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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 174 198
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 -101
Contract jobs citing Spring 739 478 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.81% 1.55% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.16% 6.89% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 287 372
10th Percentile £356 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -17.40%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £626
90th Percentile £649 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.33% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 8
10th Percentile £50.75 - £42.62
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
75th Percentile £81.00 - £52.89
90th Percentile £95.00 - £69.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -30.14%

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 9,054 6,938 9,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.17% 22.49% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,049 4,493 6,438
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.59% -7.22%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £774 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 85 202
10th Percentile £35.03 £25.65 £24.10
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.50 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £73.46 £65.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.96 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -19.23%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +38 614 £500 -9.09% 187
UK excluding London +38 378 £470 +4.33% 136
London -6 285 £525 -8.70% 83
Work from Home +13 200 £476 -3.79% 98
North of England +20 150 £475 -5.00% 35
North West +48 112 £450 -2.70% 22
Midlands +7 75 £469 +10.35% 17
West Midlands +9 72 £473 +11.18% 14
Scotland -21 64 £588 +33.22% 12
South East +21 58 £400 +2.56% 48
South West -3 27 £409 -28.87% 17
Yorkshire -57 24 £500 -4.76% 10
North East -5 21 £475 +4.40% 3
East of England -18 11 £600 - 3
East Midlands -24 3 £308 -5.67% 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 42 (5.68%) Confluence
2 21 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.71%) Apache
4 18 (2.44%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.76%) Camunda
6 12 (1.62%) JBoss
7 6 (0.81%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.81%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
10 2 (0.27%) CICS
10 2 (0.27%) Drupal
10 2 (0.27%) nginx
10 2 (0.27%) WordPress
11 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (54.53%) AWS
2 203 (27.47%) Azure
3 142 (19.22%) GitHub
4 126 (17.05%) GCP
5 78 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
6 76 (10.28%) Serverless
7 74 (10.01%) Amazon S3
8 64 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (7.04%) OpenShift
10 40 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 23 (3.11%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.57%) Cloud Run
18 18 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
19 17 (2.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.49%) HTTP
2 10 (1.35%) SSL
3 7 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.54%) DNS
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (15.97%) MongoDB
3 107 (14.48%) NoSQL
4 88 (11.91%) Relational Database
5 51 (6.90%) MySQL
6 44 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 37 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 24 (3.25%) DB2
10 22 (2.98%) SQL Server
11 19 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.30%) RDBMS
13 16 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (2.03%) DocumentDB
15 13 (1.76%) Redis
16 10 (1.35%) Big Data
17 9 (1.22%) Flink
17 9 (1.22%) HBase
17 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
18 8 (1.08%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 185 (25.03%) Git
2 172 (23.27%) Jenkins
3 159 (21.52%) JUnit
4 129 (17.46%) GitLab
5 69 (9.34%) Cucumber
6 67 (9.07%) Maven
7 65 (8.80%) JIRA
8 55 (7.44%) Gradle
9 51 (6.90%) Mockito
10 43 (5.82%) Selenium
11 32 (4.33%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (3.79%) JMeter
13 23 (3.11%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.57%) Cypress.io
15 16 (2.17%) Postman
16 15 (2.03%) Gatling
16 15 (2.03%) SonarQube
17 13 (1.76%) Eclipse
18 12 (1.62%) Artifactory
19 11 (1.49%) REST Assured
General
1 199 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 144 (19.49%) Finance
3 131 (17.73%) Public Sector
4 95 (12.86%) Banking
5 48 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.89%) Retail
8 12 (1.62%) Front Office
8 12 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.54%) Military
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Electronics
13 3 (0.41%) Law
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 452 (61.16%) Developer
2 323 (43.71%) Java Developer
3 148 (20.03%) Senior
4 112 (15.16%) Java Engineer
5 107 (14.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 97 (13.13%) Senior Developer
7 80 (10.83%) Senior Java Developer
8 70 (9.47%) Lead
9 68 (9.20%) Software Engineer
10 39 (5.28%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 31 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (3.92%) Lead Developer
14 26 (3.52%) Backend Developer
15 23 (3.11%) Architect
15 23 (3.11%) AWS Developer
16 22 (2.98%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.57%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.57%) SQL Developer
18 18 (2.44%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 561 (75.91%) Spring Boot
2 226 (30.58%) Kafka
3 190 (25.71%) RESTful
4 159 (21.52%) React
5 151 (20.43%) REST
6 119 (16.10%) AngularJS
7 102 (13.80%) Node.js
8 93 (12.58%) Hibernate
9 81 (10.96%) HTML
10 58 (7.85%) CSS
11 46 (6.22%) JPA
12 40 (5.41%) OAuth
13 39 (5.28%) JSON
14 37 (5.01%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.74%) Playwright
16 34 (4.60%) Spring Cloud
17 33 (4.47%) WireMock
18 32 (4.33%) Spring MVC
19 31 (4.19%) HTML5
19 31 (4.19%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.16%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.98%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.84%) Equities
6 20 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.08%) Derivative
11 8 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.68%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.68%) NHS
14 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.74%) Linux
2 17 (2.30%) Unix
3 10 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.68%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
7 1 (0.14%) Solaris
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (58.05%) Microservices
2 416 (56.29%) CI/CD
3 297 (40.19%) Agile
4 251 (33.96%) DevOps
5 215 (29.09%) Containerisation
6 182 (24.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 169 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (19.76%) Software Engineering
9 140 (18.94%) Test Automation
10 126 (17.05%) TDD
11 120 (16.24%) Event-Driven
12 108 (14.61%) Scrum
13 96 (12.99%) Observability
14 92 (12.45%) Code Quality
15 90 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
16 87 (11.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (10.83%) Mentoring
18 76 (10.28%) SDLC
19 65 (8.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 65 (8.80%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 700 (94.72%) Java
2 182 (24.63%) SQL
3 107 (14.48%) JavaScript
4 97 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 86 (11.64%) Python
6 40 (5.41%) Kotlin
7 26 (3.52%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.89%) Go
8 14 (1.89%) Scala
9 11 (1.49%) Ruby
10 8 (1.08%) Perl
10 8 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.81%) C#
12 5 (0.68%) Bash
12 5 (0.68%) Groovy
13 3 (0.41%) PHP
14 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.27%) Rust
15 1 (0.14%) Korn
15 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 202 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 175 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.47%) Degree
4 29 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.62%) OCP
6 12 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) OSCP
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.20%) QA
2 50 (6.77%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.44%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.44%) WCAG
4 10 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.35%) PSD2
4 10 (1.35%) SEPA
5 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.68%) NIST
6 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.27%) SLA
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 298 (40.32%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.54%) Postfix
4 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 326 (44.11%) Kubernetes
2 98 (13.26%) Terraform
3 78 (10.55%) Grafana
4 40 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.01%) Ansible
6 22 (2.98%) Argo
7 14 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.62%) Kibana
9 9 (1.22%) Puppet
10 6 (0.81%) Istio
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 61 (8.25%) Oracle
2 38 (5.14%) Google
3 36 (4.87%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.33%) Splunk
5 25 (3.38%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.84%) Sybase
7 14 (1.89%) VMware
8 12 (1.62%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.22%) webMethods
10 8 (1.08%) Solace
11 6 (0.81%) Adobe
11 6 (0.81%) Databricks
11 6 (0.81%) Jaspersoft
11 6 (0.81%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.68%) IBM
12 5 (0.68%) SAP
12 5 (0.68%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.54%) Confluent