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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 146 172
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 865 636 557
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.61% 1.93% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.50% 8.62% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 417 420
10th Percentile £353 £335 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -6.46%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £688 £638 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £54.38 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £88.70 £92.50 £67.20
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 10,177 7,379 8,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.97% 22.39% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,619 4,943 5,786
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £412 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £741 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 176 242
10th Percentile £28.15 £29.63 £22.86
25th Percentile £41.35 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +3.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.92 £81.18 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.63% +0.54%

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 15 August 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 15 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 15 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 -5 680 £525 +5.00% 645
UK excluding London -41 387 £475 +5.56% 311
London -1 373 £525 +0.48% 453
Work from Home -50 215 £490 -2.00% 295
North of England -8 143 £505 +8.60% 94
North West -28 79 £540 +25.58% 57
Midlands -30 76 £463 +11.45% 38
West Midlands 0 73 £475 -5.00% 31
Scotland -38 69 £400 -11.11% 67
Yorkshire -5 46 £550 +53.08% 18
South West -26 37 £481 -4.70% 35
South East -52 31 £367 -19.51% 41
East of England +1 21 £507 +8.45% 4
North East -32 19 £450 -8.16% 20
Wales -15 11 £425 -10.53% 13
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 20
East Midlands -46 2 £401 +6.93% 7

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 36 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.70%) Confluence
3 28 (3.24%) Apache
4 13 (1.50%) WebLogic
5 10 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.16%) nginx
6 9 (1.04%) Camunda
7 7 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.46%) Quorum
1 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.46%) Ripple
2 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 481 (55.61%) AWS
2 216 (24.97%) Azure
3 157 (18.15%) GitHub
4 153 (17.69%) GCP
5 98 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (7.28%) Serverless
7 58 (6.71%) Amazon S3
8 54 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (4.51%) OpenShift
14 35 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.85%) Azure AKS
18 15 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.73%) AWS KMS
19 14 (1.62%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.81%) HTTP
1 7 (0.81%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.35%) Firewall
3 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) AMQP
4 1 (0.12%) Broadband
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (23.58%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (11.45%) NoSQL
3 90 (10.40%) Relational Database
4 85 (9.83%) MongoDB
5 66 (7.63%) MySQL
6 37 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (4.28%) DynamoDB
7 33 (3.82%) Redis
8 30 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.43%) Flink
11 20 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.73%) Big Data
14 12 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.27%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.16%) Couchbase
17 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
17 9 (1.04%) Metadata
18 8 (0.92%) Db2
Development Applications
1 239 (27.63%) Jenkins
2 231 (26.71%) Git
3 151 (17.46%) JUnit
4 122 (14.10%) GitLab
5 96 (11.10%) Maven
6 91 (10.52%) Gradle
7 73 (8.44%) Mockito
8 61 (7.05%) JIRA
9 44 (5.09%) Cucumber
10 43 (4.97%) SonarQube
11 40 (4.62%) Selenium
12 25 (2.89%) JMeter
13 21 (2.43%) Liquibase
14 19 (2.20%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.08%) Gatling
16 15 (1.73%) REST Assured
17 14 (1.62%) IntelliJ
18 13 (1.50%) Bitbucket
19 11 (1.27%) DbUnit
19 11 (1.27%) GoCD
General
1 188 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.69%) Finance
3 153 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 100 (11.56%) Banking
5 76 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.24%) Retail
7 17 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.39%) Law
11 10 (1.16%) Military
12 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.81%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.69%) Back Office
14 6 (0.69%) Publishing
15 5 (0.58%) Automotive
15 5 (0.58%) Front Office
15 5 (0.58%) Police
16 4 (0.46%) Games
16 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 508 (58.73%) Developer
2 414 (47.86%) Java Developer
3 176 (20.35%) Senior
4 130 (15.03%) Java Engineer
5 106 (12.25%) Software Engineer
6 105 (12.14%) Senior Developer
7 86 (9.94%) Lead
8 85 (9.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (7.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (7.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 56 (6.47%) Backend Developer
12 40 (4.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Lead Developer
13 37 (4.28%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.47%) Architect
14 30 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (2.66%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (82.31%) Spring Boot
2 249 (28.79%) Kafka
3 238 (27.51%) REST
4 221 (25.55%) RESTful
5 158 (18.27%) React
6 112 (12.95%) Node.js
7 71 (8.21%) JPA
8 69 (7.98%) AngularJS
9 68 (7.86%) HTML
10 67 (7.75%) Hibernate
11 61 (7.05%) CSS
12 57 (6.59%) Spring MVC
13 55 (6.36%) Web Services
14 52 (6.01%) RabbitMQ
15 48 (5.55%) OAuth
16 39 (4.51%) Spring Cloud
17 38 (4.39%) Redux
17 38 (4.39%) WireMock
18 35 (4.05%) OAuth2
19 33 (3.82%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 190 (21.97%) Cloud Native
2 146 (16.88%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.21%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
8 20 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.27%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.92%) Derivative
14 7 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.69%) Mobile App
16 5 (0.58%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.24%) Linux
2 32 (3.70%) Unix
3 7 (0.81%) Windows
4 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Solaris
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (61.85%) Microservices
2 519 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 423 (48.90%) Agile
4 303 (35.03%) DevOps
5 258 (29.83%) Containerisation
6 232 (26.82%) Software Engineering
7 202 (23.35%) Test Automation
8 189 (21.85%) TDD
9 181 (20.92%) Event-Driven
10 157 (18.15%) Scrum
11 155 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 153 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 149 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (15.26%) Observability
15 123 (14.22%) Code Quality
16 115 (13.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 101 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (10.98%) Design Patterns
19 83 (9.60%) BDD
19 83 (9.60%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 838 (96.88%) Java
2 274 (31.68%) SQL
3 122 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 109 (12.60%) TypeScript
5 95 (10.98%) Python
6 46 (5.32%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.28%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 17 (1.97%) Bash
10 12 (1.39%) Scala
11 11 (1.27%) Ruby
12 7 (0.81%) C#
13 5 (0.58%) Groovy
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Solidity
15 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.23%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) Korn
16 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 264 (30.52%) Security Cleared
2 226 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.12%) Degree
5 19 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (10.98%) QA
2 70 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.39%) 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 5 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.35%) EMIR
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
7 3 (0.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) ITGC
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 399 (46.13%) Docker
2 8 (0.92%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 373 (43.12%) Kubernetes
2 88 (10.17%) Terraform
3 77 (8.90%) Grafana
4 67 (7.75%) Prometheus
5 44 (5.09%) Ansible
6 22 (2.54%) Kibana
7 11 (1.27%) Control-M
8 7 (0.81%) Argo
8 7 (0.81%) Istio
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
Vendors
1 117 (13.53%) Oracle
2 41 (4.74%) Google
3 28 (3.24%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.31%) Splunk
5 14 (1.62%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.50%) IBM
6 13 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.27%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.27%) Solace
9 10 (1.16%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.16%) Sybase
10 9 (1.04%) Databricks
11 8 (0.92%) New Relic
12 7 (0.81%) Confluent
12 7 (0.81%) TikTok
13 6 (0.69%) Okta
13 6 (0.69%) SAP
14 4 (0.46%) FIS
14 4 (0.46%) Red Hat