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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 152 164
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +43
Contract jobs citing Spring 898 607 578
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.86% 1.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.67% 7.25% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 386 422
10th Percentile £363 £345 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -5.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £638
90th Percentile £711 £638 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +3.35% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 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 £84.80 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 11,706 8,375 9,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 25.62% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,684 5,617 6,367
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.53% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 179 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.15 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.40 £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 14 September 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 14 September 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 14 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 -5 710 £525 +5.00% 727
UK excluding London -35 409 £478 +3.35% 400
London -5 381 £535 +1.90% 474
Work from Home -46 221 £500 - 707
North of England -13 159 £540 +16.13% 123
Midlands -13 93 £530 +28.48% 46
North West -22 91 £560 +25.84% 81
West Midlands +12 87 £551 +10.10% 38
Scotland -41 66 £402 -13.78% 87
Yorkshire +8 53 £500 +8.11% 24
South West -26 35 £463 -7.96% 52
South East -38 31 £297 -40.60% 49
East of England -13 18 £500 +6.95% 6
North East -31 16 £450 -8.16% 18
Wales -14 11 £425 -10.53% 7
East Midlands -41 5 £400 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland +1 2 - - 33

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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 32 (3.56%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.01%) Confluence
3 22 (2.45%) Apache
4 14 (1.56%) Camunda
5 10 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.11%) nginx
6 9 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 9 (1.00%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.45%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.45%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.45%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) 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
1 509 (56.68%) AWS
2 191 (21.27%) Azure
3 148 (16.48%) GitHub
4 140 (15.59%) GCP
5 90 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (6.90%) Serverless
7 58 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 46 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
9 46 (5.12%) OpenShift
10 44 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 37 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.45%) GitHub Copilot
15 20 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.56%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.34%) HTTP
2 6 (0.67%) 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%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (12.25%) MongoDB
3 108 (12.03%) Relational Database
4 104 (11.58%) NoSQL
5 64 (7.13%) MySQL
6 37 (4.12%) Redis
7 35 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (3.12%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.00%) Flink
12 17 (1.89%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.78%) Big Data
13 16 (1.78%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.22%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.11%) Data Lake
16 10 (1.11%) Metadata
17 8 (0.89%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 240 (26.73%) Jenkins
2 233 (25.95%) Git
3 155 (17.26%) JUnit
4 139 (15.48%) GitLab
5 123 (13.70%) Maven
6 106 (11.80%) Gradle
7 87 (9.69%) Mockito
8 55 (6.12%) SonarQube
9 50 (5.57%) JIRA
10 40 (4.45%) Cucumber
11 34 (3.79%) Selenium
12 23 (2.56%) Gatling
13 22 (2.45%) REST Assured
14 20 (2.23%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.89%) Bitbucket
16 13 (1.45%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.22%) GoCD
18 10 (1.11%) JMeter
19 9 (1.00%) Flyway
19 9 (1.00%) JProfiler
General
1 207 (23.05%) Social Skills
2 191 (21.27%) Finance
3 161 (17.93%) Public Sector
4 114 (12.69%) Banking
5 77 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.90%) Retail
7 17 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.11%) Law
10 10 (1.11%) Military
11 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.89%) Retail Banking
12 7 (0.78%) Back Office
12 7 (0.78%) Front Office
13 5 (0.56%) Police
13 5 (0.56%) Publishing
14 4 (0.45%) Games
14 4 (0.45%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 517 (57.57%) Developer
2 429 (47.77%) Java Developer
3 189 (21.05%) Senior
4 143 (15.92%) Java Engineer
5 110 (12.25%) Senior Developer
6 107 (11.92%) Software Engineer
7 96 (10.69%) Lead
8 88 (9.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 68 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (5.23%) Backend Developer
12 45 (5.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 44 (4.90%) Lead Developer
14 37 (4.12%) Lead Java Developer
15 36 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 34 (3.79%) Senior Java Engineer
17 31 (3.45%) Architect
18 29 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 24 (2.67%) Technical Leader
20 23 (2.56%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 765 (85.19%) Spring Boot
2 282 (31.40%) Kafka
3 266 (29.62%) REST
4 225 (25.06%) RESTful
5 173 (19.27%) React
6 106 (11.80%) Node.js
7 88 (9.80%) JPA
8 84 (9.35%) Terraform
9 80 (8.91%) HTML
10 76 (8.46%) Hibernate
11 75 (8.35%) AngularJS
12 68 (7.57%) CSS
13 60 (6.68%) Web Services
14 59 (6.57%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (6.57%) Spring MVC
15 50 (5.57%) OAuth
16 42 (4.68%) Spring Cloud
17 41 (4.57%) OpenAPI
17 41 (4.57%) Redux
18 39 (4.34%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 213 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 139 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (9.58%) Product Ownership
4 52 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.89%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
17 7 (0.78%) Derivative
18 6 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
18 6 (0.67%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.90%) Linux
2 36 (4.01%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) VMS
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%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (61.92%) Microservices
2 532 (59.24%) CI/CD
3 448 (49.89%) Agile
4 304 (33.85%) DevOps
5 268 (29.84%) Containerisation
6 264 (29.40%) Software Engineering
7 232 (25.84%) Test Automation
8 208 (23.16%) Event-Driven
9 182 (20.27%) Scrum
10 178 (19.82%) TDD
11 153 (17.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 152 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
14 139 (15.48%) Code Quality
15 132 (14.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 130 (14.48%) Observability
17 105 (11.69%) SDLC
18 100 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
19 95 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
20 92 (10.24%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 885 (98.55%) Java
2 283 (31.51%) SQL
3 137 (15.26%) JavaScript
4 122 (13.59%) TypeScript
5 86 (9.58%) Python
6 46 (5.12%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.90%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.00%) Bash
10 13 (1.45%) Scala
11 9 (1.00%) Ruby
12 5 (0.56%) C#
12 5 (0.56%) Groovy
13 4 (0.45%) Solidity
14 3 (0.33%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 255 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 217 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.79%) Degree
5 25 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.47%) QA
2 76 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.00%) WCAG
4 12 (1.34%) SEPA
5 10 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.78%) GDPR
7 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.56%) PSD2
9 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.33%) EMIR
10 3 (0.33%) MiFID
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
System Software
1 405 (45.10%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 383 (42.65%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.13%) Grafana
3 65 (7.24%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.68%) Ansible
5 30 (3.34%) Kibana
6 11 (1.22%) Control-M
7 9 (1.00%) Istio
8 8 (0.89%) Argo
9 4 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.33%) Bosun
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 137 (15.26%) Oracle
2 42 (4.68%) Google
3 23 (2.56%) IBM
4 20 (2.23%) Dynatrace
4 20 (2.23%) Splunk
5 19 (2.12%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.22%) Solace
8 10 (1.11%) Sybase
9 9 (1.00%) Databricks
10 8 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
11 7 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.78%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.78%) Confluent
11 7 (0.78%) FIS
11 7 (0.78%) New Relic
11 7 (0.78%) TikTok
12 6 (0.67%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.56%) Temenos
14 4 (0.45%) SAP