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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 150 165
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Spring 886 609 568
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.86% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 7.35% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 395 419
10th Percentile £361 £344 £375
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £558 £638
90th Percentile £700 £636 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 4
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £41.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 £69.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -22.41%

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 11,706 8,290 9,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.31% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,705 5,607 6,426
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 182 205
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.30 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.00 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -13.56% -2.22%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £78.33 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.73% -12.00% +4.17%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 27 August 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 27 August 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 27 August 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 +3 700 £525 +5.00% 168
UK excluding London -33 406 £500 +11.11% 142
London +1 375 £530 - 70
Work from Home -51 214 £500 - 106
North of England +3 164 £515 +10.75% 53
North West -20 94 £550 +23.60% 31
Midlands -33 76 £551 +33.45% 17
Scotland -34 72 £402 -10.67% 17
West Midlands -6 70 £570 +14.00% 14
Yorkshire -5 52 £500 +39.16% 7
South West -18 37 £481 -4.70% 39
South East -41 30 £367 -26.55% 12
East of England -2 21 £500 +6.95% 1
North East -30 19 £450 -8.16% 15
Wales -16 11 £425 -10.53% 3
East Midlands -39 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -4 2 - - 3

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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 35 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.93%) Apache
3 19 (2.14%) Confluence
4 11 (1.24%) Camunda
5 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.13%) nginx
6 9 (1.02%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.45%) Quorum
1 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.45%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Finacle
3 2 (0.23%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 500 (56.43%) AWS
2 206 (23.25%) Azure
3 154 (17.38%) GitHub
4 144 (16.25%) GCP
5 91 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (7.22%) Serverless
7 56 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (5.64%) Amazon S3
9 44 (4.97%) OpenShift
10 43 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 42 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
12 37 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
14 27 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
15 19 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (1.58%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) HTTP
2 6 (0.68%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
3 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (21.22%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (12.42%) NoSQL
3 99 (11.17%) MongoDB
4 96 (10.84%) Relational Database
5 67 (7.56%) MySQL
6 36 (4.06%) Redis
6 36 (4.06%) SQL Server
7 31 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.50%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 20 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (2.14%) Flink
11 16 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (1.81%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.69%) Big Data
13 14 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.24%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.13%) Metadata
16 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 230 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 227 (25.62%) Git
3 149 (16.82%) JUnit
4 135 (15.24%) GitLab
5 102 (11.51%) Maven
6 95 (10.72%) Gradle
7 74 (8.35%) Mockito
8 48 (5.42%) SonarQube
9 45 (5.08%) JIRA
10 38 (4.29%) Cucumber
11 34 (3.84%) Selenium
12 21 (2.37%) Gatling
12 21 (2.37%) Liquibase
13 18 (2.03%) REST Assured
14 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.58%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.47%) JMeter
17 11 (1.24%) GoCD
18 9 (1.02%) Flyway
18 9 (1.02%) JProfiler
General
1 200 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 186 (20.99%) Finance
3 153 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.51%) Banking
5 66 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.27%) Retail
7 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.58%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.35%) Law
10 9 (1.02%) Military
10 9 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.79%) Back Office
12 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.68%) Publishing
14 5 (0.56%) Police
15 4 (0.45%) Automotive
15 4 (0.45%) Games
15 4 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 511 (57.67%) Developer
2 418 (47.18%) Java Developer
3 181 (20.43%) Senior
4 141 (15.91%) Java Engineer
5 110 (12.42%) Software Engineer
6 108 (12.19%) Senior Developer
7 87 (9.82%) Lead
7 87 (9.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (7.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (7.34%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (6.21%) Backend Developer
11 42 (4.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 39 (4.40%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.06%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.84%) Architect
15 32 (3.61%) Lead Java Developer
16 31 (3.50%) Senior Java Engineer
17 28 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.60%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 741 (83.63%) Spring Boot
2 268 (30.25%) Kafka
3 245 (27.65%) REST
4 218 (24.60%) RESTful
5 171 (19.30%) React
6 112 (12.64%) Node.js
7 88 (9.93%) Terraform
8 77 (8.69%) HTML
9 73 (8.24%) JPA
10 68 (7.67%) CSS
11 67 (7.56%) AngularJS
11 67 (7.56%) Hibernate
12 60 (6.77%) Spring MVC
13 57 (6.43%) RabbitMQ
14 52 (5.87%) OAuth
14 52 (5.87%) Web Services
15 39 (4.40%) Redux
16 38 (4.29%) OpenAPI
17 37 (4.18%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 202 (22.80%) Cloud Native
2 141 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.58%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.35%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.79%) Derivative
13 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.68%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.64%) Linux
2 33 (3.72%) Unix
3 5 (0.56%) Windows
4 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) Solaris
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) AIX
6 1 (0.11%) Android
6 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (61.63%) Microservices
2 524 (59.14%) CI/CD
3 441 (49.77%) Agile
4 304 (34.31%) DevOps
5 255 (28.78%) Containerisation
6 254 (28.67%) Software Engineering
7 212 (23.93%) Test Automation
8 198 (22.35%) Event-Driven
9 180 (20.32%) TDD
10 165 (18.62%) Scrum
11 155 (17.49%) Full-Stack Development
12 145 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 143 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (14.45%) Observability
15 127 (14.33%) Code Quality
15 127 (14.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 102 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 95 (10.72%) Design Patterns
18 92 (10.38%) SDLC
19 87 (9.82%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 870 (98.19%) Java
2 276 (31.15%) SQL
3 132 (14.90%) JavaScript
4 118 (13.32%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.72%) Python
6 42 (4.74%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.18%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.48%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.14%) Bash
10 12 (1.35%) Scala
11 11 (1.24%) Ruby
12 6 (0.68%) C#
13 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 4 (0.45%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Go
15 3 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.23%) Korn
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 251 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 211 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.39%) Degree
5 22 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.29%) QA
2 79 (8.92%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.92%) WCAG
4 13 (1.47%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.90%) GDPR
6 8 (0.90%) SEPA
7 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.34%) EMIR
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 3 (0.34%) PSD2
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 400 (45.15%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 383 (43.23%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.00%) Grafana
3 57 (6.43%) Prometheus
4 43 (4.85%) Ansible
5 26 (2.93%) Kibana
6 11 (1.24%) Control-M
7 10 (1.13%) Istio
8 7 (0.79%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 126 (14.22%) Oracle
2 41 (4.63%) Google
3 31 (3.50%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.14%) IBM
4 19 (2.14%) Splunk
5 18 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.35%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.24%) Solace
8 10 (1.13%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.02%) Databricks
10 8 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.90%) Sybase
11 7 (0.79%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.79%) Confluent
11 7 (0.79%) New Relic
11 7 (0.79%) TikTok
12 5 (0.56%) FIS
12 5 (0.56%) SAP
13 4 (0.45%) Okta
14 3 (0.34%) OpenAI