Spring Contracts

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 185 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 -64 -25
Contract jobs citing Spring 506 562 1,289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.29% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.63% 6.27% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 408 994
10th Percentile £363 £375 £450
25th Percentile £415 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £713
90th Percentile £722 £702 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -5.16% -6.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 31
10th Percentile £58.00 £35.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.50 £41.47 £61.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.82% -36.72% +11.54%
75th Percentile £92.50 £48.43 £75.00
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +49.85% -34.46% +20.69%

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 +10 334 £530 -1.85% 280
London +20 226 £550 - 108
UK excluding London +34 218 £464 -5.16% 212
Work from Home +55 177 £525 +3.09% 212
Scotland +21 117 £450 - 41
North of England +20 54 £478 -10.12% 57
North West +5 32 £465 -11.43% 40
Midlands +36 22 £423 -6.11% 32
Yorkshire +7 16 £538 -2.27% 7
West Midlands +21 15 £455 +1.11% 20
South West +28 12 £519 -12.63% 29
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 10
East Midlands - 7 £402 - 11
South East +16 6 £456 -3.95% 35
Northern Ireland -6 6 £404 - 8
East of England +20 1 £468 +24.67% 10

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (6.13%) Confluence
2 14 (2.77%) Apache
3 12 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.17%) Camunda
5 8 (1.58%) JBoss
6 7 (1.38%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.19%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.99%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.79%) Alfresco
9 4 (0.79%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.59%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.40%) GemFire
11 2 (0.40%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.40%) nginx
12 1 (0.20%) CICS
12 1 (0.20%) CMS
12 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 228 (45.06%) AWS
2 50 (9.88%) Azure
3 34 (6.72%) GCP
4 30 (5.93%) Amazon S3
4 30 (5.93%) Serverless
5 23 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 21 (4.15%) GitHub
7 19 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
8 18 (3.56%) Slack
9 17 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
11 11 (2.17%) Kong
12 10 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (1.98%) AWS KMS
12 10 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (1.98%) Route 53
13 6 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.17%) HTTP
2 4 (0.79%) SSL
3 3 (0.59%) Firewall
3 3 (0.59%) IPsec
3 3 (0.59%) Kerberos
3 3 (0.59%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (30.24%) PostgreSQL
2 147 (29.05%) MongoDB
3 123 (24.31%) Relational Database
4 71 (14.03%) MySQL
5 64 (12.65%) NoSQL
6 53 (10.47%) DB2
7 31 (6.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 22 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 21 (4.15%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (2.57%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.37%) Redis
13 10 (1.98%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.38%) Big Data
15 7 (1.38%) Metadata
16 6 (1.19%) GIS
17 5 (0.99%) Hadoop
18 4 (0.79%) MariaDB
18 4 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 154 (30.43%) JUnit
2 112 (22.13%) Jenkins
3 80 (15.81%) Git
4 74 (14.62%) Maven
5 62 (12.25%) Gradle
6 60 (11.86%) Mockito
7 58 (11.46%) GitLab
8 48 (9.49%) JIRA
9 34 (6.72%) Cucumber
10 33 (6.52%) Liquibase
11 19 (3.75%) Jasmine
11 19 (3.75%) SonarQube
12 15 (2.96%) Artifactory
12 15 (2.96%) Bitbucket
13 14 (2.77%) IntelliJ
14 12 (2.37%) Bitbucket Server
15 9 (1.78%) Subversion
16 8 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
17 7 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 7 (1.38%) Selenium
General
1 160 (31.62%) Finance
2 103 (20.36%) Social Skills
3 100 (19.76%) Public Sector
4 87 (17.19%) Banking
5 61 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (9.68%) Investment Banking
7 23 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 22 (4.35%) Front Office
9 21 (4.15%) Electronics
9 21 (4.15%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.15%) Marketing
10 10 (1.98%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.78%) Retail
12 5 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.59%) Back Office
14 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Military
15 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (69.17%) Developer
2 287 (56.72%) Java Developer
3 81 (16.01%) Senior
4 64 (12.65%) Lead
5 59 (11.66%) Senior Developer
6 53 (10.47%) Java Engineer
6 53 (10.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 51 (10.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 49 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (8.70%) Software Engineer
10 38 (7.51%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.53%) Lead Java Developer
11 28 (5.53%) SQL Developer
12 27 (5.34%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (4.94%) Architect
13 25 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 19 (3.75%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 19 (3.75%) React Developer
15 18 (3.56%) Linux Developer
16 14 (2.77%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (70.36%) Spring Boot
2 166 (32.81%) Kafka
3 114 (22.53%) React
4 90 (17.79%) RESTful
5 68 (13.44%) Hibernate
6 64 (12.65%) Swagger
7 62 (12.25%) AngularJS
8 60 (11.86%) REST
9 59 (11.66%) OpenAPI
10 50 (9.88%) Web Services
11 44 (8.70%) HTML
12 42 (8.30%) JMS
13 30 (5.93%) CSS
13 30 (5.93%) JPA
13 30 (5.93%) Node.js
13 30 (5.93%) Spring Batch
13 30 (5.93%) Spring Security
14 24 (4.74%) J2EE
14 24 (4.74%) SOAP
15 15 (2.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.08%) Data Structures
2 34 (6.72%) Equities
3 29 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 17 (3.36%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.77%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.37%) PKI
8 10 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.58%) Derivative
10 8 (1.58%) Equity Derivative
11 7 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.19%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 4 (0.79%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 117 (23.12%) Linux
2 26 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (3.75%) Unix
4 4 (0.79%) Windows
5 3 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (51.38%) Microservices
2 241 (47.63%) Agile
3 198 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 151 (29.84%) DevOps
5 136 (26.88%) TDD
6 127 (25.10%) Software Engineering
7 113 (22.33%) Containerisation
8 102 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 72 (14.23%) SDLC
11 68 (13.44%) Continuous Integration
12 56 (11.07%) Multithreading
13 53 (10.47%) Open Source
14 52 (10.28%) API Development
15 50 (9.88%) Clean Code
15 50 (9.88%) Test Automation
16 49 (9.68%) Migration
17 47 (9.29%) BDD
17 47 (9.29%) Mentoring
18 46 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 494 (97.63%) Java
2 219 (43.28%) SQL
3 97 (19.17%) JavaScript
4 92 (18.18%) Python
5 74 (14.62%) TypeScript
6 48 (9.49%) Shell Script
7 26 (5.14%) Bash
8 13 (2.57%) Kotlin
8 13 (2.57%) Scala
9 10 (1.98%) Perl
10 5 (0.99%) Groovy
10 5 (0.99%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.59%) C#
11 3 (0.59%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.59%) Rust
12 2 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.20%) C
13 1 (0.20%) COBOL
13 1 (0.20%) JCL
13 1 (0.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 146 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 140 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.93%) Degree
4 20 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.16%) AWS Certified Developer
6 14 (2.77%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.40%) OCP
11 2 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.57%) QA
2 9 (1.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.38%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.19%) GDPR
5 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 195 (38.54%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Postfix
3 4 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (0.79%) Lustre
4 3 (0.59%) RACF
5 1 (0.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 164 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 81 (16.01%) Terraform
3 32 (6.32%) Grafana
4 25 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.56%) Ansible
6 16 (3.16%) Istio
7 9 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.58%) Argo
8 8 (1.58%) Kibana
8 8 (1.58%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.58%) Puppet
9 4 (0.79%) Karpenter
9 4 (0.79%) Podman
10 3 (0.59%) Control-M
10 3 (0.59%) Packer
10 3 (0.59%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.40%) Rancher
12 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 59 (11.66%) Oracle
2 49 (9.68%) Sybase
3 30 (5.93%) SAP
4 22 (4.35%) Splunk
5 18 (3.56%) Microsoft
6 17 (3.36%) Google
7 13 (2.57%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.37%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.58%) CA Agile Central
11 7 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.99%) IBM
13 5 (0.99%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.59%) Databricks
15 2 (0.40%) Adobe
15 2 (0.40%) ION Trading
15 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
15 2 (0.40%) Sun