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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 150 171
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 850 621 558
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.89% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.39% 8.45% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 407 421
10th Percentile £353 £335 £380
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £691 £638 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £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 £90.00 £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 10,132 7,350 8,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.36% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,588 4,921 5,784
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £745 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 177 232
10th Percentile £28.04 £29.70 £22.53
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -0.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 18 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 18 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 -15 667 £525 +5.00% 139
UK excluding London -46 377 £475 +5.56% 120
London -6 371 £525 - 57
Work from Home -46 208 £500 - 95
North of England -14 143 £500 +10.01% 40
North West -23 78 £540 +25.58% 21
Scotland -34 71 £402 -10.67% 9
Midlands -45 65 £475 +14.46% 18
West Midlands -11 62 £475 -5.00% 15
Yorkshire -6 47 £525 +46.12% 8
South West -17 37 £481 -4.70% 19
South East -61 30 £367 -19.51% 28
East of England -3 21 £507 +8.45% 1
North East -28 19 £450 -8.16% 12
Wales -20 11 £425 -10.53% 5
Northern Ireland -1 2 - - 2
East Midlands -49 2 £401 +6.93% 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 35 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.29%) Apache
3 27 (3.18%) Confluence
4 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.18%) nginx
5 8 (0.94%) Camunda
5 8 (0.94%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.47%) CMS
8 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 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 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 477 (56.12%) AWS
2 212 (24.94%) Azure
3 154 (18.12%) GitHub
4 149 (17.53%) GCP
5 97 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (7.29%) Serverless
7 56 (6.59%) Amazon S3
8 53 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 42 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (4.82%) OpenShift
13 40 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 16 (1.88%) Azure AKS
18 15 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 14 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) HTTP
2 6 (0.71%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) AMQP
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (23.76%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 83 (9.76%) MongoDB
5 66 (7.76%) MySQL
6 36 (4.24%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (3.88%) Redis
9 30 (3.53%) SQL Server
10 26 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.47%) Flink
12 18 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
12 18 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
13 15 (1.76%) Big Data
14 12 (1.41%) Oracle Database
14 12 (1.41%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.18%) Couchbase
16 9 (1.06%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.06%) Metadata
17 8 (0.94%) Db2
Development Applications
1 237 (27.88%) Jenkins
2 223 (26.24%) Git
3 147 (17.29%) JUnit
4 121 (14.24%) GitLab
5 95 (11.18%) Maven
6 91 (10.71%) Gradle
7 73 (8.59%) Mockito
8 54 (6.35%) JIRA
9 42 (4.94%) SonarQube
10 40 (4.71%) Cucumber
11 35 (4.12%) Selenium
12 21 (2.47%) JMeter
12 21 (2.47%) Liquibase
13 17 (2.00%) Gatling
14 15 (1.76%) WebDriver
15 14 (1.65%) IntelliJ
15 14 (1.65%) REST Assured
16 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
17 11 (1.29%) GoCD
18 10 (1.18%) DbUnit
General
1 184 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 179 (21.06%) Finance
3 150 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 100 (11.76%) Banking
5 70 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.29%) Retail
7 16 (1.88%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.41%) Law
11 9 (1.06%) Military
12 8 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.82%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.71%) Back Office
14 6 (0.71%) Publishing
15 5 (0.59%) Front Office
15 5 (0.59%) Police
16 4 (0.47%) Games
16 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 496 (58.35%) Developer
2 407 (47.88%) Java Developer
3 178 (20.94%) Senior
4 127 (14.94%) Java Engineer
5 106 (12.47%) Senior Developer
6 105 (12.35%) Software Engineer
7 86 (10.12%) Lead
7 86 (10.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 65 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 62 (7.29%) Java Software Engineer
10 56 (6.59%) Backend Developer
11 40 (4.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 37 (4.35%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.24%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.53%) Architect
15 29 (3.41%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.41%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (2.71%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 703 (82.71%) Spring Boot
2 247 (29.06%) Kafka
3 237 (27.88%) REST
4 220 (25.88%) RESTful
5 161 (18.94%) React
6 113 (13.29%) Node.js
7 71 (8.35%) HTML
7 71 (8.35%) JPA
8 68 (8.00%) AngularJS
9 66 (7.76%) Hibernate
10 64 (7.53%) CSS
11 61 (7.18%) Spring MVC
12 53 (6.24%) RabbitMQ
13 52 (6.12%) Web Services
14 49 (5.76%) OAuth
15 38 (4.47%) Redux
16 37 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
17 36 (4.24%) OAuth2
18 33 (3.88%) HTML5
18 33 (3.88%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 190 (22.35%) Cloud Native
2 141 (16.59%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.24%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.24%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.41%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.41%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.94%) Derivative
14 7 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.59%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.12%) Linux
2 32 (3.76%) Unix
3 7 (0.82%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) Solaris
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) AIX
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (62.12%) Microservices
2 515 (60.59%) CI/CD
3 417 (49.06%) Agile
4 304 (35.76%) DevOps
5 258 (30.35%) Containerisation
6 231 (27.18%) Software Engineering
7 200 (23.53%) Test Automation
8 185 (21.76%) TDD
9 182 (21.41%) Event-Driven
10 153 (18.00%) Scrum
11 152 (17.88%) Full-Stack Development
12 149 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 144 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (15.06%) Observability
15 123 (14.47%) Code Quality
16 117 (13.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 103 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (11.18%) Design Patterns
19 84 (9.88%) Clean Code
20 79 (9.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 827 (97.29%) Java
2 270 (31.76%) SQL
3 125 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 112 (13.18%) TypeScript
5 94 (11.06%) Python
6 40 (4.71%) PL/SQL
7 36 (4.24%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.41%) Scala
11 11 (1.29%) Ruby
12 7 (0.82%) C#
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 4 (0.47%) Go
14 4 (0.47%) Solidity
15 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 252 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 214 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.18%) Degree
5 19 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.06%) QA
2 72 (8.47%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) WCAG
4 10 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.18%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.82%) GDPR
5 7 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.82%) SEPA
6 6 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.35%) EMIR
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
7 3 (0.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) 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
1 397 (46.71%) Docker
2 8 (0.94%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 370 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 88 (10.35%) Terraform
3 73 (8.59%) Grafana
4 64 (7.53%) Prometheus
5 43 (5.06%) Ansible
6 22 (2.59%) Kibana
7 11 (1.29%) Control-M
8 7 (0.82%) Argo
8 7 (0.82%) Istio
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 117 (13.76%) Oracle
2 40 (4.71%) Google
3 28 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.12%) Splunk
5 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 13 (1.53%) IBM
7 12 (1.41%) Jaspersoft
7 12 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.29%) Solace
9 10 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.18%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.18%) Sybase
10 9 (1.06%) Databricks
11 8 (0.94%) New Relic
12 7 (0.82%) Confluent
12 7 (0.82%) TikTok
13 6 (0.71%) Okta
14 5 (0.59%) SAP
15 4 (0.47%) FIS
15 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock