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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 171 209
Rank change year-on-year +9 +38 -108
Contract jobs citing Spring 750 488 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.59% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.04% 6.99% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 298 369
10th Percentile £354 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £630
90th Percentile £646 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -10.00% -9.09%
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 - - -30.75%

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 9,326 6,982 9,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.84% 22.78% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 4,579 6,389
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 93 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.36 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.95 £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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +35 624 £500 -9.09% 158
UK excluding London +27 378 £469 +4.22% 123
London -4 289 £525 -7.08% 59
Work from Home -1 198 £475 -5.00% 140
North of England +15 150 £475 -5.00% 50
North West +46 110 £450 -2.70% 23
Midlands -4 79 £469 +10.35% 19
West Midlands +7 76 £470 +10.47% 14
South East +22 60 £400 +2.56% 29
Scotland -22 57 £600 +36.05% 8
South West -10 29 £409 -27.29% 8
Yorkshire -52 25 £500 -4.76% 15
North East 0 22 £475 +4.40% 12
East of England -12 11 £600 - 3
East Midlands -31 3 £308 -28.74% 5

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 (6.13%) Confluence
2 23 (3.07%) Apache
2 23 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.40%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.73%) Camunda
4 13 (1.73%) JBoss
5 7 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.80%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.80%) 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 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) 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 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 424 (56.53%) AWS
2 212 (28.27%) Azure
3 151 (20.13%) GitHub
4 127 (16.93%) GCP
5 85 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (11.07%) Serverless
7 80 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 68 (9.07%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.80%) OpenShift
10 43 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (3.33%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.27%) Datadog
18 16 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.47%) HTTP
2 10 (1.33%) SSL
3 7 (0.93%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.67%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.40%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (22.67%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (14.80%) MongoDB
2 111 (14.80%) NoSQL
3 85 (11.33%) Relational Database
4 51 (6.80%) MySQL
5 48 (6.40%) DynamoDB
6 41 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.40%) DB2
11 17 (2.27%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (2.00%) DocumentDB
14 13 (1.73%) Redis
15 10 (1.33%) Big Data
15 10 (1.33%) Flink
16 9 (1.20%) HBase
16 9 (1.20%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 199 (26.53%) Git
2 183 (24.40%) Jenkins
3 162 (21.60%) JUnit
4 128 (17.07%) GitLab
5 75 (10.00%) Maven
6 74 (9.87%) Cucumber
7 70 (9.33%) JIRA
8 54 (7.20%) Gradle
8 54 (7.20%) Mockito
9 46 (6.13%) Selenium
10 32 (4.27%) JMeter
10 32 (4.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 23 (3.07%) IntelliJ
12 18 (2.40%) SonarQube
13 17 (2.27%) Cypress.io
14 16 (2.13%) Gatling
14 16 (2.13%) Postman
15 13 (1.73%) WebDriver
16 12 (1.60%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.47%) REST Assured
General
1 202 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.93%) Finance
3 133 (17.73%) Public Sector
4 88 (11.73%) Banking
5 45 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.27%) Retail
8 15 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.47%) Front Office
10 11 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Military
13 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Electronics
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Law
14 3 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 458 (61.07%) Developer
2 329 (43.87%) Java Developer
3 145 (19.33%) Senior
4 116 (15.47%) Java Engineer
5 108 (14.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.53%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 69 (9.20%) Lead
8 69 (9.20%) Software Engineer
9 41 (5.47%) Java Software Engineer
10 39 (5.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 33 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 27 (3.60%) Backend Developer
13 26 (3.47%) Lead Developer
14 25 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 23 (3.07%) Architect
15 23 (3.07%) AWS Developer
16 21 (2.80%) Software Developer
17 17 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
18 15 (2.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 569 (75.87%) Spring Boot
2 222 (29.60%) Kafka
3 195 (26.00%) RESTful
4 162 (21.60%) React
5 160 (21.33%) REST
6 124 (16.53%) AngularJS
7 110 (14.67%) Node.js
8 101 (13.47%) Hibernate
9 80 (10.67%) HTML
10 59 (7.87%) CSS
11 49 (6.53%) JPA
12 40 (5.33%) OAuth
13 37 (4.93%) JSON
13 37 (4.93%) OAuth2
13 37 (4.93%) Web Services
13 37 (4.93%) WireMock
14 36 (4.80%) Spring Cloud
14 36 (4.80%) Spring MVC
15 35 (4.67%) Playwright
15 35 (4.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 64 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.27%) Equities
7 15 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.00%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.07%) Derivative
10 8 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.80%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.67%) NHS
13 4 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.20%) Linux
2 20 (2.67%) Unix
3 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.20%) Windows
4 4 (0.53%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.27%) Solaris
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (58.40%) Microservices
2 429 (57.20%) CI/CD
3 306 (40.80%) Agile
4 256 (34.13%) DevOps
5 219 (29.20%) Containerisation
6 185 (24.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 170 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.07%) Software Engineering
8 143 (19.07%) Test Automation
9 135 (18.00%) TDD
10 125 (16.67%) Event-Driven
11 109 (14.53%) Scrum
12 99 (13.20%) Observability
13 94 (12.53%) Code Quality
13 94 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 90 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 81 (10.80%) Mentoring
16 70 (9.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 70 (9.33%) SDLC
17 64 (8.53%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 708 (94.40%) Java
2 184 (24.53%) SQL
3 112 (14.93%) JavaScript
4 102 (13.60%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.33%) Python
6 43 (5.73%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.07%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.00%) Go
9 14 (1.87%) Scala
10 11 (1.47%) Ruby
11 9 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.07%) Perl
13 7 (0.93%) C#
14 3 (0.40%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) Groovy
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.13%) Clojure
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 218 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 188 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.40%) Degree
4 28 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.60%) OCP
6 12 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.07%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.13%) CCSP
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
12 1 (0.13%) OSCP
12 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.07%) QA
2 51 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.53%) WCAG
4 18 (2.40%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.33%) PSD2
5 10 (1.33%) SEPA
6 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.67%) NIST
6 5 (0.67%) SLA
7 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.53%) GDPR
8 3 (0.40%) HL7
8 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
1 310 (41.33%) Docker
2 7 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.80%) Postfix
4 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 338 (45.07%) Kubernetes
2 99 (13.20%) Terraform
3 86 (11.47%) Grafana
4 46 (6.13%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.20%) Ansible
6 22 (2.93%) Argo
7 14 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.60%) Kibana
9 9 (1.20%) Puppet
10 6 (0.80%) Istio
11 3 (0.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 62 (8.27%) Oracle
2 40 (5.33%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.53%) Google
4 32 (4.27%) Splunk
5 24 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.27%) Sybase
7 14 (1.87%) VMware
8 11 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.20%) webMethods
10 8 (1.07%) Solace
11 7 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.93%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.80%) Adobe
12 6 (0.80%) Databricks
12 6 (0.80%) IBM
12 6 (0.80%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.80%) SAP
13 5 (0.67%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.53%) Confluent