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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 149 166
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +50
Contract jobs citing Spring 926 620 573
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.87% 1.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.78% 7.20% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 395 411
10th Percentile £359 £331 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £647
90th Percentile £701 £638 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 8 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.50 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.19% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £89.69 £74.50
90th Percentile £79.60 £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 11,903 8,611 9,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.03% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,828 5,738 6,200
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 191 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £47.35 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.50 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 26 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 26 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 26 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 -14 728 £530 +6.00% 783
UK excluding London -28 429 £500 +11.11% 457
London -10 381 £545 +3.32% 475
Work from Home -37 228 £500 - 378
North of England -11 160 £550 +18.28% 147
Midlands -5 112 £525 +26.51% 57
West Midlands +24 106 £540 +8.00% 45
North West -15 91 £560 +30.23% 88
Scotland -45 68 £402 -14.47% 96
Yorkshire +3 54 £500 +25.00% 33
South West -22 33 £450 -10.89% 66
South East -60 31 £367 -4.61% 43
East of England - 17 £500 - 6
North East -35 16 £470 -6.00% 26
Wales -11 12 £425 -10.53% 17
East Midlands -41 5 £400 +6.67% 12
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 25

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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 31 (3.35%) Apache
1 31 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.92%) Confluence
3 12 (1.30%) Camunda
4 10 (1.08%) nginx
4 10 (1.08%) Tomcat
5 9 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.97%) WebLogic
6 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.43%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.43%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.22%) Mule
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) Quorum
2 4 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.43%) Ripple
3 3 (0.32%) Finacle
3 3 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 532 (57.45%) AWS
2 192 (20.73%) Azure
3 156 (16.85%) GitHub
4 137 (14.79%) GCP
5 89 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
6 68 (7.34%) Serverless
7 64 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.48%) Amazon S3
9 50 (5.40%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (4.86%) OpenShift
11 43 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
15 20 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 15 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.32%) Firewall
3 3 (0.32%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (20.52%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (13.39%) MongoDB
3 105 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 105 (11.34%) Relational Database
4 56 (6.05%) MySQL
5 38 (4.10%) Redis
6 34 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.81%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.70%) Flink
9 23 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (1.94%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.62%) Big Data
12 15 (1.62%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.19%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.08%) Metadata
16 8 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 249 (26.89%) Git
2 241 (26.03%) Jenkins
3 165 (17.82%) JUnit
4 158 (17.06%) GitLab
5 134 (14.47%) Maven
6 107 (11.56%) Gradle
7 91 (9.83%) Mockito
8 61 (6.59%) SonarQube
9 54 (5.83%) Cucumber
10 49 (5.29%) JIRA
11 44 (4.75%) Selenium
12 33 (3.56%) Gatling
13 22 (2.38%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.94%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.84%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.19%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.19%) GoCD
16 11 (1.19%) IntelliJ
17 9 (0.97%) Flyway
17 9 (0.97%) JProfiler
General
1 216 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 199 (21.49%) Finance
3 167 (18.03%) Public Sector
4 126 (13.61%) Banking
5 79 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.13%) Retail
7 19 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.08%) Military
11 9 (0.97%) Front Office
12 8 (0.86%) Back Office
12 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.86%) Law
12 8 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Games
14 4 (0.43%) iGaming
14 4 (0.43%) Police
14 4 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 516 (55.72%) Developer
2 428 (46.22%) Java Developer
3 196 (21.17%) Senior
4 159 (17.17%) Java Engineer
5 112 (12.10%) Senior Developer
6 106 (11.45%) Software Engineer
7 97 (10.48%) Lead
8 88 (9.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 68 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (6.80%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (5.08%) Backend Developer
12 46 (4.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 44 (4.75%) Lead Developer
14 41 (4.43%) Senior Java Engineer
15 37 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
16 34 (3.67%) Software Developer
17 33 (3.56%) Architect
18 32 (3.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 23 (2.48%) Technical Leader
20 22 (2.38%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 782 (84.45%) Spring Boot
2 296 (31.97%) Kafka
3 275 (29.70%) REST
4 222 (23.97%) RESTful
5 165 (17.82%) React
6 109 (11.77%) Node.js
7 98 (10.58%) JPA
8 90 (9.72%) Terraform
9 82 (8.86%) Hibernate
10 73 (7.88%) AngularJS
11 72 (7.78%) HTML
12 61 (6.59%) CSS
12 61 (6.59%) Web Services
13 59 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (6.05%) Spring MVC
15 55 (5.94%) OAuth
16 51 (5.51%) Playwright
17 50 (5.40%) OpenAPI
18 42 (4.54%) SOAP
19 41 (4.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 224 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 151 (16.31%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (9.61%) Product Ownership
4 55 (5.94%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 30 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.86%) Derivative
15 8 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
16 7 (0.76%) Algorithms
17 6 (0.65%) Mainframe
17 6 (0.65%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.26%) Linux
2 39 (4.21%) Unix
3 3 (0.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) AIX
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (61.99%) Microservices
2 554 (59.83%) CI/CD
3 470 (50.76%) Agile
4 307 (33.15%) DevOps
5 272 (29.37%) Software Engineering
6 269 (29.05%) Containerisation
7 252 (27.21%) Test Automation
8 225 (24.30%) Event-Driven
9 200 (21.60%) Scrum
10 185 (19.98%) TDD
11 154 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 152 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 144 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
14 143 (15.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 130 (14.04%) Code Quality
16 128 (13.82%) Observability
17 107 (11.56%) SDLC
18 99 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
19 97 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
20 95 (10.26%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 911 (98.38%) Java
2 285 (30.78%) SQL
3 134 (14.47%) JavaScript
4 120 (12.96%) TypeScript
5 87 (9.40%) Python
6 47 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 33 (3.56%) Kotlin
8 30 (3.24%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.05%) Bash
10 14 (1.51%) Scala
11 10 (1.08%) Ruby
12 5 (0.54%) C#
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.43%) Solidity
14 3 (0.32%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Go
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 260 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 222 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 96 (10.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.67%) Degree
5 26 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.71%) QA
2 86 (9.29%) Accessibility
3 26 (2.81%) WCAG
4 20 (2.16%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.51%) SEPA
6 9 (0.97%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.54%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.32%) EMIR
11 3 (0.32%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 416 (44.92%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 403 (43.52%) Kubernetes
2 70 (7.56%) Grafana
3 62 (6.70%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.32%) Ansible
5 36 (3.89%) Kibana
6 11 (1.19%) Control-M
7 9 (0.97%) Argo
7 9 (0.97%) Istio
8 4 (0.43%) Bosun
8 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.22%) Consul
9 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.11%) Kiali
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 141 (15.23%) Oracle
2 42 (4.54%) Google
3 22 (2.38%) IBM
4 21 (2.27%) Splunk
5 19 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.05%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.08%) Sybase
8 9 (0.97%) Databricks
8 9 (0.97%) New Relic
8 9 (0.97%) Solace
9 7 (0.76%) Confluent
9 7 (0.76%) FIS
9 7 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.76%) TikTok
10 6 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.65%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.54%) Temenos
12 4 (0.43%) ION Trading