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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 177 214
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 -123
Contract jobs citing Spring 642 476 499
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.52% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 6.78% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 288 367
10th Percentile £356 £356 £400
25th Percentile £417 £435 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -16.67%
75th Percentile £579 £630 £635
90th Percentile £642 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £467 £500
% change year-on-year +0.43% -6.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £45.00 - £46.90
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
75th Percentile £58.44 - £66.25
90th Percentile £82.50 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -28.25%

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 8,368 7,016 9,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.18% 22.43% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,575 4,448 6,613
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 91 189
10th Percentile £34.60 £25.09 £25.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £38.38 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.10 £77.19 £76.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +18.18% -15.38%

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 26 January 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 26 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 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 26 January 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 +25 525 £500 -13.04% 198
UK excluding London +8 312 £469 +0.43% 163
London +14 266 £525 -10.26% 71
Work from Home +18 182 £500 +2.04% 117
North of England +27 146 £475 - 35
North West +52 108 £465 +3.33% 25
Scotland -14 68 £588 +33.22% 14
South East +10 49 £400 +2.56% 57
Midlands -41 38 £450 -18.18% 15
West Midlands -37 35 £469 -14.73% 12
Yorkshire -41 22 £488 -7.14% 6
North East -4 21 £475 +6.74% 4
South West -21 13 £500 -9.09% 32
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 3
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 -5.56%
East of England -19 2 £450 +20.00% 5

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 25 (3.89%) Confluence
2 18 (2.80%) Apache
3 11 (1.71%) Camunda
3 11 (1.71%) JBoss
3 11 (1.71%) WebLogic
4 8 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.78%) CMS
5 5 (0.78%) Ethereum
5 5 (0.78%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) nginx
7 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.31%) Apache TomEE
8 2 (0.31%) Drupal
8 2 (0.31%) Mule
8 2 (0.31%) Mule ESB
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 349 (54.36%) AWS
2 191 (29.75%) Azure
3 123 (19.16%) GitHub
4 106 (16.51%) GCP
5 66 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (8.88%) Serverless
7 50 (7.79%) OpenShift
8 49 (7.63%) Amazon S3
9 47 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (3.27%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
15 19 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (1.87%) Datadog
18 11 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
18 11 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.56%) SSL
2 9 (1.40%) HTTP
3 5 (0.78%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.62%) DNS
4 4 (0.62%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.47%) VPN
6 1 (0.16%) Broadband
6 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (20.56%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (17.29%) MongoDB
3 96 (14.95%) NoSQL
4 80 (12.46%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.32%) MySQL
6 33 (5.14%) DynamoDB
7 24 (3.74%) DB2
8 21 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.96%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.96%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.34%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.34%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (2.02%) Redis
14 9 (1.40%) HBase
15 8 (1.25%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.09%) Big Data
16 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.09%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 159 (24.77%) Git
2 144 (22.43%) Jenkins
3 141 (21.96%) JUnit
4 116 (18.07%) GitLab
5 58 (9.03%) Cucumber
6 56 (8.72%) Maven
7 51 (7.94%) Gradle
8 49 (7.63%) JIRA
9 43 (6.70%) Mockito
10 32 (4.98%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (4.21%) Selenium
12 22 (3.43%) IntelliJ
13 21 (3.27%) Cypress.io
13 21 (3.27%) Postman
14 20 (3.12%) JMeter
15 13 (2.02%) Eclipse
16 12 (1.87%) Artifactory
17 10 (1.56%) SonarQube
18 9 (1.40%) Gatling
19 8 (1.25%) Mocha
General
1 183 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 146 (22.74%) Finance
3 115 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 111 (17.29%) Banking
5 44 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.05%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.87%) Front Office
8 11 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.09%) Retail
10 6 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.47%) Electronics
12 3 (0.47%) Law
12 3 (0.47%) Marketing
13 2 (0.31%) Military
14 1 (0.16%) Legal
Job Titles
1 407 (63.40%) Developer
2 301 (46.88%) Java Developer
3 137 (21.34%) Senior
4 98 (15.26%) Full-Stack Developer
4 98 (15.26%) Senior Developer
5 95 (14.80%) Java Engineer
6 83 (12.93%) Senior Java Developer
7 60 (9.35%) Software Engineer
8 52 (8.10%) Lead
9 39 (6.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 30 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (4.36%) Lead Developer
12 25 (3.89%) SQL Developer
13 23 (3.58%) Architect
13 23 (3.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (3.12%) AWS Developer
14 20 (3.12%) Backend Developer
15 18 (2.80%) Lead Java Developer
16 16 (2.49%) Investment Banking Java Developer
16 16 (2.49%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 485 (75.55%) Spring Boot
2 203 (31.62%) Kafka
3 174 (27.10%) RESTful
4 148 (23.05%) React
5 129 (20.09%) REST
6 116 (18.07%) AngularJS
7 87 (13.55%) Node.js
8 85 (13.24%) Hibernate
9 79 (12.31%) HTML
10 55 (8.57%) CSS
11 45 (7.01%) JSON
12 42 (6.54%) OAuth
13 40 (6.23%) OAuth2
14 39 (6.07%) JPA
15 38 (5.92%) JMS
16 28 (4.36%) HTML5
17 27 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
17 27 (4.21%) Playwright
17 27 (4.21%) Spring Cloud
17 27 (4.21%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 95 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.89%) Equities
5 22 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 20 (3.12%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.09%) Derivative
12 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.62%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 68 (10.59%) Linux
2 17 (2.65%) Unix
3 7 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (1.09%) Windows
4 3 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Solaris
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (58.72%) Microservices
2 364 (56.70%) CI/CD
3 270 (42.06%) Agile
4 220 (34.27%) DevOps
5 199 (31.00%) Containerisation
6 167 (26.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 157 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
8 126 (19.63%) Test Automation
9 125 (19.47%) Software Engineering
10 111 (17.29%) Event-Driven
11 100 (15.58%) TDD
12 91 (14.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 84 (13.08%) Scrum
14 80 (12.46%) SDLC
15 71 (11.06%) Code Quality
16 67 (10.44%) Observability
17 65 (10.12%) Mentoring
18 64 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
19 57 (8.88%) API Development
19 57 (8.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 611 (95.17%) Java
2 172 (26.79%) SQL
3 104 (16.20%) JavaScript
4 91 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 81 (12.62%) Python
6 29 (4.52%) Shell Script
7 27 (4.21%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.18%) Scala
9 11 (1.71%) Ruby
10 10 (1.56%) Go
11 7 (1.09%) Groovy
12 6 (0.93%) C#
13 5 (0.78%) Bash
14 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.47%) Perl
16 2 (0.31%) C++
16 2 (0.31%) PHP
16 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.31%) Rust
17 1 (0.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 157 (24.45%) Security Cleared
2 134 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.21%) Degree
4 21 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.87%) OCP
6 12 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.16%) CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (10.12%) QA
2 44 (6.85%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.58%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.49%) WCAG
5 15 (2.34%) PSD2
5 15 (2.34%) SEPA
6 9 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) NIST
8 4 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.47%) HL7
9 3 (0.47%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) GDPR
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 273 (42.52%) Docker
2 7 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.47%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 290 (45.17%) Kubernetes
2 96 (14.95%) Terraform
3 48 (7.48%) Grafana
4 40 (6.23%) Ansible
5 21 (3.27%) Argo
6 19 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.87%) Kibana
9 9 (1.40%) Puppet
10 5 (0.78%) Istio
11 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.31%) Rancher
11 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
12 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 62 (9.66%) Oracle
2 32 (4.98%) Google
3 24 (3.74%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.43%) Red Hat
4 22 (3.43%) Sybase
5 20 (3.12%) Splunk
6 15 (2.34%) VMware
7 11 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.40%) webMethods
9 6 (0.93%) Confluent
9 6 (0.93%) Solace
10 5 (0.78%) Adobe
10 5 (0.78%) IBM
10 5 (0.78%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.78%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.62%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.62%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.62%) SAP
12 3 (0.47%) Informatica