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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 163 194
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 -79
Contract jobs citing Spring 795 513 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.75% 1.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.42% 7.72% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 325 379
10th Percentile £356 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £625
90th Percentile £638 £722 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £455 £480
% change year-on-year +2.60% -5.21% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 10
10th Percentile £51.50 £66.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.81 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £86.25 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +87.99% -32.03%
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -28.31%

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 9,447 6,648 8,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.60% 22.69% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,288 4,554 6,179
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £500
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 186
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £18.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 April 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 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 15 April 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 +33 669 £500 -5.66% 102
UK excluding London +12 390 £467 +2.60% 79
London -2 316 £525 -4.55% 48
Work from Home -5 196 £475 -9.52% 75
North of England +10 156 £475 -1.04% 27
North West +31 118 £473 -0.53% 14
Midlands -6 76 £466 +10.28% 3
West Midlands -1 75 £467 +6.10% 2
South East +3 55 £405 -1.82% 20
Scotland -31 50 £525 +16.67% 12
South West -3 35 £409 -22.10% 13
Yorkshire -46 24 £475 -11.63% 4
East of England -7 23 £540 +15.51% 3
North East -6 21 £450 -3.23% 9
East Midlands -35 1 £450 +11.94% 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 48 (6.04%) Confluence
2 30 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.52%) Apache
4 14 (1.76%) Camunda
5 13 (1.64%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.01%) JBoss
7 7 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.75%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.75%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 449 (56.48%) AWS
2 222 (27.92%) Azure
3 154 (19.37%) GitHub
4 137 (17.23%) GCP
5 93 (11.70%) Serverless
6 85 (10.69%) Amazon S3
6 85 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
10 38 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (4.53%) OpenShift
13 34 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (4.28%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (2.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 17 (2.14%) AWS Fargate
16 17 (2.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.38%) HTTP
2 10 (1.26%) SSL
3 7 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
5 3 (0.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (22.39%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (14.72%) NoSQL
3 90 (11.32%) MongoDB
4 81 (10.19%) Relational Database
5 71 (8.93%) MySQL
6 60 (7.55%) DynamoDB
7 46 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.14%) SQL Server
10 24 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.89%) DocumentDB
11 15 (1.89%) Redis
12 14 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.76%) Big Data
12 14 (1.76%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.38%) DB2
13 11 (1.38%) Flink
14 9 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 7 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 203 (25.53%) Git
2 180 (22.64%) Jenkins
3 150 (18.87%) JUnit
4 127 (15.97%) GitLab
5 74 (9.31%) JIRA
6 72 (9.06%) Maven
7 57 (7.17%) Gradle
8 55 (6.92%) Mockito
9 53 (6.67%) Cucumber
10 40 (5.03%) Selenium
11 31 (3.90%) SonarQube
12 30 (3.77%) JMeter
13 26 (3.27%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
15 17 (2.14%) WebDriver
16 15 (1.89%) Gatling
17 14 (1.76%) Cypress.io
17 14 (1.76%) Postman
18 11 (1.38%) jMock
19 10 (1.26%) DbUnit
General
1 173 (21.76%) Social Skills
2 146 (18.36%) Finance
3 142 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 75 (9.43%) Banking
5 43 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.14%) Retail
7 12 (1.51%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.75%) Front Office
9 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.63%) Automotive
10 5 (0.63%) Law
10 5 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.50%) Publishing
12 3 (0.38%) Electronics
12 3 (0.38%) Marketing
12 3 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 475 (59.75%) Developer
2 341 (42.89%) Java Developer
3 153 (19.25%) Senior
4 123 (15.47%) Java Engineer
5 101 (12.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (12.08%) Senior Developer
7 75 (9.43%) Lead
8 74 (9.31%) Senior Java Developer
8 74 (9.31%) Software Engineer
9 42 (5.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 39 (4.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 35 (4.40%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (4.03%) Architect
14 31 (3.90%) Lead Developer
15 29 (3.65%) Software Developer
16 27 (3.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.39%) DevOps Engineer
18 18 (2.26%) AWS Developer
19 17 (2.14%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 636 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 212 (26.67%) RESTful
3 210 (26.42%) Kafka
4 173 (21.76%) REST
5 163 (20.50%) React
6 123 (15.47%) Node.js
7 112 (14.09%) AngularJS
8 85 (10.69%) Hibernate
9 75 (9.43%) HTML
10 58 (7.30%) CSS
11 52 (6.54%) Spring MVC
12 49 (6.16%) JPA
13 41 (5.16%) WireMock
14 40 (5.03%) OAuth
15 39 (4.91%) Web Services
16 38 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
17 37 (4.65%) OAuth2
18 36 (4.53%) HTML5
19 34 (4.28%) Jest
20 33 (4.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 120 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 84 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.39%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.51%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.13%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (0.88%) Equities
10 7 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.88%) NHS
11 6 (0.75%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.75%) Derivative
11 6 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.54%) Linux
2 18 (2.26%) Unix
3 9 (1.13%) Windows
4 8 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.75%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (58.99%) Microservices
2 448 (56.35%) CI/CD
3 307 (38.62%) Agile
4 279 (35.09%) DevOps
5 237 (29.81%) Containerisation
6 186 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 162 (20.38%) TDD
8 154 (19.37%) Software Engineering
9 147 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
10 146 (18.36%) Test Automation
11 134 (16.86%) Event-Driven
12 124 (15.60%) Code Quality
13 115 (14.47%) Observability
14 111 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 110 (13.84%) Scrum
16 98 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
17 80 (10.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 77 (9.69%) Mentoring
19 76 (9.56%) BDD
20 71 (8.93%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 745 (93.71%) Java
2 200 (25.16%) SQL
3 119 (14.97%) JavaScript
4 105 (13.21%) TypeScript
5 84 (10.57%) Python
6 52 (6.54%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.26%) Go
8 14 (1.76%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.01%) C#
10 8 (1.01%) Scala
11 7 (0.88%) Perl
12 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 4 (0.50%) Ruby
14 3 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.13%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.13%) COBOL
15 1 (0.13%) Korn
15 1 (0.13%) REXX
15 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 237 (29.81%) Security Cleared
2 202 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.15%) Degree
4 29 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.26%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.01%) OCP
7 8 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.94%) QA
2 57 (7.17%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.01%) WCAG
4 15 (1.89%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.13%) SEPA
6 8 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.01%) PSD2
7 5 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.63%) NIST
7 5 (0.63%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
8 4 (0.50%) HL7
9 3 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) NCSC
9 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 333 (41.89%) Docker
2 9 (1.13%) Postfix
3 3 (0.38%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 358 (45.03%) Kubernetes
2 102 (12.83%) Terraform
3 92 (11.57%) Grafana
4 57 (7.17%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.15%) Ansible
6 11 (1.38%) Argo
7 10 (1.26%) Kibana
8 9 (1.13%) Istio
9 7 (0.88%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.50%) Puppet
10 4 (0.50%) Rancher
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
12 1 (0.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 59 (7.42%) Oracle
2 48 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.40%) Google
4 31 (3.90%) Splunk
5 13 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.51%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.26%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.13%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.13%) Solace
9 9 (1.13%) Sybase
10 8 (1.01%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.01%) IBM
11 7 (0.88%) Databricks
11 7 (0.88%) SAP
11 7 (0.88%) VMware
12 6 (0.75%) Adobe
13 5 (0.63%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.63%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.63%) Teradata