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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 148 172
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing Spring 882 598 615
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.91% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.80% 8.39% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 394 458
10th Percentile £372 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -9.87%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £631 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £452 £463
% change year-on-year +5.58% -2.22% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £59.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.36% +19.88% -34.46%

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 10,024 7,127 9,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 22.79% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,578 4,824 6,384
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 146 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £28.29 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.51 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +14 728 £525 +5.00% 216
UK excluding London -33 399 £478 +5.58% 131
London +10 378 £525 - 119
Work from Home -37 215 £485 -3.00% 107
North of England +6 153 £500 +7.53% 38
North West +3 95 £518 +24.70% 21
Midlands -48 74 £475 +13.10% 20
West Midlands -23 71 £475 -3.55% 17
Scotland -42 52 £405 -10.11% 11
South West +11 49 £410 -20.96% 19
South East -33 41 £450 -1.37% 26
Yorkshire -18 40 £500 -4.76% 11
East of England +4 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -22 23 £450 -8.16% 7
Wales -18 6 £375 -21.05% 8
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +6.93% 3
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 4

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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 47 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.65%) Confluence
3 29 (3.29%) Apache
4 13 (1.47%) Camunda
5 12 (1.36%) WebLogic
6 11 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.13%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.13%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.13%) nginx
8 7 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.57%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 461 (52.27%) AWS
2 223 (25.28%) Azure
3 151 (17.12%) GCP
4 144 (16.33%) GitHub
5 85 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (7.94%) Amazon S3
7 66 (7.48%) Serverless
8 58 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
10 38 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (3.63%) OpenShift
13 31 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (2.95%) Azure AKS
15 23 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.15%) Route 53
17 18 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 18 (2.04%) AWS KMS
18 16 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.25%) HTTP
2 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (12.36%) NoSQL
3 92 (10.43%) MongoDB
4 91 (10.32%) Relational Database
5 63 (7.14%) MySQL
6 48 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (5.33%) DynamoDB
8 32 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 30 (3.40%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.49%) Flink
11 21 (2.38%) Big Data
11 21 (2.38%) Redis
12 17 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.59%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.13%) Db2
15 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.91%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 217 (24.60%) Git
2 212 (24.04%) Jenkins
3 160 (18.14%) JUnit
4 116 (13.15%) GitLab
5 86 (9.75%) Maven
6 73 (8.28%) Gradle
7 72 (8.16%) Mockito
8 70 (7.94%) JIRA
9 45 (5.10%) Selenium
10 43 (4.88%) Cucumber
11 38 (4.31%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.17%) JMeter
13 19 (2.15%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.15%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.04%) Gatling
14 18 (2.04%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.93%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 13 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 184 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 174 (19.73%) Finance
3 156 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 99 (11.22%) Banking
5 57 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.06%) Retail
7 20 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.36%) Law
8 12 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.02%) Military
11 6 (0.68%) Automotive
11 6 (0.68%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Publishing
11 6 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.45%) Games
12 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.45%) Police
12 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (56.69%) Developer
2 391 (44.33%) Java Developer
3 173 (19.61%) Senior
4 143 (16.21%) Java Engineer
5 103 (11.68%) Software Engineer
6 95 (10.77%) Lead
7 93 (10.54%) Senior Developer
8 75 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 74 (8.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (6.58%) Backend Developer
11 57 (6.46%) Java Software Engineer
12 39 (4.42%) Lead Developer
13 32 (3.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 29 (3.29%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 28 (3.17%) Lead Java Developer
17 25 (2.83%) Data Engineer
18 19 (2.15%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 717 (81.29%) Spring Boot
2 246 (27.89%) Kafka
3 211 (23.92%) REST
4 210 (23.81%) RESTful
5 155 (17.57%) React
6 118 (13.38%) Node.js
7 77 (8.73%) AngularJS
8 69 (7.82%) JPA
9 67 (7.60%) Hibernate
10 57 (6.46%) HTML
11 55 (6.24%) Web Services
12 51 (5.78%) CSS
12 51 (5.78%) WireMock
13 50 (5.67%) Spring MVC
14 46 (5.22%) Spring Cloud
15 41 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (3.74%) Redux
17 32 (3.63%) OAuth
17 32 (3.63%) SOAP
18 31 (3.51%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 158 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.91%) Derivative
14 7 (0.79%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.68%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.90%) Linux
2 21 (2.38%) Unix
3 10 (1.13%) Windows
4 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.57%) VMS
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Solaris
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (58.05%) CI/CD
2 509 (57.71%) Microservices
3 375 (42.52%) Agile
4 322 (36.51%) DevOps
5 263 (29.82%) Containerisation
6 211 (23.92%) Software Engineering
7 193 (21.88%) TDD
8 178 (20.18%) Test Automation
9 173 (19.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 165 (18.71%) Event-Driven
11 151 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
12 139 (15.76%) Scrum
13 135 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 129 (14.63%) Observability
15 122 (13.83%) Code Quality
16 103 (11.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (10.54%) BDD
18 81 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 76 (8.62%) Mentoring
20 73 (8.28%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 849 (96.26%) Java
2 258 (29.25%) SQL
3 123 (13.95%) JavaScript
4 112 (12.70%) TypeScript
5 99 (11.22%) Python
6 45 (5.10%) Kotlin
7 32 (3.63%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.59%) Scala
10 13 (1.47%) Go
11 10 (1.13%) C#
12 9 (1.02%) Bash
12 9 (1.02%) Ruby
13 6 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.57%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 264 (29.93%) Security Cleared
2 228 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.74%) Degree
5 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.79%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.20%) QA
2 70 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.13%) ISO 20022
3 10 (1.13%) WCAG
4 8 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.91%) SEPA
5 7 (0.79%) GDPR
5 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) PSD2
8 3 (0.34%) EMIR
8 3 (0.34%) MiFID
9 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) ITGC
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 388 (43.99%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 379 (42.97%) Kubernetes
2 90 (10.20%) Grafana
3 85 (9.64%) Terraform
4 72 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.20%) Ansible
6 14 (1.59%) Kibana
7 7 (0.79%) Istio
8 5 (0.57%) Argo
8 5 (0.57%) Control-M
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
Vendors
1 92 (10.43%) Oracle
2 45 (5.10%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.42%) Google
4 34 (3.85%) Splunk
5 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.81%) IBM
7 15 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 13 (1.47%) Solace
10 12 (1.36%) Sybase
11 11 (1.25%) Databricks
12 10 (1.13%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.02%) Checkmarx
14 7 (0.79%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.68%) New Relic
15 6 (0.68%) Okta
15 6 (0.68%) TikTok
16 5 (0.57%) Ab Initio
16 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.57%) Informatica