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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 166 199
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 -101
Contract jobs citing Spring 728 479 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 1.56% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.08% 6.93% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 285 370
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -17.40%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £629
90th Percentile £650 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.78% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 8
10th Percentile £50.75 - £42.62
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.89
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

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 9,009 6,912 9,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 22.53% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,030 4,459 6,428
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £526 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -1.50% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 84 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £43.81
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +14.55% -16.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +19.27% -16.15%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +42 606 £500 -9.09% 149
UK excluding London +36 374 £472 +4.78% 110
London -13 280 £525 -8.70% 62
Work from Home +12 195 £479 -3.28% 88
North of England +24 154 £475 - 29
North West +50 116 £465 +0.54% 21
Midlands 0 70 £469 +10.35% 17
West Midlands +4 67 £473 +11.18% 16
Scotland -21 63 £588 +33.22% 7
South East +24 58 £400 +2.56% 39
South West -9 26 £409 -28.87% 15
Yorkshire -46 24 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -3 21 £475 +5.56% 3
East of England -20 10 £600 - 3
East Midlands -21 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 37 (5.08%) Confluence
2 20 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.47%) Apache
3 18 (2.47%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.79%) Camunda
5 12 (1.65%) JBoss
6 6 (0.82%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.82%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 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 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 393 (53.98%) AWS
2 199 (27.34%) Azure
3 137 (18.82%) GitHub
4 120 (16.48%) GCP
5 73 (10.03%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (9.89%) Serverless
7 70 (9.62%) Amazon S3
8 61 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (7.01%) OpenShift
10 37 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 24 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (3.02%) Azure AKS
16 19 (2.61%) Cloud Run
17 17 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (2.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.51%) HTTP
2 10 (1.37%) 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
1 151 (20.74%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (16.21%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.42%) NoSQL
4 86 (11.81%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.01%) MySQL
6 42 (5.77%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.02%) DB2
10 21 (2.88%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.34%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.06%) DocumentDB
14 14 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.79%) Redis
16 10 (1.37%) Big Data
17 9 (1.24%) HBase
17 9 (1.24%) Oracle Database
18 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
19 7 (0.96%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 183 (25.14%) Git
2 165 (22.66%) Jenkins
3 150 (20.60%) JUnit
4 127 (17.45%) GitLab
5 67 (9.20%) Maven
6 64 (8.79%) Cucumber
6 64 (8.79%) JIRA
7 54 (7.42%) Gradle
8 49 (6.73%) Mockito
9 38 (5.22%) Selenium
10 32 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 23 (3.16%) IntelliJ
11 23 (3.16%) JMeter
12 19 (2.61%) Cypress.io
13 16 (2.20%) Postman
14 15 (2.06%) Gatling
15 14 (1.92%) SonarQube
16 13 (1.79%) Eclipse
17 12 (1.65%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.51%) REST Assured
General
1 195 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 147 (20.19%) Finance
3 130 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 95 (13.05%) Banking
5 45 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.02%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.92%) Retail
8 11 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.37%) Front Office
10 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.69%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.55%) Military
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Electronics
14 3 (0.41%) Law
14 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 445 (61.13%) Developer
2 317 (43.54%) Java Developer
3 142 (19.51%) Senior
4 114 (15.66%) Java Engineer
5 106 (14.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.91%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.58%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (9.34%) Software Engineer
9 66 (9.07%) Lead
10 39 (5.36%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (5.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 32 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 28 (3.85%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.30%) Backend Developer
15 23 (3.16%) Architect
16 21 (2.88%) AWS Developer
16 21 (2.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.61%) SQL Developer
18 18 (2.47%) Lead Java Developer
18 18 (2.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (76.65%) Spring Boot
2 219 (30.08%) Kafka
3 185 (25.41%) RESTful
4 156 (21.43%) React
5 154 (21.15%) REST
6 118 (16.21%) AngularJS
7 100 (13.74%) Node.js
8 93 (12.77%) Hibernate
9 80 (10.99%) HTML
10 56 (7.69%) CSS
11 46 (6.32%) JPA
12 41 (5.63%) OAuth
13 39 (5.36%) JSON
14 38 (5.22%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.81%) JMS
15 35 (4.81%) Playwright
15 35 (4.81%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (4.40%) Spring MVC
17 31 (4.26%) HTML5
18 29 (3.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 111 (15.25%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.88%) Equities
6 20 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.96%) Derivative
13 6 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.69%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.69%) NHS
15 4 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (9.75%) Linux
2 17 (2.34%) Unix
3 10 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.69%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (57.14%) Microservices
2 406 (55.77%) CI/CD
3 292 (40.11%) Agile
4 249 (34.20%) DevOps
5 210 (28.85%) Containerisation
6 181 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 169 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (20.05%) Software Engineering
9 137 (18.82%) Test Automation
10 116 (15.93%) Event-Driven
10 116 (15.93%) TDD
11 105 (14.42%) Scrum
12 90 (12.36%) Code Quality
13 89 (12.23%) Observability
14 88 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 81 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 81 (11.13%) SDLC
16 76 (10.44%) Mentoring
17 65 (8.93%) User Experience
18 63 (8.65%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 694 (95.33%) Java
2 181 (24.86%) SQL
3 106 (14.56%) JavaScript
4 94 (12.91%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.54%) Python
6 38 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 26 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.92%) Go
8 14 (1.92%) Scala
9 11 (1.51%) Ruby
10 8 (1.10%) Perl
10 8 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.82%) C#
12 5 (0.69%) Bash
12 5 (0.69%) Groovy
13 3 (0.41%) PHP
14 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) Clojure
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 194 (26.65%) Security Cleared
2 167 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.40%) Degree
4 28 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.65%) OCP
6 12 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.37%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.14%) CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) OSCP
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.75%) QA
2 50 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.02%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.47%) WCAG
5 14 (1.92%) PSD2
5 14 (1.92%) SEPA
6 10 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) NIST
8 4 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.41%) HL7
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.27%) SLA
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 289 (39.70%) Docker
2 7 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 319 (43.82%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.32%) Terraform
3 72 (9.89%) Grafana
4 37 (5.08%) Ansible
5 34 (4.67%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.02%) Argo
7 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.65%) Kibana
9 9 (1.24%) Puppet
10 6 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 64 (8.79%) Oracle
2 38 (5.22%) Google
3 35 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.40%) Splunk
5 25 (3.43%) Red Hat
6 19 (2.61%) Sybase
7 14 (1.92%) VMware
8 11 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.24%) webMethods
10 8 (1.10%) Solace
11 6 (0.82%) Adobe
11 6 (0.82%) Confluent
11 6 (0.82%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.69%) Databricks
12 5 (0.69%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.69%) IBM
12 5 (0.69%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.69%) SAP
12 5 (0.69%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.55%) Atlassian