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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 174 207
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 -115
Contract jobs citing Spring 652 473 498
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.50% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.72% 6.68% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 284 369
10th Percentile £352 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £539 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +2.62% -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £638
90th Percentile £638 £765 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +0.27% -7.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 5
10th Percentile £45.00 - £46.90
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
75th Percentile £58.44 - £66.25
90th Percentile £82.50 - £73.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -26.90%

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 8,446 7,076 9,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.38% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,623 4,495 6,655
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.47% -5.57%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 92 187
10th Percentile £34.80 £22.31 £26.47
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £76.97 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.15% +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 24 January 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 24 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 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 24 January 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 +19 532 £500 -13.04% 267
UK excluding London +10 319 £465 +0.27% 245
London +12 268 £525 -10.26% 64
Work from Home +13 186 £500 +2.04% 129
North of England +20 151 £475 +5.56% 53
North West +42 108 £465 +3.33% 32
Scotland -13 70 £588 +33.22% 15
South East +19 48 £400 +2.56% 74
Midlands -42 38 £450 -18.18% 28
West Midlands -47 35 £469 -14.73% 13
Yorkshire -51 27 £450 -14.29% 14
North East -2 21 £475 +6.74% 7
South West -19 14 £463 -15.91% 43
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 15
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England -22 2 £450 +20.00% 21

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 25 (3.83%) Confluence
2 20 (3.07%) Apache
3 11 (1.69%) Camunda
3 11 (1.69%) JBoss
3 11 (1.69%) WebLogic
4 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.92%) CMS
6 5 (0.77%) Ethereum
6 5 (0.77%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.46%) nginx
8 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.31%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.31%) Drupal
9 2 (0.31%) Mule
9 2 (0.31%) Mule ESB
9 2 (0.31%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.69%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 355 (54.45%) AWS
2 196 (30.06%) Azure
3 122 (18.71%) GitHub
4 106 (16.26%) GCP
5 65 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
6 60 (9.20%) Serverless
7 51 (7.82%) OpenShift
8 50 (7.67%) Amazon S3
9 48 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (3.53%) Azure AKS
15 21 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
17 15 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (1.84%) Datadog
19 11 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
19 11 (1.69%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.53%) SSL
2 9 (1.38%) HTTP
3 5 (0.77%) Kerberos
4 4 (0.61%) DNS
4 4 (0.61%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.46%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (20.55%) PostgreSQL
2 112 (17.18%) MongoDB
3 98 (15.03%) NoSQL
4 79 (12.12%) Relational Database
5 47 (7.21%) MySQL
6 33 (5.06%) DynamoDB
7 24 (3.68%) DB2
8 21 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 19 (2.91%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (2.30%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.30%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.99%) Redis
14 9 (1.38%) HBase
14 9 (1.38%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.07%) Big Data
15 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.07%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 165 (25.31%) Git
2 145 (22.24%) JUnit
3 144 (22.09%) Jenkins
4 116 (17.79%) GitLab
5 58 (8.90%) Cucumber
6 56 (8.59%) Maven
7 51 (7.82%) Gradle
8 49 (7.52%) JIRA
9 45 (6.90%) Mockito
10 32 (4.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (4.60%) Selenium
12 22 (3.37%) Cypress.io
12 22 (3.37%) IntelliJ
13 21 (3.22%) Postman
14 20 (3.07%) JMeter
15 13 (1.99%) Eclipse
16 12 (1.84%) Artifactory
17 10 (1.53%) SonarQube
18 9 (1.38%) Gatling
19 8 (1.23%) Mocha
General
1 183 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 147 (22.55%) Finance
3 115 (17.64%) Public Sector
4 111 (17.02%) Banking
5 43 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.99%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.84%) Front Office
7 12 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.07%) Retail
10 6 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.77%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.46%) Electronics
12 3 (0.46%) Law
12 3 (0.46%) Marketing
13 2 (0.31%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 413 (63.34%) Developer
2 309 (47.39%) Java Developer
3 138 (21.17%) Senior
4 99 (15.18%) Senior Developer
5 98 (15.03%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (14.72%) Java Engineer
7 84 (12.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 60 (9.20%) Software Engineer
9 52 (7.98%) Lead
10 40 (6.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 30 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
12 27 (4.14%) Lead Developer
13 25 (3.83%) SQL Developer
14 23 (3.53%) Architect
14 23 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 22 (3.37%) Backend Developer
16 20 (3.07%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.76%) Lead Java Developer
18 16 (2.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
18 16 (2.45%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 491 (75.31%) Spring Boot
2 204 (31.29%) Kafka
3 177 (27.15%) RESTful
4 150 (23.01%) React
5 132 (20.25%) REST
6 116 (17.79%) AngularJS
7 90 (13.80%) Hibernate
8 87 (13.34%) Node.js
9 78 (11.96%) HTML
10 54 (8.28%) CSS
11 45 (6.90%) JSON
12 42 (6.44%) OAuth
13 40 (6.13%) JPA
13 40 (6.13%) OAuth2
14 38 (5.83%) JMS
15 28 (4.29%) HTML5
15 28 (4.29%) Spring MVC
16 27 (4.14%) OpenTelemetry
16 27 (4.14%) Playwright
16 27 (4.14%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 98 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 53 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.83%) Equities
5 22 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 22 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (1.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 12 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.07%) Derivative
12 6 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.61%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.28%) Linux
2 17 (2.61%) Unix
3 7 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.92%) Windows
5 3 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (59.20%) Microservices
2 371 (56.90%) CI/CD
3 274 (42.02%) Agile
4 226 (34.66%) DevOps
5 204 (31.29%) Containerisation
6 168 (25.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 158 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
8 130 (19.94%) Test Automation
9 126 (19.33%) Software Engineering
10 113 (17.33%) Event-Driven
11 101 (15.49%) TDD
12 91 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 85 (13.04%) Scrum
14 81 (12.42%) SDLC
15 73 (11.20%) Code Quality
16 67 (10.28%) Observability
17 66 (10.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 65 (9.97%) Mentoring
19 58 (8.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 57 (8.74%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 622 (95.40%) Java
2 177 (27.15%) SQL
3 104 (15.95%) JavaScript
4 90 (13.80%) TypeScript
5 80 (12.27%) Python
6 29 (4.45%) Shell Script
7 27 (4.14%) Kotlin
8 14 (2.15%) Scala
9 11 (1.69%) Ruby
10 10 (1.53%) Go
11 7 (1.07%) Bash
11 7 (1.07%) Groovy
12 6 (0.92%) C#
13 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 2 (0.31%) C++
15 2 (0.31%) PHP
15 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.31%) Rust
16 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 158 (24.23%) Security Cleared
2 134 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 27 (4.14%) Degree
4 21 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.84%) OCP
5 12 (1.84%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (0.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.15%) CCSP
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.15%) CISSP
8 1 (0.15%) OSCP
8 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (10.58%) QA
2 44 (6.75%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.53%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.45%) WCAG
5 15 (2.30%) PSD2
5 15 (2.30%) SEPA
6 9 (1.38%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.77%) NIST
8 4 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.46%) HL7
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) GDPR
10 2 (0.31%) 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
1 279 (42.79%) Docker
2 7 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.46%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 298 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 96 (14.72%) Terraform
3 48 (7.36%) Grafana
4 40 (6.13%) Ansible
5 21 (3.22%) Argo
6 19 (2.91%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.15%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.84%) Kibana
9 9 (1.38%) Puppet
10 5 (0.77%) Istio
11 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.31%) Rancher
11 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 65 (9.97%) Oracle
2 32 (4.91%) Google
3 28 (4.29%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.37%) Red Hat
4 22 (3.37%) Sybase
5 20 (3.07%) Splunk
6 15 (2.30%) VMware
7 11 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.38%) webMethods
9 6 (0.92%) Confluent
9 6 (0.92%) Solace
10 5 (0.77%) Adobe
10 5 (0.77%) IBM
10 5 (0.77%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.77%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.61%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.61%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.61%) SAP
12 3 (0.46%) Informatica