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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 176 199
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 -106
Contract jobs citing Spring 685 462 517
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.48% 1.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.89% 6.63% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 273 374
10th Percentile £352 £356 £400
25th Percentile £412 £433 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.54% -17.40%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £749 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.33% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 8
10th Percentile £50.50 - £42.62
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.89
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

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 8,679 6,971 9,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.16% 22.37% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,777 4,439 6,565
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +0.66% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 87 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.34 £25.78
25th Percentile £50.19 £38.88 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £77.70 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 6 February 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 6 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 6 February 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 +34 561 £500 -11.50% 181
UK excluding London +16 342 £470 +4.33% 132
London +4 272 £525 -10.26% 86
Work from Home +15 189 £493 +0.51% 89
North of England +27 152 £475 - 30
North West +51 114 £465 +3.33% 23
Scotland -8 70 £594 +34.79% 12
South East +17 53 £400 +2.56% 44
Midlands -35 42 £446 -10.85% 16
West Midlands -27 39 £469 -6.20% 13
Yorkshire -49 24 £500 -4.76% 5
South West -11 22 £409 -25.64% 26
North East -3 21 £475 +6.74% 2
East of England -23 10 £600 +60.00% 3
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 2

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 28 (4.09%) Confluence
2 18 (2.63%) Apache
3 13 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.61%) Camunda
4 11 (1.61%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.46%) JBoss
6 6 (0.88%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.88%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.58%) CMS
8 3 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.44%) Drupal
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) WordPress
9 2 (0.29%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.61%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 368 (53.72%) AWS
2 197 (28.76%) Azure
3 132 (19.27%) GitHub
4 110 (16.06%) GCP
5 71 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (9.78%) Serverless
7 59 (8.61%) Amazon S3
8 56 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (7.01%) OpenShift
10 34 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (3.21%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 13 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
18 13 (1.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.61%) HTTP
2 10 (1.46%) SSL
3 5 (0.73%) HTTPS
3 5 (0.73%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
5 3 (0.44%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (20.44%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (17.08%) MongoDB
3 101 (14.74%) NoSQL
4 86 (12.55%) Relational Database
5 49 (7.15%) MySQL
6 35 (5.11%) DynamoDB
7 27 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.50%) DB2
9 21 (3.07%) SQL Server
10 20 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.48%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.19%) DocumentDB
13 14 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (2.04%) Redis
14 13 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.61%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.31%) Big Data
16 9 (1.31%) HBase
17 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
18 7 (1.02%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 164 (23.94%) Git
2 159 (23.21%) Jenkins
3 140 (20.44%) JUnit
4 126 (18.39%) GitLab
5 61 (8.91%) Maven
6 58 (8.47%) Cucumber
7 55 (8.03%) Gradle
8 53 (7.74%) JIRA
9 45 (6.57%) Mockito
10 32 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
11 31 (4.53%) Selenium
12 23 (3.36%) IntelliJ
13 20 (2.92%) Cypress.io
14 19 (2.77%) JMeter
15 18 (2.63%) Postman
16 13 (1.90%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.90%) Gatling
17 12 (1.75%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.61%) REST Assured
19 9 (1.31%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (27.15%) Social Skills
2 152 (22.19%) Finance
3 118 (17.23%) Public Sector
4 102 (14.89%) Banking
5 40 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.50%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.61%) Front Office
7 11 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.17%) Retail
9 6 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.44%) Electronics
12 3 (0.44%) Law
12 3 (0.44%) Marketing
12 3 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 428 (62.48%) Developer
2 309 (45.11%) Java Developer
3 147 (21.46%) Senior
4 107 (15.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 102 (14.89%) Java Engineer
6 101 (14.74%) Senior Developer
7 84 (12.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 60 (8.76%) Lead
8 60 (8.76%) Software Engineer
9 41 (5.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 33 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.38%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.21%) Backend Developer
14 21 (3.07%) Architect
14 21 (3.07%) AWS Developer
14 21 (3.07%) SQL Developer
15 20 (2.92%) Lead Java Developer
16 18 (2.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 17 (2.48%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (77.23%) Spring Boot
2 214 (31.24%) Kafka
3 183 (26.72%) RESTful
4 157 (22.92%) React
5 138 (20.15%) REST
6 117 (17.08%) AngularJS
7 91 (13.28%) Node.js
8 87 (12.70%) Hibernate
9 79 (11.53%) HTML
10 54 (7.88%) CSS
11 43 (6.28%) JPA
12 41 (5.99%) JSON
12 41 (5.99%) OAuth
13 38 (5.55%) OAuth2
14 35 (5.11%) JMS
15 32 (4.67%) Playwright
16 30 (4.38%) HTML5
16 30 (4.38%) Spring MVC
17 29 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
18 28 (4.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 109 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.36%) Equities
6 20 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.02%) Derivative
11 6 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.58%) NHS
14 3 (0.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 65 (9.49%) Linux
2 16 (2.34%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.44%) VMS
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) zOS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (58.54%) Microservices
2 387 (56.50%) CI/CD
3 283 (41.31%) Agile
4 241 (35.18%) DevOps
5 208 (30.36%) Containerisation
6 185 (27.01%) Full-Stack Development
7 165 (24.09%) Problem-Solving
8 132 (19.27%) Test Automation
9 131 (19.12%) Software Engineering
10 117 (17.08%) Event-Driven
11 101 (14.74%) TDD
12 93 (13.58%) Scrum
13 91 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
14 87 (12.70%) Code Quality
15 80 (11.68%) SDLC
16 74 (10.80%) Observability
17 70 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (9.93%) Mentoring
19 63 (9.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 59 (8.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 653 (95.33%) Java
2 169 (24.67%) SQL
3 106 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 96 (14.01%) TypeScript
5 81 (11.82%) Python
6 29 (4.23%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.94%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.04%) Go
8 14 (2.04%) Scala
9 11 (1.61%) Ruby
10 7 (1.02%) C#
11 6 (0.88%) Groovy
12 5 (0.73%) Bash
12 5 (0.73%) Perl
13 4 (0.58%) PHP
14 2 (0.29%) C++
14 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) Rust
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 171 (24.96%) Security Cleared
2 144 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.53%) Degree
4 27 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.75%) OCP
6 12 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.05%) QA
2 49 (7.15%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.21%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.34%) WCAG
5 14 (2.04%) PSD2
5 14 (2.04%) SEPA
6 10 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.73%) NIST
8 4 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.44%) HL7
9 3 (0.44%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) GDPR
10 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 283 (41.31%) Docker
2 7 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.44%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 305 (44.53%) Kubernetes
2 101 (14.74%) Terraform
3 54 (7.88%) Grafana
4 36 (5.26%) Ansible
5 26 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.21%) Argo
7 14 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.75%) Kibana
9 9 (1.31%) Puppet
10 6 (0.88%) Istio
11 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.29%) Rancher
11 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
Vendors
1 65 (9.49%) Oracle
2 31 (4.53%) Google
3 30 (4.38%) Microsoft
4 25 (3.65%) Splunk
5 21 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.07%) Sybase
6 14 (2.04%) VMware
7 10 (1.46%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.31%) webMethods
9 8 (1.17%) Solace
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
10 6 (0.88%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.73%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.73%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.58%) IBM
12 4 (0.58%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.58%) SAP
13 3 (0.44%) Calypso