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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 152 175
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 843 558 601
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.88% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.60% 8.25% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 356 440
10th Percentile £388 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £670 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 11
10th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +30.91% +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 9,799 6,765 9,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.53% 22.84% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,442 4,619 6,331
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.14% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 125 272
10th Percentile £30.35 £29.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £51.56 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.11% -20.38%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.16 £81.22 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year +4.00% +12.36% -14.42%

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 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +22 703 £524 +4.80% 98
UK excluding London -32 378 £475 +5.56% 76
London +11 362 £525 - 38
Work from Home -41 207 £478 -4.50% 51
North of England +12 151 £500 +7.53% 28
North West +16 102 £510 +32.81% 9
Midlands -38 72 £471 +10.80% 4
West Midlands -24 69 £475 -5.00% 3
South West +6 47 £409 -22.10% 20
Scotland -55 45 £405 -10.00% 6
South East -36 37 £500 +21.21% 13
Yorkshire -29 30 £475 -9.52% 15
East of England -4 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -17 24 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -14 2 - - 1
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +7.94% 1
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 2

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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 45 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.86%) Confluence
3 25 (2.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.78%) Camunda
5 12 (1.42%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.19%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.19%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.95%) nginx
8 8 (0.95%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.47%) JBoss
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.47%) Quorum
2 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 450 (53.38%) AWS
2 210 (24.91%) Azure
3 148 (17.56%) GCP
4 145 (17.20%) GitHub
5 91 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (8.66%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.30%) Serverless
8 62 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.03%) OpenShift
13 27 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.08%) Azure AKS
15 22 (2.61%) Route 53
16 20 (2.37%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.30%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
2 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.36%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (23.01%) PostgreSQL
2 109 (12.93%) NoSQL
3 90 (10.68%) MongoDB
4 86 (10.20%) Relational Database
5 66 (7.83%) MySQL
6 52 (6.17%) DynamoDB
7 50 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.85%) Redis
12 21 (2.49%) Big Data
13 20 (2.37%) Flink
14 16 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.54%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.07%) Db2
17 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
18 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 210 (24.91%) Git
2 201 (23.84%) Jenkins
3 148 (17.56%) JUnit
4 125 (14.83%) GitLab
5 75 (8.90%) Maven
6 70 (8.30%) Gradle
7 69 (8.19%) JIRA
8 68 (8.07%) Mockito
9 42 (4.98%) Cucumber
9 42 (4.98%) Selenium
10 37 (4.39%) SonarQube
11 24 (2.85%) JMeter
12 21 (2.49%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.25%) Gatling
13 19 (2.25%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.25%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.14%) Liquibase
15 14 (1.66%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.54%) jMock
16 13 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 167 (19.81%) Finance
1 167 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.84%) Public Sector
3 99 (11.74%) Banking
4 50 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (3.20%) Retail
6 17 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.42%) Law
7 12 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 7 (0.83%) Military
10 6 (0.71%) Automotive
10 6 (0.71%) Front Office
10 6 (0.71%) Publishing
11 5 (0.59%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.47%) Police
12 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 469 (55.63%) Developer
2 355 (42.11%) Java Developer
3 174 (20.64%) Senior
4 141 (16.73%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.46%) Software Engineer
6 94 (11.15%) Senior Developer
7 86 (10.20%) Lead
8 78 (9.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 73 (8.66%) Senior Java Developer
10 58 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.22%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.03%) Lead Developer
13 31 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 31 (3.68%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 27 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
16 24 (2.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.73%) Architect
17 23 (2.73%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.73%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (82.44%) Spring Boot
2 236 (28.00%) Kafka
3 200 (23.72%) RESTful
4 198 (23.49%) REST
5 161 (19.10%) React
6 126 (14.95%) Node.js
7 84 (9.96%) AngularJS
8 65 (7.71%) Hibernate
8 65 (7.71%) JPA
9 54 (6.41%) HTML
10 52 (6.17%) Spring Cloud
10 52 (6.17%) Web Services
11 51 (6.05%) Spring MVC
12 49 (5.81%) CSS
13 48 (5.69%) WireMock
14 39 (4.63%) OAuth
15 35 (4.15%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
16 33 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
17 32 (3.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 152 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 108 (12.81%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.66%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.83%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.71%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.71%) Derivative
14 6 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.05%) Linux
2 21 (2.49%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.36%) Solaris
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (58.13%) Microservices
2 474 (56.23%) CI/CD
3 343 (40.69%) Agile
4 307 (36.42%) DevOps
5 257 (30.49%) Containerisation
6 207 (24.56%) Software Engineering
7 176 (20.88%) TDD
8 173 (20.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 152 (18.03%) Test Automation
10 151 (17.91%) Event-Driven
11 137 (16.25%) Observability
12 135 (16.01%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (15.42%) Scrum
14 124 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (13.40%) Code Quality
16 95 (11.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 90 (10.68%) BDD
18 89 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
19 72 (8.54%) Mentoring
20 66 (7.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 802 (95.14%) Java
2 247 (29.30%) SQL
3 124 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 114 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.63%) Python
6 44 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 26 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.78%) Go
10 10 (1.19%) Scala
11 9 (1.07%) C#
12 8 (0.95%) Bash
12 8 (0.95%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) Perl
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
15 2 (0.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 245 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 212 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (3.32%) Degree
5 23 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (10.08%) QA
2 68 (8.07%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.42%) ISO 20022
3 12 (1.42%) WCAG
4 10 (1.19%) SEPA
5 8 (0.95%) GDPR
6 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) NIST
10 3 (0.36%) EMIR
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 368 (43.65%) Docker
2 11 (1.30%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 356 (42.23%) Kubernetes
2 98 (11.63%) Grafana
3 91 (10.79%) Terraform
4 75 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.39%) Ansible
6 13 (1.54%) Argo
7 12 (1.42%) Istio
7 12 (1.42%) Kibana
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Consul
9 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 80 (9.49%) Oracle
2 41 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.51%) Google
4 30 (3.56%) Splunk
5 17 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.78%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.78%) IBM
7 14 (1.66%) Atlassian
8 13 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.42%) Solace
9 12 (1.42%) Sybase
10 9 (1.07%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.07%) Databricks
11 6 (0.71%) Okta
12 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.59%) Confluent
12 5 (0.59%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.59%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.59%) New Relic
12 5 (0.59%) Teradata