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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 164 191
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 -77
Contract jobs citing Spring 794 512 543
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.74% 1.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.42% 7.70% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 325 393
10th Percentile £356 £358 £376
25th Percentile £413 £414 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £574 £585 £625
90th Percentile £638 £722 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +1.48% -4.76% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 10
10th Percentile £51.50 £66.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.81 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £86.25 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +87.99% -32.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -28.31%

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 9,428 6,651 8,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 22.66% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,556 6,230
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.50 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +34 668 £500 -5.66% 128
UK excluding London +8 388 £467 +1.48% 87
London -3 319 £525 -4.55% 71
Work from Home -6 194 £475 -8.65% 81
North of England +12 155 £475 -1.04% 25
North West +35 117 £473 -0.53% 13
Midlands -15 77 £466 +10.28% 3
West Midlands +4 76 £467 +6.10% 2
South East -2 55 £405 -1.82% 28
Scotland -35 50 £525 +16.67% 12
South West -7 34 £409 -22.10% 14
Yorkshire -46 24 £475 -11.63% 5
East of England -7 22 £540 +15.51% 4
North East -5 21 £450 -3.23% 7
East Midlands -37 1 £450 +11.94% 1

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 47 (5.92%) Confluence
2 31 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.52%) Apache
4 14 (1.76%) Camunda
5 13 (1.64%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.01%) JBoss
7 7 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.76%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.76%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 449 (56.55%) AWS
2 220 (27.71%) Azure
3 155 (19.52%) GitHub
4 137 (17.25%) GCP
5 93 (11.71%) Serverless
6 86 (10.83%) Amazon S3
6 86 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
8 45 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
9 38 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 38 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (4.41%) OpenShift
12 34 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (4.28%) Azure AKS
13 23 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 18 (2.27%) Route 53
16 17 (2.14%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.39%) HTTP
2 10 (1.26%) SSL
3 7 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (14.61%) NoSQL
3 90 (11.34%) MongoDB
4 80 (10.08%) Relational Database
5 69 (8.69%) MySQL
6 61 (7.68%) DynamoDB
7 47 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.15%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.90%) SQL Server
11 15 (1.89%) DocumentDB
11 15 (1.89%) Redis
12 14 (1.76%) Big Data
13 13 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.39%) DB2
14 11 (1.39%) Flink
15 9 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (25.19%) Git
2 180 (22.67%) Jenkins
3 149 (18.77%) JUnit
4 125 (15.74%) GitLab
5 73 (9.19%) JIRA
6 69 (8.69%) Maven
7 57 (7.18%) Gradle
8 55 (6.93%) Mockito
9 52 (6.55%) Cucumber
10 39 (4.91%) Selenium
11 31 (3.90%) SonarQube
12 30 (3.78%) JMeter
13 26 (3.27%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (2.14%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.89%) Gatling
17 14 (1.76%) Cypress.io
18 13 (1.64%) Postman
19 11 (1.39%) DbUnit
19 11 (1.39%) jMock
General
1 173 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 146 (18.39%) Finance
3 144 (18.14%) Public Sector
4 73 (9.19%) Banking
5 44 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.14%) Retail
7 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.76%) Front Office
10 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.63%) Automotive
11 5 (0.63%) Law
11 5 (0.63%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.50%) Publishing
13 3 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 472 (59.45%) Developer
2 338 (42.57%) Java Developer
3 153 (19.27%) Senior
4 125 (15.74%) Java Engineer
5 102 (12.85%) Full-Stack Developer
6 95 (11.96%) Senior Developer
7 76 (9.57%) Software Engineer
8 74 (9.32%) Lead
9 73 (9.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 44 (5.54%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (4.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 36 (4.53%) Backend Developer
13 35 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 32 (4.03%) Architect
15 31 (3.90%) Lead Developer
16 29 (3.65%) Software Developer
17 26 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 19 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
19 18 (2.27%) AWS Developer
20 17 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 635 (79.97%) Spring Boot
2 213 (26.83%) RESTful
3 211 (26.57%) Kafka
4 169 (21.28%) REST
5 162 (20.40%) React
6 125 (15.74%) Node.js
7 114 (14.36%) AngularJS
8 87 (10.96%) Hibernate
9 74 (9.32%) HTML
10 56 (7.05%) CSS
11 52 (6.55%) Spring MVC
12 50 (6.30%) JPA
13 41 (5.16%) WireMock
14 40 (5.04%) OAuth
15 39 (4.91%) Spring Cloud
15 39 (4.91%) Web Services
16 37 (4.66%) OAuth2
17 35 (4.41%) HTML5
18 34 (4.28%) Jest
19 33 (4.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 121 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 85 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.39%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (0.88%) Equities
11 7 (0.88%) NHS
12 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (0.63%) Derivative
13 5 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.42%) Linux
2 18 (2.27%) Unix
3 9 (1.13%) Windows
4 8 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.76%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (59.07%) Microservices
2 447 (56.30%) CI/CD
3 307 (38.66%) Agile
4 275 (34.63%) DevOps
5 240 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 187 (23.55%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (20.65%) TDD
8 156 (19.65%) Software Engineering
9 144 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (18.14%) Test Automation
10 135 (17.00%) Event-Driven
11 125 (15.74%) Code Quality
12 116 (14.61%) Observability
13 111 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 111 (13.98%) Scrum
14 99 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 82 (10.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (9.70%) BDD
16 77 (9.70%) Mentoring
17 71 (8.94%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 744 (93.70%) Java
2 202 (25.44%) SQL
3 118 (14.86%) JavaScript
4 104 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 84 (10.58%) Python
6 52 (6.55%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.27%) Go
8 14 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.01%) Scala
11 7 (0.88%) C#
11 7 (0.88%) Perl
12 6 (0.76%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Ruby
14 3 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.13%) COBOL
15 1 (0.13%) Groovy
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
15 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 236 (29.72%) Security Cleared
2 201 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.16%) Degree
4 29 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.01%) OCP
7 8 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) 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%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (9.82%) QA
2 57 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 15 (1.89%) WCAG
4 9 (1.13%) SEPA
5 8 (1.01%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.01%) PSD2
6 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.63%) NIST
6 5 (0.63%) SLA
7 4 (0.50%) GDPR
7 4 (0.50%) HL7
8 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) NCSC
8 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 332 (41.81%) Docker
2 10 (1.26%) Postfix
3 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 357 (44.96%) Kubernetes
2 102 (12.85%) Terraform
3 93 (11.71%) Grafana
4 57 (7.18%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.65%) Ansible
6 11 (1.39%) Argo
7 10 (1.26%) Kibana
8 9 (1.13%) Istio
9 7 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.50%) Puppet
10 4 (0.50%) Rancher
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 59 (7.43%) Oracle
2 48 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.41%) Google
4 31 (3.90%) Splunk
5 14 (1.76%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.26%) Solace
8 10 (1.26%) Sybase
9 9 (1.13%) Checkmarx
10 8 (1.01%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.01%) IBM
11 7 (0.88%) Databricks
11 7 (0.88%) SAP
11 7 (0.88%) VMware
12 6 (0.76%) Adobe
12 6 (0.76%) Confluent
13 5 (0.63%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.63%) Teradata