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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 168 175
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 -52
Contract jobs citing Spring 809 507 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.74% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 7.65% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 324 412
10th Percentile £357 £358 £375
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +4.44% -6.44% -8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 11
10th Percentile - £52.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +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 9,351 6,624 8,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.69% 22.69% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,165 4,554 6,183
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 113 244
10th Percentile £34.75 £29.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £82.79 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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Top 16 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 12 May 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 +35 683 £505 -3.81% 166
UK excluding London -2 380 £470 +4.44% 105
London +18 336 £525 -3.23% 78
Work from Home -18 204 £475 -9.52% 81
North of England +19 167 £475 - 45
North West +37 121 £468 +7.90% 30
Midlands -19 67 £469 +11.67% 12
West Midlands -15 66 £470 +6.70% 9
Scotland -43 46 £438 -2.78% 4
South East -24 40 £436 -12.75% 26
South West -5 38 £409 -20.20% 14
Yorkshire -42 28 £475 -11.63% 8
East of England -3 26 £510 +9.09% 3
North East +1 25 £463 -0.54% 7
East Midlands -46 1 £450 +21.13% 3
Wales - 1 - - 1

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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 46 (5.69%) Confluence
2 43 (5.32%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.85%) Camunda
5 8 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.99%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.74%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.74%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 441 (54.51%) AWS
2 206 (25.46%) Azure
3 148 (18.29%) GitHub
4 133 (16.44%) GCP
5 85 (10.51%) GitHub Actions
6 84 (10.38%) Serverless
7 79 (9.77%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (4.08%) OpenShift
14 32 (3.96%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.22%) Cloud Run
17 18 (2.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.36%) HTTP
2 10 (1.24%) SSL
3 6 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.49%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (21.63%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (13.23%) NoSQL
3 86 (10.63%) MongoDB
4 77 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 62 (7.66%) MySQL
6 54 (6.67%) DynamoDB
7 43 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.21%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.35%) Big Data
11 19 (2.35%) Redis
12 17 (2.10%) Flink
13 15 (1.85%) DocumentDB
14 13 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.11%) DB2
15 9 (1.11%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 195 (24.10%) Git
2 173 (21.38%) Jenkins
3 134 (16.56%) JUnit
4 132 (16.32%) GitLab
5 72 (8.90%) JIRA
6 68 (8.41%) Gradle
6 68 (8.41%) Maven
7 62 (7.66%) Mockito
8 41 (5.07%) Cucumber
9 33 (4.08%) SonarQube
10 32 (3.96%) Selenium
11 23 (2.84%) IntelliJ
11 23 (2.84%) JMeter
12 16 (1.98%) WebDriver
13 13 (1.61%) Gatling
14 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.48%) Liquibase
15 11 (1.36%) DbUnit
15 11 (1.36%) jMock
16 10 (1.24%) CircleCI
General
1 155 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 146 (18.05%) Finance
2 146 (18.05%) Public Sector
3 80 (9.89%) Banking
4 39 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (2.35%) Retail
6 15 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (0.99%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.74%) Automotive
9 6 (0.74%) Front Office
9 6 (0.74%) Law
9 6 (0.74%) Publishing
9 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.49%) Military
11 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 465 (57.48%) Developer
2 328 (40.54%) Java Developer
3 162 (20.02%) Senior
4 133 (16.44%) Java Engineer
5 95 (11.74%) Senior Developer
6 91 (11.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 91 (11.25%) Software Engineer
7 79 (9.77%) Lead
8 71 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
9 50 (6.18%) Java Software Engineer
10 42 (5.19%) Backend Developer
11 33 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (3.96%) Software Developer
13 31 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (3.71%) Lead Developer
15 26 (3.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 25 (3.09%) Architect
17 22 (2.72%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.47%) Senior Java Engineer
19 19 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 661 (81.71%) Spring Boot
2 214 (26.45%) Kafka
3 197 (24.35%) RESTful
4 174 (21.51%) REST
5 159 (19.65%) React
6 122 (15.08%) Node.js
7 98 (12.11%) AngularJS
8 69 (8.53%) Hibernate
9 66 (8.16%) HTML
10 53 (6.55%) CSS
11 51 (6.30%) Spring MVC
12 47 (5.81%) JPA
13 45 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
14 44 (5.44%) WireMock
15 42 (5.19%) Web Services
16 41 (5.07%) OAuth
17 38 (4.70%) OAuth2
18 37 (4.57%) Next.js
19 36 (4.45%) OpenTelemetry
20 33 (4.08%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 141 (17.43%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.87%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.49%) Derivative
14 4 (0.49%) Equities
14 4 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.56%) Linux
2 15 (1.85%) Unix
3 10 (1.24%) Windows
4 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (57.97%) Microservices
2 450 (55.62%) CI/CD
3 302 (37.33%) Agile
4 278 (34.36%) DevOps
5 261 (32.26%) Containerisation
6 179 (22.13%) Software Engineering
7 175 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 168 (20.77%) TDD
9 149 (18.42%) Test Automation
10 142 (17.55%) Event-Driven
11 134 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
12 122 (15.08%) Code Quality
13 121 (14.96%) Observability
14 110 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (12.24%) Scrum
16 96 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (10.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 75 (9.27%) BDD
19 68 (8.41%) Mentoring
20 67 (8.28%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 761 (94.07%) Java
2 210 (25.96%) SQL
3 125 (15.45%) JavaScript
4 109 (13.47%) TypeScript
5 93 (11.50%) Python
6 54 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.22%) Go
8 13 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 13 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.24%) Scala
10 7 (0.87%) Bash
10 7 (0.87%) C#
11 6 (0.74%) Perl
11 6 (0.74%) Ruby
12 3 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) Korn
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 248 (30.66%) Security Cleared
2 213 (26.33%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.08%) Degree
4 29 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.49%) OCP
9 4 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) CISSP
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) OSCP
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.65%) QA
2 56 (6.92%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.85%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.61%) WCAG
5 12 (1.48%) SEPA
6 9 (1.11%) GDPR
7 8 (0.99%) PSD2
8 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 4 (0.49%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.25%) EMIR
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 350 (43.26%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 368 (45.49%) Kubernetes
2 99 (12.24%) Terraform
3 96 (11.87%) Grafana
4 64 (7.91%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.34%) Ansible
6 14 (1.73%) Argo
7 12 (1.48%) Kibana
8 10 (1.24%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
11 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (7.42%) Oracle
2 42 (5.19%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.83%) Google
4 30 (3.71%) Splunk
5 14 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.11%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.11%) IBM
8 9 (1.11%) Solace
9 7 (0.87%) Databricks
10 6 (0.74%) Adobe
10 6 (0.74%) Confluent
10 6 (0.74%) ForgeRock
10 6 (0.74%) Okta
10 6 (0.74%) Sybase
11 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.62%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.62%) SAP