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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 148 172
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +13
Contract jobs citing Spring 871 642 563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.95% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.62% 8.67% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 424 421
10th Percentile £355 £334 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £92.50 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -22.41%

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 10,110 7,404 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 22.46% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,592 4,974 5,801
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £631 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 173 241
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.28 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -7 686 £525 +5.00% 680
UK excluding London -41 394 £475 +5.56% 318
London -10 370 £525 +0.96% 481
Work from Home -52 219 £490 -2.00% 298
North of England -8 141 £505 +8.60% 99
Midlands -26 86 £475 +15.15% 36
West Midlands +10 83 £475 -5.00% 30
North West -23 79 £540 +25.58% 62
Scotland -41 68 £400 -11.11% 69
Yorkshire -6 44 £500 +39.16% 19
South West -17 38 £481 -5.41% 32
South East -52 31 £438 -4.11% 44
East of England +2 21 £507 +8.45% 4
North East -31 19 £450 -8.16% 19
Wales -14 10 £425 -10.53% 14
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 21
East Midlands -39 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 38 (4.36%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.79%) Confluence
3 27 (3.10%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.26%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.15%) Camunda
7 8 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
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 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.46%) Quorum
1 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.46%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 481 (55.22%) AWS
2 211 (24.23%) Azure
3 152 (17.45%) GitHub
4 151 (17.34%) GCP
5 95 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (7.12%) Serverless
7 61 (7.00%) Amazon S3
8 53 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 44 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (4.71%) OpenShift
13 37 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (1.95%) AWS KMS
16 17 (1.95%) Azure AKS
17 16 (1.84%) Route 53
18 14 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) 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
1 205 (23.54%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 88 (10.10%) Relational Database
4 87 (9.99%) MongoDB
5 67 (7.69%) MySQL
6 39 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.56%) Redis
8 27 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 26 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (2.53%) Flink
12 18 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.72%) Big Data
14 12 (1.38%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.26%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.15%) Couchbase
17 9 (1.03%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.92%) Db2
18 8 (0.92%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 237 (27.21%) Jenkins
2 235 (26.98%) Git
3 153 (17.57%) JUnit
4 121 (13.89%) GitLab
5 96 (11.02%) Maven
6 89 (10.22%) Gradle
7 73 (8.38%) Mockito
8 63 (7.23%) JIRA
9 46 (5.28%) Cucumber
9 46 (5.28%) SonarQube
10 42 (4.82%) Selenium
11 25 (2.87%) JMeter
12 21 (2.41%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.18%) Gatling
13 19 (2.18%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.72%) REST Assured
15 14 (1.61%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.49%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.38%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.26%) jMock
General
1 187 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 175 (20.09%) Finance
3 158 (18.14%) Public Sector
4 99 (11.37%) Banking
5 73 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.44%) Retail
7 17 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 10 (1.15%) Military
11 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.80%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.69%) Back Office
13 6 (0.69%) Publishing
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Front Office
14 5 (0.57%) Police
15 4 (0.46%) Games
15 4 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 506 (58.09%) Developer
2 412 (47.30%) Java Developer
3 173 (19.86%) Senior
4 131 (15.04%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.06%) Software Engineer
6 103 (11.83%) Senior Developer
7 87 (9.99%) Lead
8 84 (9.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
10 62 (7.12%) Full-Stack Developer
11 55 (6.31%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 37 (4.25%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 31 (3.56%) Architect
15 30 (3.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 28 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
16 28 (3.21%) Senior Java Engineer
17 23 (2.64%) Data Engineer
18 20 (2.30%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 709 (81.40%) Spring Boot
2 247 (28.36%) Kafka
3 233 (26.75%) REST
4 218 (25.03%) RESTful
5 157 (18.03%) React
6 115 (13.20%) Node.js
7 74 (8.50%) JPA
8 71 (8.15%) Hibernate
9 68 (7.81%) AngularJS
10 65 (7.46%) HTML
11 59 (6.77%) CSS
12 57 (6.54%) Web Services
13 56 (6.43%) Spring MVC
14 50 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
15 47 (5.40%) OAuth
16 40 (4.59%) WireMock
17 39 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
18 38 (4.36%) Redux
19 34 (3.90%) OAuth2
20 33 (3.79%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 191 (21.93%) Cloud Native
2 146 (16.76%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.15%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.92%) Derivative
16 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 6 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.31%) Linux
2 29 (3.33%) Unix
3 9 (1.03%) Windows
4 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.11%) Android
7 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (61.54%) Microservices
2 520 (59.70%) CI/CD
3 419 (48.11%) Agile
4 299 (34.33%) DevOps
5 263 (30.20%) Containerisation
6 228 (26.18%) Software Engineering
7 198 (22.73%) Test Automation
8 191 (21.93%) TDD
9 175 (20.09%) Event-Driven
10 166 (19.06%) Scrum
11 153 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 147 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
13 146 (16.76%) Full-Stack Development
14 132 (15.15%) Observability
15 122 (14.01%) Code Quality
16 112 (12.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 96 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 94 (10.79%) Design Patterns
19 81 (9.30%) BDD
20 78 (8.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 844 (96.90%) Java
2 272 (31.23%) SQL
3 123 (14.12%) JavaScript
4 105 (12.06%) TypeScript
5 97 (11.14%) Python
6 47 (5.40%) PL/SQL
7 38 (4.36%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.30%) Shell Script
9 17 (1.95%) Bash
10 12 (1.38%) Scala
11 10 (1.15%) Ruby
12 7 (0.80%) C#
13 5 (0.57%) Groovy
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Perl
16 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 268 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 231 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (2.99%) Degree
5 20 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.34%) 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 93 (10.68%) QA
2 71 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.49%) WCAG
4 10 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.80%) GDPR
6 7 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.80%) SEPA
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) EMIR
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 401 (46.04%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 378 (43.40%) Kubernetes
2 85 (9.76%) Terraform
3 81 (9.30%) Grafana
4 69 (7.92%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.17%) Ansible
6 22 (2.53%) Kibana
7 11 (1.26%) Control-M
8 7 (0.80%) Argo
8 7 (0.80%) Istio
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 114 (13.09%) Oracle
2 42 (4.82%) Google
3 29 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.30%) Splunk
5 15 (1.72%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.61%) IBM
7 12 (1.38%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.38%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.26%) Solace
9 10 (1.15%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.15%) Sybase
10 9 (1.03%) Databricks
11 8 (0.92%) New Relic
12 7 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.80%) TikTok
13 6 (0.69%) Confluent
13 6 (0.69%) Okta
14 4 (0.46%) FIS
14 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock