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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 173 201
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 -100
Contract jobs citing Spring 744 477 524
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.61% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 7.06% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 291 368
10th Percentile £353 £356 £386
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -14.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £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 9,229 6,756 9,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.75% 22.85% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,171 4,490 6,316
10th Percentile £358 £361 £336
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 230 94 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £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% -25.62%
75th Percentile £73.09 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +37 617 £500 -9.09% 142
UK excluding London +30 376 £467 +3.74% 100
London -3 285 £525 -7.89% 38
Work from Home -2 195 £475 -5.00% 125
North of England +24 148 £475 - 40
North West +44 110 £465 +0.54% 17
Midlands -3 80 £468 +10.10% 13
West Midlands +1 77 £469 +10.35% 10
South East +16 60 £400 -0.31% 25
Scotland -23 58 £588 +33.22% 5
South West -12 27 £409 -25.64% 9
North East 0 23 £475 +5.56% 11
Yorkshire -51 22 £488 -7.14% 12
East of England - 11 £600 - 2
East Midlands -32 3 £308 -28.74% 3

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 47 (6.32%) Confluence
2 24 (3.23%) Apache
2 24 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.42%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.75%) Camunda
4 13 (1.75%) JBoss
5 7 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.81%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.81%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
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%) CMS
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
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 (1.48%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 417 (56.05%) AWS
2 212 (28.49%) Azure
3 153 (20.56%) GitHub
4 124 (16.67%) GCP
5 84 (11.29%) GitHub Actions
6 83 (11.16%) Serverless
7 80 (10.75%) Amazon S3
8 68 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.85%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (3.63%) Azure AKS
14 22 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.28%) Datadog
17 16 (2.15%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.48%) 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
1 170 (22.85%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (14.78%) MongoDB
3 109 (14.65%) NoSQL
4 81 (10.89%) Relational Database
5 51 (6.85%) MySQL
6 48 (6.45%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.36%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.42%) DB2
12 15 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.02%) DocumentDB
12 15 (2.02%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.75%) Redis
14 10 (1.34%) Big Data
14 10 (1.34%) Flink
15 9 (1.21%) HBase
15 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 201 (27.02%) Git
2 181 (24.33%) Jenkins
3 159 (21.37%) JUnit
4 127 (17.07%) GitLab
5 75 (10.08%) Cucumber
6 72 (9.68%) Maven
7 71 (9.54%) JIRA
8 52 (6.99%) Gradle
9 51 (6.85%) Mockito
10 47 (6.32%) Selenium
11 33 (4.44%) JMeter
12 32 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (3.09%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.28%) SonarQube
15 16 (2.15%) Cypress.io
15 16 (2.15%) Gatling
15 16 (2.15%) Postman
16 14 (1.88%) WebDriver
17 11 (1.48%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.48%) Eclipse
General
1 201 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 137 (18.41%) Finance
3 133 (17.88%) Public Sector
4 86 (11.56%) Banking
5 45 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.28%) Retail
8 15 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.48%) Front Office
10 11 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Military
13 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Electronics
14 3 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.40%) Law
14 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 453 (60.89%) Developer
2 324 (43.55%) Java Developer
3 143 (19.22%) Senior
4 118 (15.86%) Java Engineer
5 107 (14.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 91 (12.23%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.95%) Senior Java Developer
8 69 (9.27%) Software Engineer
9 66 (8.87%) Lead
10 42 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
11 39 (5.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 33 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 27 (3.63%) Backend Developer
14 25 (3.36%) Architect
14 25 (3.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (3.23%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.09%) AWS Developer
17 21 (2.82%) Software Developer
18 18 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
19 15 (2.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (75.27%) Spring Boot
2 217 (29.17%) Kafka
3 189 (25.40%) RESTful
4 160 (21.51%) REST
5 156 (20.97%) React
6 120 (16.13%) AngularJS
7 110 (14.78%) Node.js
8 98 (13.17%) Hibernate
9 79 (10.62%) HTML
10 58 (7.80%) CSS
11 48 (6.45%) JPA
12 38 (5.11%) WireMock
13 37 (4.97%) JSON
13 37 (4.97%) OAuth
13 37 (4.97%) Spring MVC
14 34 (4.57%) OAuth2
14 34 (4.57%) Playwright
14 34 (4.57%) Spring Cloud
14 34 (4.57%) Web Services
15 33 (4.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 111 (14.92%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.28%) Equities
6 16 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 16 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (2.02%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.08%) Derivative
10 8 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 6 (0.81%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.67%) NHS
12 5 (0.67%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 69 (9.27%) Linux
2 21 (2.82%) Unix
3 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.21%) Windows
4 4 (0.54%) VMS
5 2 (0.27%) Android
5 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.27%) Solaris
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (58.06%) Microservices
2 427 (57.39%) CI/CD
3 306 (41.13%) Agile
4 259 (34.81%) DevOps
5 215 (28.90%) Containerisation
6 184 (24.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (19.49%) Software Engineering
9 143 (19.22%) Test Automation
10 137 (18.41%) TDD
11 122 (16.40%) Event-Driven
12 107 (14.38%) Scrum
13 103 (13.84%) Observability
14 93 (12.50%) Code Quality
15 90 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 90 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (11.02%) Mentoring
17 69 (9.27%) SDLC
18 68 (9.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 64 (8.60%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 701 (94.22%) Java
2 181 (24.33%) SQL
3 109 (14.65%) JavaScript
4 103 (13.84%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.29%) Python
6 43 (5.78%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.02%) Go
9 14 (1.88%) Scala
10 11 (1.48%) Ruby
11 9 (1.21%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.08%) 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%) JCL
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 218 (29.30%) Security Cleared
2 188 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.70%) Degree
4 30 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.61%) OCP
6 12 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.81%) 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 69 (9.27%) QA
2 52 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.55%) WCAG
4 18 (2.42%) 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 (40.99%) Docker
2 7 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.81%) Postfix
4 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 339 (45.56%) Kubernetes
2 94 (12.63%) Terraform
3 87 (11.69%) Grafana
4 47 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 39 (5.24%) Ansible
6 22 (2.96%) Argo
7 14 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.61%) Kibana
9 9 (1.21%) Puppet
10 6 (0.81%) 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 (8.20%) Oracle
2 42 (5.65%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.44%) Google
4 32 (4.30%) Splunk
5 24 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.28%) Sybase
7 14 (1.88%) VMware
8 11 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.21%) webMethods
10 8 (1.08%) Solace
11 7 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.94%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.81%) Adobe
12 6 (0.81%) Databricks
12 6 (0.81%) IBM
12 6 (0.81%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.81%) SAP
13 5 (0.67%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.54%) Confluent