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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 164 177
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -55
Contract jobs citing Spring 802 507 570
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.75% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 7.72% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 321 410
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £421 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £725 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +4.44% -6.05% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 11
10th Percentile - £52.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +2.27% +19.88% -34.46%

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 9,267 6,568 8,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.63% 22.66% 20.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,115 4,502 6,154
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £727 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +3.84% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 109 242
10th Percentile £33.75 £30.05 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £71.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £82.27 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 13 May 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 13 May 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 +37 677 £505 -3.81% 174
UK excluding London -8 374 £470 +4.44% 116
London +14 336 £525 -2.05% 76
Work from Home -18 201 £475 -9.52% 118
North of England +18 165 £475 - 50
North West +38 121 £468 +7.90% 32
Midlands -19 66 £469 +11.67% 12
West Midlands -9 65 £470 +6.70% 8
Scotland -40 46 £438 -2.78% 5
South West -4 38 £409 -20.20% 19
South East -25 37 £475 +4.11% 27
East of England -4 26 £510 +9.09% 1
Yorkshire -42 26 £463 -13.95% 9
North East 0 25 £463 -0.54% 9
East Midlands -42 1 £450 +22.28% 4
Wales - 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 46 (5.74%) Confluence
2 43 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.99%) Apache
4 15 (1.87%) Camunda
5 8 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.00%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.75%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.75%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.50%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 434 (54.11%) AWS
2 199 (24.81%) Azure
3 141 (17.58%) GitHub
4 131 (16.33%) GCP
5 83 (10.35%) Serverless
6 80 (9.98%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (9.85%) Amazon S3
8 70 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (3.99%) OpenShift
14 29 (3.62%) Azure AKS
15 24 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.24%) Cloud Run
18 18 (2.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.37%) HTTP
2 10 (1.25%) SSL
3 6 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (13.09%) NoSQL
3 84 (10.47%) MongoDB
4 77 (9.60%) Relational Database
5 62 (7.73%) MySQL
6 53 (6.61%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
8 26 (3.24%) SQL Server
9 22 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.37%) Big Data
10 19 (2.37%) Redis
11 17 (2.12%) Flink
12 15 (1.87%) DocumentDB
13 13 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.12%) DB2
14 9 (1.12%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (23.94%) Git
2 167 (20.82%) Jenkins
3 132 (16.46%) JUnit
4 129 (16.08%) GitLab
5 72 (8.98%) JIRA
6 68 (8.48%) Maven
7 67 (8.35%) Gradle
8 63 (7.86%) Mockito
9 38 (4.74%) Cucumber
10 33 (4.11%) SonarQube
11 32 (3.99%) Selenium
12 23 (2.87%) IntelliJ
13 22 (2.74%) JMeter
14 16 (2.00%) WebDriver
15 13 (1.62%) Liquibase
16 12 (1.50%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.50%) Gatling
17 11 (1.37%) DbUnit
17 11 (1.37%) jMock
18 10 (1.25%) CircleCI
General
1 150 (18.70%) Social Skills
2 145 (18.08%) Finance
3 143 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 80 (9.98%) Banking
5 39 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.37%) Retail
7 15 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.75%) Automotive
10 6 (0.75%) Front Office
10 6 (0.75%) Law
10 6 (0.75%) Publishing
10 6 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.50%) Military
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 459 (57.23%) Developer
2 322 (40.15%) Java Developer
3 159 (19.83%) Senior
4 136 (16.96%) Java Engineer
5 94 (11.72%) Senior Developer
5 94 (11.72%) Software Engineer
6 89 (11.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 76 (9.48%) Lead
8 70 (8.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 53 (6.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 42 (5.24%) Backend Developer
11 33 (4.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (3.99%) Software Developer
13 29 (3.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (3.62%) Lead Developer
14 25 (3.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (2.99%) Architect
16 22 (2.74%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.49%) Senior Java Engineer
18 19 (2.37%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (81.55%) Spring Boot
2 210 (26.18%) Kafka
3 198 (24.69%) RESTful
4 172 (21.45%) REST
5 160 (19.95%) React
6 121 (15.09%) Node.js
7 96 (11.97%) AngularJS
8 70 (8.73%) Hibernate
9 66 (8.23%) HTML
10 53 (6.61%) CSS
11 51 (6.36%) Spring MVC
12 47 (5.86%) JPA
13 45 (5.61%) Spring Cloud
14 43 (5.36%) WireMock
15 42 (5.24%) Web Services
16 39 (4.86%) OAuth
17 38 (4.74%) Next.js
18 36 (4.49%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
19 34 (4.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 139 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 89 (11.10%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
7 14 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.87%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.87%) NHS
13 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.49%) Linux
2 15 (1.87%) Unix
3 10 (1.25%) Windows
4 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (58.10%) Microservices
2 443 (55.24%) CI/CD
3 299 (37.28%) Agile
4 274 (34.16%) DevOps
5 259 (32.29%) Containerisation
6 181 (22.57%) Software Engineering
7 173 (21.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 171 (21.32%) TDD
9 145 (18.08%) Test Automation
10 138 (17.21%) Event-Driven
11 133 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (15.09%) Code Quality
13 119 (14.84%) Observability
14 110 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (12.09%) Scrum
16 92 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 81 (10.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 76 (9.48%) BDD
19 68 (8.48%) API Design
20 67 (8.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 754 (94.01%) Java
2 210 (26.18%) SQL
3 127 (15.84%) JavaScript
4 110 (13.72%) TypeScript
5 90 (11.22%) Python
6 54 (6.73%) Kotlin
7 16 (2.00%) Go
8 13 (1.62%) PL/SQL
8 13 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.25%) Scala
10 7 (0.87%) Bash
10 7 (0.87%) C#
11 6 (0.75%) Perl
11 6 (0.75%) Ruby
12 3 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) Korn
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 246 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 211 (26.31%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.11%) Degree
4 28 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.62%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.25%) OCP
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) OSCP
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.48%) QA
2 55 (6.86%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.62%) WCAG
5 12 (1.50%) SEPA
6 9 (1.12%) GDPR
7 8 (1.00%) PSD2
8 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) HL7
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.25%) EMIR
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 348 (43.39%) Docker
2 10 (1.25%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 359 (44.76%) Kubernetes
2 95 (11.85%) Terraform
3 91 (11.35%) Grafana
4 63 (7.86%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.24%) Ansible
6 12 (1.50%) Argo
7 11 (1.37%) Kibana
8 10 (1.25%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 59 (7.36%) Oracle
2 40 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 29 (3.62%) Google
4 27 (3.37%) Splunk
5 14 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.50%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.12%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.12%) IBM
9 9 (1.12%) Solace
10 7 (0.87%) Databricks
11 6 (0.75%) Adobe
11 6 (0.75%) Confluent
11 6 (0.75%) Okta
11 6 (0.75%) Sybase
12 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.62%) SAP
12 5 (0.62%) Teradata