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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 151 175
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -39
Contract jobs citing Spring 813 526 588
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.82% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.42% 7.97% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 335 430
10th Percentile £382 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +6.62% -6.21% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 11
10th Percentile - £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +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 £57.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 9,652 6,603 9,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.64% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,335 4,534 6,269
10th Percentile £363 £361 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
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 283 110 254
10th Percentile £31.33 £28.91 £21.96
25th Percentile £51.63 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.05 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.47
% change year-on-year - +28.80% -22.36%

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 30 May 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 30 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 30 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 +25 689 £521 +4.10% 146
UK excluding London -18 372 £475 +6.62% 101
London +17 346 £525 - 70
Work from Home -37 203 £476 -4.75% 79
North of England +18 155 £478 +2.69% 42
North West +22 109 £500 +24.38% 25
Midlands -36 75 £469 +11.67% 6
West Midlands -25 71 £470 -1.05% 2
South West -2 44 £409 -21.16% 18
Scotland -50 41 £417 -7.28% 2
South East -40 36 £513 +12.33% 16
Yorkshire -43 28 £450 -14.29% 12
East of England -5 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -7 25 £450 -4.76% 6
East Midlands -42 3 £402 +7.20% 4
Wales -12 1 - - 5

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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 (5.54%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.41%) Confluence
3 23 (2.83%) Apache
4 15 (1.85%) Camunda
5 10 (1.23%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.23%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.74%) nginx
8 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.49%) JBoss
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 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 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) 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
1 432 (53.14%) AWS
2 199 (24.48%) Azure
3 149 (18.33%) GitHub
4 132 (16.24%) GCP
5 90 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (9.10%) Amazon S3
7 73 (8.98%) Serverless
8 62 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (3.94%) OpenShift
14 31 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.20%) Azure AKS
16 25 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
17 22 (2.71%) Route 53
18 19 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 19 (2.34%) AWS KMS
18 19 (2.34%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.11%) HTTP
2 6 (0.74%) SSL
3 4 (0.49%) DNS
3 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (22.51%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (13.41%) NoSQL
3 93 (11.44%) MongoDB
4 81 (9.96%) Relational Database
5 58 (7.13%) MySQL
6 54 (6.64%) DynamoDB
7 49 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 24 (2.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 22 (2.71%) Big Data
12 20 (2.46%) Redis
13 18 (2.21%) Flink
14 13 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.35%) DocumentDB
15 11 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 8 (0.98%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.98%) DB2
17 7 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (24.11%) Git
2 185 (22.76%) Jenkins
3 140 (17.22%) JUnit
4 128 (15.74%) GitLab
5 71 (8.73%) Gradle
5 71 (8.73%) JIRA
6 68 (8.36%) Maven
6 68 (8.36%) Mockito
7 43 (5.29%) Cucumber
7 43 (5.29%) Selenium
8 36 (4.43%) SonarQube
9 24 (2.95%) IntelliJ
9 24 (2.95%) JMeter
10 20 (2.46%) REST Assured
11 19 (2.34%) Gatling
12 18 (2.21%) Liquibase
12 18 (2.21%) WebDriver
13 14 (1.72%) DbUnit
14 13 (1.60%) jMock
14 13 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 157 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 151 (18.57%) Finance
3 141 (17.34%) Public Sector
4 90 (11.07%) Banking
5 46 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.95%) Retail
7 16 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.23%) Law
10 7 (0.86%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.74%) Automotive
11 6 (0.74%) Front Office
11 6 (0.74%) Publishing
12 5 (0.62%) Military
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 451 (55.47%) Developer
2 328 (40.34%) Java Developer
3 169 (20.79%) Senior
4 144 (17.71%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.92%) Software Engineer
6 97 (11.93%) Senior Developer
7 84 (10.33%) Lead
8 81 (9.96%) Full-Stack Developer
9 72 (8.86%) Senior Java Developer
10 60 (7.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.41%) Backend Developer
12 31 (3.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 31 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 30 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 29 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 25 (3.08%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (2.83%) Architect
16 23 (2.83%) Data Engineer
16 23 (2.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.34%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 665 (81.80%) Spring Boot
2 227 (27.92%) Kafka
3 193 (23.74%) RESTful
4 184 (22.63%) REST
5 159 (19.56%) React
6 124 (15.25%) Node.js
7 86 (10.58%) AngularJS
8 61 (7.50%) Hibernate
9 57 (7.01%) HTML
10 56 (6.89%) JPA
11 52 (6.40%) Spring Cloud
12 48 (5.90%) CSS
12 48 (5.90%) Web Services
13 47 (5.78%) WireMock
14 46 (5.66%) Spring MVC
15 40 (4.92%) OAuth
16 39 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
17 36 (4.43%) Next.js
17 36 (4.43%) OAuth2
17 36 (4.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 147 (18.08%) Cloud Native
2 101 (12.42%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.46%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (1.97%) Mobile App
7 15 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.35%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.74%) Blockchain
14 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.62%) Virtual Team
15 4 (0.49%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.03%) Linux
2 15 (1.85%) Unix
3 10 (1.23%) Windows
4 9 (1.11%) 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 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (58.30%) Microservices
2 450 (55.35%) CI/CD
3 316 (38.87%) Agile
4 281 (34.56%) DevOps
5 251 (30.87%) Containerisation
6 198 (24.35%) Software Engineering
7 168 (20.66%) Full-Stack Development
8 165 (20.30%) TDD
9 146 (17.96%) Test Automation
10 141 (17.34%) Event-Driven
11 131 (16.11%) Observability
12 128 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 113 (13.90%) Scrum
15 112 (13.78%) Code Quality
16 86 (10.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 86 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 82 (10.09%) BDD
18 70 (8.61%) Mentoring
19 63 (7.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 770 (94.71%) Java
2 231 (28.41%) SQL
3 124 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 116 (14.27%) TypeScript
5 89 (10.95%) Python
6 51 (6.27%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.09%) PL/SQL
8 15 (1.85%) Go
9 12 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.23%) Scala
11 9 (1.11%) C#
12 7 (0.86%) Bash
12 7 (0.86%) Ruby
13 6 (0.74%) 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%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 242 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 211 (25.95%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.69%) Degree
5 23 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.25%) OCP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.61%) QA
2 63 (7.75%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.48%) ISO 20022
3 12 (1.48%) WCAG
4 10 (1.23%) SEPA
5 8 (0.98%) GDPR
6 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.74%) PSD2
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) SLA
9 4 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.25%) EMIR
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 358 (44.03%) Docker
2 11 (1.35%) Postfix
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.25%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 357 (43.91%) Kubernetes
2 104 (12.79%) Grafana
3 89 (10.95%) Terraform
4 74 (9.10%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.69%) Ansible
6 13 (1.60%) Argo
7 11 (1.35%) Istio
8 10 (1.23%) Kibana
9 4 (0.49%) 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 65 (8.00%) Oracle
2 40 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 31 (3.81%) Splunk
4 28 (3.44%) Google
5 17 (2.09%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.35%) Solace
9 10 (1.23%) IBM
9 10 (1.23%) Sybase
10 9 (1.11%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.86%) Databricks
12 6 (0.74%) Confluent
12 6 (0.74%) Okta
13 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.62%) Adobe
13 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.62%) New Relic
13 5 (0.62%) Teradata