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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 172 201
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -102
Contract jobs citing Spring 727 474 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.57% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 6.91% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 285 370
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -16.40%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £634
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 8
10th Percentile £50.75 - £38.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £44.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £53.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 9,013 6,863 9,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.00% 22.72% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,042 4,455 6,433
10th Percentile £358 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 88 219
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.95 £22.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.44 £42.50
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 £75.31
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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +47 605 £500 -9.09% 135
UK excluding London +39 374 £470 +4.44% 112
London -2 277 £525 -8.70% 53
Work from Home +14 194 £476 -2.81% 74
North of England +16 148 £475 -5.00% 29
North West +43 110 £450 -2.70% 20
Midlands +2 76 £469 +10.35% 11
West Midlands +3 73 £473 +7.39% 10
Scotland -20 61 £588 +33.22% 13
South East +22 58 £400 +2.56% 35
South West -7 27 £409 -28.87% 20
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 -4.76% 6
North East -4 21 £475 +4.40% 3
East of England -12 11 £600 - 2
East Midlands -29 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 (5.64%) 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 (1.51%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (55.16%) AWS
2 201 (27.65%) Azure
3 141 (19.39%) GitHub
4 123 (16.92%) GCP
5 77 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (10.32%) Amazon S3
6 75 (10.32%) Serverless
7 63 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (7.02%) OpenShift
9 40 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
9 40 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
10 35 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (3.16%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.34%) Cloud Run
16 17 (2.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.51%) 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
1 156 (21.46%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (15.54%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.44%) NoSQL
4 84 (11.55%) Relational Database
5 50 (6.88%) MySQL
6 45 (6.19%) DynamoDB
7 39 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.89%) DB2
11 20 (2.75%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.34%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.06%) 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
1 185 (25.45%) Git
2 169 (23.25%) Jenkins
3 158 (21.73%) JUnit
4 126 (17.33%) GitLab
5 70 (9.63%) Maven
6 69 (9.49%) Cucumber
7 62 (8.53%) JIRA
8 55 (7.57%) Gradle
9 51 (7.02%) Mockito
10 43 (5.91%) Selenium
11 32 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (3.85%) JMeter
13 23 (3.16%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.34%) Cypress.io
14 17 (2.34%) SonarQube
15 16 (2.20%) Postman
16 15 (2.06%) Gatling
17 12 (1.65%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.51%) Eclipse
18 11 (1.51%) REST Assured
General
1 195 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 139 (19.12%) Finance
3 130 (17.88%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.24%) Banking
5 44 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.06%) Retail
8 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.51%) Front Office
9 11 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.51%) 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
1 445 (61.21%) Developer
2 318 (43.74%) Java Developer
3 144 (19.81%) Senior
4 111 (15.27%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.93%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (9.35%) Lead
8 68 (9.35%) Software Engineer
9 38 (5.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 38 (5.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 27 (3.71%) Lead Developer
12 26 (3.58%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.16%) AWS Developer
14 22 (3.03%) Architect
14 22 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 19 (2.61%) Software Developer
16 17 (2.34%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.34%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (75.93%) Spring Boot
2 218 (29.99%) Kafka
3 187 (25.72%) RESTful
4 157 (21.60%) React
5 150 (20.63%) REST
6 119 (16.37%) AngularJS
7 104 (14.31%) Node.js
8 95 (13.07%) Hibernate
9 78 (10.73%) HTML
10 56 (7.70%) CSS
11 48 (6.60%) JPA
12 39 (5.36%) JSON
13 38 (5.23%) OAuth
14 35 (4.81%) OAuth2
14 35 (4.81%) Playwright
14 35 (4.81%) Spring Cloud
15 33 (4.54%) WireMock
16 32 (4.40%) SOAP
16 32 (4.40%) Spring MVC
17 31 (4.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 111 (15.27%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.61%) Equities
6 14 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.51%) 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 (9.49%) 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
1 423 (58.18%) Microservices
2 411 (56.53%) CI/CD
3 291 (40.03%) Agile
4 248 (34.11%) DevOps
5 211 (29.02%) Containerisation
6 177 (24.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 166 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.67%) Software Engineering
9 140 (19.26%) Test Automation
10 125 (17.19%) TDD
11 119 (16.37%) Event-Driven
12 107 (14.72%) Scrum
13 94 (12.93%) Observability
14 92 (12.65%) Code Quality
15 87 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 77 (10.59%) Mentoring
18 73 (10.04%) SDLC
19 64 (8.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 60 (8.25%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 688 (94.64%) Java
2 178 (24.48%) SQL
3 107 (14.72%) JavaScript
4 94 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.55%) Python
6 40 (5.50%) Kotlin
7 24 (3.30%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.93%) Go
8 14 (1.93%) Scala
9 11 (1.51%) 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
1 204 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 177 (24.35%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.26%) Degree
4 27 (3.71%) 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 (9.08%) QA
2 48 (6.60%) 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
1 291 (40.03%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.69%) Postfix
4 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 319 (43.88%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.34%) Terraform
3 80 (11.00%) Grafana
4 40 (5.50%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.95%) 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 (8.53%) Oracle
2 36 (4.95%) Google
2 36 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.40%) Splunk
4 24 (3.30%) Red Hat
5 19 (2.61%) Sybase
6 14 (1.93%) VMware
7 12 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.24%) webMethods
9 8 (1.10%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (1.10%) Solace
10 6 (0.83%) Adobe
10 6 (0.83%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.83%) Databricks
10 6 (0.83%) IBM
10 6 (0.83%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.69%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.69%) SAP
11 5 (0.69%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.55%) ION Trading