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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 176 204
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 -106
Contract jobs citing Spring 713 462 528
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.52% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.98% 6.74% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 273 376
10th Percentile £356 £356 £383
25th Percentile £413 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.75% -19.04%
75th Percentile £576 £613 £625
90th Percentile £650 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.11% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 8
10th Percentile £50.50 - £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 8,936 6,855 9,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.22% 22.50% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,979 4,418 6,479
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -0.75% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 84 195
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £23.25
25th Percentile £51.13 £39.06 £44.24
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £77.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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 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 17 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 17 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 +42 595 £500 -9.09% 151
UK excluding London +23 363 £473 +5.11% 120
London -2 278 £525 -8.70% 59
Work from Home +5 190 £480 -2.04% 82
North of England +22 154 £475 +3.26% 29
North West +55 116 £465 +3.33% 21
Scotland -21 62 £588 +33.22% 10
Midlands -10 61 £470 +10.59% 17
West Midlands -5 58 £475 +11.76% 16
South East +26 57 £400 +2.56% 37
South West -10 26 £409 -28.87% 22
Yorkshire -45 24 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -3 21 £475 +5.56% 3
East of England -18 10 £600 - 3
East Midlands -21 3 £308 -5.67% 1

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 33 (4.63%) Confluence
2 20 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.52%) Apache
4 14 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.68%) Camunda
5 12 (1.68%) JBoss
6 6 (0.84%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.84%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.42%) CMS
8 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.28%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.28%) CICS
9 2 (0.28%) Drupal
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 387 (54.28%) AWS
2 195 (27.35%) Azure
3 134 (18.79%) GitHub
4 117 (16.41%) GCP
5 71 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
5 71 (9.96%) Serverless
6 68 (9.54%) Amazon S3
7 60 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (7.15%) OpenShift
9 37 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (3.09%) Azure AKS
14 21 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (2.66%) Cloud Run
16 17 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (2.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.54%) HTTP
2 10 (1.40%) SSL
3 6 (0.84%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.70%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.56%) DNS
6 3 (0.42%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (20.34%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (16.55%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.73%) NoSQL
4 86 (12.06%) Relational Database
5 51 (7.15%) MySQL
6 41 (5.75%) DynamoDB
7 32 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.09%) DB2
10 21 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.38%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.10%) DocumentDB
13 14 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.82%) Redis
15 10 (1.40%) Big Data
16 9 (1.26%) HBase
16 9 (1.26%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.12%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.98%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 177 (24.82%) Git
2 161 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 145 (20.34%) JUnit
4 126 (17.67%) GitLab
5 66 (9.26%) Maven
6 60 (8.42%) Cucumber
7 59 (8.27%) JIRA
8 54 (7.57%) Gradle
9 48 (6.73%) Mockito
10 34 (4.77%) Selenium
11 32 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (3.23%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.66%) Cypress.io
13 19 (2.66%) JMeter
14 16 (2.24%) Postman
15 15 (2.10%) Gatling
16 13 (1.82%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.82%) SonarQube
17 12 (1.68%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.54%) REST Assured
General
1 190 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 147 (20.62%) Finance
3 127 (17.81%) Public Sector
4 95 (13.32%) Banking
5 39 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.96%) Retail
8 11 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.40%) Front Office
10 6 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.56%) Military
12 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Electronics
13 3 (0.42%) Law
13 3 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 435 (61.01%) Developer
2 309 (43.34%) Java Developer
3 141 (19.78%) Senior
4 113 (15.85%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (13.18%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 67 (9.40%) Software Engineer
9 64 (8.98%) Lead
10 38 (5.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 38 (5.33%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (3.93%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.37%) Backend Developer
14 23 (3.23%) Architect
15 21 (2.95%) AWS Developer
16 20 (2.81%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 18 (2.52%) Lead Java Developer
17 18 (2.52%) Software Developer
17 18 (2.52%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 548 (76.86%) Spring Boot
2 218 (30.58%) Kafka
3 182 (25.53%) RESTful
4 156 (21.88%) React
5 151 (21.18%) REST
6 117 (16.41%) AngularJS
7 98 (13.74%) Node.js
8 91 (12.76%) Hibernate
9 80 (11.22%) HTML
10 56 (7.85%) CSS
11 45 (6.31%) JPA
12 41 (5.75%) OAuth
13 39 (5.47%) JSON
14 38 (5.33%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.91%) JMS
15 35 (4.91%) Playwright
16 34 (4.77%) Spring Cloud
17 32 (4.49%) Spring MVC
18 31 (4.35%) HTML5
19 28 (3.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 110 (15.43%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.09%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.95%) Equities
6 20 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.98%) Derivative
12 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.70%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.70%) NHS
14 4 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.82%) Linux
2 17 (2.38%) Unix
3 10 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.70%) Windows
5 3 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) Android
6 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) 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
1 408 (57.22%) Microservices
2 399 (55.96%) CI/CD
3 284 (39.83%) Agile
4 247 (34.64%) DevOps
5 208 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 180 (25.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (20.20%) Software Engineering
9 132 (18.51%) Test Automation
10 115 (16.13%) Event-Driven
11 112 (15.71%) TDD
12 103 (14.45%) Scrum
13 90 (12.62%) Code Quality
14 88 (12.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 86 (12.06%) Observability
16 80 (11.22%) SDLC
17 74 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 74 (10.38%) Mentoring
18 65 (9.12%) User Experience
19 63 (8.84%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 683 (95.79%) Java
2 176 (24.68%) SQL
3 106 (14.87%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.18%) TypeScript
5 84 (11.78%) Python
6 38 (5.33%) Kotlin
7 26 (3.65%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.96%) Go
8 14 (1.96%) Scala
9 11 (1.54%) Ruby
10 8 (1.12%) Perl
11 6 (0.84%) C#
12 5 (0.70%) Bash
12 5 (0.70%) Groovy
13 4 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.42%) PHP
15 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.28%) Rust
16 1 (0.14%) Clojure
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
Qualifications
1 185 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 158 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.49%) Degree
4 28 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.68%) OCP
6 12 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.14%) CCSP
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.14%) CISSP
11 1 (0.14%) OSCP
11 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.96%) QA
2 50 (7.01%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.09%) ISO 20022
4 18 (2.52%) WCAG
5 14 (1.96%) PSD2
5 14 (1.96%) SEPA
6 10 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.70%) NIST
8 4 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.42%) HL7
9 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) GDPR
10 2 (0.28%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.28%) SLA
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 284 (39.83%) Docker
2 7 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.42%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.42%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 316 (44.32%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.60%) Terraform
3 68 (9.54%) Grafana
4 37 (5.19%) Ansible
5 31 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.09%) Argo
7 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.68%) Kibana
9 9 (1.26%) Puppet
10 6 (0.84%) Istio
11 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 64 (8.98%) Oracle
2 38 (5.33%) Google
3 35 (4.91%) Microsoft
4 32 (4.49%) Splunk
5 25 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 19 (2.66%) Sybase
7 14 (1.96%) VMware
8 11 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.26%) webMethods
10 8 (1.12%) Solace
11 6 (0.84%) Adobe
11 6 (0.84%) Confluent
11 6 (0.84%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.70%) Databricks
12 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.70%) IBM
12 5 (0.70%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.56%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.56%) SAP