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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 183 214
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 -122
Contract jobs citing Spring 599 465 480
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.64% 1.46% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 6.63% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 284 354
10th Percentile £343 £356 £403
25th Percentile £410 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £638 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 5
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £48.43
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £60.88 - £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

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 8,195 7,015 9,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.38% 21.99% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,431 4,451 6,559
10th Percentile £356 £353 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £770 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 82 167
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £29.24
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% -19.23%

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 10 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 10 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 10 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 +19 480 £485 -15.65% 196
UK excluding London +4 299 £450 - 157
London +6 244 £525 -10.26% 73
Work from Home +26 172 £500 +5.26% 132
North of England +24 129 £465 +3.33% 34
North West +36 94 £450 - 21
Scotland -7 75 £588 +35.84% 11
South East +9 42 £405 +3.85% 61
Midlands -30 42 £430 -26.81% 13
West Midlands -31 35 £469 -20.17% 12
Yorkshire -41 23 £475 -20.83% 9
North East -2 15 £475 +6.74% 4
South West -22 12 £455 -17.36% 21
East Midlands - 7 £289 - 1
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 -5.56% 2
East of England -28 2 £450 +20.00% 10
Wales - 1 £475 - 8

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 22 (3.67%) Confluence
2 17 (2.84%) Apache
3 11 (1.84%) JBoss
3 11 (1.84%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.00%) CMS
5 5 (0.83%) Camunda
5 5 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.67%) Mule
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) CICS
7 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 3 (0.50%) WordPress
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Apache TomEE
8 2 (0.33%) Drupal
8 2 (0.33%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 323 (53.92%) AWS
2 184 (30.72%) Azure
3 109 (18.20%) GitHub
4 100 (16.69%) GCP
5 61 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (9.18%) Serverless
7 48 (8.01%) OpenShift
8 43 (7.18%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (7.01%) Amazon S3
10 29 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (4.17%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.00%) Datadog
19 11 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
19 11 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.50%) SSL
2 5 (0.83%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.67%) DNS
3 4 (0.67%) HTTP
3 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (20.20%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (17.86%) MongoDB
3 90 (15.03%) NoSQL
4 84 (14.02%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.68%) MySQL
6 33 (5.51%) DynamoDB
7 28 (4.67%) DB2
8 17 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (2.84%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.67%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.34%) Redis
12 13 (2.17%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.67%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.50%) HBase
15 7 (1.17%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.67%) Big Data
16 4 (0.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 149 (24.87%) Git
2 132 (22.04%) JUnit
3 130 (21.70%) Jenkins
4 99 (16.53%) GitLab
5 55 (9.18%) Cucumber
6 46 (7.68%) Gradle
6 46 (7.68%) Maven
7 42 (7.01%) Mockito
8 41 (6.84%) JIRA
9 29 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (4.34%) Selenium
11 20 (3.34%) IntelliJ
12 19 (3.17%) Cypress.io
12 19 (3.17%) JMeter
13 18 (3.01%) Postman
14 16 (2.67%) SonarQube
15 13 (2.17%) Eclipse
16 12 (2.00%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.84%) Gatling
18 9 (1.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 177 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.87%) Finance
3 103 (17.20%) Banking
4 94 (15.69%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.67%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.00%) Front Office
9 11 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.17%) Retail
11 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Electronics
13 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.50%) Law
13 3 (0.50%) Marketing
14 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 380 (63.44%) Developer
2 297 (49.58%) Java Developer
3 126 (21.04%) Senior
4 95 (15.86%) Senior Developer
5 83 (13.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 81 (13.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 79 (13.19%) Java Engineer
8 54 (9.02%) Software Engineer
9 53 (8.85%) Lead
10 39 (6.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (5.01%) SQL Developer
12 27 (4.51%) Lead Developer
13 26 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
14 23 (3.84%) Architect
15 22 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (3.34%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 19 (3.17%) Lead Java Developer
17 19 (3.17%) Linux Developer
18 17 (2.84%) AWS Developer
18 17 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (74.46%) Spring Boot
2 188 (31.39%) Kafka
3 153 (25.54%) RESTful
4 137 (22.87%) React
5 118 (19.70%) REST
6 107 (17.86%) AngularJS
7 88 (14.69%) Hibernate
8 80 (13.36%) HTML
9 68 (11.35%) Node.js
10 55 (9.18%) CSS
11 52 (8.68%) JSON
12 43 (7.18%) OAuth
13 40 (6.68%) OAuth2
14 38 (6.34%) JPA
15 37 (6.18%) JMS
16 30 (5.01%) Spring Cloud
17 26 (4.34%) HTML5
17 26 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
18 25 (4.17%) SOAP
18 25 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 88 (14.69%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (4.51%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.17%) Equities
4 25 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 25 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.17%) Derivative
9 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.83%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 70 (11.69%) Linux
2 18 (3.01%) Unix
3 7 (1.17%) Windows
4 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.33%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Solaris
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (58.60%) Microservices
2 329 (54.92%) CI/CD
3 255 (42.57%) Agile
4 204 (34.06%) DevOps
5 180 (30.05%) Containerisation
6 154 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (24.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (19.70%) Software Engineering
9 116 (19.37%) Test Automation
10 96 (16.03%) Event-Driven
11 95 (15.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 91 (15.19%) TDD
13 85 (14.19%) SDLC
14 67 (11.19%) Scrum
15 65 (10.85%) Code Quality
15 65 (10.85%) Observability
16 62 (10.35%) Mentoring
17 58 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (9.18%) Design Patterns
19 53 (8.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 573 (95.66%) Java
2 175 (29.22%) SQL
3 98 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 83 (13.86%) Python
5 79 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.51%) Kotlin
7 31 (5.18%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.17%) Scala
9 11 (1.84%) Ruby
10 9 (1.50%) Bash
11 8 (1.34%) Groovy
12 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.83%) Go
14 3 (0.50%) C#
15 2 (0.33%) C++
15 2 (0.33%) COBOL
15 2 (0.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 131 (21.87%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.84%) Degree
4 24 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.00%) OCP
6 12 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.17%) CCSP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.17%) CISSP
10 1 (0.17%) OSCP
10 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.52%) QA
2 38 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.67%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.34%) WCAG
5 13 (2.17%) PSD2
5 13 (2.17%) SEPA
6 9 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.83%) NIST
8 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.50%) GDPR
9 3 (0.50%) HL7
9 3 (0.50%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 252 (42.07%) Docker
2 7 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 259 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 94 (15.69%) Terraform
3 43 (7.18%) Grafana
4 40 (6.68%) Ansible
5 21 (3.51%) Argo
6 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.67%) Kibana
9 9 (1.50%) Puppet
10 5 (0.83%) Istio
11 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.33%) Rancher
12 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.17%) Consul
12 1 (0.17%) Control-M
12 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 61 (10.18%) Oracle
2 31 (5.18%) Google
3 29 (4.84%) Microsoft
4 24 (4.01%) Sybase
5 20 (3.34%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.84%) Splunk
7 15 (2.50%) VMware
8 12 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.50%) webMethods
10 6 (1.00%) Confluent
11 5 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.83%) IBM
11 5 (0.83%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.83%) SAP
11 5 (0.83%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.67%) Solace
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.50%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.50%) Checkmarx