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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 146 174
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 900 619 611
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.91% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.77% 8.46% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 410 459
10th Percentile £365 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £670 £633 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +9.44% -1.10% -11.22%
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% -35.61%
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 10,262 7,319 9,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.55% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,720 4,947 6,290
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% -4.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 161 277
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.25 £22.65
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -1.24%

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 July 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 July 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 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 +10 731 £525 +5.00% 187
UK excluding London -32 411 £493 +9.44% 168
London +1 376 £525 +0.48% 82
Work from Home -43 232 £490 -2.00% 146
North of England +10 151 £510 +9.68% 33
North West -1 91 £525 +28.52% 14
Midlands -36 81 £475 +13.10% 26
West Midlands -19 78 £475 -3.55% 16
Scotland -47 56 £405 -10.06% 21
South West +6 50 £410 -21.06% 13
Yorkshire -15 42 £525 -2.33% 14
South East -38 40 £450 -1.37% 39
East of England +6 28 £510 +9.09% 12
North East -26 21 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -16 7 £375 -21.05% 12
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 13
East Midlands -40 2 £401 +6.93% 10

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 45 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 38 (4.22%) Confluence
3 31 (3.44%) Apache
4 15 (1.67%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.44%) Camunda
6 11 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.22%) nginx
7 10 (1.11%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.11%) Hyperledger
8 8 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.33%) JBoss
11 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.22%) Drupal
12 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.22%) Mule
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.11%) Maya
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 472 (52.44%) AWS
2 232 (25.78%) Azure
3 164 (18.22%) GCP
4 150 (16.67%) GitHub
5 90 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (7.78%) Amazon S3
7 65 (7.22%) Serverless
8 56 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 33 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (3.22%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (2.89%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.11%) AWS KMS
18 18 (2.00%) Route 53
19 17 (1.89%) Cloud Run
20 16 (1.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (22.44%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (11.44%) NoSQL
3 98 (10.89%) Relational Database
4 91 (10.11%) MongoDB
5 68 (7.56%) MySQL
6 45 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (4.89%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
8 31 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.67%) Flink
9 24 (2.67%) Redis
10 22 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.22%) Big Data
12 18 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.44%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.89%) Db2
16 7 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 234 (26.00%) Git
2 220 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 157 (17.44%) JUnit
4 111 (12.33%) GitLab
5 94 (10.44%) Maven
6 88 (9.78%) Gradle
7 70 (7.78%) Mockito
8 68 (7.56%) JIRA
9 45 (5.00%) Selenium
10 44 (4.89%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.56%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.11%) JMeter
13 19 (2.11%) Gatling
13 19 (2.11%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.11%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.00%) Liquibase
15 16 (1.78%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.56%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.44%) jMock
17 13 (1.44%) Postman
General
1 189 (21.00%) Social Skills
2 185 (20.56%) Finance
3 163 (18.11%) Public Sector
4 101 (11.22%) Banking
5 66 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.11%) Retail
7 18 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.33%) Law
10 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.22%) Military
11 7 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.67%) Automotive
12 6 (0.67%) Publishing
13 4 (0.44%) Front Office
13 4 (0.44%) Games
13 4 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.44%) Police
13 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 514 (57.11%) Developer
2 408 (45.33%) Java Developer
3 175 (19.44%) Senior
4 139 (15.44%) Java Engineer
5 104 (11.56%) Software Engineer
6 97 (10.78%) Senior Developer
7 96 (10.67%) Lead
8 76 (8.44%) Senior Java Developer
9 70 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (6.44%) Backend Developer
10 58 (6.44%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (4.44%) Lead Developer
12 34 (3.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 34 (3.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 33 (3.67%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.22%) Lead Java Developer
15 28 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.00%) Senior Java Engineer
17 26 (2.89%) Architect
18 23 (2.56%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 742 (82.44%) Spring Boot
2 254 (28.22%) Kafka
3 227 (25.22%) REST
4 217 (24.11%) RESTful
5 158 (17.56%) React
6 115 (12.78%) Node.js
7 76 (8.44%) AngularJS
8 71 (7.89%) Hibernate
9 70 (7.78%) JPA
10 63 (7.00%) HTML
11 58 (6.44%) Web Services
12 56 (6.22%) CSS
12 56 (6.22%) Spring MVC
13 47 (5.22%) WireMock
14 43 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
15 42 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (4.56%) OAuth
17 36 (4.00%) Redux
18 32 (3.56%) SOAP
19 31 (3.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 164 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 128 (14.22%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 20 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 17 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.33%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.89%) Derivative
12 8 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.22%) Linux
2 23 (2.56%) Unix
3 10 (1.11%) Windows
4 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.56%) VMS
6 4 (0.44%) Solaris
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Android
8 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (59.33%) Microservices
2 531 (59.00%) CI/CD
3 398 (44.22%) Agile
4 333 (37.00%) DevOps
5 270 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 218 (24.22%) Software Engineering
7 192 (21.33%) TDD
8 186 (20.67%) Test Automation
9 175 (19.44%) Event-Driven
10 170 (18.89%) Full-Stack Development
11 163 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (16.89%) Scrum
13 146 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 137 (15.22%) Observability
15 131 (14.56%) Code Quality
16 110 (12.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 94 (10.44%) BDD
18 85 (9.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 82 (9.11%) Design Patterns
20 74 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 868 (96.44%) Java
2 267 (29.67%) SQL
3 126 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 110 (12.22%) TypeScript
5 99 (11.00%) Python
6 45 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 38 (4.22%) PL/SQL
8 17 (1.89%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.44%) Scala
10 12 (1.33%) Go
11 9 (1.00%) Bash
11 9 (1.00%) C#
12 7 (0.78%) Ruby
13 6 (0.67%) Perl
14 5 (0.56%) Solidity
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
16 2 (0.22%) PHP
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 280 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 241 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.78%) Degree
5 28 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.22%) QA
2 70 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.22%) ISO 20022
4 9 (1.00%) SEPA
4 9 (1.00%) WCAG
5 8 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.78%) GDPR
6 7 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.56%) SLA
8 4 (0.44%) PSD2
9 3 (0.33%) EMIR
9 3 (0.33%) MiFID
9 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 402 (44.67%) Docker
2 11 (1.22%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 388 (43.11%) Kubernetes
2 91 (10.11%) Grafana
3 82 (9.11%) Terraform
4 74 (8.22%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.22%) Ansible
6 12 (1.33%) Kibana
7 8 (0.89%) Control-M
7 8 (0.89%) Istio
8 5 (0.56%) Argo
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Rancher
10 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 111 (12.33%) Oracle
2 45 (5.00%) Google
3 44 (4.89%) Microsoft
4 36 (4.00%) Splunk
5 17 (1.89%) IBM
5 17 (1.89%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.33%) Solace
9 11 (1.22%) Databricks
9 11 (1.22%) Sybase
10 10 (1.11%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 8 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.78%) Okta
12 7 (0.78%) TikTok
13 6 (0.67%) New Relic
14 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.44%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.44%) Teradata