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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 144 168
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 887 606 612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.91% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.81% 8.37% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 400 457
10th Percentile £373 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -9.52% -9.48%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £626 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £455 £463
% change year-on-year +5.06% -1.73% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £59.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.36% +19.88% -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 10,064 7,236 9,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.43% 22.76% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,594 4,891 6,380
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 148 283
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.60 £22.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.30 £74.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +12 731 £525 +5.00% 216
UK excluding London -33 401 £478 +5.06% 131
London +2 381 £525 - 119
Work from Home -43 215 £485 -3.00% 107
North of England +9 152 £500 +7.53% 38
North West -1 94 £525 +26.51% 21
Midlands -48 74 £475 +13.10% 20
West Midlands -19 71 £475 -3.55% 17
Scotland -49 53 £405 -10.11% 11
South West +11 50 £410 -20.96% 19
Yorkshire -16 41 £500 -4.76% 11
South East -24 41 £450 -1.37% 26
East of England -3 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -22 22 £450 -8.16% 7
Wales -19 6 £375 -21.05% 8
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 4
East Midlands -46 2 £401 +6.93% 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 47 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.62%) Confluence
3 29 (3.27%) Apache
4 13 (1.47%) Camunda
5 12 (1.35%) WebLogic
6 11 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.13%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.13%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.13%) nginx
8 7 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.56%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 464 (52.31%) AWS
2 223 (25.14%) Azure
3 151 (17.02%) GCP
4 144 (16.23%) GitHub
5 85 (9.58%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 66 (7.44%) Serverless
8 58 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.61%) OpenShift
13 26 (2.93%) Azure AKS
14 24 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (2.14%) Route 53
16 18 (2.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.03%) AWS KMS
17 16 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) HTTP
2 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (21.98%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (12.18%) NoSQL
3 92 (10.37%) MongoDB
3 92 (10.37%) Relational Database
4 63 (7.10%) MySQL
5 48 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
6 47 (5.30%) DynamoDB
7 32 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (3.49%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (2.48%) Flink
10 21 (2.37%) Big Data
10 21 (2.37%) Redis
11 17 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.69%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.13%) Db2
14 9 (1.01%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.01%) Oracle Database
15 7 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 218 (24.58%) Git
2 213 (24.01%) Jenkins
3 161 (18.15%) JUnit
4 117 (13.19%) GitLab
5 87 (9.81%) Maven
6 74 (8.34%) Gradle
7 72 (8.12%) Mockito
8 70 (7.89%) JIRA
9 45 (5.07%) Selenium
10 43 (4.85%) Cucumber
11 38 (4.28%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.16%) JMeter
13 19 (2.14%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.14%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.03%) Gatling
14 18 (2.03%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.92%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.58%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 13 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 187 (21.08%) Social Skills
2 178 (20.07%) Finance
3 159 (17.93%) Public Sector
4 101 (11.39%) Banking
5 58 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.04%) Retail
7 20 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.35%) Law
8 12 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.13%) Military
10 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
11 6 (0.68%) Automotive
11 6 (0.68%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Publishing
12 4 (0.45%) Games
12 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.45%) Police
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 503 (56.71%) Developer
2 393 (44.31%) Java Developer
3 175 (19.73%) Senior
4 143 (16.12%) Java Engineer
5 103 (11.61%) Software Engineer
6 96 (10.82%) Lead
7 95 (10.71%) Senior Developer
8 76 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 74 (8.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (6.65%) Backend Developer
11 57 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
12 40 (4.51%) Lead Developer
13 32 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.27%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.27%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (3.27%) Software Developer
16 25 (2.82%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.25%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 722 (81.40%) Spring Boot
2 247 (27.85%) Kafka
3 214 (24.13%) REST
4 209 (23.56%) RESTful
5 155 (17.47%) React
6 120 (13.53%) Node.js
7 77 (8.68%) AngularJS
8 70 (7.89%) JPA
9 68 (7.67%) Hibernate
10 58 (6.54%) HTML
11 55 (6.20%) Web Services
12 51 (5.75%) CSS
12 51 (5.75%) WireMock
13 50 (5.64%) Spring MVC
14 45 (5.07%) Spring Cloud
15 41 (4.62%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (3.83%) Redux
17 32 (3.61%) HTML5
17 32 (3.61%) OAuth
17 32 (3.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 159 (17.93%) Cloud Native
2 118 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.24%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.90%) Derivative
14 7 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 7 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.98%) Linux
2 22 (2.48%) Unix
3 10 (1.13%) Windows
4 9 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.56%) VMS
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Solaris
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (58.17%) CI/CD
2 514 (57.95%) Microservices
3 380 (42.84%) Agile
4 323 (36.41%) DevOps
5 264 (29.76%) Containerisation
6 212 (23.90%) Software Engineering
7 196 (22.10%) TDD
8 179 (20.18%) Test Automation
9 173 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 166 (18.71%) Event-Driven
11 152 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 141 (15.90%) Scrum
13 136 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 129 (14.54%) Observability
15 122 (13.75%) Code Quality
16 104 (11.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (10.48%) BDD
18 81 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
19 77 (8.68%) Mentoring
20 73 (8.23%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 853 (96.17%) Java
2 260 (29.31%) SQL
3 125 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 111 (12.51%) TypeScript
5 99 (11.16%) Python
6 45 (5.07%) Kotlin
7 32 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.14%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.58%) Scala
10 13 (1.47%) Go
11 10 (1.13%) C#
12 9 (1.01%) Bash
12 9 (1.01%) Ruby
13 6 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.56%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 267 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 229 (25.82%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.83%) Degree
5 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.03%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.15%) QA
2 70 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.13%) ISO 20022
3 10 (1.13%) WCAG
4 8 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.90%) SEPA
5 7 (0.79%) GDPR
5 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) PSD2
8 3 (0.34%) EMIR
8 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) ITGC
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 388 (43.74%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 378 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 90 (10.15%) Grafana
3 85 (9.58%) Terraform
4 72 (8.12%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.28%) Ansible
6 14 (1.58%) Kibana
7 7 (0.79%) Istio
8 5 (0.56%) Argo
8 5 (0.56%) Control-M
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
Vendors
1 94 (10.60%) Oracle
2 45 (5.07%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.40%) Google
4 34 (3.83%) Splunk
5 17 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.80%) IBM
7 15 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.47%) Solace
9 13 (1.47%) Sybase
10 11 (1.24%) Databricks
11 10 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.01%) Checkmarx
13 8 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.68%) New Relic
14 6 (0.68%) Okta
14 6 (0.68%) TikTok
15 5 (0.56%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.56%) Teradata