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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 153 173
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -37
Contract jobs citing Spring 801 522 593
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.81% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.36% 7.93% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 334 431
10th Percentile £384 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 11
10th Percentile - £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +41.67% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.75 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +8.64% +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 9,583 6,581 9,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,302 4,512 6,285
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 117 257
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.38 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.11 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.03 £81.15 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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

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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 3 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 3 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 3 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 +21 676 £524 +4.80% 187
UK excluding London -13 367 £475 +5.56% 122
London +5 341 £525 - 92
Work from Home -27 202 £475 -5.00% 173
North of England +14 149 £479 +3.09% 51
North West +27 104 £500 +24.38% 31
Midlands -29 76 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -15 72 £470 -1.16% 2
South West +6 44 £409 -23.91% 20
Scotland -49 42 £417 -7.28% 5
South East -40 34 £525 +27.27% 14
Yorkshire -38 28 £450 -14.29% 13
East of England -4 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -12 24 £450 -4.76% 8
East Midlands -46 3 £402 +7.20% 4
Northern Ireland -1 1 - - 12
Wales -12 1 - - 10

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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 45 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.49%) Confluence
3 23 (2.87%) Apache
4 15 (1.87%) Camunda
5 10 (1.25%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.25%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.00%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.75%) nginx
8 6 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.50%) JBoss
11 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) CMS
12 2 (0.25%) Drupal
12 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 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
1 5 (0.62%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.50%) Quorum
2 4 (0.50%) Ripple
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 422 (52.68%) AWS
2 197 (24.59%) Azure
3 147 (18.35%) GitHub
4 131 (16.35%) GCP
5 90 (11.24%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (8.99%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.74%) Serverless
8 61 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 40 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.00%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.25%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (2.75%) Route 53
18 19 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (2.37%) Cloud Run
19 18 (2.25%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.12%) HTTP
2 5 (0.62%) SSL
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
3 4 (0.50%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (22.60%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (13.36%) NoSQL
3 90 (11.24%) MongoDB
4 80 (9.99%) Relational Database
5 57 (7.12%) MySQL
6 52 (6.49%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.12%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.00%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.62%) Big Data
12 19 (2.37%) Redis
13 18 (2.25%) Flink
14 12 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.37%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.25%) DocumentDB
17 8 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.00%) DB2
18 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 195 (24.34%) Git
2 184 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 138 (17.23%) JUnit
4 127 (15.86%) GitLab
5 71 (8.86%) JIRA
6 70 (8.74%) Gradle
7 68 (8.49%) Maven
8 67 (8.36%) Mockito
9 44 (5.49%) Selenium
10 43 (5.37%) Cucumber
11 36 (4.49%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.12%) JMeter
13 24 (3.00%) IntelliJ
14 20 (2.50%) REST Assured
15 19 (2.37%) Gatling
15 19 (2.37%) WebDriver
16 18 (2.25%) Liquibase
17 14 (1.75%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.62%) jMock
18 13 (1.62%) Serenity BDD
General
1 155 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 150 (18.73%) Finance
3 135 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 90 (11.24%) Banking
5 46 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.00%) Retail
7 15 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.37%) Law
8 11 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.75%) Automotive
11 6 (0.75%) Front Office
11 6 (0.75%) Publishing
12 5 (0.62%) Military
13 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 439 (54.81%) Developer
2 321 (40.07%) Java Developer
3 169 (21.10%) Senior
4 141 (17.60%) Java Engineer
5 108 (13.48%) Software Engineer
6 96 (11.99%) Senior Developer
7 82 (10.24%) Lead
8 78 (9.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 73 (9.11%) Senior Java Developer
10 60 (7.49%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (5.24%) Backend Developer
12 31 (3.87%) Software Developer
13 30 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 29 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 29 (3.62%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.00%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (2.87%) Architect
16 23 (2.87%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.25%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (81.65%) Spring Boot
2 223 (27.84%) Kafka
3 188 (23.47%) RESTful
4 183 (22.85%) REST
5 156 (19.48%) React
6 121 (15.11%) Node.js
7 81 (10.11%) AngularJS
8 59 (7.37%) Hibernate
9 55 (6.87%) JPA
10 52 (6.49%) HTML
11 51 (6.37%) Spring Cloud
12 48 (5.99%) Web Services
12 48 (5.99%) WireMock
13 44 (5.49%) CSS
13 44 (5.49%) Spring MVC
14 39 (4.87%) OpenTelemetry
15 37 (4.62%) OAuth
16 36 (4.49%) Swagger
17 33 (4.12%) Next.js
17 33 (4.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 145 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 101 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 15 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.50%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.75%) Blockchain
15 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.62%) Virtual Team
16 4 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
16 4 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.12%) Linux
2 15 (1.87%) Unix
3 10 (1.25%) Windows
4 9 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) 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 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (58.18%) Microservices
2 447 (55.81%) CI/CD
3 314 (39.20%) Agile
4 278 (34.71%) DevOps
5 250 (31.21%) Containerisation
6 198 (24.72%) Software Engineering
7 164 (20.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 163 (20.35%) TDD
9 143 (17.85%) Test Automation
10 137 (17.10%) Event-Driven
11 131 (16.35%) Observability
12 121 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (13.98%) Scrum
15 110 (13.73%) Code Quality
16 84 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (10.24%) BDD
17 82 (10.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 67 (8.36%) Mentoring
19 61 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 758 (94.63%) Java
2 230 (28.71%) SQL
3 120 (14.98%) JavaScript
4 115 (14.36%) TypeScript
5 89 (11.11%) Python
6 49 (6.12%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.12%) PL/SQL
8 15 (1.87%) Go
9 12 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.25%) Scala
11 9 (1.12%) C#
12 7 (0.87%) Bash
12 7 (0.87%) Ruby
13 6 (0.75%) Perl
14 5 (0.62%) Solidity
15 2 (0.25%) Groovy
15 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 2 (0.25%) PHP
15 2 (0.25%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 238 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 209 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 31 (3.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.75%) Degree
5 23 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.87%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.86%) QA
2 62 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.50%) ISO 20022
3 12 (1.50%) WCAG
4 10 (1.25%) SEPA
5 8 (1.00%) GDPR
6 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.75%) PSD2
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) SLA
9 4 (0.50%) NIST
10 3 (0.37%) EMIR
10 3 (0.37%) MiFID
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 355 (44.32%) Docker
2 11 (1.37%) Postfix
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 352 (43.95%) Kubernetes
2 105 (13.11%) Grafana
3 87 (10.86%) Terraform
4 74 (9.24%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.75%) Ansible
6 13 (1.62%) Argo
7 11 (1.37%) Istio
8 10 (1.25%) Kibana
9 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) Consul
10 2 (0.25%) Rancher
10 2 (0.25%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 63 (7.87%) Oracle
2 40 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.75%) Splunk
4 28 (3.50%) Google
5 17 (2.12%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.62%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.37%) Solace
10 10 (1.25%) IBM
10 10 (1.25%) Sybase
11 9 (1.12%) Checkmarx
12 7 (0.87%) Databricks
13 6 (0.75%) Confluent
13 6 (0.75%) Okta
14 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.62%) New Relic
14 5 (0.62%) Teradata
15 4 (0.50%) SAP