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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 175 202
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 -109
Contract jobs citing Spring 713 467 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.78% 1.51% 1.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.98% 6.69% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 278 373
10th Percentile £356 £356 £387
25th Percentile £413 £432 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -16.80%
75th Percentile £579 £619 £625
90th Percentile £650 £737 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.11% -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 8,936 6,984 9,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.27% 22.56% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,978 4,502 6,552
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -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 216 84 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £44.70
Median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +43 595 £500 -9.09% 154
UK excluding London +30 360 £473 +5.11% 114
London -5 280 £525 -8.70% 53
Work from Home +13 192 £492 +0.41% 84
North of England +27 153 £475 +1.60% 28
North West +49 115 £465 +3.33% 21
Scotland -21 62 £588 +33.22% 10
Midlands -12 59 £475 +4.40% 16
South East +27 57 £400 +2.56% 37
West Midlands -9 56 £488 +3.72% 14
South West -5 26 £409 -25.64% 19
Yorkshire -51 24 £500 -4.76% 4
North East -4 21 £475 +5.56% 3
East of England -17 10 £600 - 3
East Midlands -24 3 £308 -5.67% 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 32 (4.49%) Confluence
2 19 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.52%) Apache
4 13 (1.82%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.68%) Camunda
6 11 (1.54%) JBoss
7 6 (0.84%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.84%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.42%) Drupal
9 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.42%) WordPress
10 2 (0.28%) Apache TomEE
10 2 (0.28%) CICS
10 2 (0.28%) nginx
11 1 (0.14%) SAS
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 385 (54.00%) AWS
2 197 (27.63%) Azure
3 135 (18.93%) GitHub
4 117 (16.41%) GCP
5 72 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (9.96%) Serverless
7 68 (9.54%) Amazon S3
8 60 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (7.15%) OpenShift
10 37 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
11 33 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.09%) Azure AKS
15 21 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.52%) Cloud Run
17 16 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (2.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.54%) HTTP
2 10 (1.40%) SSL
3 6 (0.84%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.70%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.56%) DNS
6 3 (0.42%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (20.90%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (16.27%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.73%) NoSQL
4 88 (12.34%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.15%) MySQL
6 41 (5.75%) DynamoDB
7 32 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.09%) DB2
10 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.38%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.10%) DocumentDB
13 14 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.96%) Redis
14 11 (1.54%) Oracle Database
15 10 (1.40%) Big Data
16 9 (1.26%) HBase
17 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.98%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 179 (25.11%) Git
2 161 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 147 (20.62%) JUnit
4 126 (17.67%) GitLab
5 68 (9.54%) Maven
6 60 (8.42%) Cucumber
7 58 (8.13%) JIRA
8 56 (7.85%) Gradle
9 50 (7.01%) Mockito
10 33 (4.63%) Selenium
11 32 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (3.23%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.66%) Cypress.io
13 19 (2.66%) JMeter
14 17 (2.38%) Postman
15 14 (1.96%) Gatling
15 14 (1.96%) SonarQube
16 13 (1.82%) Eclipse
17 12 (1.68%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.54%) REST Assured
General
1 192 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.04%) Finance
3 125 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 97 (13.60%) Banking
5 39 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.96%) Retail
8 11 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.40%) Front Office
10 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Electronics
13 3 (0.42%) Law
13 3 (0.42%) Marketing
13 3 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 433 (60.73%) Developer
2 310 (43.48%) Java Developer
3 143 (20.06%) Senior
4 113 (15.85%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (13.46%) Senior Developer
7 79 (11.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 66 (9.26%) Software Engineer
9 65 (9.12%) Lead
10 38 (5.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 37 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (4.07%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.37%) Backend Developer
15 23 (3.23%) Architect
16 21 (2.95%) AWS Developer
17 19 (2.66%) Lead Java Developer
17 19 (2.66%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.52%) SQL Developer
19 17 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (76.86%) Spring Boot
2 218 (30.58%) Kafka
3 184 (25.81%) RESTful
4 157 (22.02%) React
5 152 (21.32%) REST
6 118 (16.55%) AngularJS
7 98 (13.74%) Node.js
8 93 (13.04%) Hibernate
9 81 (11.36%) HTML
10 57 (7.99%) CSS
11 48 (6.73%) JPA
12 41 (5.75%) OAuth
13 39 (5.47%) JSON
14 38 (5.33%) OAuth2
15 34 (4.77%) JMS
15 34 (4.77%) Playwright
15 34 (4.77%) Spring Cloud
16 33 (4.63%) Spring MVC
17 32 (4.49%) HTML5
18 30 (4.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 51 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.95%) Equities
6 20 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.98%) Derivative
11 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.70%) NHS
13 4 (0.56%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.82%) Linux
2 18 (2.52%) Unix
3 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.70%) Windows
5 3 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) zOS
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (57.64%) Microservices
2 401 (56.24%) CI/CD
3 288 (40.39%) Agile
4 250 (35.06%) DevOps
5 211 (29.59%) Containerisation
6 181 (25.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (20.06%) Software Engineering
9 132 (18.51%) Test Automation
10 115 (16.13%) Event-Driven
10 115 (16.13%) TDD
11 103 (14.45%) Scrum
12 91 (12.76%) Code Quality
13 88 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
14 86 (12.06%) Observability
15 82 (11.50%) SDLC
16 77 (10.80%) Mentoring
17 75 (10.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 65 (9.12%) User Experience
19 63 (8.84%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 683 (95.79%) Java
2 177 (24.82%) SQL
3 109 (15.29%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.32%) TypeScript
5 83 (11.64%) Python
6 37 (5.19%) Kotlin
7 27 (3.79%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.96%) Go
8 14 (1.96%) Scala
9 11 (1.54%) Ruby
10 7 (0.98%) C#
10 7 (0.98%) Perl
11 6 (0.84%) Groovy
12 5 (0.70%) Bash
13 4 (0.56%) PHP
14 2 (0.28%) C++
14 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.28%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 182 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 155 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.63%) Degree
4 29 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.68%) OCP
6 12 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.14%) CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) OSCP
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (9.82%) QA
2 49 (6.87%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.09%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.52%) WCAG
5 14 (1.96%) PSD2
5 14 (1.96%) SEPA
6 10 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.70%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
9 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.28%) SLA
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 287 (40.25%) Docker
2 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 317 (44.46%) Kubernetes
2 98 (13.74%) Terraform
3 67 (9.40%) Grafana
4 36 (5.05%) Ansible
5 31 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.09%) Argo
7 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.68%) Kibana
9 9 (1.26%) Puppet
10 6 (0.84%) Istio
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 65 (9.12%) Oracle
2 37 (5.19%) Google
3 35 (4.91%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.49%) Splunk
5 24 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 19 (2.66%) Sybase
7 14 (1.96%) VMware
8 12 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.26%) webMethods
10 8 (1.12%) Solace
11 6 (0.84%) Adobe
11 6 (0.84%) Confluent
11 6 (0.84%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.70%) Databricks
12 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
12 5 (0.70%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.56%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.56%) SAP