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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 151 172
Rank change year-on-year -15 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing Spring 891 605 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.86% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 7.30% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 391 419
10th Percentile £361 £340 £380
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £638
90th Percentile £700 £626 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 2
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £38.45
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £43.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% -26.21%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 £70.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +2.80% -26.21%

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 11,690 8,286 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.81% 25.48% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,697 5,589 6,415
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 185 196
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.30
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £79.48 £74.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +5 708 £525 +5.00% 711
UK excluding London -36 414 £500 +11.11% 396
London +2 377 £533 +1.43% 467
Work from Home -48 214 £500 - 348
North of England -4 167 £530 +13.98% 124
North West -20 96 £560 +24.51% 78
Midlands -29 83 £551 +33.45% 51
West Midlands +1 77 £565 +13.00% 43
Scotland -42 71 £402 -10.67% 81
Yorkshire +7 54 £500 +39.16% 23
South West -18 36 £463 -8.42% 53
South East -51 30 £294 -41.20% 46
East of England -3 21 £500 +6.95% 8
North East -35 18 £450 -8.16% 23
Wales -17 11 £425 -10.53% 8
East Midlands -40 5 £400 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 28

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 35 (3.93%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.81%) Apache
2 25 (2.81%) Confluence
3 13 (1.46%) Camunda
4 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.12%) nginx
5 9 (1.01%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.45%) CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.45%) Quorum
1 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.45%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.22%) Finacle
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 505 (56.68%) AWS
2 203 (22.78%) Azure
3 154 (17.28%) GitHub
4 144 (16.16%) GCP
5 89 (9.99%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (7.07%) Serverless
7 56 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 44 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (4.94%) OpenShift
10 43 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
15 19 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.35%) HTTP
2 6 (0.67%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
3 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (21.55%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (12.01%) NoSQL
3 100 (11.22%) Relational Database
4 99 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 65 (7.30%) MySQL
6 37 (4.15%) Redis
7 34 (3.82%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
9 30 (3.37%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (2.02%) Flink
13 16 (1.80%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.68%) Big Data
14 15 (1.68%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.23%) Couchbase
17 10 (1.12%) Metadata
18 9 (1.01%) Data Lake
19 8 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 234 (26.26%) Jenkins
2 232 (26.04%) Git
3 152 (17.06%) JUnit
4 137 (15.38%) GitLab
5 107 (12.01%) Maven
6 98 (11.00%) Gradle
7 79 (8.87%) Mockito
8 54 (6.06%) SonarQube
9 49 (5.50%) JIRA
10 39 (4.38%) Cucumber
11 35 (3.93%) Selenium
12 22 (2.47%) Gatling
12 22 (2.47%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.13%) REST Assured
14 16 (1.80%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.57%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.46%) JMeter
17 11 (1.23%) GoCD
18 9 (1.01%) Flyway
18 9 (1.01%) JProfiler
General
1 203 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 187 (20.99%) Finance
3 155 (17.40%) Public Sector
4 104 (11.67%) Banking
5 71 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.14%) Retail
7 16 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.35%) Law
9 12 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.01%) Military
11 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.79%) Back Office
12 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.67%) Publishing
14 5 (0.56%) Police
15 4 (0.45%) Automotive
15 4 (0.45%) Games
15 4 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 512 (57.46%) Developer
2 418 (46.91%) Java Developer
3 182 (20.43%) Senior
4 140 (15.71%) Java Engineer
5 110 (12.35%) Senior Developer
5 110 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 90 (10.10%) Lead
7 88 (9.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 64 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
10 53 (5.95%) Backend Developer
11 43 (4.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 42 (4.71%) Lead Developer
13 35 (3.93%) Architect
13 35 (3.93%) Lead Java Developer
14 34 (3.82%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.37%) Senior Java Engineer
16 28 (3.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.58%) Data Engineer
18 21 (2.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 751 (84.29%) Spring Boot
2 273 (30.64%) Kafka
3 253 (28.40%) REST
4 219 (24.58%) RESTful
5 172 (19.30%) React
6 111 (12.46%) Node.js
7 88 (9.88%) Terraform
8 80 (8.98%) JPA
9 76 (8.53%) HTML
10 71 (7.97%) Hibernate
11 69 (7.74%) AngularJS
12 67 (7.52%) CSS
13 59 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
13 59 (6.62%) Spring MVC
14 58 (6.51%) Web Services
15 50 (5.61%) OAuth
16 40 (4.49%) OpenAPI
16 40 (4.49%) Redux
17 39 (4.38%) Spring Cloud
18 36 (4.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 208 (23.34%) Cloud Native
2 141 (15.82%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.42%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.27%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 28 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 7 (0.79%) Derivative
16 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.67%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.50%) Linux
2 32 (3.59%) Unix
3 4 (0.45%) VMS
3 4 (0.45%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (61.95%) Microservices
2 530 (59.48%) CI/CD
3 444 (49.83%) Agile
4 302 (33.89%) DevOps
5 260 (29.18%) Software Engineering
6 258 (28.96%) Containerisation
7 222 (24.92%) Test Automation
8 200 (22.45%) Event-Driven
9 183 (20.54%) TDD
10 173 (19.42%) Scrum
11 155 (17.40%) Full-Stack Development
12 152 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 143 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (14.70%) Code Quality
14 131 (14.70%) Observability
15 127 (14.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 102 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 99 (11.11%) SDLC
18 93 (10.44%) Design Patterns
19 88 (9.88%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 875 (98.20%) Java
2 277 (31.09%) SQL
3 134 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 121 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.66%) Python
6 44 (4.94%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.15%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.13%) Bash
10 13 (1.46%) Scala
11 11 (1.23%) Ruby
12 6 (0.67%) C#
13 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 4 (0.45%) Go
14 4 (0.45%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.22%) Korn
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 249 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 209 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (3.59%) Degree
5 24 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.78%) QA
2 76 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.91%) WCAG
4 14 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.01%) SEPA
7 8 (0.90%) GDPR
8 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) PSD2
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 401 (45.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 381 (42.76%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.63%) Grafana
3 62 (6.96%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.71%) Ansible
5 26 (2.92%) Kibana
6 11 (1.23%) Control-M
7 10 (1.12%) Istio
8 7 (0.79%) Argo
9 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.34%) Bosun
10 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 130 (14.59%) Oracle
2 41 (4.60%) Google
3 29 (3.25%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.24%) IBM
5 19 (2.13%) Splunk
6 18 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.23%) Solace
9 10 (1.12%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.01%) Databricks
11 8 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (0.90%) Sybase
12 7 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.79%) Confluent
12 7 (0.79%) New Relic
12 7 (0.79%) TikTok
13 5 (0.56%) FIS
13 5 (0.56%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.56%) SAP
14 4 (0.45%) Okta