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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 149 163
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Spring 927 611 574
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.87% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.79% 7.20% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 386 415
10th Percentile £353 £345 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.39% -6.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £641
90th Percentile £702 £629 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +3.35% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 8 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.50 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -13.19% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £89.69 £74.50
90th Percentile £80.90 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 11,904 8,492 9,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.97% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,669 6,155
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 186 190
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.25 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.39% -11.54% +10.11%

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 23 September 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 23 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 23 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 +5 730 £525 +5.00% 786
UK excluding London -31 429 £478 +3.35% 456
London -4 382 £545 +3.81% 476
Work from Home -47 229 £500 - 372
North of England -19 161 £550 +18.28% 141
Midlands -14 105 £530 +27.71% 60
West Midlands +22 99 £551 +10.10% 46
North West -20 91 £560 +30.23% 85
Scotland -40 69 £402 -13.78% 94
Yorkshire -3 54 £500 +8.11% 28
South West -13 38 £410 -18.00% 68
South East -48 31 £367 -17.01% 45
East of England - 18 £500 - 6
North East -33 17 £460 -8.00% 28
Wales -14 11 £425 -10.53% 18
East Midlands -45 5 £400 +6.67% 14
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 25

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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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.34%) Apache
3 27 (2.91%) Confluence
4 14 (1.51%) Camunda
5 10 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) nginx
5 10 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 9 (0.97%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.43%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.43%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) Quorum
2 4 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.43%) Ripple
3 3 (0.32%) Finacle
3 3 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 530 (57.17%) AWS
2 193 (20.82%) Azure
3 155 (16.72%) GitHub
4 140 (15.10%) GCP
5 90 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
6 69 (7.44%) Serverless
7 65 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
8 61 (6.58%) Amazon S3
9 50 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
11 46 (4.96%) OpenShift
12 44 (4.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
16 20 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 15 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 15 (1.62%) Anthropic Claude
18 15 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.29%) HTTP
2 7 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.32%) Firewall
3 3 (0.32%) 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
1 194 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 108 (11.65%) Relational Database
4 104 (11.22%) NoSQL
5 65 (7.01%) MySQL
6 39 (4.21%) Redis
7 36 (3.88%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (3.02%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.70%) Flink
11 23 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (2.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 18 (1.94%) Oracle Database
14 16 (1.73%) Big Data
15 15 (1.62%) RDBMS
16 13 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.19%) Couchbase
18 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
18 10 (1.08%) Metadata
19 8 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 247 (26.65%) Git
2 243 (26.21%) Jenkins
3 163 (17.58%) JUnit
4 150 (16.18%) GitLab
5 133 (14.35%) Maven
6 105 (11.33%) Gradle
7 91 (9.82%) Mockito
8 61 (6.58%) SonarQube
9 51 (5.50%) JIRA
10 49 (5.29%) Cucumber
11 40 (4.31%) Selenium
12 28 (3.02%) Gatling
13 22 (2.37%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.94%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.83%) Liquibase
16 13 (1.40%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.19%) GoCD
18 9 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (0.97%) Claude Code
18 9 (0.97%) JProfiler
General
1 213 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 200 (21.57%) Finance
3 166 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 124 (13.38%) Banking
5 81 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.02%) Retail
7 18 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.08%) Military
11 9 (0.97%) Front Office
11 9 (0.97%) Law
12 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 7 (0.76%) Back Office
14 5 (0.54%) Police
15 4 (0.43%) iGaming
15 4 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.43%) Publishing
15 4 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 526 (56.74%) Developer
2 437 (47.14%) Java Developer
3 191 (20.60%) Senior
4 152 (16.40%) Java Engineer
5 111 (11.97%) Senior Developer
6 107 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 97 (10.46%) Lead
8 87 (9.39%) Senior Java Developer
9 72 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (6.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 50 (5.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 46 (4.96%) Backend Developer
13 45 (4.85%) Lead Developer
14 38 (4.10%) Lead Java Developer
15 37 (3.99%) Senior Java Engineer
16 35 (3.78%) Software Developer
17 34 (3.67%) Architect
18 32 (3.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 23 (2.48%) Data Engineer
19 23 (2.48%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (85.01%) Spring Boot
2 293 (31.61%) Kafka
3 278 (29.99%) REST
4 224 (24.16%) RESTful
5 173 (18.66%) React
6 111 (11.97%) Node.js
7 99 (10.68%) JPA
8 91 (9.82%) Terraform
9 83 (8.95%) Hibernate
10 80 (8.63%) HTML
11 78 (8.41%) AngularJS
12 68 (7.34%) CSS
13 62 (6.69%) Web Services
14 60 (6.47%) RabbitMQ
14 60 (6.47%) Spring MVC
15 55 (5.93%) OAuth
16 47 (5.07%) OpenAPI
17 45 (4.85%) Playwright
18 43 (4.64%) SOAP
19 42 (4.53%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 220 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 147 (15.86%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (9.60%) Product Ownership
4 57 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (2.05%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 14 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.86%) Derivative
13 8 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.65%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.26%) Linux
2 39 (4.21%) Unix
3 3 (0.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
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%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (61.60%) Microservices
2 548 (59.12%) CI/CD
3 472 (50.92%) Agile
4 312 (33.66%) DevOps
5 274 (29.56%) Software Engineering
6 272 (29.34%) Containerisation
7 248 (26.75%) Test Automation
8 222 (23.95%) Event-Driven
9 197 (21.25%) Scrum
10 183 (19.74%) TDD
11 157 (16.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 157 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 147 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
13 145 (15.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 140 (15.10%) Code Quality
15 127 (13.70%) Observability
16 112 (12.08%) SDLC
17 100 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
18 98 (10.57%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (10.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 912 (98.38%) Java
2 290 (31.28%) SQL
3 141 (15.21%) JavaScript
4 122 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 87 (9.39%) Python
6 47 (5.07%) PL/SQL
7 33 (3.56%) Kotlin
8 29 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.05%) Bash
10 14 (1.51%) Scala
11 9 (0.97%) Ruby
12 5 (0.54%) C#
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.43%) Solidity
14 3 (0.32%) Go
14 3 (0.32%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 261 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 223 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 88 (9.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (3.88%) Degree
5 27 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.11%) CISSP
11 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (13.27%) QA
2 84 (9.06%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.48%) WCAG
4 20 (2.16%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.51%) SEPA
6 10 (1.08%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.54%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.32%) EMIR
11 3 (0.32%) 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
1 416 (44.88%) Docker
2 5 (0.54%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 396 (42.72%) Kubernetes
2 72 (7.77%) Grafana
3 64 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.53%) Ansible
5 35 (3.78%) Kibana
6 11 (1.19%) Control-M
7 9 (0.97%) Istio
8 8 (0.86%) Argo
9 4 (0.43%) Bosun
9 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 142 (15.32%) Oracle
2 44 (4.75%) Google
3 23 (2.48%) IBM
4 21 (2.27%) Splunk
5 19 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.05%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.40%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.08%) Sybase
8 9 (0.97%) Databricks
8 9 (0.97%) New Relic
8 9 (0.97%) Solace
9 8 (0.86%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.76%) Checkmarx
10 7 (0.76%) Confluent
10 7 (0.76%) FIS
10 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.76%) TikTok
11 5 (0.54%) Temenos
12 4 (0.43%) SAP