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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 170 207
Rank change year-on-year +6 +37 -114
Contract jobs citing Spring 665 471 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.52% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.80% 6.77% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 279 381
10th Percentile £355 £356 £400
25th Percentile £412 £433 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -16.33%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £630
90th Percentile £638 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 7
10th Percentile £50.00 - £41.53
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
75th Percentile £81.00 - £57.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £70.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -26.90%

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 8,527 6,960 9,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.19% 22.40% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,403 6,634
10th Percentile £357 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £536 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +0.19% -6.96%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 87 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.34 £25.80
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.88 £45.88
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.15 £77.70 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%

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 2 February 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 2 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 2 February 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 +22 544 £500 -13.04% 195
UK excluding London +17 330 £465 +3.33% 144
London -2 267 £525 -10.26% 84
Work from Home +23 183 £500 +2.04% 105
North of England +33 154 £475 - 34
North West +53 116 £465 +3.33% 28
Scotland -6 69 £588 +33.37% 10
South East +19 49 £400 +2.56% 47
Midlands -38 40 £446 -15.10% 18
West Midlands -29 37 £469 -10.67% 15
Yorkshire -50 24 £500 -4.76% 4
North East -3 21 £475 +6.74% 2
South West -15 21 £409 -25.64% 30
East of England -26 3 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 3
Northern Ireland -3 1 £425 -5.56%

Spring
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 26 (3.91%) Confluence
2 18 (2.71%) Apache
3 11 (1.65%) Camunda
4 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.50%) JBoss
4 10 (1.50%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.90%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.90%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.45%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Apache TomEE
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 2 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 358 (53.83%) AWS
2 184 (27.67%) Azure
3 129 (19.40%) GitHub
4 107 (16.09%) GCP
5 68 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.77%) Serverless
7 56 (8.42%) Amazon S3
8 55 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.07%) OpenShift
10 34 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.86%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (1.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 13 (1.95%) Datadog
18 12 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.50%) HTTP
1 10 (1.50%) SSL
2 5 (0.75%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.60%) DNS
3 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (17.14%) MongoDB
3 97 (14.59%) NoSQL
4 86 (12.93%) Relational Database
5 50 (7.52%) MySQL
6 36 (5.41%) DynamoDB
7 27 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.31%) DB2
9 20 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (2.86%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.71%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.26%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.11%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (1.95%) Redis
15 12 (1.80%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.35%) HBase
17 8 (1.20%) Big Data
17 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
18 7 (1.05%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 167 (25.11%) Git
2 153 (23.01%) Jenkins
3 140 (21.05%) JUnit
4 122 (18.35%) GitLab
5 61 (9.17%) Maven
6 58 (8.72%) Cucumber
7 55 (8.27%) Gradle
8 52 (7.82%) JIRA
9 43 (6.47%) Mockito
10 32 (4.81%) Sonatype Nexus
11 31 (4.66%) Selenium
12 23 (3.46%) IntelliJ
13 21 (3.16%) Postman
14 20 (3.01%) Cypress.io
15 19 (2.86%) JMeter
16 13 (1.95%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.95%) Gatling
17 12 (1.80%) Artifactory
18 10 (1.50%) REST Assured
18 10 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 178 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 147 (22.11%) Finance
3 118 (17.74%) Public Sector
4 103 (15.49%) Banking
5 41 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.46%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.65%) Front Office
7 11 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.20%) Retail
9 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Electronics
12 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 419 (63.01%) Developer
2 304 (45.71%) Java Developer
3 146 (21.95%) Senior
4 103 (15.49%) Full-Stack Developer
4 103 (15.49%) Senior Developer
5 101 (15.19%) Java Engineer
6 86 (12.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 57 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 53 (7.97%) Lead
9 39 (5.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 32 (4.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 30 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (4.21%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.31%) Architect
13 22 (3.31%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.31%) SQL Developer
14 21 (3.16%) AWS Developer
15 18 (2.71%) Lead Java Developer
15 18 (2.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 16 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 507 (76.24%) Spring Boot
2 206 (30.98%) Kafka
3 177 (26.62%) RESTful
4 153 (23.01%) React
5 137 (20.60%) REST
6 116 (17.44%) AngularJS
7 90 (13.53%) Node.js
8 86 (12.93%) Hibernate
9 79 (11.88%) HTML
10 54 (8.12%) CSS
11 42 (6.32%) JSON
12 41 (6.17%) JPA
13 39 (5.86%) OAuth
14 37 (5.56%) JMS
14 37 (5.56%) OAuth2
15 32 (4.81%) Playwright
16 30 (4.51%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (4.51%) Spring MVC
17 29 (4.36%) HTML5
18 28 (4.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 101 (15.19%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.46%) Equities
5 21 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.01%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.05%) Derivative
9 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.60%) NHS
13 3 (0.45%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.77%) Linux
2 15 (2.26%) Unix
3 6 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.60%) Windows
5 3 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (58.05%) Microservices
2 370 (55.64%) CI/CD
3 271 (40.75%) Agile
4 228 (34.29%) DevOps
5 201 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 182 (27.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 159 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (20.15%) Test Automation
9 123 (18.50%) Software Engineering
10 108 (16.24%) Event-Driven
11 100 (15.04%) TDD
12 86 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 86 (12.93%) Scrum
13 82 (12.33%) Code Quality
14 81 (12.18%) SDLC
15 70 (10.53%) Observability
16 66 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 65 (9.77%) Mentoring
18 59 (8.87%) Unit Testing
19 56 (8.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 633 (95.19%) Java
2 171 (25.71%) SQL
3 102 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 91 (13.68%) TypeScript
5 79 (11.88%) Python
6 27 (4.06%) Shell Script
7 26 (3.91%) Kotlin
8 13 (1.95%) Scala
9 12 (1.80%) Go
10 11 (1.65%) Ruby
11 7 (1.05%) C#
12 6 (0.90%) Groovy
13 5 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.60%) PHP
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.30%) Rust
17 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 167 (25.11%) Security Cleared
2 142 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.76%) Degree
4 22 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.80%) OCP
6 12 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (9.47%) QA
2 47 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.61%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.41%) PSD2
4 16 (2.41%) SEPA
4 16 (2.41%) WCAG
5 9 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) NIST
7 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.45%) HL7
8 3 (0.45%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 278 (41.80%) Docker
2 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 295 (44.36%) Kubernetes
2 100 (15.04%) Terraform
3 53 (7.97%) Grafana
4 37 (5.56%) Ansible
5 24 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.31%) Argo
7 14 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.80%) Kibana
9 9 (1.35%) Puppet
10 6 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.30%) Rancher
11 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 65 (9.77%) Oracle
2 31 (4.66%) Google
3 25 (3.76%) Microsoft
4 23 (3.46%) Splunk
5 21 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 20 (3.01%) Sybase
7 15 (2.26%) VMware
8 9 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.35%) webMethods
9 6 (0.90%) Confluent
9 6 (0.90%) PagerDuty
9 6 (0.90%) Solace
10 5 (0.75%) Adobe
10 5 (0.75%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.60%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.60%) IBM
11 4 (0.60%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.60%) SAP
12 3 (0.45%) Qualys