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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 171 214
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 -127
Contract jobs citing Spring 616 528 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.46% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.76% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 344 411
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £411 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £765 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +4.22% -9.55% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile £44.50 - £58.38
25th Percentile £51.25 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £77.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 8,093 7,811 10,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.86% 21.67% 22.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,382 4,924 7,418
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £651
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 113 190
10th Percentile £30.18 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.63 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -12.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.08% +18.66% -15.72%

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 18 November 2025.

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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +5 480 £500 -9.09% 320
UK excluding London +18 305 £469 +4.22% 185
London +2 260 £525 -10.26% 170
Work from Home +29 192 £500 - 187
North of England -4 90 £470 +4.44% 55
Scotland +1 89 £538 +26.47% 20
North West +7 63 £460 +5.09% 35
Midlands -1 60 £429 -26.94% 19
West Midlands -13 42 £500 -14.89% 13
South East +21 40 £405 -10.00% 49
East Midlands - 18 £368 - 6
Yorkshire -34 17 £525 -23.64% 13
South West -6 14 £528 -4.09% 26
Wales +13 12 £475 +13.43% 4
North East -5 10 £550 +23.60% 7
Northern Ireland -14 2 £425 -5.56% 9
East of England -25 1 - - 2

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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 20 (3.25%) JBoss
2 19 (3.08%) Confluence
3 16 (2.60%) Apache
4 14 (2.27%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.14%) Camunda
6 7 (1.14%) CMS
7 4 (0.65%) Mule
8 3 (0.49%) Alfresco
8 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.49%) nginx
8 3 (0.49%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.32%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Fidessa
1 6 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 306 (49.68%) AWS
2 183 (29.71%) Azure
3 103 (16.72%) GCP
4 88 (14.29%) GitHub
5 52 (8.44%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.31%) Serverless
7 41 (6.66%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 39 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
9 34 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
11 25 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (4.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.73%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.11%) Datadog
16 12 (1.95%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.97%) Kerberos
2 5 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.65%) HTTP
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) LAN
4 1 (0.16%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (22.40%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (18.51%) MongoDB
3 104 (16.88%) Relational Database
4 70 (11.36%) NoSQL
5 51 (8.28%) MySQL
6 42 (6.82%) DB2
7 37 (6.01%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.08%) RDBMS
10 18 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 16 (2.60%) SQL Server
13 13 (2.11%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.30%) HBase
14 8 (1.30%) Redis
15 5 (0.81%) Big Data
15 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.65%) Tick Data
17 3 (0.49%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 187 (30.36%) JUnit
2 164 (26.62%) Git
3 139 (22.56%) Jenkins
4 69 (11.20%) Cucumber
5 68 (11.04%) Maven
6 67 (10.88%) GitLab
7 54 (8.77%) Mockito
8 51 (8.28%) JIRA
9 42 (6.82%) Gradle
10 35 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (4.87%) SonarQube
12 24 (3.90%) Selenium
13 20 (3.25%) JMeter
13 20 (3.25%) Postman
14 18 (2.92%) Eclipse
15 15 (2.44%) IntelliJ
16 14 (2.27%) Artifactory
17 12 (1.95%) Bitbucket
18 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
19 9 (1.46%) Subversion
General
1 201 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 152 (24.68%) Finance
3 115 (18.67%) Banking
4 76 (12.34%) Public Sector
5 71 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (6.33%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.25%) Front Office
8 19 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.49%) Automotive
14 3 (0.49%) Electronics
14 3 (0.49%) Law
14 3 (0.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 406 (65.91%) Developer
2 340 (55.19%) Java Developer
3 116 (18.83%) Senior
4 91 (14.77%) Senior Developer
5 88 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 72 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 68 (11.04%) Java Engineer
8 61 (9.90%) Lead
9 51 (8.28%) Software Engineer
10 44 (7.14%) SQL Developer
11 42 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 30 (4.87%) AWS Developer
12 30 (4.87%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 29 (4.71%) Lead Developer
14 28 (4.55%) Linux Developer
15 25 (4.06%) Lead Java Developer
16 24 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
17 22 (3.57%) Architect
18 21 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 15 (2.44%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (66.72%) Spring Boot
2 200 (32.47%) Kafka
3 159 (25.81%) RESTful
4 133 (21.59%) React
5 130 (21.10%) REST
6 113 (18.34%) Hibernate
7 99 (16.07%) AngularJS
8 74 (12.01%) HTML
9 57 (9.25%) CSS
10 54 (8.77%) JSON
11 50 (8.12%) SOAP
12 49 (7.95%) JPA
13 48 (7.79%) Node.js
14 45 (7.31%) JMS
15 41 (6.66%) Web Services
16 40 (6.49%) OAuth
17 35 (5.68%) Spring Cloud
18 34 (5.52%) XML
19 31 (5.03%) J2EE
20 29 (4.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 57 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.17%) Data Structures
4 35 (5.68%) Equities
5 24 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.46%) Derivative
10 9 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
15 3 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
16 2 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
16 2 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.07%) Linux
2 35 (5.68%) Unix
3 8 (1.30%) Windows
4 6 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.49%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (58.28%) Microservices
2 329 (53.41%) CI/CD
3 311 (50.49%) Agile
4 183 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
5 182 (29.55%) DevOps
6 156 (25.32%) Containerisation
7 136 (22.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (19.16%) Software Engineering
9 109 (17.69%) Test Automation
10 96 (15.58%) SDLC
10 96 (15.58%) TDD
11 84 (13.64%) Scrum
12 74 (12.01%) Event-Driven
13 67 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 66 (10.71%) Code Quality
15 64 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 64 (10.39%) Mentoring
16 56 (9.09%) Multithreading
16 56 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
17 55 (8.93%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 602 (97.73%) Java
2 202 (32.79%) SQL
3 101 (16.40%) Python
4 86 (13.96%) JavaScript
5 72 (11.69%) TypeScript
6 50 (8.12%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.08%) Ruby
8 14 (2.27%) Scala
9 13 (2.11%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.46%) Bash
11 9 (1.46%) Groovy
12 6 (0.97%) C#
12 6 (0.97%) C++
12 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.81%) C
14 4 (0.65%) Perl
15 3 (0.49%) Rust
16 2 (0.32%) Go
16 2 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 118 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 97 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.19%) Degree
4 28 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.79%) OCP
6 11 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.16%) CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (11.69%) QA
2 23 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.60%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.62%) WCAG
5 9 (1.46%) GDPR
6 8 (1.30%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.30%) PSD2
6 8 (1.30%) SEPA
7 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 243 (39.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.65%) Postfix
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 226 (36.69%) Kubernetes
2 66 (10.71%) Terraform
3 35 (5.68%) Ansible
4 33 (5.36%) Grafana
5 15 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 14 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 13 (2.11%) Argo
8 9 (1.46%) Kibana
8 9 (1.46%) Puppet
8 9 (1.46%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.32%) Rancher
9 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.16%) Consul
10 1 (0.16%) Control-M
10 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 70 (11.36%) Oracle
2 47 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 38 (6.17%) Sybase
4 31 (5.03%) Google
5 22 (3.57%) Splunk
6 18 (2.92%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.60%) IBM
7 16 (2.60%) VMware
8 15 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
9 10 (1.62%) webMethods
10 9 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.30%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.81%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.65%) Calypso
13 4 (0.65%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.65%) SAP
13 4 (0.65%) Solace
13 4 (0.65%) TIBCO