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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 168 221
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 -136
Contract jobs citing Spring 590 540 558
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.75% 1.46% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.61% 6.64% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 360 431
10th Percentile £330 £363 £406
25th Percentile £405 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £639 £700
90th Percentile £638 £765 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 14
10th Percentile £51.50 - £56.08
25th Percentile £53.75 £69.50 £60.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £74.50 £77.88
90th Percentile £65.50 - £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £72.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +3.70%

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 7,756 8,135 10,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.06% 22.00% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,127 5,148 7,704
10th Percentile £350 £350 £368
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -1.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £674
90th Percentile £725 £775 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 144 197
10th Percentile £30.05 £25.46 £36.42
25th Percentile £41.25 £42.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.07% -13.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 +17 449 £492 -10.55% 260
UK excluding London +7 294 £450 - 198
London -5 247 £525 -10.26% 124
Work from Home +26 187 £500 - 213
Scotland +2 93 £488 +14.71% 7
North of England -5 79 £469 +4.22% 45
Midlands +12 70 £420 -28.51% 17
North West -1 56 £448 -0.56% 32
West Midlands -9 41 £500 -14.89% 8
East Midlands - 29 £368 - 8
South East +9 24 £400 -5.88% 101
South West +2 16 £503 -6.51% 25
Wales +11 13 £475 +13.43% 2
Yorkshire -17 13 £463 -15.91% 11
North East -5 10 £550 +23.60% 2
Northern Ireland -16 2 £425 -10.53%
East of England -24 1 - - 1

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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 23 (3.90%) JBoss
2 15 (2.54%) Apache
2 15 (2.54%) Confluence
3 14 (2.37%) Tomcat
4 13 (2.20%) WebLogic
5 9 (1.53%) Camunda
6 8 (1.36%) CMS
7 5 (0.85%) Alfresco
7 5 (0.85%) Mule
8 4 (0.68%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.51%) nginx
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
9 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.51%) WordPress
10 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.34%) CICS
10 2 (0.34%) Drupal
10 2 (0.34%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 274 (46.44%) AWS
2 152 (25.76%) Azure
3 87 (14.75%) GCP
4 59 (10.00%) GitHub
5 50 (8.47%) OpenShift
6 41 (6.95%) Serverless
7 39 (6.61%) Amazon S3
8 36 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
8 36 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
9 35 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.05%) Azure AKS
12 18 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (1.86%) AWS Fargate
17 10 (1.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.02%) HTTPS
1 6 (1.02%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.68%) HTTP
3 3 (0.51%) SSL
4 2 (0.34%) Internet
4 2 (0.34%) LAN
4 2 (0.34%) SMS
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (21.69%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (19.66%) MongoDB
3 102 (17.29%) Relational Database
4 69 (11.69%) NoSQL
5 50 (8.47%) DB2
6 42 (7.12%) MySQL
7 34 (5.76%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
10 18 (3.05%) Oracle Database
11 17 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
11 17 (2.88%) SQL Server
12 16 (2.71%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.69%) Redis
14 6 (1.02%) Big Data
15 5 (0.85%) HBase
16 4 (0.68%) GIS
17 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
17 3 (0.51%) KDB
17 3 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 186 (31.53%) JUnit
2 163 (27.63%) Git
3 125 (21.19%) Jenkins
4 71 (12.03%) Maven
5 62 (10.51%) Mockito
6 60 (10.17%) Cucumber
7 58 (9.83%) GitLab
8 51 (8.64%) JIRA
9 43 (7.29%) Gradle
10 35 (5.93%) SonarQube
11 26 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 20 (3.39%) Selenium
13 16 (2.71%) IntelliJ
13 16 (2.71%) Postman
14 15 (2.54%) Eclipse
15 14 (2.37%) JMeter
16 13 (2.20%) Bitbucket
17 12 (2.03%) Artifactory
18 10 (1.69%) Liquibase
18 10 (1.69%) Subversion
General
1 191 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 149 (25.25%) Finance
3 116 (19.66%) Banking
4 70 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.12%) Investment Banking
7 24 (4.07%) Front Office
8 20 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Automotive
13 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Retail
14 2 (0.34%) Law
14 2 (0.34%) Police
14 2 (0.34%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.17%) Military
15 1 (0.17%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 403 (68.31%) Developer
2 333 (56.44%) Java Developer
3 110 (18.64%) Senior
4 93 (15.76%) Senior Developer
5 90 (15.25%) Senior Java Developer
6 61 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
6 61 (10.34%) Lead
7 55 (9.32%) Java Engineer
8 49 (8.31%) SQL Developer
9 45 (7.63%) Software Engineer
10 34 (5.76%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 33 (5.59%) AWS Developer
12 32 (5.42%) Lead Developer
12 32 (5.42%) Linux Developer
13 31 (5.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 28 (4.75%) Lead Java Developer
15 22 (3.73%) Java Software Engineer
16 18 (3.05%) Architect
16 18 (3.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (2.88%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (65.93%) Spring Boot
2 197 (33.39%) Kafka
3 141 (23.90%) React
4 139 (23.56%) REST
5 137 (23.22%) RESTful
6 105 (17.80%) Hibernate
7 93 (15.76%) AngularJS
8 70 (11.86%) HTML
9 58 (9.83%) SOAP
10 54 (9.15%) CSS
10 54 (9.15%) JPA
11 52 (8.81%) Web Services
12 49 (8.31%) JMS
13 48 (8.14%) JSON
14 45 (7.63%) Node.js
15 41 (6.95%) Spring Cloud
16 39 (6.61%) OAuth
17 34 (5.76%) J2EE
18 31 (5.25%) XML
19 28 (4.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.29%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.27%) Equities
5 21 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (2.20%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
13 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.02%) Derivative
15 4 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
16 3 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 101 (17.12%) Linux
2 38 (6.44%) Unix
3 8 (1.36%) Windows
4 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.51%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.17%) AIX
7 1 (0.17%) Solaris
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (56.95%) Microservices
2 310 (52.54%) Agile
3 291 (49.32%) CI/CD
4 185 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
5 162 (27.46%) DevOps
6 142 (24.07%) Containerisation
7 117 (19.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (19.66%) Software Engineering
9 111 (18.81%) SDLC
10 97 (16.44%) TDD
11 96 (16.27%) Test Automation
12 83 (14.07%) Scrum
13 71 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (11.19%) Event-Driven
15 62 (10.51%) Multithreading
16 61 (10.34%) Mentoring
17 58 (9.83%) Unit Testing
18 57 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
19 55 (9.32%) Code Quality
20 54 (9.15%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 576 (97.63%) Java
2 210 (35.59%) SQL
3 99 (16.78%) Python
4 95 (16.10%) JavaScript
5 72 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 56 (9.49%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.22%) Ruby
8 14 (2.37%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.37%) Scala
9 12 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.69%) Groovy
11 9 (1.53%) Bash
12 8 (1.36%) C#
13 7 (1.19%) C++
14 6 (1.02%) C
15 5 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Rust
18 2 (0.34%) Go
18 2 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 110 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 90 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 31 (5.25%) Degree
4 25 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.02%) OCP
7 6 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.68%) QA
2 22 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.86%) GDPR
3 11 (1.86%) HIPAA
3 11 (1.86%) ISO 20022
3 11 (1.86%) WCAG
4 8 (1.36%) PSD2
4 8 (1.36%) SEPA
5 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 227 (38.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.68%) Postfix
2 4 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 198 (33.56%) Kubernetes
2 48 (8.14%) Terraform
3 32 (5.42%) Grafana
4 28 (4.75%) Ansible
5 15 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.20%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 11 (1.86%) Argo
8 9 (1.53%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.36%) Kibana
10 7 (1.19%) Puppet
11 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.17%) Consul
12 1 (0.17%) Control-M
12 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 74 (12.54%) Oracle
2 47 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.12%) Sybase
4 23 (3.90%) Google
5 21 (3.56%) IBM
5 21 (3.56%) Splunk
6 20 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 19 (3.22%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.71%) CA Agile Central
9 12 (2.03%) Ping Identity
10 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.69%) VMware
12 8 (1.36%) webMethods
13 5 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.85%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.68%) Checkmarx
14 4 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.68%) Solace
14 4 (0.68%) TIBCO