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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 149 177
Rank change year-on-year -12 +28 -7
Contract jobs citing Spring 872 638 572
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.94% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.56% 8.62% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 425 424
10th Percentile £359 £334 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £625 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +7.78% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 6
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £41.47
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +27.29% -29.57%
75th Percentile £76.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £90.50 £92.50 £65.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +12.73% +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 10,187 7,404 8,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.23% 22.56% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,652 5,003 5,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
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 266 160 247
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.23 £23.38
25th Percentile £43.13 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.81 £80.10 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +13.04% -1.37% -0.42%

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 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +1 691 £525 +9.95% 251
UK excluding London -36 400 £485 +7.78% 141
London -14 359 £525 +1.94% 157
Work from Home -57 223 £490 -2.00% 127
North of England -8 136 £515 +13.88% 45
Midlands -34 91 £480 +15.66% 24
West Midlands -7 88 £498 -0.50% 21
North West -22 77 £545 +35.57% 26
Scotland -42 61 £402 -10.67% 20
South West -9 41 £410 -19.41% 14
Yorkshire -13 41 £525 +46.12% 10
South East -45 37 £450 +9.09% 25
East of England +11 27 £510 +9.09%
North East -35 19 £450 -6.25% 10
Wales -20 8 £400 -15.79% 6
Northern Ireland -6 2 - - 7
East Midlands -42 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 42 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.24%) Confluence
3 27 (3.10%) Apache
4 16 (1.83%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.26%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.80%) Camunda
9 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.46%) CMS
10 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.34%) JBoss
12 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.23%) Mule
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.46%) Quorum
1 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.46%) 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
1 474 (54.36%) AWS
2 225 (25.80%) Azure
3 157 (18.00%) GCP
4 149 (17.09%) GitHub
5 93 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (7.34%) Amazon S3
7 61 (7.00%) Serverless
8 51 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (4.59%) OpenShift
11 37 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (2.64%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.18%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.06%) Route 53
17 17 (1.95%) Cloud Run
18 16 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) AMQP
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (23.85%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.44%) Relational Database
4 83 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 65 (7.45%) MySQL
6 43 (4.93%) DynamoDB
7 37 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (3.33%) Redis
9 27 (3.10%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.64%) Flink
13 17 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
13 17 (1.95%) Big Data
14 11 (1.26%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.03%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.03%) Db2
15 9 (1.03%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.92%) Metadata
17 7 (0.80%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 234 (26.83%) Git
2 227 (26.03%) Jenkins
3 154 (17.66%) JUnit
4 116 (13.30%) GitLab
5 94 (10.78%) Maven
6 86 (9.86%) Gradle
7 75 (8.60%) Mockito
8 65 (7.45%) JIRA
9 46 (5.28%) SonarQube
10 44 (5.05%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.70%) Selenium
12 25 (2.87%) JMeter
13 19 (2.18%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.18%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.06%) Gatling
15 16 (1.83%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.61%) DbUnit
16 14 (1.61%) IntelliJ
17 13 (1.49%) jMock
18 11 (1.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 189 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.53%) Finance
3 157 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 95 (10.89%) Banking
5 69 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.56%) Retail
7 17 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 16 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 10 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.03%) Military
12 6 (0.69%) Publishing
12 6 (0.69%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.57%) Automotive
13 5 (0.57%) Police
14 4 (0.46%) Front Office
14 4 (0.46%) Games
14 4 (0.46%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 506 (58.03%) Developer
2 413 (47.36%) Java Developer
3 168 (19.27%) Senior
4 130 (14.91%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.04%) Software Engineer
6 99 (11.35%) Senior Developer
7 91 (10.44%) Lead
8 81 (9.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (7.22%) Java Software Engineer
10 60 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 55 (6.31%) Backend Developer
12 36 (4.13%) Lead Developer
12 36 (4.13%) Software Developer
13 34 (3.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (3.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
16 28 (3.21%) Architect
17 25 (2.87%) Senior Java Engineer
18 22 (2.52%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 716 (82.11%) Spring Boot
2 242 (27.75%) Kafka
3 233 (26.72%) REST
4 217 (24.89%) RESTful
5 154 (17.66%) React
6 113 (12.96%) Node.js
7 75 (8.60%) JPA
8 74 (8.49%) Hibernate
9 69 (7.91%) AngularJS
10 62 (7.11%) HTML
11 61 (7.00%) Web Services
12 57 (6.54%) CSS
13 55 (6.31%) Spring MVC
14 48 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
15 45 (5.16%) OAuth
16 41 (4.70%) WireMock
17 39 (4.47%) Spring Cloud
18 35 (4.01%) Redux
19 32 (3.67%) HTML5
20 31 (3.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 180 (20.64%) Cloud Native
2 144 (16.51%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 33 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.29%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.49%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.26%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.92%) Derivative
16 7 (0.80%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.42%) Linux
2 28 (3.21%) Unix
3 9 (1.03%) Windows
4 8 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) 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
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (61.12%) Microservices
2 528 (60.55%) CI/CD
3 407 (46.67%) Agile
4 315 (36.12%) DevOps
5 267 (30.62%) Containerisation
6 226 (25.92%) Software Engineering
7 197 (22.59%) TDD
8 187 (21.44%) Test Automation
9 173 (19.84%) Event-Driven
10 166 (19.04%) Scrum
11 153 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
12 149 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 147 (16.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 138 (15.83%) Observability
15 128 (14.68%) Code Quality
16 115 (13.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 97 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 89 (10.21%) Design Patterns
19 85 (9.75%) BDD
20 79 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 845 (96.90%) Java
2 271 (31.08%) SQL
3 123 (14.11%) JavaScript
4 105 (12.04%) TypeScript
5 102 (11.70%) Python
6 47 (5.39%) Kotlin
7 44 (5.05%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.18%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.49%) Scala
10 12 (1.38%) Bash
11 9 (1.03%) Ruby
12 6 (0.69%) C#
12 6 (0.69%) Go
13 5 (0.57%) Perl
14 4 (0.46%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 267 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 230 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.78%) Degree
5 27 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.38%) 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 (11.01%) QA
2 72 (8.26%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.26%) WCAG
4 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.80%) GDPR
5 7 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.69%) SEPA
7 4 (0.46%) 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
1 396 (45.41%) Docker
2 11 (1.26%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 381 (43.69%) Kubernetes
2 87 (9.98%) Grafana
3 84 (9.63%) Terraform
4 70 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.93%) Ansible
6 18 (2.06%) Kibana
7 10 (1.15%) Control-M
8 7 (0.80%) 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%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 111 (12.73%) Oracle
2 47 (5.39%) Google
3 35 (4.01%) Microsoft
4 28 (3.21%) Splunk
5 17 (1.95%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.72%) IBM
7 14 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.38%) Solace
9 11 (1.26%) Sybase
10 10 (1.15%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.15%) Databricks
10 10 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.03%) New Relic
12 8 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.80%) Okta
13 7 (0.80%) TikTok
14 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.46%) Confluent
15 4 (0.46%) SAP