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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 170 213
Rank change year-on-year +9 +43 -124
Contract jobs citing Spring 623 543 533
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.48% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.81% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 352 406
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £766 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.78% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £44.50 - £58.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 8,186 7,970 10,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.69% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 5,031 7,369
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 117 190
10th Percentile £30.15 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 22 November 2025. 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 +13 483 £500 -11.11% 337
UK excluding London -2 311 £467 +3.78% 196
London +2 260 £525 -10.26% 183
Work from Home +17 195 £500 - 209
Scotland -3 92 £550 +29.41% 19
North of England -8 92 £467 +3.78% 54
North West +4 67 £450 +2.86% 35
Midlands -2 60 £430 -26.89% 23
West Midlands -9 43 £500 -14.89% 17
South East +19 41 £405 -10.00% 62
East Midlands - 17 £375 - 6
Yorkshire -39 16 £525 -23.64% 12
South West -8 14 £528 -4.09% 25
Wales +8 12 £475 +13.43% 2
North East -3 9 £525 +17.98% 7
Northern Ireland -9 2 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -21 1 - - 3

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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 20 (3.21%) JBoss
2 18 (2.89%) Confluence
3 17 (2.73%) Apache
4 14 (2.25%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.77%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.12%) Camunda
6 7 (1.12%) CMS
7 4 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.64%) Mule
8 3 (0.48%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.48%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.32%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Fidessa
1 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 307 (49.28%) AWS
2 191 (30.66%) Azure
3 101 (16.21%) GCP
4 90 (14.45%) GitHub
5 51 (8.19%) OpenShift
6 46 (7.38%) Serverless
7 42 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (6.42%) Amazon S3
8 40 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (4.33%) Azure AKS
12 26 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
17 13 (2.09%) Datadog
18 12 (1.93%) AWS Fargate
19 11 (1.77%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
1 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.64%) HTTP
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (21.99%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (18.14%) MongoDB
3 104 (16.69%) Relational Database
4 68 (10.91%) NoSQL
5 48 (7.70%) MySQL
6 42 (6.74%) DB2
7 37 (5.94%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.05%) RDBMS
10 18 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (2.89%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (2.73%) SQL Server
12 13 (2.09%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.28%) HBase
14 7 (1.12%) Redis
15 5 (0.80%) Big Data
15 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.64%) Tick Data
17 3 (0.48%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 188 (30.18%) JUnit
2 166 (26.65%) Git
3 141 (22.63%) Jenkins
4 71 (11.40%) GitLab
5 68 (10.91%) Maven
6 66 (10.59%) Cucumber
7 55 (8.83%) Mockito
8 52 (8.35%) JIRA
9 43 (6.90%) Gradle
10 34 (5.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 29 (4.65%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.85%) Selenium
13 20 (3.21%) JMeter
13 20 (3.21%) Postman
14 17 (2.73%) Eclipse
15 14 (2.25%) IntelliJ
16 13 (2.09%) Artifactory
16 13 (2.09%) Bitbucket
17 10 (1.61%) Cypress.io
18 9 (1.44%) Subversion
General
1 203 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.88%) Finance
3 119 (19.10%) Banking
4 81 (13.00%) Public Sector
5 72 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (6.26%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.05%) Front Office
7 19 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Automotive
13 3 (0.48%) Electronics
13 3 (0.48%) Law
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
13 3 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 416 (66.77%) Developer
2 350 (56.18%) Java Developer
3 120 (19.26%) Senior
4 96 (15.41%) Senior Developer
5 92 (14.77%) Senior Java Developer
6 71 (11.40%) Full-Stack Developer
7 68 (10.91%) Java Engineer
8 58 (9.31%) Lead
9 49 (7.87%) Software Engineer
10 43 (6.90%) SQL Developer
11 42 (6.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 31 (4.98%) AWS Developer
13 30 (4.82%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 29 (4.65%) Lead Developer
15 27 (4.33%) Linux Developer
16 25 (4.01%) Lead Java Developer
17 22 (3.53%) Architect
17 22 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (3.53%) Java Software Engineer
18 15 (2.41%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 421 (67.58%) Spring Boot
2 202 (32.42%) Kafka
3 161 (25.84%) RESTful
4 133 (21.35%) React
5 131 (21.03%) REST
6 112 (17.98%) Hibernate
7 104 (16.69%) AngularJS
8 73 (11.72%) HTML
9 56 (8.99%) CSS
10 55 (8.83%) JSON
11 50 (8.03%) JMS
11 50 (8.03%) SOAP
12 49 (7.87%) JPA
13 46 (7.38%) Node.js
14 39 (6.26%) OAuth
14 39 (6.26%) Web Services
15 35 (5.62%) Spring Cloud
16 34 (5.46%) XML
17 29 (4.65%) J2EE
17 29 (4.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.36%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.31%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.94%) Data Structures
4 35 (5.62%) Equities
5 24 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
10 11 (1.77%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 10 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.44%) Derivative
12 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
16 2 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
16 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.73%) Linux
2 35 (5.62%) Unix
3 8 (1.28%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (58.27%) Microservices
2 339 (54.41%) CI/CD
3 316 (50.72%) Agile
4 188 (30.18%) DevOps
4 188 (30.18%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 134 (21.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 119 (19.10%) Software Engineering
8 116 (18.62%) Test Automation
9 99 (15.89%) SDLC
10 98 (15.73%) TDD
11 85 (13.64%) Scrum
12 78 (12.52%) Event-Driven
13 70 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 67 (10.75%) Code Quality
15 63 (10.11%) Mentoring
16 62 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (8.99%) Design Patterns
17 56 (8.99%) Performance Tuning
18 55 (8.83%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 608 (97.59%) Java
2 203 (32.58%) SQL
3 105 (16.85%) Python
4 84 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 76 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 51 (8.19%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.05%) Ruby
8 14 (2.25%) Scala
9 13 (2.09%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.44%) Bash
11 9 (1.44%) Groovy
12 6 (0.96%) C#
12 6 (0.96%) C++
12 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.80%) C
14 4 (0.64%) Perl
15 3 (0.48%) Rust
16 2 (0.32%) Go
16 2 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 123 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 100 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 33 (5.30%) Degree
4 29 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.77%) OCP
6 11 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.16%) CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (11.88%) QA
2 23 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.89%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.61%) PSD2
4 10 (1.61%) SEPA
4 10 (1.61%) WCAG
5 9 (1.44%) GDPR
6 8 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.32%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 247 (39.65%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 232 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 73 (11.72%) Terraform
3 35 (5.62%) Ansible
4 33 (5.30%) Grafana
5 15 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 15 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.09%) Argo
7 10 (1.61%) Kibana
8 9 (1.44%) Puppet
9 8 (1.28%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.32%) Rancher
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.16%) Consul
11 1 (0.16%) Control-M
11 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 73 (11.72%) Oracle
2 46 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.10%) Sybase
4 31 (4.98%) Google
5 21 (3.37%) Splunk
6 18 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.57%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.57%) VMware
8 15 (2.41%) CA Agile Central
8 15 (2.41%) IBM
9 10 (1.61%) webMethods
10 9 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.12%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.80%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.80%) SAP
13 4 (0.64%) Calypso
13 4 (0.64%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.64%) TIBCO