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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 151 183
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -17
Contract jobs citing Spring 885 631 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.93% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 8.56% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 423 432
10th Percentile £355 £351 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £631 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.22% - -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +41.67% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £61.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +30.91% +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 10,233 7,373 8,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.56% 21.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,676 4,986 6,000
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £545
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -6.93% -0.91%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 157 255
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.15 £23.17
25th Percentile £45.31 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £74.82 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.41 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £58.30
% change year-on-year +10.20% +5.06% -1.24%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

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 24 July 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 +1 708 £525 +6.06% 216
UK excluding London -34 407 £478 +6.22% 140
London -11 366 £525 +2.69% 114
Work from Home -47 223 £496 -0.80% 102
North of England +12 143 £538 +16.22% 39
North West -8 84 £550 +36.82% 17
Midlands -33 83 £475 +14.46% 31
West Midlands -12 80 £475 -5.00% 25
Scotland -40 61 £402 -13.08% 14
South West -6 48 £410 -20.10% 14
Yorkshire -4 43 £550 - 11
South East -40 39 £463 +12.12% 32
East of England +8 28 £510 +9.09% 1
North East -24 19 £450 -8.16% 12
Wales -21 7 £375 -21.05% 4
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 5
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +6.93% 6

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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 44 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 36 (4.07%) Confluence
3 27 (3.05%) Apache
4 16 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.24%) nginx
6 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.79%) Camunda
9 5 (0.56%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.56%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.45%) CMS
10 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.34%) JBoss
12 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 2 (0.23%) Drupal
12 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.23%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 477 (53.90%) AWS
2 223 (25.20%) Azure
3 159 (17.97%) GCP
4 150 (16.95%) GitHub
5 92 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (7.57%) Amazon S3
6 67 (7.57%) Serverless
7 57 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (4.97%) Amazon SQS
9 40 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 40 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
10 37 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
10 37 (4.18%) OpenShift
11 31 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (2.60%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.15%) AWS KMS
14 18 (2.03%) Cloud Run
14 18 (2.03%) Route 53
15 17 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) HTTP
1 8 (0.90%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.34%) Firewall
3 1 (0.11%) AMQP
3 1 (0.11%) SMS
3 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (23.05%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.41%) Relational Database
3 100 (11.30%) NoSQL
4 87 (9.83%) MongoDB
5 69 (7.80%) MySQL
6 46 (5.20%) DynamoDB
7 42 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.16%) Redis
8 28 (3.16%) SQL Server
9 27 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (2.71%) Flink
11 22 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 18 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.03%) Big Data
13 13 (1.47%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.90%) Db2
16 8 (0.90%) Metadata
17 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 231 (26.10%) Git
2 228 (25.76%) Jenkins
3 149 (16.84%) JUnit
4 109 (12.32%) GitLab
5 96 (10.85%) Maven
6 89 (10.06%) Gradle
7 69 (7.80%) Mockito
8 65 (7.34%) JIRA
9 42 (4.75%) Cucumber
9 42 (4.75%) Selenium
10 41 (4.63%) SonarQube
11 25 (2.82%) JMeter
12 20 (2.26%) Gatling
12 20 (2.26%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.15%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.03%) Liquibase
15 15 (1.69%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.58%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 13 (1.47%) Serenity BDD
General
1 188 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 183 (20.68%) Finance
3 149 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 94 (10.62%) Banking
5 69 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.62%) Retail
7 17 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.36%) Law
10 11 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.13%) Military
12 6 (0.68%) Automotive
12 6 (0.68%) Publishing
12 6 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.56%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Front Office
14 4 (0.45%) Games
14 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 508 (57.40%) Developer
2 409 (46.21%) Java Developer
3 178 (20.11%) Senior
4 135 (15.25%) Java Engineer
5 105 (11.86%) Software Engineer
6 103 (11.64%) Senior Developer
7 93 (10.51%) Lead
8 83 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (7.01%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 58 (6.55%) Backend Developer
11 37 (4.18%) Lead Developer
12 35 (3.95%) Software Developer
13 32 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 31 (3.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.28%) Lead Java Developer
16 27 (3.05%) Senior Java Engineer
17 26 (2.94%) Architect
18 22 (2.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 731 (82.60%) Spring Boot
2 250 (28.25%) Kafka
3 229 (25.88%) REST
4 218 (24.63%) RESTful
5 155 (17.51%) React
6 112 (12.66%) Node.js
7 74 (8.36%) JPA
8 73 (8.25%) Hibernate
9 69 (7.80%) AngularJS
10 65 (7.34%) HTML
11 61 (6.89%) Web Services
12 59 (6.67%) CSS
13 57 (6.44%) Spring MVC
14 44 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (4.75%) Spring Cloud
16 41 (4.63%) OAuth
16 41 (4.63%) WireMock
17 36 (4.07%) Redux
18 33 (3.73%) HTML5
19 30 (3.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 172 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 142 (16.05%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 21 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.58%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.36%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.90%) Derivative
16 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
17 6 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.44%) Linux
2 27 (3.05%) Unix
3 10 (1.13%) Windows
4 8 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.45%) Solaris
5 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (60.34%) Microservices
2 527 (59.55%) CI/CD
3 400 (45.20%) Agile
4 324 (36.61%) DevOps
5 268 (30.28%) Containerisation
6 225 (25.42%) Software Engineering
7 190 (21.47%) TDD
8 187 (21.13%) Test Automation
9 172 (19.44%) Event-Driven
10 159 (17.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 159 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (17.74%) Scrum
12 149 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 143 (16.16%) Observability
14 132 (14.92%) Code Quality
15 114 (12.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 93 (10.51%) BDD
17 92 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
18 90 (10.17%) Design Patterns
19 83 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 856 (96.72%) Java
2 272 (30.73%) SQL
3 123 (13.90%) JavaScript
4 100 (11.30%) Python
5 98 (11.07%) TypeScript
6 46 (5.20%) Kotlin
7 44 (4.97%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.03%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.47%) Scala
10 10 (1.13%) Bash
11 9 (1.02%) Ruby
12 8 (0.90%) C#
12 8 (0.90%) Go
13 5 (0.56%) Perl
14 4 (0.45%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 274 (30.96%) Security Cleared
2 235 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.73%) Degree
5 27 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.62%) QA
2 70 (7.91%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 7 (0.79%) GDPR
4 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (0.79%) SEPA
4 7 (0.79%) WCAG
5 4 (0.45%) SLA
6 3 (0.34%) EMIR
6 3 (0.34%) MiFID
6 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.23%) PSD2
8 1 (0.11%) HL7
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 402 (45.42%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 380 (42.94%) Kubernetes
2 88 (9.94%) Grafana
3 87 (9.83%) Terraform
4 74 (8.36%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.86%) Ansible
6 13 (1.47%) Kibana
7 9 (1.02%) Control-M
8 8 (0.90%) Istio
9 6 (0.68%) Argo
10 3 (0.34%) Bosun
10 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 116 (13.11%) Oracle
2 47 (5.31%) Google
3 38 (4.29%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.73%) Splunk
5 17 (1.92%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.69%) IBM
7 14 (1.58%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.36%) Solace
9 11 (1.24%) Databricks
9 11 (1.24%) Sybase
10 10 (1.13%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.02%) New Relic
12 8 (0.90%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.79%) Okta
13 7 (0.79%) TikTok
14 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.45%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.45%) Teradata