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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 177 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 -97
Contract jobs citing Spring 758 474 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.61% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.09% 7.08% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 293 371
10th Percentile £356 £356 £388
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -14.43%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £635
90th Percentile £638 £732 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.74% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -32.03%

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 9,364 6,695 8,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 22.69% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 4,482 6,268
10th Percentile £358 £363 £335
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 214
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.75 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.48 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +43 632 £500 -6.89% 137
UK excluding London +36 386 £467 +3.74% 114
London -7 288 £525 -4.55% 49
Work from Home +2 198 £475 -5.00% 113
North of England +18 154 £475 +3.26% 46
North West +43 114 £465 +3.33% 25
Midlands +8 82 £466 +9.63% 9
West Midlands +1 79 £469 +10.35% 7
South East +8 60 £400 -3.03% 31
Scotland -21 57 £588 +31.87% 7
South West -11 27 £409 -23.91% 12
North East +2 24 £475 +6.74% 11
Yorkshire -50 23 £500 -4.76% 10
East of England - 14 £510 - 4
East Midlands -31 3 £308 -28.74% 2

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 49 (6.46%) Confluence
2 24 (3.17%) Apache
2 24 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.37%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.72%) Camunda
4 13 (1.72%) JBoss
5 7 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.79%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.79%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 2 (0.26%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.26%) CICS
9 2 (0.26%) Drupal
9 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.26%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 428 (56.46%) AWS
2 219 (28.89%) Azure
3 159 (20.98%) GitHub
4 129 (17.02%) GCP
5 86 (11.35%) Serverless
6 84 (11.08%) GitHub Actions
7 81 (10.69%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.33%) OpenShift
10 43 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (3.83%) Azure AKS
15 24 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (2.24%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (2.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) HTTP
2 10 (1.32%) SSL
3 7 (0.92%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.40%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (14.91%) NoSQL
3 108 (14.25%) MongoDB
4 81 (10.69%) Relational Database
5 52 (6.86%) MySQL
6 50 (6.60%) DynamoDB
7 41 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.03%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.37%) DB2
12 15 (1.98%) DocumentDB
12 15 (1.98%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.72%) Redis
15 10 (1.32%) Big Data
15 10 (1.32%) Flink
16 9 (1.19%) HBase
16 9 (1.19%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 208 (27.44%) Git
2 184 (24.27%) Jenkins
3 164 (21.64%) JUnit
4 131 (17.28%) GitLab
5 74 (9.76%) Cucumber
5 74 (9.76%) JIRA
6 71 (9.37%) Maven
7 53 (6.99%) Mockito
8 52 (6.86%) Gradle
9 49 (6.46%) Selenium
10 32 (4.22%) JMeter
11 29 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
12 24 (3.17%) IntelliJ
13 21 (2.77%) SonarQube
14 17 (2.24%) Postman
15 16 (2.11%) Gatling
15 16 (2.11%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.98%) Cypress.io
17 11 (1.45%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.45%) Eclipse
General
1 202 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.60%) Finance
3 136 (17.94%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.35%) Banking
5 46 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.77%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.24%) Retail
8 15 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.45%) Front Office
11 9 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.66%) Law
13 5 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Automotive
14 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Military
14 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.40%) Electronics
15 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 457 (60.29%) Developer
2 322 (42.48%) Java Developer
3 145 (19.13%) Senior
4 120 (15.83%) Java Engineer
5 105 (13.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 91 (12.01%) Senior Developer
7 72 (9.50%) Senior Java Developer
7 72 (9.50%) Software Engineer
8 66 (8.71%) Lead
9 45 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
10 37 (4.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 33 (4.35%) Backend Developer
12 32 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 28 (3.69%) Architect
14 26 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (3.17%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.03%) AWS Developer
16 23 (3.03%) Software Developer
17 18 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (1.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 575 (75.86%) Spring Boot
2 215 (28.36%) Kafka
3 190 (25.07%) RESTful
4 162 (21.37%) REST
5 156 (20.58%) React
6 120 (15.83%) AngularJS
7 114 (15.04%) Node.js
8 96 (12.66%) Hibernate
9 79 (10.42%) HTML
10 58 (7.65%) CSS
11 50 (6.60%) JPA
12 42 (5.54%) WireMock
13 40 (5.28%) OAuth
14 38 (5.01%) Spring MVC
15 37 (4.88%) OAuth2
16 36 (4.75%) JSON
17 35 (4.62%) SOAP
17 35 (4.62%) Web Services
18 34 (4.49%) Playwright
18 34 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 113 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.37%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 18 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.24%) Equities
7 16 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 14 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.06%) Derivative
10 8 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.79%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.66%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.66%) NHS
14 4 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
15 3 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.44%) Linux
2 21 (2.77%) Unix
3 9 (1.19%) Windows
4 8 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.66%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (58.44%) Microservices
2 436 (57.52%) CI/CD
3 315 (41.56%) Agile
4 269 (35.49%) DevOps
5 218 (28.76%) Containerisation
6 182 (24.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 166 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (19.53%) TDD
9 147 (19.39%) Software Engineering
9 147 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 124 (16.36%) Event-Driven
11 109 (14.38%) Scrum
12 105 (13.85%) Observability
13 96 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (12.53%) Code Quality
15 91 (12.01%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (10.95%) Mentoring
17 72 (9.50%) BDD
17 72 (9.50%) SDLC
18 71 (9.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 712 (93.93%) Java
2 186 (24.54%) SQL
3 109 (14.38%) JavaScript
4 105 (13.85%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.01%) Python
6 46 (6.07%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.11%) Go
9 15 (1.98%) Scala
10 12 (1.58%) Ruby
11 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.06%) C#
12 8 (1.06%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.26%) Groovy
16 1 (0.13%) Bicep
16 1 (0.13%) Clojure
16 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.13%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 224 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 192 (25.33%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.62%) Degree
4 30 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.58%) OCP
6 12 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.37%) QA
2 53 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.64%) WCAG
4 18 (2.37%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.32%) PSD2
5 10 (1.32%) SEPA
6 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.66%) NIST
6 5 (0.66%) SLA
7 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.53%) GDPR
8 3 (0.40%) HL7
8 3 (0.40%) NCSC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 313 (41.29%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Postfix
3 5 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 347 (45.78%) Kubernetes
2 97 (12.80%) Terraform
3 89 (11.74%) Grafana
4 49 (6.46%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.75%) Ansible
6 22 (2.90%) Argo
7 12 (1.58%) Kibana
8 11 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 9 (1.19%) Puppet
10 7 (0.92%) Istio
11 4 (0.53%) Rancher
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 63 (8.31%) Oracle
2 46 (6.07%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.75%) Google
4 32 (4.22%) Splunk
5 23 (3.03%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.24%) Sybase
7 11 (1.45%) VMware
8 10 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.19%) webMethods
10 8 (1.06%) Solace
11 7 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.92%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.92%) SAP
12 6 (0.79%) Adobe
12 6 (0.79%) Databricks
12 6 (0.79%) IBM
12 6 (0.79%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.66%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.53%) Confluent