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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 163 178
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 -51
Contract jobs citing Spring 808 507 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.74% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 7.68% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 322 413
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £423 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £573 £625
90th Percentile £663 £724 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £446 £483
% change year-on-year +6.62% -7.76% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 11
10th Percentile - £52.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +2.27% +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 9,374 6,599 8,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.66% 22.70% 20.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,179 4,521 6,171
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £416 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £730 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 110 243
10th Percentile £32.50 £30.15 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.19 £74.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 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 15 May 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 +29 681 £509 -3.14% 177
UK excluding London -6 378 £475 +6.62% 119
London +18 337 £525 -2.05% 78
Work from Home -7 202 £475 -9.52% 317
North of England +22 168 £475 - 56
North West +37 121 £475 +9.57% 38
Midlands -33 67 £469 +15.52% 8
West Midlands -11 66 £470 +6.70% 6
Scotland -40 47 £438 -2.78% 7
South West +1 39 £409 -22.10% 16
South East -29 37 £500 +9.59% 26
Yorkshire -44 29 £463 -13.95% 12
North East +1 26 £463 -0.54% 6
East of England -7 26 £510 +9.09% 2
East Midlands -45 1 £450 +21.13% 2
Wales - 1 - - 3

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 46 (5.69%) Confluence
2 42 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.85%) Apache
4 15 (1.86%) Camunda
5 8 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.99%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.74%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.74%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.50%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 433 (53.59%) AWS
2 199 (24.63%) Azure
3 145 (17.95%) GitHub
4 129 (15.97%) GCP
5 82 (10.15%) GitHub Actions
5 82 (10.15%) Serverless
6 78 (9.65%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
10 36 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (3.96%) OpenShift
12 30 (3.71%) Azure AKS
13 25 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (2.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (2.35%) Cloud Run
16 18 (2.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.24%) HTTP
1 10 (1.24%) SSL
2 5 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.50%) DNS
4 3 (0.37%) VPN
5 2 (0.25%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (21.29%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (13.00%) NoSQL
3 88 (10.89%) MongoDB
4 80 (9.90%) Relational Database
5 60 (7.43%) MySQL
6 53 (6.56%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.22%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (3.22%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.60%) Redis
11 19 (2.35%) Big Data
12 17 (2.10%) Flink
13 15 (1.86%) DocumentDB
14 11 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.24%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.11%) DB2
17 8 (0.99%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (23.64%) Git
2 173 (21.41%) Jenkins
3 133 (16.46%) GitLab
4 129 (15.97%) JUnit
5 72 (8.91%) JIRA
6 68 (8.42%) Gradle
6 68 (8.42%) Maven
7 60 (7.43%) Mockito
8 39 (4.83%) Cucumber
9 36 (4.46%) Selenium
10 34 (4.21%) SonarQube
11 23 (2.85%) IntelliJ
12 22 (2.72%) JMeter
13 17 (2.10%) Gatling
14 16 (1.98%) WebDriver
15 15 (1.86%) REST Assured
16 13 (1.61%) Liquibase
17 12 (1.49%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.36%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.36%) jMock
General
1 153 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 147 (18.19%) Finance
3 143 (17.70%) Public Sector
4 79 (9.78%) Banking
5 41 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.48%) Retail
7 15 (1.86%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.74%) Automotive
10 6 (0.74%) Front Office
10 6 (0.74%) Law
10 6 (0.74%) Publishing
10 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.62%) Military
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 458 (56.68%) Developer
2 321 (39.73%) Java Developer
3 161 (19.93%) Senior
4 138 (17.08%) Java Engineer
5 96 (11.88%) Senior Developer
6 95 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 87 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 80 (9.90%) Lead
9 72 (8.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 54 (6.68%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.45%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.96%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.59%) Lead Developer
15 27 (3.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 25 (3.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.85%) Architect
18 22 (2.72%) Data Engineer
19 20 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
19 20 (2.48%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 658 (81.44%) Spring Boot
2 214 (26.49%) Kafka
3 195 (24.13%) RESTful
4 174 (21.53%) REST
5 158 (19.55%) React
6 123 (15.22%) Node.js
7 92 (11.39%) AngularJS
8 66 (8.17%) Hibernate
9 63 (7.80%) HTML
10 50 (6.19%) CSS
11 49 (6.06%) Spring Cloud
11 49 (6.06%) Spring MVC
12 48 (5.94%) JPA
13 44 (5.45%) WireMock
14 42 (5.20%) Web Services
15 39 (4.83%) OAuth
16 38 (4.70%) Next.js
17 37 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
18 36 (4.46%) OAuth2
19 34 (4.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 140 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 89 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (0.87%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.87%) NHS
14 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.50%) Derivative
15 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.57%) Linux
2 15 (1.86%) Unix
3 10 (1.24%) Windows
4 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (57.80%) Microservices
2 446 (55.20%) CI/CD
3 297 (36.76%) Agile
4 277 (34.28%) DevOps
5 257 (31.81%) Containerisation
6 181 (22.40%) Software Engineering
7 171 (21.16%) TDD
8 170 (21.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 149 (18.44%) Test Automation
10 141 (17.45%) Event-Driven
11 136 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (15.22%) Observability
13 120 (14.85%) Code Quality
14 112 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 98 (12.13%) Scrum
16 93 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
17 83 (10.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 79 (9.78%) BDD
19 67 (8.29%) API Design
19 67 (8.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 760 (94.06%) Java
2 210 (25.99%) SQL
3 125 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 111 (13.74%) TypeScript
5 92 (11.39%) Python
6 54 (6.68%) Kotlin
7 16 (1.98%) Go
8 13 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 13 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.24%) Scala
10 8 (0.99%) Bash
11 7 (0.87%) C#
12 6 (0.74%) Perl
12 6 (0.74%) Ruby
13 3 (0.37%) PHP
14 2 (0.25%) Groovy
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) Bicep
15 1 (0.12%) Solidity
15 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 249 (30.82%) Security Cleared
2 214 (26.49%) SC Cleared
3 32 (3.96%) Degree
4 27 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.25%) OCP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) OSCP
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.66%) QA
2 58 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.73%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.61%) WCAG
5 12 (1.49%) SEPA
6 9 (1.11%) GDPR
7 8 (0.99%) PSD2
8 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) HL7
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) EMIR
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 350 (43.32%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 358 (44.31%) Kubernetes
2 96 (11.88%) Grafana
2 96 (11.88%) Terraform
3 68 (8.42%) Prometheus
4 26 (3.22%) Ansible
5 13 (1.61%) Argo
6 11 (1.36%) Istio
6 11 (1.36%) Kibana
7 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.25%) Rancher
9 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 58 (7.18%) Oracle
2 40 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 30 (3.71%) Splunk
4 28 (3.47%) Google
5 14 (1.73%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.24%) IBM
9 9 (1.11%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.11%) Solace
10 7 (0.87%) Databricks
11 6 (0.74%) Adobe
11 6 (0.74%) Confluent
11 6 (0.74%) Okta
11 6 (0.74%) Sybase
12 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.62%) SAP
12 5 (0.62%) Teradata