands -1 88 £498 -0.50% 19
North West -24 77 £540 +32.19% 31
Scotland -33 66 £400 -11.11% 26
Yorkshire -11 42 £500 +39.16% 9
South West -12 40 £436 -14.25% 18
South East -47 38 £450 -1.37% 28
East of England +9 25 £510 +9.09%
North East -28 19 £450 -6.25% 9
Wales -18 9 £425 -10.53% 7
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 12
East Midlands -46 2 £401 +6.93% 2

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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 42 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.08%) Confluence
3 27 (3.06%) Apache
4 16 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.25%) nginx
6 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.91%) Camunda
7 8 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.45%) Quorum
1 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.45%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 482 (54.59%) AWS
2 220 (24.92%) Azure
3 159 (18.01%) GCP
4 152 (17.21%) GitHub
5 95 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 64 (7.25%) Serverless
8 54 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
11 44 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
13 41 (4.64%) OpenShift
14 39 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (2.49%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.15%) AWS KMS
18 18 (2.04%) Route 53
19 17 (1.93%) Cloud Run
19 17 (1.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.02%) HTTPS
2 8 (0.91%) HTTP
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (11.21%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.31%) Relational Database
4 87 (9.85%) MongoDB
5 65 (7.36%) MySQL
6 43 (4.87%) DynamoDB
7 40 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.51%) Redis
9 28 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.60%) Flink
13 18 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
14 17 (1.93%) Big Data
15 11 (1.25%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.02%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.91%) Couchbase
17 8 (0.91%) Db2
17 8 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 240 (27.18%) Git
2 234 (26.50%) Jenkins
3 155 (17.55%) JUnit
4 120 (13.59%) GitLab
5 96 (10.87%) Maven
6 89 (10.08%) Gradle
7 76 (8.61%) Mockito
8 66 (7.47%) JIRA
9 46 (5.21%) SonarQube
10 44 (4.98%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.64%) Selenium
12 25 (2.83%) JMeter
13 20 (2.27%) Liquibase
14 19 (2.15%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.04%) Gatling
16 16 (1.81%) REST Assured
17 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 14 (1.59%) IntelliJ
18 13 (1.47%) jMock
19 12 (1.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 180 (20.39%) Finance
3 157 (17.78%) Public Sector
4 97 (10.99%) Banking
5 69 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.62%) Retail
7 17 (1.93%) Investment Banking
7 17 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Law
9 9 (1.02%) Military
10 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.68%) Publishing
11 6 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.57%) Automotive
12 5 (0.57%) Police
13 4 (0.45%) Back Office
13 4 (0.45%) Front Office
13 4 (0.45%) Games
13 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 514 (58.21%) Developer
2 420 (47.57%) Java Developer
3 168 (19.03%) Senior
4 130 (14.72%) Java Engineer
5 107 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 99 (11.21%) Senior Developer
7 91 (10.31%) Lead
8 81 (9.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (7.36%) Java Software Engineer
10 63 (7.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 56 (6.34%) Backend Developer
12 38 (4.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 38 (4.30%) Software Developer
13 34 (3.85%) Lead Developer
14 30 (3.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 28 (3.17%) Architect
16 27 (3.06%) Lead Java Developer
17 25 (2.83%) Senior Java Engineer
18 22 (2.49%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.38%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 725 (82.11%) Spring Boot
2 244 (27.63%) Kafka
3 236 (26.73%) REST
4 218 (24.69%) RESTful
5 160 (18.12%) React
6 115 (13.02%) Node.js
7 76 (8.61%) JPA
8 75 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 73 (8.27%) AngularJS
10 65 (7.36%) HTML
11 62 (7.02%) Web Services
12 60 (6.80%) CSS
13 56 (6.34%) Spring MVC
14 48 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
15 45 (5.10%) OAuth
16 40 (4.53%) WireMock
17 39 (4.42%) Spring Cloud
18 37 (4.19%) Redux
19 34 (3.85%) HTML5
20 32 (3.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 187 (21.18%) Cloud Native
2 149 (16.87%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.91%) Derivative
15 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
15 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.46%) Linux
2 28 (3.17%) Unix
3 9 (1.02%) Windows
4 8 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.45%) Solaris
5 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (61.38%) Microservices
2 537 (60.82%) CI/CD
3 416 (47.11%) Agile
4 316 (35.79%) DevOps
5 267 (30.24%) Containerisation
6 231 (26.16%) Software Engineering
7 198 (22.42%) TDD
8 190 (21.52%) Test Automation
9 175 (19.82%) Event-Driven
10 169 (19.14%) Scrum
11 155 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 154 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
13 149 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 139 (15.74%) Observability
15 129 (14.61%) Code Quality
16 117 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 98 (11.10%) Infrastructure as Code
18 91 (10.31%) Design Patterns
19 84 (9.51%) BDD
20 78 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 856 (96.94%) Java
2 275 (31.14%) SQL
3 123 (13.93%) JavaScript
4 106 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 104 (11.78%) Python
6 48 (5.44%) Kotlin
7 45 (5.10%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.47%) Scala
10 12 (1.36%) Bash
11 10 (1.13%) Ruby
12 7 (0.79%) C#
13 6 (0.68%) Go
14 5 (0.57%) Perl
15 4 (0.45%) Solidity
16 3 (0.34%) Groovy
17 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.23%) PromQL
18 1 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 270 (30.58%) Security Cleared
2 232 (26.27%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.74%) Degree
5 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.87%) QA
2 73 (8.27%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.36%) WCAG
4 9 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.02%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.79%) GDPR
5 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.68%) SEPA
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 3 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.34%) EMIR
8 3 (0.34%) MiFID
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) ITGC
9 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 401 (45.41%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 385 (43.60%) Kubernetes
2 88 (9.97%) Grafana
3 83 (9.40%) Terraform
4 71 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 44 (4.98%) Ansible
6 19 (2.15%) Kibana
7 11 (1.25%) Control-M
8 7 (0.79%) Istio
9 5 (0.57%) Argo
10 3 (0.34%) Bosun
10 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 114 (12.91%) Oracle
2 47 (5.32%) Google
3 32 (3.62%) Microsoft
4 27 (3.06%) Splunk
5 17 (1.93%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.59%) IBM
7 13 (1.47%) Solace
8 11 (1.25%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.25%) Sybase
9 10 (1.13%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.13%) Databricks
10 8 (0.91%) New Relic
10 8 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.79%) Okta
11 7 (0.79%) TikTok
12 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.45%) Confluent
13 4 (0.45%) FIS