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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 153 174
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing Spring 859 624 568
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.60% 1.89% 1.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.33% 7.45% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 407 421
10th Percentile £354 £335 £380
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £638
90th Percentile £694 £638 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 4
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £41.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 £69.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -22.41%

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 11,722 8,376 9,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.85% 25.39% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,701 5,659 6,433
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £630 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 185 208
10th Percentile £30.00 £30.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £49.75 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -12.34% -1.83%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £79.48 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -12.00% +4.17%

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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

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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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -10 675 £525 +5.00% 176
UK excluding London -51 384 £475 +5.56% 147
London -3 372 £528 +0.48% 81
Work from Home -58 210 £500 - 118
North of England -3 153 £505 +8.60% 47
North West -20 86 £540 +21.35% 26
Scotland -39 71 £402 -10.67% 11
Midlands -40 64 £475 +14.46% 20
West Midlands -15 58 £500 - 17
Yorkshire +4 49 £500 +39.16% 8
South West -19 36 £500 -0.99% 32
South East -52 30 £367 -26.55% 28
East of England -4 21 £500 +6.95% 1
North East -28 19 £450 -8.16% 13
Wales -18 11 £425 -10.53% 7
East Midlands -38 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 3

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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 34 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.03%) Apache
3 23 (2.68%) Confluence
4 10 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.16%) Camunda
5 9 (1.05%) nginx
6 8 (0.93%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.47%) Quorum
1 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.47%) Ripple
2 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 482 (56.11%) AWS
2 208 (24.21%) Azure
3 153 (17.81%) GitHub
4 144 (16.76%) GCP
5 93 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (7.45%) Serverless
7 56 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (5.94%) Amazon S3
9 44 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (4.77%) OpenShift
13 38 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.75%) Azure AKS
18 15 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
19 14 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.16%) HTTP
2 6 (0.70%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 3 (0.35%) SSL
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) AMQP
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (22.47%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 94 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 89 (10.36%) MongoDB
5 66 (7.68%) MySQL
6 35 (4.07%) Redis
7 33 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
7 33 (3.84%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.73%) DynamoDB
9 23 (2.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.10%) Flink
12 16 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.75%) Big Data
13 15 (1.75%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.40%) Oracle Database
15 11 (1.28%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.16%) Metadata
17 9 (1.05%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.93%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 232 (27.01%) Jenkins
2 222 (25.84%) Git
3 142 (16.53%) JUnit
4 126 (14.67%) GitLab
5 94 (10.94%) Maven
6 93 (10.83%) Gradle
7 70 (8.15%) Mockito
8 50 (5.82%) JIRA
9 43 (5.01%) SonarQube
10 39 (4.54%) Cucumber
11 34 (3.96%) Selenium
12 21 (2.44%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.33%) Gatling
14 17 (1.98%) JMeter
15 16 (1.86%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.63%) IntelliJ
17 13 (1.51%) Bitbucket
18 11 (1.28%) GoCD
19 10 (1.16%) WebDriver
20 9 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 191 (22.24%) Social Skills
2 180 (20.95%) Finance
3 150 (17.46%) Public Sector
4 96 (11.18%) Banking
5 66 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.38%) Retail
7 15 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.40%) Law
10 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.05%) Military
12 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.81%) Back Office
13 7 (0.81%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.70%) Publishing
15 5 (0.58%) Police
16 4 (0.47%) Automotive
16 4 (0.47%) Front Office
16 4 (0.47%) Games
16 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 495 (57.63%) Developer
2 404 (47.03%) Java Developer
3 178 (20.72%) Senior
4 133 (15.48%) Java Engineer
5 110 (12.81%) Software Engineer
6 105 (12.22%) Senior Developer
7 84 (9.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 81 (9.43%) Lead
9 65 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (7.57%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (6.40%) Backend Developer
11 40 (4.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 36 (4.19%) Lead Developer
12 36 (4.19%) Software Developer
13 33 (3.84%) Architect
14 31 (3.61%) Senior Java Engineer
15 30 (3.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 29 (3.38%) Lead Java Developer
17 23 (2.68%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 718 (83.59%) Spring Boot
2 251 (29.22%) Kafka
3 241 (28.06%) REST
4 222 (25.84%) RESTful
5 163 (18.98%) React
6 111 (12.92%) Node.js
7 88 (10.24%) Terraform
8 71 (8.27%) HTML
9 69 (8.03%) JPA
10 67 (7.80%) Hibernate
11 65 (7.57%) AngularJS
12 62 (7.22%) CSS
13 60 (6.98%) Spring MVC
14 54 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
15 51 (5.94%) Web Services
16 49 (5.70%) OAuth
17 38 (4.42%) Redux
18 36 (4.19%) OAuth2
19 34 (3.96%) HTML5
19 34 (3.96%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 199 (23.17%) Cloud Native
2 143 (16.65%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.27%) Product Ownership
4 44 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.81%) Derivative
14 7 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.58%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.70%) Linux
2 32 (3.73%) Unix
3 5 (0.58%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.23%) Solaris
5 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (62.17%) Microservices
2 518 (60.30%) CI/CD
3 421 (49.01%) Agile
4 301 (35.04%) DevOps
5 257 (29.92%) Containerisation
6 244 (28.41%) Software Engineering
7 206 (23.98%) Test Automation
8 191 (22.24%) Event-Driven
9 177 (20.61%) TDD
10 154 (17.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 152 (17.69%) Scrum
12 146 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 140 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (14.90%) Observability
15 123 (14.32%) Code Quality
15 123 (14.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 103 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 94 (10.94%) Design Patterns
18 84 (9.78%) Clean Code
19 80 (9.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 841 (97.90%) Java
2 268 (31.20%) SQL
3 125 (14.55%) JavaScript
4 116 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 93 (10.83%) Python
6 39 (4.54%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.31%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 18 (2.10%) Bash
10 12 (1.40%) Scala
11 11 (1.28%) Ruby
12 7 (0.81%) C#
13 5 (0.58%) Groovy
14 4 (0.47%) Go
14 4 (0.47%) Solidity
15 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.23%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 248 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 207 (24.10%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.14%) Degree
5 18 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.41%) QA
2 76 (8.85%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.75%) WCAG
4 10 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.16%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.81%) GDPR
5 7 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.81%) SEPA
6 6 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.35%) EMIR
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) ITGC
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 398 (46.33%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 376 (43.77%) Kubernetes
2 65 (7.57%) Grafana
3 58 (6.75%) Prometheus
4 44 (5.12%) Ansible
5 22 (2.56%) Kibana
6 11 (1.28%) Control-M
7 9 (1.05%) Istio
8 7 (0.81%) Argo
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 118 (13.74%) Oracle
2 40 (4.66%) Google
3 29 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.10%) Splunk
5 14 (1.63%) Dynatrace
5 14 (1.63%) IBM
6 12 (1.40%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.28%) Solace
8 10 (1.16%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.05%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (0.93%) Atlassian
10 8 (0.93%) Databricks
10 8 (0.93%) New Relic
10 8 (0.93%) Sybase
11 7 (0.81%) Confluent
11 7 (0.81%) TikTok
12 6 (0.70%) Okta
13 5 (0.58%) SAP
14 4 (0.47%) FIS
14 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock