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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 161 166
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +46
Contract jobs citing Spring 922 603 574
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.85% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.80% 7.12% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 382 413
10th Percentile £356 £330 £374
25th Percentile £425 £402 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £644
90th Percentile £700 £638 £767
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% +2.86%

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 11,826 8,466 9,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.97% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,778 5,636 6,115
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 187 187
10th Percentile £28.64 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.70 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.83% -12.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.80 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.53%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -15 721 £525 +5.00% 658
UK excluding London -19 432 £500 +11.11% 374
London -18 373 £536 +1.13% 402
Work from Home -34 225 £500 - 344
North of England -12 159 £550 +19.63% 127
Midlands +1 115 £525 +27.27% 45
West Midlands +26 109 £528 +5.50% 37
North West -16 90 £565 +31.40% 70
Scotland -43 70 £402 -17.54% 77
Yorkshire +4 54 £500 +25.00% 31
South West -23 32 £481 -4.70% 51
South East -58 31 £367 -4.61% 29
East of England - 17 £500 - 4
North East -33 16 £470 -14.55% 26
Wales -14 12 £425 -10.53% 18
East Midlands -43 5 £400 +6.67% 8
Northern Ireland +3 2 - - 23

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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 31 (3.36%) Apache
2 29 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.93%) Confluence
4 12 (1.30%) Camunda
5 11 (1.19%) Tomcat
6 10 (1.08%) nginx
7 9 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.98%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.43%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.43%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.22%) Mule
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) Quorum
2 4 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.43%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Finacle
3 3 (0.33%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 529 (57.38%) AWS
2 189 (20.50%) Azure
3 158 (17.14%) GitHub
4 135 (14.64%) GCP
5 90 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (7.27%) Serverless
7 63 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.51%) Amazon S3
9 50 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (5.42%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (4.88%) OpenShift
11 43 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 41 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
15 20 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.41%) HTTP
2 7 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (20.50%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (13.34%) MongoDB
3 105 (11.39%) NoSQL
4 103 (11.17%) Relational Database
5 54 (5.86%) MySQL
6 37 (4.01%) Redis
7 34 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (3.58%) SQL Server
9 25 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 24 (2.60%) Flink
11 22 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
13 18 (1.95%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.63%) Big Data
14 15 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.19%) Couchbase
17 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
17 10 (1.08%) Metadata
18 8 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 253 (27.44%) Git
2 242 (26.25%) Jenkins
3 170 (18.44%) JUnit
4 162 (17.57%) GitLab
5 133 (14.43%) Maven
6 107 (11.61%) Gradle
7 93 (10.09%) Mockito
8 62 (6.72%) SonarQube
9 56 (6.07%) Cucumber
10 49 (5.31%) JIRA
11 46 (4.99%) Selenium
12 34 (3.69%) Gatling
13 22 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 18 (1.95%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.84%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.19%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.19%) GoCD
16 11 (1.19%) IntelliJ
17 9 (0.98%) Flyway
17 9 (0.98%) JProfiler
General
1 216 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 199 (21.58%) Finance
3 166 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 129 (13.99%) Banking
5 79 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.15%) Retail
7 19 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (1.84%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.08%) Front Office
10 10 (1.08%) Military
11 9 (0.98%) Back Office
12 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.87%) Law
12 8 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.43%) Games
14 4 (0.43%) iGaming
14 4 (0.43%) Police
14 4 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 513 (55.64%) Developer
2 425 (46.10%) Java Developer
3 195 (21.15%) Senior
4 158 (17.14%) Java Engineer
5 111 (12.04%) Senior Developer
6 105 (11.39%) Software Engineer
7 98 (10.63%) Lead
8 87 (9.44%) Senior Java Developer
9 69 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (6.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (5.10%) Backend Developer
11 47 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 45 (4.88%) Lead Developer
13 41 (4.45%) Senior Java Engineer
14 38 (4.12%) Lead Java Developer
15 33 (3.58%) Architect
15 33 (3.58%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.49%) Technical Leader
18 21 (2.28%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 777 (84.27%) Spring Boot
2 299 (32.43%) Kafka
3 276 (29.93%) REST
4 221 (23.97%) RESTful
5 163 (17.68%) React
6 105 (11.39%) Node.js
7 100 (10.85%) JPA
8 90 (9.76%) Terraform
9 83 (9.00%) Hibernate
10 74 (8.03%) AngularJS
11 71 (7.70%) HTML
12 62 (6.72%) Web Services
13 60 (6.51%) CSS
14 59 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
15 56 (6.07%) OAuth
16 53 (5.75%) OpenAPI
16 53 (5.75%) Spring MVC
17 52 (5.64%) Playwright
18 43 (4.66%) SOAP
19 41 (4.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 226 (24.51%) Cloud Native
2 154 (16.70%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (9.65%) Product Ownership
4 55 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (2.28%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.87%) Derivative
13 8 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (0.65%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.40%) Linux
2 39 (4.23%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) AIX
4 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (61.93%) Microservices
2 560 (60.74%) CI/CD
3 474 (51.41%) Agile
4 307 (33.30%) DevOps
5 267 (28.96%) Software Engineering
6 262 (28.42%) Containerisation
7 253 (27.44%) Test Automation
8 225 (24.40%) Event-Driven
9 203 (22.02%) Scrum
10 185 (20.07%) TDD
11 154 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 153 (16.59%) Full-Stack Development
13 143 (15.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 143 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (13.77%) Code Quality
15 126 (13.67%) Observability
16 105 (11.39%) SDLC
17 98 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (10.30%) Technical Leadership
19 93 (10.09%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 908 (98.48%) Java
2 286 (31.02%) SQL
3 130 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 118 (12.80%) TypeScript
5 86 (9.33%) Python
6 47 (5.10%) PL/SQL
7 31 (3.36%) Kotlin
8 30 (3.25%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.06%) Bash
10 14 (1.52%) Scala
11 10 (1.08%) Ruby
12 5 (0.54%) C#
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.43%) Solidity
14 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Go
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
16 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 257 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 220 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.58%) Degree
5 25 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (14.10%) QA
2 89 (9.65%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.04%) WCAG
4 20 (2.17%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.52%) SEPA
6 9 (0.98%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.54%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) NIST
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 414 (44.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 403 (43.71%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.48%) Grafana
3 61 (6.62%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.34%) Ansible
5 36 (3.90%) Kibana
6 11 (1.19%) Control-M
7 9 (0.98%) Argo
7 9 (0.98%) Istio
8 4 (0.43%) Bosun
8 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.22%) Consul
9 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.11%) Kiali
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 139 (15.08%) Oracle
2 42 (4.56%) Google
3 22 (2.39%) IBM
4 21 (2.28%) Splunk
5 17 (1.84%) Dynatrace
5 17 (1.84%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.08%) Sybase
8 9 (0.98%) Databricks
8 9 (0.98%) New Relic
8 9 (0.98%) Solace
9 7 (0.76%) Confluent
9 7 (0.76%) FIS
9 7 (0.76%) Jaspersoft
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.76%) TikTok
10 6 (0.65%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.65%) Checkmarx
11 5 (0.54%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.54%) Temenos