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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 156 164
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +44
Contract jobs citing Spring 916 618 581
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.88% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.72% 7.29% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 390 422
10th Percentile £355 £349 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% -7.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £638
90th Percentile £702 £638 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £83.50 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% +1.05%

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 11,858 8,473 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.72% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,793 5,672 6,318
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £631 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.50% -13.56% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.45 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +4.00%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -9 723 £525 +5.00% 837
UK excluding London -38 422 £475 +2.70% 480
London -10 380 £536 +1.61% 509
Work from Home -35 227 £500 - 394
North of England -11 161 £540 +16.13% 151
Midlands -18 98 £525 +26.51% 60
West Midlands +3 92 £530 +6.00% 45
North West -14 92 £560 +25.84% 96
Scotland -45 67 £402 -13.08% 101
Yorkshire -3 54 £500 +8.11% 29
South West -19 39 £410 -18.41% 68
South East -54 32 £297 -32.88% 50
East of England -12 18 £500 +6.95% 5
North East -33 16 £450 -8.16% 26
Wales -15 11 £425 -10.53% 13
East Midlands -32 5 £400 +6.67% 15
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 33

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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 32 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 27 (2.95%) Confluence
3 25 (2.73%) Apache
4 14 (1.53%) Camunda
5 10 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) nginx
6 9 (0.98%) Tomcat
6 9 (0.98%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.44%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.33%) Finacle
3 3 (0.33%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 523 (57.10%) AWS
2 195 (21.29%) Azure
3 151 (16.48%) GitHub
4 142 (15.50%) GCP
5 90 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (7.21%) Serverless
7 62 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (6.44%) Amazon S3
9 49 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (5.02%) OpenShift
12 44 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 41 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
14 33 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
16 21 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 15 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.31%) HTTP
2 7 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (21.51%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (12.66%) MongoDB
3 109 (11.90%) Relational Database
4 104 (11.35%) NoSQL
5 65 (7.10%) MySQL
6 38 (4.15%) Redis
7 36 (3.93%) SQL Server
8 34 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (3.06%) DynamoDB
10 22 (2.40%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (2.29%) Flink
12 17 (1.86%) Oracle Database
13 16 (1.75%) Big Data
13 16 (1.75%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.20%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.09%) Data Lake
16 10 (1.09%) Metadata
17 8 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 242 (26.42%) Git
1 242 (26.42%) Jenkins
2 157 (17.14%) JUnit
3 143 (15.61%) GitLab
4 127 (13.86%) Maven
5 105 (11.46%) Gradle
6 86 (9.39%) Mockito
7 58 (6.33%) SonarQube
8 52 (5.68%) JIRA
9 45 (4.91%) Cucumber
10 39 (4.26%) Selenium
11 26 (2.84%) Gatling
12 21 (2.29%) REST Assured
13 18 (1.97%) Bitbucket
13 18 (1.97%) Liquibase
14 13 (1.42%) IntelliJ
15 11 (1.20%) GoCD
16 10 (1.09%) JMeter
17 9 (0.98%) Flyway
17 9 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 215 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 198 (21.62%) Finance
3 164 (17.90%) Public Sector
4 121 (13.21%) Banking
5 82 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.95%) Retail
7 17 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.53%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.09%) Law
9 10 (1.09%) Military
10 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.87%) Front Office
10 8 (0.87%) Retail Banking
11 7 (0.76%) Back Office
12 5 (0.55%) Police
12 5 (0.55%) Publishing
13 4 (0.44%) Games
13 4 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 526 (57.42%) Developer
2 436 (47.60%) Java Developer
3 191 (20.85%) Senior
4 146 (15.94%) Java Engineer
5 112 (12.23%) Senior Developer
6 108 (11.79%) Software Engineer
7 97 (10.59%) Lead
8 88 (9.61%) Senior Java Developer
9 72 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 49 (5.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 47 (5.13%) Backend Developer
13 44 (4.80%) Lead Developer
14 37 (4.04%) Lead Java Developer
14 37 (4.04%) Software Developer
15 35 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
16 33 (3.60%) Architect
17 29 (3.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 24 (2.62%) Technical Leader
19 23 (2.51%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 777 (84.83%) Spring Boot
2 285 (31.11%) Kafka
3 274 (29.91%) REST
4 225 (24.56%) RESTful
5 173 (18.89%) React
6 109 (11.90%) Node.js
7 91 (9.93%) JPA
8 88 (9.61%) Terraform
9 81 (8.84%) HTML
10 79 (8.62%) Hibernate
11 77 (8.41%) AngularJS
12 69 (7.53%) CSS
13 62 (6.77%) Web Services
14 60 (6.55%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (6.55%) Spring MVC
15 51 (5.57%) OAuth
16 42 (4.59%) OpenAPI
16 42 (4.59%) Playwright
16 42 (4.59%) Spring Cloud
17 41 (4.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 219 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 146 (15.94%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 55 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.86%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 13 (1.42%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.20%) Public Cloud
15 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
16 8 (0.87%) Derivative
17 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.66%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.00%) Linux
2 37 (4.04%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) VMS
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (61.68%) Microservices
2 543 (59.28%) CI/CD
3 461 (50.33%) Agile
4 311 (33.95%) DevOps
5 273 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 270 (29.48%) Software Engineering
7 239 (26.09%) Test Automation
8 216 (23.58%) Event-Driven
9 191 (20.85%) Scrum
10 179 (19.54%) TDD
11 156 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 156 (17.03%) Full-Stack Development
12 151 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (15.28%) Code Quality
14 139 (15.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 130 (14.19%) Observability
16 110 (12.01%) SDLC
17 102 (11.14%) Infrastructure as Code
18 97 (10.59%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (10.15%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 901 (98.36%) Java
2 290 (31.66%) SQL
3 142 (15.50%) JavaScript
4 121 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 87 (9.50%) Python
6 47 (5.13%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.93%) Kotlin
8 26 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.07%) Bash
10 13 (1.42%) Scala
11 9 (0.98%) Ruby
12 5 (0.55%) C#
12 5 (0.55%) Groovy
13 4 (0.44%) Solidity
14 3 (0.33%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 259 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 220 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 83 (9.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (3.93%) Degree
5 26 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.75%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (13.32%) QA
2 78 (8.52%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.29%) WCAG
4 20 (2.18%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.53%) SEPA
6 10 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.55%) PSD2
10 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
13 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 414 (45.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 395 (43.12%) Kubernetes
2 73 (7.97%) Grafana
3 65 (7.10%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.59%) Ansible
5 31 (3.38%) Kibana
6 11 (1.20%) Control-M
7 9 (0.98%) Istio
8 8 (0.87%) Argo
9 4 (0.44%) Bosun
9 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 140 (15.28%) Oracle
2 43 (4.69%) Google
3 23 (2.51%) IBM
4 20 (2.18%) Dynatrace
4 20 (2.18%) Microsoft
4 20 (2.18%) Splunk
5 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
6 10 (1.09%) Solace
6 10 (1.09%) Sybase
7 9 (0.98%) Databricks
8 8 (0.87%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (0.87%) New Relic
9 7 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.76%) Checkmarx
9 7 (0.76%) Confluent
9 7 (0.76%) FIS
9 7 (0.76%) TikTok
10 6 (0.66%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.55%) Temenos
12 4 (0.44%) SAP