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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 171 194
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -88
Contract jobs citing Spring 761 472 527
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.61% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.14% 7.09% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 293 375
10th Percentile £356 £356 £384
25th Percentile £418 £420 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -13.65%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +4.22% -8.16% -8.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -30.75%

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 9,352 6,661 8,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.33% 22.71% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,252 4,486 6,245
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.91% +0.10% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 203
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +36 637 £500 -6.80% 145
UK excluding London +28 384 £469 +4.22% 103
London -10 292 £525 -7.08% 63
Work from Home 0 194 £475 -5.00% 121
North of England +20 156 £475 +1.60% 48
North West +44 116 £465 +0.54% 30
Midlands -2 79 £469 +10.35% 5
West Midlands +1 77 £469 +10.35% 3
South East +7 60 £400 -3.03% 17
Scotland -24 54 £588 +30.56% 6
South West -8 28 £409 -22.10% 16
North East 0 24 £475 +6.74% 8
Yorkshire -49 23 £500 -4.76% 10
East of England -7 15 £510 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -35 2 £335 -22.36% 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 49 (6.44%) Confluence
2 24 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.50%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.58%) Camunda
6 8 (1.05%) JBoss
7 7 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.79%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.79%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.39%) nginx
11 2 (0.26%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.26%) CICS
11 2 (0.26%) CMS
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.45%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 427 (56.11%) AWS
2 226 (29.70%) Azure
3 160 (21.02%) GitHub
4 133 (17.48%) GCP
5 86 (11.30%) Serverless
6 84 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (10.51%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.04%) OpenShift
10 43 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (4.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 32 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (4.07%) Azure AKS
16 30 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 17 (2.23%) AWS Fargate
19 17 (2.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) HTTP
2 10 (1.31%) SSL
3 7 (0.92%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (23.39%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (15.24%) NoSQL
3 101 (13.27%) MongoDB
4 82 (10.78%) Relational Database
5 51 (6.70%) DynamoDB
5 51 (6.70%) MySQL
6 41 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
8 23 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 21 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 17 (2.23%) DB2
11 16 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (2.10%) RDBMS
12 15 (1.97%) DocumentDB
13 12 (1.58%) Redis
14 10 (1.31%) Big Data
14 10 (1.31%) Flink
15 9 (1.18%) HBase
15 9 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.05%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 204 (26.81%) Git
2 185 (24.31%) Jenkins
3 160 (21.02%) JUnit
4 132 (17.35%) GitLab
5 74 (9.72%) JIRA
6 72 (9.46%) Maven
7 71 (9.33%) Cucumber
8 57 (7.49%) Mockito
9 56 (7.36%) Gradle
10 43 (5.65%) Selenium
11 32 (4.20%) JMeter
12 27 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 21 (2.76%) SonarQube
14 19 (2.50%) IntelliJ
15 17 (2.23%) Postman
15 17 (2.23%) WebDriver
16 16 (2.10%) Gatling
17 15 (1.97%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.45%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.45%) REST Assured
General
1 198 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 140 (18.40%) Finance
3 136 (17.87%) Public Sector
4 82 (10.78%) Banking
5 44 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.23%) Retail
8 15 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.31%) Front Office
10 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Law
13 4 (0.53%) Automotive
13 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Military
13 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 459 (60.32%) Developer
2 322 (42.31%) Java Developer
3 148 (19.45%) Senior
4 119 (15.64%) Java Engineer
5 103 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
6 92 (12.09%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.72%) Software Engineer
8 73 (9.59%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (8.67%) Lead
10 46 (6.04%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (4.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 33 (4.34%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 28 (3.68%) Architect
14 26 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 25 (3.29%) Lead Developer
16 24 (3.15%) Software Developer
17 21 (2.76%) AWS Developer
18 18 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
19 16 (2.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (77.00%) Spring Boot
2 214 (28.12%) Kafka
3 198 (26.02%) RESTful
4 161 (21.16%) React
5 159 (20.89%) REST
6 121 (15.90%) AngularJS
7 117 (15.37%) Node.js
8 88 (11.56%) Hibernate
9 75 (9.86%) HTML
10 59 (7.75%) CSS
11 51 (6.70%) JPA
12 42 (5.52%) WireMock
13 41 (5.39%) OAuth
14 40 (5.26%) Spring MVC
15 38 (4.99%) OAuth2
16 35 (4.60%) Web Services
17 34 (4.47%) Spring Cloud
18 33 (4.34%) Playwright
19 32 (4.20%) JSON
20 30 (3.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.99%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.97%) Equities
9 14 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.05%) Derivative
12 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.66%) NHS
15 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
16 3 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.49%) Linux
2 15 (1.97%) Unix
3 9 (1.18%) Windows
4 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (59.00%) Microservices
2 437 (57.42%) CI/CD
3 308 (40.47%) Agile
4 269 (35.35%) DevOps
5 224 (29.43%) Containerisation
6 184 (24.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 162 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (19.97%) TDD
9 148 (19.45%) Software Engineering
10 147 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 128 (16.82%) Event-Driven
12 110 (14.45%) Observability
13 104 (13.67%) Scrum
14 99 (13.01%) Code Quality
15 94 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 89 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 79 (10.38%) Mentoring
18 73 (9.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 71 (9.33%) BDD
20 67 (8.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 714 (93.82%) Java
2 184 (24.18%) SQL
3 111 (14.59%) TypeScript
4 110 (14.45%) JavaScript
5 89 (11.70%) Python
6 50 (6.57%) Kotlin
7 21 (2.76%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.10%) Go
9 12 (1.58%) Ruby
10 10 (1.31%) Scala
11 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.05%) C#
13 7 (0.92%) Perl
14 4 (0.53%) Bash
15 3 (0.39%) PHP
16 2 (0.26%) Groovy
17 1 (0.13%) Clojure
17 1 (0.13%) Korn
17 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 227 (29.83%) Security Cleared
2 195 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.86%) Degree
4 31 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.58%) OCP
6 12 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.33%) QA
2 54 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.50%) WCAG
4 17 (2.23%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.18%) PSD2
6 9 (1.18%) SEPA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.53%) GDPR
9 3 (0.39%) HL7
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 314 (41.26%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Postfix
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 353 (46.39%) Kubernetes
2 97 (12.75%) Terraform
3 90 (11.83%) Grafana
4 50 (6.57%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.47%) Ansible
6 22 (2.89%) Argo
7 11 (1.45%) Kibana
8 9 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.92%) Istio
10 4 (0.53%) Puppet
10 4 (0.53%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 62 (8.15%) Oracle
2 47 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.73%) Google
4 32 (4.20%) Splunk
5 23 (3.02%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.97%) Sybase
7 11 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.31%) Solace
9 9 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.18%) VMware
10 7 (0.92%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.92%) ForgeRock
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Adobe
11 6 (0.79%) Databricks
11 6 (0.79%) IBM
11 6 (0.79%) PagerDuty
12 4 (0.53%) Confluent
12 4 (0.53%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.53%) webMethods