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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 142 170
Rank change year-on-year -27 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 866 651 566
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.62% 1.98% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.53% 8.73% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 433 422
10th Percentile £355 £333 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -7.89%
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 30 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £90.50 £92.50 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -19.64%

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 10,149 7,460 8,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.04% 22.67% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 5,030 5,830
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £671
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 267 168 245
10th Percentile £28.79 £29.78 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.83 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +8.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £57.28
% change year-on-year +15.56% -1.79% -2.24%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -9 681 £525 +9.38% 403
UK excluding London -51 396 £475 +5.56% 195
London -15 362 £525 +3.70% 282
Work from Home -52 221 £490 -2.00% 207
North of England -10 136 £510 +10.87% 59
Midlands -27 91 £480 +15.66% 22
West Midlands +1 88 £498 -0.50% 19
North West -31 76 £540 +25.58% 33
Scotland -30 68 £400 -11.11% 36
Yorkshire -12 42 £500 +39.16% 15
South West -20 39 £463 -9.09% 22
South East -40 33 £450 -1.37% 36
East of England +1 21 £507 +8.45%
North East -30 19 £450 -6.25% 12
Wales -14 9 £425 -10.53% 10
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 10
East Midlands -39 2 £401 +6.93% 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 39 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 35 (4.04%) Confluence
3 26 (3.00%) Apache
4 15 (1.73%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.27%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.92%) Camunda
7 8 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.46%) Quorum
1 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.46%) Ripple
2 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 475 (54.85%) AWS
2 208 (24.02%) Azure
3 155 (17.90%) GCP
4 152 (17.55%) GitHub
5 95 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 64 (7.39%) Serverless
8 55 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 45 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
12 43 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
13 41 (4.73%) OpenShift
14 40 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.19%) AWS KMS
17 18 (2.08%) Route 53
18 17 (1.96%) Azure AKS
18 17 (1.96%) Cloud Run
18 17 (1.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.81%) HTTP
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) AMQP
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (23.56%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (10.97%) NoSQL
3 89 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 84 (9.70%) MongoDB
5 67 (7.74%) MySQL
6 43 (4.97%) DynamoDB
7 40 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.46%) Redis
9 26 (3.00%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (2.54%) Flink
13 18 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
14 16 (1.85%) Big Data
15 11 (1.27%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.15%) Oracle Database
17 9 (1.04%) Couchbase
17 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
18 8 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 239 (27.60%) Git
2 233 (26.91%) Jenkins
3 154 (17.78%) JUnit
4 118 (13.63%) GitLab
5 96 (11.09%) Maven
6 87 (10.05%) Gradle
7 75 (8.66%) Mockito
8 65 (7.51%) JIRA
9 47 (5.43%) SonarQube
10 44 (5.08%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.73%) Selenium
12 25 (2.89%) JMeter
13 20 (2.31%) Liquibase
14 19 (2.19%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.08%) Gatling
16 15 (1.73%) REST Assured
17 14 (1.62%) DbUnit
17 14 (1.62%) IntelliJ
18 13 (1.50%) Bitbucket
18 13 (1.50%) jMock
General
1 187 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 174 (20.09%) Finance
3 156 (18.01%) Public Sector
4 94 (10.85%) Banking
5 69 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.81%) Retail
7 17 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.39%) Law
10 9 (1.04%) Military
11 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.69%) Publishing
12 6 (0.69%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.58%) Automotive
13 5 (0.58%) Back Office
13 5 (0.58%) Police
14 4 (0.46%) Games
14 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 505 (58.31%) Developer
2 411 (47.46%) Java Developer
3 168 (19.40%) Senior
4 130 (15.01%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 102 (11.78%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.28%) Lead
8 84 (9.70%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 61 (7.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 56 (6.47%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 36 (4.16%) Lead Developer
14 30 (3.46%) Architect
14 30 (3.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 28 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (2.89%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (2.54%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.31%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (81.64%) Spring Boot
2 238 (27.48%) Kafka
3 235 (27.14%) REST
4 211 (24.36%) RESTful
5 155 (17.90%) React
6 116 (13.39%) Node.js
7 75 (8.66%) JPA
8 74 (8.55%) Hibernate
9 68 (7.85%) AngularJS
10 66 (7.62%) HTML
11 61 (7.04%) CSS
12 59 (6.81%) Web Services
13 57 (6.58%) Spring MVC
14 46 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
15 44 (5.08%) OAuth
16 40 (4.62%) WireMock
17 39 (4.50%) Spring Cloud
18 38 (4.39%) Redux
19 35 (4.04%) HTML5
20 31 (3.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 182 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 147 (16.97%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.85%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.50%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.39%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.27%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.27%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.92%) Derivative
16 7 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.35%) Linux
2 27 (3.12%) Unix
3 9 (1.04%) Windows
4 7 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (60.85%) Microservices
2 522 (60.28%) CI/CD
3 413 (47.69%) Agile
4 304 (35.10%) DevOps
5 262 (30.25%) Containerisation
6 226 (26.10%) Software Engineering
7 197 (22.75%) TDD
8 190 (21.94%) Test Automation
9 168 (19.40%) Event-Driven
10 167 (19.28%) Scrum
11 154 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 144 (16.63%) Problem-Solving
13 137 (15.82%) Observability
14 125 (14.43%) Code Quality
15 109 (12.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 95 (10.97%) Infrastructure as Code
17 90 (10.39%) Design Patterns
18 83 (9.58%) BDD
19 76 (8.78%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 839 (96.88%) Java
2 273 (31.52%) SQL
3 121 (13.97%) JavaScript
4 102 (11.78%) TypeScript
5 99 (11.43%) Python
6 47 (5.43%) PL/SQL
7 45 (5.20%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.39%) Bash
9 12 (1.39%) Scala
10 10 (1.15%) Ruby
11 7 (0.81%) C#
12 4 (0.46%) Go
12 4 (0.46%) Solidity
13 3 (0.35%) Groovy
13 3 (0.35%) Perl
14 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.23%) PromQL
15 1 (0.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 270 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 233 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.12%) Degree
5 21 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.09%) QA
2 70 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.39%) WCAG
4 9 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.04%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.81%) GDPR
5 7 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.69%) SEPA
7 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.46%) SLA
8 3 (0.35%) EMIR
8 3 (0.35%) MiFID
9 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.12%) HL7
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.12%) ITGC
10 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 394 (45.50%) Docker
2 11 (1.27%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 373 (43.07%) Kubernetes
2 86 (9.93%) Grafana
3 84 (9.70%) Terraform
4 68 (7.85%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.20%) Ansible
6 19 (2.19%) Kibana
7 11 (1.27%) Control-M
8 7 (0.81%) Istio
9 5 (0.58%) Argo
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
12 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 111 (12.82%) Oracle
2 48 (5.54%) Google
3 30 (3.46%) Microsoft
4 26 (3.00%) Splunk
5 17 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.85%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.62%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.62%) IBM
8 12 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.27%) Solace
10 10 (1.15%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.15%) Sybase
11 9 (1.04%) Databricks
12 8 (0.92%) New Relic
13 7 (0.81%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.81%) TikTok
14 6 (0.69%) Okta
15 4 (0.46%) Confluent
15 4 (0.46%) FIS
15 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock