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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 149 172
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Spring 918 622 612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.90% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.90% 8.43% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 412 459
10th Percentile £375 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £625 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £458 £455
% change year-on-year +5.60% +0.55% -11.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £59.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.36% +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 10,319 7,380 9,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.60% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,765 4,983 6,312
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 160 278
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.23 £22.68
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.89 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% +3.18% -14.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £72.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +3.17% +8.06% -2.83%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +17 750 £525 +5.00% 232
UK excluding London -35 412 £483 +5.60% 157
London +8 393 £525 - 146
Work from Home -35 228 £490 -2.00% 95
North of England +7 151 £505 +8.60% 39
North West -3 91 £525 +26.51% 23
Midlands -26 82 £475 +13.10% 15
West Midlands -15 79 £475 -2.06% 13
Scotland -48 56 £405 -11.29% 13
South West +3 50 £410 -20.96% 49
Yorkshire -14 42 £500 -4.76% 9
South East -40 41 £450 -1.37% 26
East of England +3 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -20 23 £450 -8.16% 7
Wales -20 7 £375 -21.05% 7
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 5
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 2

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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 47 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.47%) Confluence
3 31 (3.38%) Apache
4 15 (1.63%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.42%) Camunda
6 11 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.20%) nginx
7 10 (1.09%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.09%) Hyperledger
8 8 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.33%) JBoss
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.22%) Drupal
12 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.22%) Mule
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.54%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 482 (52.51%) AWS
2 235 (25.60%) Azure
3 162 (17.65%) GCP
4 149 (16.23%) GitHub
5 90 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (7.84%) Amazon S3
7 68 (7.41%) Serverless
8 59 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (3.59%) OpenShift
14 27 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (2.83%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (1.96%) AWS KMS
17 18 (1.96%) Route 53
18 17 (1.85%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.31%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (22.33%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (11.55%) NoSQL
3 100 (10.89%) Relational Database
4 94 (10.24%) MongoDB
5 67 (7.30%) MySQL
6 47 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (5.01%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (3.59%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.51%) Flink
10 23 (2.51%) Redis
11 21 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.29%) Big Data
12 17 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.63%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.09%) Db2
15 9 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.98%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 231 (25.16%) Git
2 223 (24.29%) Jenkins
3 162 (17.65%) JUnit
4 120 (13.07%) GitLab
5 96 (10.46%) Maven
6 81 (8.82%) Gradle
7 73 (7.95%) Mockito
8 71 (7.73%) JIRA
9 45 (4.90%) Selenium
10 43 (4.68%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.47%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.05%) JMeter
13 19 (2.07%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.07%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.96%) Gatling
14 18 (1.96%) Liquibase
15 16 (1.74%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.53%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.42%) jMock
17 13 (1.42%) Postman
General
1 194 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 184 (20.04%) Finance
3 167 (18.19%) Public Sector
4 104 (11.33%) Banking
5 64 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.94%) Retail
7 20 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.31%) Law
10 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.20%) Military
11 7 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.65%) Automotive
12 6 (0.65%) Front Office
12 6 (0.65%) Publishing
13 4 (0.44%) Games
13 4 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.44%) Police
13 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 525 (57.19%) Developer
2 412 (44.88%) Java Developer
3 178 (19.39%) Senior
4 145 (15.80%) Java Engineer
5 105 (11.44%) Software Engineer
6 97 (10.57%) Senior Developer
7 96 (10.46%) Lead
8 78 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 77 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (6.43%) Backend Developer
10 59 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (4.36%) Lead Developer
12 34 (3.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 34 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 31 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.27%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.16%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (2.72%) Architect
16 25 (2.72%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 746 (81.26%) Spring Boot
2 256 (27.89%) Kafka
3 223 (24.29%) REST
4 219 (23.86%) RESTful
5 163 (17.76%) React
6 124 (13.51%) Node.js
7 80 (8.71%) AngularJS
8 71 (7.73%) JPA
9 68 (7.41%) Hibernate
10 65 (7.08%) HTML
11 58 (6.32%) CSS
12 57 (6.21%) Web Services
13 55 (5.99%) Spring MVC
14 51 (5.56%) WireMock
15 43 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (4.68%) Spring Cloud
16 40 (4.36%) OAuth
17 35 (3.81%) HTML5
17 35 (3.81%) Redux
18 32 (3.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 164 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 125 (13.62%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.29%) Distributed Architecture
7 20 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (1.74%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.87%) Derivative
14 8 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 8 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.10%) Linux
2 24 (2.61%) Unix
3 10 (1.09%) Windows
4 9 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.54%) VMS
6 4 (0.44%) Solaris
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Android
8 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (58.39%) Microservices
2 534 (58.17%) CI/CD
3 400 (43.57%) Agile
4 333 (36.27%) DevOps
5 280 (30.50%) Containerisation
6 217 (23.64%) Software Engineering
7 200 (21.79%) TDD
8 184 (20.04%) Test Automation
9 180 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 173 (18.85%) Event-Driven
11 160 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (16.78%) Scrum
13 142 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 132 (14.38%) Observability
15 131 (14.27%) Code Quality
16 108 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (10.13%) BDD
18 83 (9.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 81 (8.82%) Design Patterns
20 78 (8.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 884 (96.30%) Java
2 270 (29.41%) SQL
3 132 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 112 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 100 (10.89%) Python
6 45 (4.90%) Kotlin
7 36 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.07%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.53%) Scala
10 13 (1.42%) Go
11 11 (1.20%) C#
12 9 (0.98%) Bash
12 9 (0.98%) Ruby
13 6 (0.65%) Perl
14 5 (0.54%) Solidity
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
16 2 (0.22%) PHP
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 288 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 248 (27.02%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (3.81%) Degree
5 28 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.13%) QA
2 71 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.20%) ISO 20022
4 9 (0.98%) SEPA
4 9 (0.98%) WCAG
5 8 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.76%) GDPR
6 7 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.54%) SLA
8 4 (0.44%) PSD2
9 3 (0.33%) EMIR
9 3 (0.33%) MiFID
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 409 (44.55%) Docker
2 11 (1.20%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 398 (43.36%) Kubernetes
2 89 (9.69%) Grafana
3 86 (9.37%) Terraform
4 73 (7.95%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.14%) Ansible
6 14 (1.53%) Kibana
7 7 (0.76%) Istio
8 6 (0.65%) Control-M
9 5 (0.54%) Argo
10 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 105 (11.44%) Oracle
2 45 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 43 (4.68%) Google
4 34 (3.70%) Splunk
5 17 (1.85%) IBM
5 17 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.53%) Solace
8 13 (1.42%) Sybase
9 11 (1.20%) Databricks
10 10 (1.09%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.87%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.76%) Okta
13 6 (0.65%) New Relic
13 6 (0.65%) TikTok
14 5 (0.54%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.54%) Teradata