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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 175 202
Rank change year-on-year +12 +27 -102
Contract jobs citing Spring 746 473 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.60% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 7.02% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 289 368
10th Percentile £354 £355 £386
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -14.63%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £635
90th Percentile £644 £734 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.74% -10.00% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -30.75%

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 9,255 6,741 9,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.75% 22.87% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,181 4,483 6,311
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 94 222
10th Percentile £35.10 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.75 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.88 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 11 March 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 11 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 11 March 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 +40 622 £500 -8.68% 196
UK excluding London +26 375 £467 +3.74% 158
London 0 287 £525 -4.55% 42
Work from Home +2 197 £475 -5.00% 154
North of England +18 149 £475 +1.60% 48
North West +44 111 £470 +1.62% 21
Midlands -2 81 £467 +9.84% 20
West Midlands +5 78 £469 +10.35% 14
South East +13 60 £400 -0.31% 40
Scotland -20 55 £588 +33.22% 7
South West -3 27 £409 -25.64% 17
North East +2 23 £475 +6.74% 11
Yorkshire -62 22 £488 -7.14% 16
East of England - 11 £600 - 17
East Midlands -35 3 £308 -28.74% 6

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 48 (6.43%) Confluence
2 24 (3.22%) Apache
2 24 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.41%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.74%) Camunda
4 13 (1.74%) JBoss
5 7 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.80%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.80%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
8 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 421 (56.43%) AWS
2 212 (28.42%) Azure
3 155 (20.78%) GitHub
4 124 (16.62%) GCP
5 85 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
6 84 (11.26%) Serverless
7 80 (10.72%) Amazon S3
8 69 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.84%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (3.75%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (2.28%) AWS Fargate
17 17 (2.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.47%) HTTP
2 10 (1.34%) SSL
3 7 (0.94%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.67%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.54%) DNS
6 3 (0.40%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (23.06%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (14.61%) NoSQL
3 107 (14.34%) MongoDB
4 81 (10.86%) Relational Database
5 50 (6.70%) MySQL
6 48 (6.43%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.22%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.41%) DB2
12 15 (2.01%) DocumentDB
12 15 (2.01%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.74%) Redis
15 10 (1.34%) Big Data
15 10 (1.34%) Flink
16 9 (1.21%) HBase
16 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.07%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 202 (27.08%) Git
2 181 (24.26%) Jenkins
3 160 (21.45%) JUnit
4 129 (17.29%) GitLab
5 75 (10.05%) Cucumber
6 72 (9.65%) JIRA
7 71 (9.52%) Maven
8 52 (6.97%) Gradle
9 50 (6.70%) Mockito
10 48 (6.43%) Selenium
11 34 (4.56%) JMeter
12 32 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (3.08%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.28%) SonarQube
15 16 (2.14%) Gatling
15 16 (2.14%) Postman
16 15 (2.01%) Cypress.io
16 15 (2.01%) WebDriver
17 11 (1.47%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.47%) Eclipse
General
1 200 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 137 (18.36%) Finance
3 133 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.53%) Banking
5 46 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.14%) Retail
8 15 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.47%) Front Office
11 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Law
14 4 (0.54%) Military
14 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.40%) Electronics
15 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 454 (60.86%) Developer
2 322 (43.16%) Java Developer
3 143 (19.17%) Senior
4 119 (15.95%) Java Engineer
5 107 (14.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 90 (12.06%) Senior Developer
7 73 (9.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 69 (9.25%) Software Engineer
9 66 (8.85%) Lead
10 43 (5.76%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (5.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 33 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (3.89%) Backend Developer
14 26 (3.49%) Architect
15 25 (3.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 24 (3.22%) Lead Developer
17 23 (3.08%) AWS Developer
18 21 (2.82%) Software Developer
19 18 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
20 15 (2.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 561 (75.20%) Spring Boot
2 215 (28.82%) Kafka
3 187 (25.07%) RESTful
4 160 (21.45%) REST
5 156 (20.91%) React
6 120 (16.09%) AngularJS
7 110 (14.75%) Node.js
8 98 (13.14%) Hibernate
9 79 (10.59%) HTML
10 58 (7.77%) CSS
11 48 (6.43%) JPA
12 40 (5.36%) WireMock
13 39 (5.23%) OAuth
14 37 (4.96%) JSON
14 37 (4.96%) Spring MVC
15 36 (4.83%) OAuth2
16 35 (4.69%) Web Services
17 34 (4.56%) Playwright
17 34 (4.56%) SOAP
17 34 (4.56%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 68 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.23%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
5 17 (2.28%) Equities
5 17 (2.28%) Mobile App
6 16 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.07%) Derivative
9 8 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (0.80%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.67%) NHS
12 4 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (8.98%) Linux
2 21 (2.82%) Unix
3 9 (1.21%) Windows
4 8 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.54%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (58.04%) Microservices
2 429 (57.51%) CI/CD
3 307 (41.15%) Agile
4 258 (34.58%) DevOps
5 216 (28.95%) Containerisation
6 183 (24.53%) Full-Stack Development
7 165 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (19.30%) Software Engineering
8 144 (19.30%) Test Automation
9 141 (18.90%) TDD
10 122 (16.35%) Event-Driven
11 107 (14.34%) Scrum
12 104 (13.94%) Observability
13 93 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 92 (12.33%) Code Quality
15 88 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (11.13%) Mentoring
17 71 (9.52%) SDLC
18 69 (9.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (8.71%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 701 (93.97%) Java
2 181 (24.26%) SQL
3 108 (14.48%) JavaScript
4 103 (13.81%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.39%) Python
6 45 (6.03%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.01%) Go
9 14 (1.88%) Scala
10 12 (1.61%) Ruby
11 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.07%) Perl
13 7 (0.94%) C#
14 3 (0.40%) Bash
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) Groovy
16 1 (0.13%) Clojure
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 220 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 189 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.69%) Degree
4 30 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.61%) OCP
6 12 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.12%) QA
2 52 (6.97%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.55%) WCAG
4 18 (2.41%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.34%) PSD2
5 10 (1.34%) SEPA
6 5 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.67%) NIST
6 5 (0.67%) SLA
7 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.54%) GDPR
8 3 (0.40%) HL7
8 3 (0.40%) NCSC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 305 (40.88%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.80%) Postfix
4 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 340 (45.58%) Kubernetes
2 93 (12.47%) Terraform
3 88 (11.80%) Grafana
4 48 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.23%) Ansible
6 22 (2.95%) Argo
7 14 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.61%) Kibana
9 9 (1.21%) Puppet
10 6 (0.80%) Istio
11 3 (0.40%) Rancher
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 61 (8.18%) Oracle
2 43 (5.76%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.42%) Google
4 32 (4.29%) Splunk
5 23 (3.08%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.28%) Sybase
7 14 (1.88%) VMware
8 10 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.21%) webMethods
10 8 (1.07%) Solace
11 7 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.94%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.94%) SAP
12 6 (0.80%) Adobe
12 6 (0.80%) Databricks
12 6 (0.80%) IBM
12 6 (0.80%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.67%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.54%) Confluent