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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 170 202
Rank change year-on-year +12 +32 -105
Contract jobs citing Spring 726 477 520
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.79% 1.56% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.13% 6.89% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 286 369
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -16.80%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £630
90th Percentile £650 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 7
10th Percentile £50.75 - £41.53
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £55.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -30.75%

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 8,931 6,922 9,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.97% 22.68% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,977 4,485 6,445
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 88 216
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £22.12
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.26 £67.63 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £80.30 £75.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 23 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 23 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 23 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 +45 604 £500 -9.09% 132
UK excluding London +33 373 £470 +4.44% 105
London -4 277 £525 -8.70% 54
Work from Home +25 194 £476 -2.81% 91
North of England +26 148 £475 -5.00% 26
North West +44 110 £450 -2.70% 16
Midlands +7 75 £469 +10.35% 15
West Midlands +3 72 £473 +7.39% 14
Scotland -19 61 £588 +33.22% 9
South East +25 58 £400 +2.56% 33
South West -6 27 £409 -28.87% 17
Yorkshire -49 24 £500 -4.76% 7
North East -6 21 £475 +4.40% 3
East of England -21 11 £600 - 3
East Midlands -26 3 £308 -5.67% 1

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 41 (5.65%) Confluence
2 21 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.75%) Apache
4 18 (2.48%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.79%) Camunda
6 12 (1.65%) JBoss
7 6 (0.83%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.83%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.41%) nginx
11 2 (0.28%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.28%) CICS
11 2 (0.28%) Drupal
11 2 (0.28%) WordPress
12 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.52%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (55.10%) AWS
2 201 (27.69%) Azure
3 141 (19.42%) GitHub
4 123 (16.94%) GCP
5 77 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (10.33%) Serverless
7 74 (10.19%) Amazon S3
8 63 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (7.02%) OpenShift
10 40 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (3.17%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (2.34%) Cloud Run
18 17 (2.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.52%) HTTP
2 10 (1.38%) SSL
3 7 (0.96%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.69%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.55%) DNS
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (21.35%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (15.56%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.46%) NoSQL
4 84 (11.57%) Relational Database
5 50 (6.89%) MySQL
6 44 (6.06%) DynamoDB
7 38 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.89%) DB2
11 19 (2.62%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.34%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.07%) DocumentDB
14 14 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.79%) Redis
16 10 (1.38%) Big Data
17 9 (1.24%) Flink
17 9 (1.24%) HBase
17 9 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 184 (25.34%) Git
2 168 (23.14%) Jenkins
3 157 (21.63%) JUnit
4 126 (17.36%) GitLab
5 69 (9.50%) Cucumber
5 69 (9.50%) Maven
6 62 (8.54%) JIRA
7 55 (7.58%) Gradle
8 50 (6.89%) Mockito
9 43 (5.92%) Selenium
10 32 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (3.86%) JMeter
12 23 (3.17%) IntelliJ
13 17 (2.34%) Cypress.io
14 16 (2.20%) Postman
14 16 (2.20%) SonarQube
15 15 (2.07%) Gatling
16 12 (1.65%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.52%) Eclipse
17 11 (1.52%) REST Assured
General
1 195 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 139 (19.15%) Finance
3 129 (17.77%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.26%) Banking
5 44 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.07%) Retail
8 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.52%) Front Office
9 11 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.55%) Military
12 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Electronics
13 3 (0.41%) Law
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 444 (61.16%) Developer
2 317 (43.66%) Java Developer
3 143 (19.70%) Senior
4 111 (15.29%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 93 (12.81%) Senior Developer
7 76 (10.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (9.37%) Lead
8 68 (9.37%) Software Engineer
9 38 (5.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 38 (5.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (3.72%) Lead Developer
12 26 (3.58%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.17%) AWS Developer
14 22 (3.03%) Architect
14 22 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 19 (2.62%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.34%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 551 (75.90%) Spring Boot
2 218 (30.03%) Kafka
3 187 (25.76%) RESTful
4 157 (21.63%) React
5 149 (20.52%) REST
6 118 (16.25%) AngularJS
7 103 (14.19%) Node.js
8 94 (12.95%) Hibernate
9 78 (10.74%) HTML
10 56 (7.71%) CSS
11 47 (6.47%) JPA
12 39 (5.37%) JSON
13 38 (5.23%) OAuth
14 35 (4.82%) OAuth2
14 35 (4.82%) Playwright
15 34 (4.68%) Spring Cloud
16 33 (4.55%) WireMock
17 32 (4.41%) Spring MVC
18 31 (4.27%) HTML5
18 31 (4.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 111 (15.29%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.62%) Equities
6 14 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.10%) Derivative
9 8 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.83%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.69%) NHS
12 4 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.50%) Linux
2 18 (2.48%) Unix
3 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.96%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Solaris
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (58.13%) Microservices
2 410 (56.47%) CI/CD
3 290 (39.94%) Agile
4 247 (34.02%) DevOps
5 210 (28.93%) Containerisation
6 177 (24.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 166 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.70%) Software Engineering
9 140 (19.28%) Test Automation
10 124 (17.08%) TDD
11 119 (16.39%) Event-Driven
12 106 (14.60%) Scrum
13 94 (12.95%) Observability
14 92 (12.67%) Code Quality
15 87 (11.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (10.61%) Mentoring
18 73 (10.06%) SDLC
19 64 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 60 (8.26%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 687 (94.63%) Java
2 177 (24.38%) SQL
3 107 (14.74%) JavaScript
4 94 (12.95%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.57%) Python
6 40 (5.51%) Kotlin
7 24 (3.31%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.93%) Go
8 14 (1.93%) Scala
9 11 (1.52%) Ruby
10 9 (1.24%) PL/SQL
11 8 (1.10%) Perl
12 6 (0.83%) C#
13 3 (0.41%) Bash
13 3 (0.41%) Groovy
13 3 (0.41%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) Clojure
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 203 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 176 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.27%) Degree
4 27 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.65%) OCP
6 12 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) OSCP
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (9.09%) QA
2 48 (6.61%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.48%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.48%) WCAG
4 10 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.38%) PSD2
4 10 (1.38%) SEPA
5 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.69%) NIST
6 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.28%) GDPR
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 290 (39.94%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.69%) Postfix
4 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 319 (43.94%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.36%) Terraform
3 79 (10.88%) Grafana
4 40 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.96%) Ansible
6 22 (3.03%) Argo
7 14 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.65%) Kibana
9 9 (1.24%) Puppet
10 6 (0.83%) Istio
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 62 (8.54%) Oracle
2 36 (4.96%) Google
2 36 (4.96%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.41%) Splunk
4 24 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 19 (2.62%) Sybase
6 14 (1.93%) VMware
7 12 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.24%) webMethods
9 8 (1.10%) Solace
10 7 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (0.83%) Adobe
11 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.83%) Databricks
11 6 (0.83%) IBM
11 6 (0.83%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.69%) SAP
12 5 (0.69%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.55%) ION Trading