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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 155 187
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 -70
Contract jobs citing Spring 801 511 550
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.73% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 7.64% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 324 400
10th Percentile £357 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £625
90th Percentile £650 £723 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £464 £482
% change year-on-year +0.47% -3.69% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 10
10th Percentile £51.75 £58.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £41.47
Median hourly rate £56.25 £82.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +79.82% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.00% +49.85% -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 9,401 6,689 8,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.23% 22.64% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,243 4,578 6,228
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 109 212
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.08 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.17 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 April 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 +38 672 £500 -5.66% 119
UK excluding London +11 387 £466 +0.47% 98
London -1 322 £525 -4.55% 57
Work from Home -13 198 £475 -9.52% 144
North of England +14 156 £475 -5.47% 34
North West +33 118 £470 -1.05% 21
Midlands -5 74 £465 +10.71% 5
West Midlands +2 73 £466 +5.89% 5
South East -5 55 £416 +0.91% 28
Scotland -30 51 £525 +16.67% 6
South West -10 34 £409 -21.16% 16
Yorkshire -44 24 £475 -11.63% 6
East of England -12 22 £540 +15.51% 4
North East -1 21 £450 -3.23% 7
East Midlands -40 1 £450 +11.94%

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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 (5.87%) Confluence
2 36 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.87%) Apache
4 15 (1.87%) Camunda
5 13 (1.62%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.00%) JBoss
7 7 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.75%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.75%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 449 (56.05%) AWS
2 219 (27.34%) Azure
3 155 (19.35%) GitHub
4 139 (17.35%) GCP
5 88 (10.99%) Serverless
6 87 (10.86%) GitHub Actions
7 83 (10.36%) Amazon S3
8 74 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (4.99%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (4.62%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (4.24%) Azure AKS
15 30 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.25%) Route 53
19 16 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.62%) HTTP
2 10 (1.25%) SSL
3 8 (1.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) FTP
6 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (22.35%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (14.11%) NoSQL
3 92 (11.49%) MongoDB
4 79 (9.86%) Relational Database
5 70 (8.74%) MySQL
6 57 (7.12%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
9 23 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 18 (2.25%) Big Data
11 16 (2.00%) Redis
12 15 (1.87%) DocumentDB
13 13 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.50%) Flink
15 10 (1.25%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.12%) DB2
17 8 (1.00%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 197 (24.59%) Git
2 182 (22.72%) Jenkins
3 143 (17.85%) JUnit
4 125 (15.61%) GitLab
5 73 (9.11%) JIRA
6 67 (8.36%) Maven
7 57 (7.12%) Gradle
8 54 (6.74%) Mockito
9 49 (6.12%) Cucumber
10 37 (4.62%) Selenium
11 31 (3.87%) SonarQube
12 29 (3.62%) JMeter
13 26 (3.25%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
14 17 (2.12%) WebDriver
15 15 (1.87%) Gatling
16 14 (1.75%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.62%) Postman
18 11 (1.37%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.37%) jMock
General
1 169 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 150 (18.73%) Finance
3 147 (18.35%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.24%) Banking
5 40 (4.99%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.12%) Retail
7 12 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.00%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.75%) Automotive
10 6 (0.75%) Front Office
10 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.62%) Law
11 5 (0.62%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Publishing
13 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 472 (58.93%) Developer
2 339 (42.32%) Java Developer
3 150 (18.73%) Senior
4 126 (15.73%) Java Engineer
5 102 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 92 (11.49%) Senior Developer
7 78 (9.74%) Software Engineer
8 77 (9.61%) Lead
9 69 (8.61%) Senior Java Developer
10 45 (5.62%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (4.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 36 (4.49%) Backend Developer
13 33 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 32 (4.00%) Architect
15 31 (3.87%) Lead Developer
16 29 (3.62%) Software Developer
17 26 (3.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
19 18 (2.25%) Lead Java Developer
20 16 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (80.27%) Spring Boot
2 212 (26.47%) RESTful
3 209 (26.09%) Kafka
4 172 (21.47%) REST
5 160 (19.98%) React
6 125 (15.61%) Node.js
7 111 (13.86%) AngularJS
8 85 (10.61%) Hibernate
9 74 (9.24%) HTML
10 57 (7.12%) CSS
11 53 (6.62%) Spring MVC
12 50 (6.24%) JPA
13 42 (5.24%) WireMock
14 41 (5.12%) OAuth
15 40 (4.99%) Spring Cloud
15 40 (4.99%) Web Services
16 38 (4.74%) OAuth2
17 36 (4.49%) Next.js
18 35 (4.37%) HTML5
18 35 (4.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 126 (15.73%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 23 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 19 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.87%) Equities
12 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 6 (0.75%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (0.62%) Derivative
14 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.37%) Linux
2 18 (2.25%) Unix
3 9 (1.12%) Windows
4 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.75%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (58.68%) Microservices
2 452 (56.43%) CI/CD
3 302 (37.70%) Agile
4 278 (34.71%) DevOps
5 253 (31.59%) Containerisation
6 185 (23.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (20.47%) TDD
8 159 (19.85%) Software Engineering
9 144 (17.98%) Test Automation
10 142 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (17.10%) Event-Driven
12 123 (15.36%) Code Quality
13 117 (14.61%) Observability
14 111 (13.86%) Scrum
15 110 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (12.48%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (10.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 78 (9.74%) Mentoring
19 77 (9.61%) BDD
20 70 (8.74%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 752 (93.88%) Java
2 203 (25.34%) SQL
3 120 (14.98%) JavaScript
4 103 (12.86%) TypeScript
5 90 (11.24%) Python
6 51 (6.37%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.25%) Go
8 14 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.37%) Scala
10 10 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.87%) C#
11 7 (0.87%) Perl
12 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Ruby
14 3 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.25%) Groovy
15 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 1 (0.12%) JCL
16 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 239 (29.84%) Security Cleared
2 206 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.12%) Degree
4 29 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.87%) OCP
7 7 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) CISSP
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) OSCP
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.74%) QA
2 56 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.62%) WCAG
5 9 (1.12%) SEPA
6 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.00%) PSD2
7 6 (0.75%) GDPR
8 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.62%) NIST
8 5 (0.62%) SLA
9 4 (0.50%) HL7
9 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
12 1 (0.12%) EMIR
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 343 (42.82%) Docker
2 10 (1.25%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 363 (45.32%) Kubernetes
2 104 (12.98%) Terraform
3 91 (11.36%) Grafana
4 58 (7.24%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.50%) Ansible
6 12 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.12%) Istio
7 9 (1.12%) Kibana
8 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.50%) Puppet
9 4 (0.50%) Rancher
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 60 (7.49%) Oracle
2 47 (5.87%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.12%) Google
4 31 (3.87%) Splunk
5 14 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.37%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.25%) Solace
9 9 (1.12%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.00%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.00%) IBM
11 7 (0.87%) Databricks
11 7 (0.87%) SAP
11 7 (0.87%) Sybase
12 6 (0.75%) Adobe
12 6 (0.75%) Confluent
12 6 (0.75%) VMware
13 5 (0.62%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.62%) Teradata