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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 155 168
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +30
Contract jobs citing Spring 889 611 569
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.85% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.55% 7.29% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 396 420
10th Percentile £361 £345 £380
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £552 £638
90th Percentile £700 £629 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 3
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £39.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £45.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £65.38
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 £70.85
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 11,770 8,376 9,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.80% 25.42% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,653 6,407
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £432 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 185 197
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.45 £26.44
25th Percentile £45.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.51 £79.48 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +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 30 August 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 30 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 30 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 +4 703 £525 +5.00% 215
UK excluding London -30 409 £500 +11.11% 181
London -1 376 £530 +0.95% 106
Work from Home -40 216 £500 - 126
North of England -3 167 £520 +11.83% 61
North West -24 97 £555 +23.40% 36
Midlands -27 77 £551 +33.45% 21
Scotland -40 72 £402 -10.67% 25
West Midlands +1 71 £570 +14.00% 18
Yorkshire -3 52 £500 +39.16% 9
South West -19 36 £463 -8.42% 40
South East -46 30 £367 -26.55% 32
East of England -3 21 £500 +6.95% 1
North East -26 19 £450 -8.16% 16
Wales -16 11 £425 -10.53% 2
East Midlands -37 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 2

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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 35 (3.94%) Apache Spark
2 25 (2.81%) Apache
3 20 (2.25%) Confluence
4 13 (1.46%) Camunda
5 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.12%) nginx
6 9 (1.01%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.22%) Mule
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.45%) Quorum
1 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.45%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.22%) Finacle
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 501 (56.36%) AWS
2 206 (23.17%) Azure
3 156 (17.55%) GitHub
4 144 (16.20%) GCP
5 92 (10.35%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (7.42%) Serverless
7 58 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (5.85%) Amazon S3
9 45 (5.06%) OpenShift
10 44 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (2.25%) GitHub Copilot
15 19 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 14 (1.57%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.35%) HTTP
2 6 (0.67%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
3 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) 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
1 188 (21.15%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (12.49%) NoSQL
3 99 (11.14%) MongoDB
4 96 (10.80%) Relational Database
5 66 (7.42%) MySQL
6 37 (4.16%) SQL Server
7 36 (4.05%) Redis
8 31 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.49%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.02%) Flink
12 16 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.69%) Big Data
13 15 (1.69%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.24%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.12%) Metadata
16 9 (1.01%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.90%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 232 (26.10%) Jenkins
2 227 (25.53%) Git
3 150 (16.87%) JUnit
4 136 (15.30%) GitLab
5 102 (11.47%) Maven
6 96 (10.80%) Gradle
7 75 (8.44%) Mockito
8 49 (5.51%) SonarQube
9 46 (5.17%) JIRA
10 38 (4.27%) Cucumber
11 34 (3.82%) Selenium
12 21 (2.36%) Gatling
12 21 (2.36%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.14%) REST Assured
14 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.57%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.46%) JMeter
17 11 (1.24%) GoCD
18 9 (1.01%) Flyway
18 9 (1.01%) JProfiler
General
1 201 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 187 (21.03%) Finance
3 153 (17.21%) Public Sector
4 104 (11.70%) Banking
5 65 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.15%) Retail
7 15 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.35%) Law
10 9 (1.01%) Military
10 9 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.79%) Back Office
12 7 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.67%) Publishing
14 5 (0.56%) Police
15 4 (0.45%) Automotive
15 4 (0.45%) Games
15 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 510 (57.37%) Developer
2 416 (46.79%) Java Developer
3 180 (20.25%) Senior
4 142 (15.97%) Java Engineer
5 111 (12.49%) Software Engineer
6 107 (12.04%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.01%) Lead
8 85 (9.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 69 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (7.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 55 (6.19%) Backend Developer
12 43 (4.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 40 (4.50%) Lead Developer
14 35 (3.94%) Software Developer
15 34 (3.82%) Architect
16 33 (3.71%) Lead Java Developer
17 31 (3.49%) Senior Java Engineer
18 28 (3.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 23 (2.59%) Data Engineer
20 21 (2.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 746 (83.91%) Spring Boot
2 271 (30.48%) Kafka
3 249 (28.01%) REST
4 218 (24.52%) RESTful
5 173 (19.46%) React
6 111 (12.49%) Node.js
7 87 (9.79%) Terraform
8 78 (8.77%) HTML
9 74 (8.32%) JPA
10 68 (7.65%) CSS
11 67 (7.54%) AngularJS
11 67 (7.54%) Hibernate
12 58 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
12 58 (6.52%) Spring MVC
13 53 (5.96%) Web Services
14 52 (5.85%) OAuth
15 40 (4.50%) Redux
16 38 (4.27%) OpenAPI
17 37 (4.16%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.05%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 204 (22.95%) Cloud Native
2 143 (16.09%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (8.55%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 29 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
12 12 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 7 (0.79%) Derivative
16 7 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.67%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.51%) Linux
2 32 (3.60%) Unix
3 4 (0.45%) VMS
3 4 (0.45%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (61.98%) Microservices
2 528 (59.39%) CI/CD
3 443 (49.83%) Agile
4 305 (34.31%) DevOps
5 259 (29.13%) Software Engineering
6 255 (28.68%) Containerisation
7 217 (24.41%) Test Automation
8 199 (22.38%) Event-Driven
9 179 (20.13%) TDD
10 167 (18.79%) Scrum
11 158 (17.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 148 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
14 130 (14.62%) Observability
15 129 (14.51%) Code Quality
16 128 (14.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 102 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (10.69%) Design Patterns
19 93 (10.46%) SDLC
20 88 (9.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 873 (98.20%) Java
2 279 (31.38%) SQL
3 134 (15.07%) JavaScript
4 119 (13.39%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.69%) Python
6 43 (4.84%) PL/SQL
7 36 (4.05%) Kotlin
8 22 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.14%) Bash
10 12 (1.35%) Scala
11 11 (1.24%) Ruby
12 6 (0.67%) C#
13 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 4 (0.45%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Go
15 3 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.22%) Korn
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 251 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 211 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.49%) Degree
5 23 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.59%) QA
2 79 (8.89%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.91%) WCAG
4 14 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.12%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.01%) SEPA
7 8 (0.90%) GDPR
8 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.34%) EMIR
10 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 3 (0.34%) PSD2
11 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.11%) HL7
12 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.11%) ITGC
12 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 401 (45.11%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 385 (43.31%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.97%) Grafana
3 57 (6.41%) Prometheus
4 43 (4.84%) Ansible
5 26 (2.92%) Kibana
6 11 (1.24%) Control-M
7 10 (1.12%) Istio
8 7 (0.79%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Bosun
9 3 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Rancher
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
1 127 (14.29%) Oracle
2 41 (4.61%) Google
3 31 (3.49%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.25%) IBM
5 19 (2.14%) Splunk
6 18 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.35%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.24%) Solace
9 10 (1.12%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.01%) Databricks
11 8 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
11 8 (0.90%) Sybase
12 7 (0.79%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.79%) Confluent
12 7 (0.79%) New Relic
12 7 (0.79%) TikTok
13 5 (0.56%) FIS
13 5 (0.56%) SAP
14 4 (0.45%) Okta
14 4 (0.45%) OpenAI