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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 155 163
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +41
Contract jobs citing Spring 915 613 584
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.86% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.75% 7.19% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 388 423
10th Percentile £355 £338 £374
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £638
90th Percentile £709 £633 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £459 £450
% change year-on-year +4.25% +1.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £83.50 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% +1.05%

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 11,809 8,526 9,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 25.91% 24.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,767 5,699 6,322
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £637 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.21% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 188 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.15 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +8.33%

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 20 September 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 20 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 20 September 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 -3 722 £525 +5.00% 794
UK excluding London -33 423 £478 +4.25% 452
London -5 379 £536 +2.10% 486
Work from Home -46 228 £500 - 380
North of England -8 158 £550 +18.28% 147
Midlands -17 102 £528 +27.11% 57
West Midlands +11 96 £551 +10.10% 44
North West -18 89 £560 +30.23% 93
Scotland -44 68 £403 -12.81% 92
Yorkshire -2 54 £500 +8.11% 30
South West -11 39 £410 -18.41% 68
South East -46 31 £367 -17.01% 44
East of England -10 18 £500 +6.95% 5
North East -34 16 £450 -8.16% 24
Wales -13 11 £425 -10.53% 13
East Midlands -43 5 £400 +6.67% 13
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 28

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 32 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.84%) Apache
2 26 (2.84%) Confluence
3 14 (1.53%) Camunda
4 10 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.09%) nginx
5 9 (0.98%) Tomcat
5 9 (0.98%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.44%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.33%) CMS
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.22%) Mule
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.33%) Finacle
3 3 (0.33%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 524 (57.27%) AWS
2 189 (20.66%) Azure
3 153 (16.72%) GitHub
4 139 (15.19%) GCP
5 90 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (7.43%) Serverless
7 64 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.56%) Amazon S3
9 49 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (5.03%) OpenShift
12 45 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (2.51%) GitHub Copilot
16 20 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 15 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.31%) HTTP
2 7 (0.77%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (21.09%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (12.90%) MongoDB
3 108 (11.80%) Relational Database
4 104 (11.37%) NoSQL
5 65 (7.10%) MySQL
6 38 (4.15%) Redis
7 36 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (3.17%) DynamoDB
10 23 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.30%) Flink
13 18 (1.97%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.75%) Big Data
15 15 (1.64%) RDBMS
16 14 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.20%) Couchbase
18 10 (1.09%) Data Lake
18 10 (1.09%) Metadata
19 8 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 247 (26.99%) Git
2 241 (26.34%) Jenkins
3 160 (17.49%) JUnit
4 146 (15.96%) GitLab
5 131 (14.32%) Maven
6 105 (11.48%) Gradle
7 88 (9.62%) Mockito
8 60 (6.56%) SonarQube
9 51 (5.57%) JIRA
10 48 (5.25%) Cucumber
11 40 (4.37%) Selenium
12 28 (3.06%) Gatling
13 22 (2.40%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.97%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.86%) Liquibase
16 13 (1.42%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.20%) GoCD
18 9 (0.98%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (0.98%) Flyway
18 9 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 216 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 199 (21.75%) Finance
3 164 (17.92%) Public Sector
4 120 (13.11%) Banking
5 81 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.06%) Retail
7 18 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.09%) Military
10 9 (0.98%) Front Office
10 9 (0.98%) Law
11 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.87%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.77%) Back Office
13 5 (0.55%) Police
13 5 (0.55%) Publishing
14 4 (0.44%) Games
14 4 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 526 (57.49%) Developer
2 436 (47.65%) Java Developer
3 190 (20.77%) Senior
4 148 (16.17%) Java Engineer
5 113 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 105 (11.48%) Software Engineer
7 97 (10.60%) Lead
8 88 (9.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 72 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
11 50 (5.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 47 (5.14%) Backend Developer
13 45 (4.92%) Lead Developer
14 38 (4.15%) Lead Java Developer
15 36 (3.93%) Software Developer
16 35 (3.83%) Senior Java Engineer
17 33 (3.61%) Architect
18 32 (3.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 23 (2.51%) Data Engineer
19 23 (2.51%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (84.81%) Spring Boot
2 287 (31.37%) Kafka
3 272 (29.73%) REST
4 224 (24.48%) RESTful
5 171 (18.69%) React
6 107 (11.69%) Node.js
7 93 (10.16%) JPA
8 87 (9.51%) Terraform
9 80 (8.74%) Hibernate
9 80 (8.74%) HTML
10 77 (8.42%) AngularJS
11 68 (7.43%) CSS
12 60 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
12 60 (6.56%) Spring MVC
12 60 (6.56%) Web Services
13 51 (5.57%) OAuth
14 45 (4.92%) OpenAPI
15 44 (4.81%) Playwright
16 42 (4.59%) Spring Cloud
17 41 (4.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 217 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 145 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (9.84%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.97%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 14 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.87%) Derivative
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (0.77%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.66%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.12%) Linux
2 37 (4.04%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (61.75%) Microservices
2 542 (59.23%) CI/CD
3 466 (50.93%) Agile
4 311 (33.99%) DevOps
5 272 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 269 (29.40%) Software Engineering
7 241 (26.34%) Test Automation
8 217 (23.72%) Event-Driven
9 196 (21.42%) Scrum
10 181 (19.78%) TDD
11 156 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 154 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 148 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
14 140 (15.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 139 (15.19%) Code Quality
16 128 (13.99%) Observability
17 112 (12.24%) SDLC
18 99 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 98 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
20 93 (10.16%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 901 (98.47%) Java
2 288 (31.48%) SQL
3 141 (15.41%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.01%) TypeScript
5 87 (9.51%) Python
6 47 (5.14%) PL/SQL
7 34 (3.72%) Kotlin
8 28 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.08%) Bash
10 14 (1.53%) Scala
11 9 (0.98%) Ruby
12 5 (0.55%) C#
12 5 (0.55%) Groovy
13 4 (0.44%) Solidity
14 3 (0.33%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 259 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 220 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 86 (9.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (3.83%) Degree
5 26 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (13.55%) QA
2 82 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.51%) WCAG
4 20 (2.19%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.53%) SEPA
6 10 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.77%) GDPR
8 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.55%) PSD2
10 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
13 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 413 (45.14%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 394 (43.06%) Kubernetes
2 73 (7.98%) Grafana
3 65 (7.10%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.59%) Ansible
5 33 (3.61%) Kibana
6 11 (1.20%) Control-M
7 9 (0.98%) Istio
8 8 (0.87%) Argo
9 4 (0.44%) Bosun
9 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 141 (15.41%) Oracle
2 43 (4.70%) Google
3 23 (2.51%) IBM
4 21 (2.30%) Splunk
5 19 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 18 (1.97%) Microsoft
7 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.09%) Sybase
9 9 (0.98%) Databricks
9 9 (0.98%) New Relic
9 9 (0.98%) Solace
10 8 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.77%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.77%) Confluent
11 7 (0.77%) FIS
11 7 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.77%) TikTok
12 5 (0.55%) Temenos
13 4 (0.44%) SAP