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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 167 174
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -48
Contract jobs citing Spring 813 513 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.74% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 7.68% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 328 412
10th Percentile £358 £358 £375
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £659 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +4.33% -6.44% -8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 11
10th Percentile - £52.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.88 £42.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +60.75% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £91.56 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +19.88% -34.46%

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 9,396 6,676 8,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.73% 22.70% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 4,581 6,181
10th Percentile £360 £363 £350
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 114 244
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.55 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.27 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £82.70 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.36%

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 11 May 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 11 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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Top 16 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 11 May 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 +31 687 £505 -3.81% 156
UK excluding London -7 383 £470 +4.33% 102
London +17 337 £525 -4.55% 71
Work from Home -9 205 £475 -9.52% 79
North of England +24 168 £475 - 44
North West +34 122 £470 +8.42% 31
Midlands -27 68 £469 +11.67% 10
West Midlands -9 67 £469 +6.59% 7
Scotland -39 46 £438 -2.78% 5
South East -24 41 £423 -15.50% 25
South West -7 38 £409 -20.20% 14
Yorkshire -40 28 £475 -11.63% 7
East of England -5 26 £510 +9.09% 3
North East +1 25 £463 -0.54% 6
East Midlands -46 1 £450 +21.13% 3
Wales - 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 46 (5.66%) Confluence
2 43 (5.29%) Apache Spark
3 24 (2.95%) Apache
4 15 (1.85%) Camunda
5 8 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.98%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.74%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.74%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.49%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 2 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 443 (54.49%) AWS
2 210 (25.83%) Azure
3 149 (18.33%) GitHub
4 134 (16.48%) GCP
5 86 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
6 84 (10.33%) Serverless
7 79 (9.72%) Amazon S3
8 71 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
12 37 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (4.31%) Azure AKS
14 34 (4.18%) OpenShift
15 33 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.21%) Cloud Run
18 18 (2.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.35%) HTTP
2 10 (1.23%) SSL
3 6 (0.74%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.49%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (21.65%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (13.16%) NoSQL
3 87 (10.70%) MongoDB
4 77 (9.47%) Relational Database
5 63 (7.75%) MySQL
6 54 (6.64%) DynamoDB
7 43 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 19 (2.34%) Big Data
11 19 (2.34%) Redis
12 17 (2.09%) Flink
13 15 (1.85%) DocumentDB
14 13 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
15 9 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.11%) DB2
15 9 (1.11%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (24.11%) Git
2 174 (21.40%) Jenkins
3 135 (16.61%) JUnit
4 132 (16.24%) GitLab
5 72 (8.86%) JIRA
6 68 (8.36%) Gradle
6 68 (8.36%) Maven
7 62 (7.63%) Mockito
8 43 (5.29%) Cucumber
9 33 (4.06%) SonarQube
10 32 (3.94%) Selenium
11 24 (2.95%) JMeter
12 23 (2.83%) IntelliJ
13 16 (1.97%) WebDriver
14 13 (1.60%) Gatling
15 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
15 12 (1.48%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.35%) DbUnit
16 11 (1.35%) jMock
17 10 (1.23%) CircleCI
General
1 160 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 149 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 147 (18.08%) Finance
4 79 (9.72%) Banking
5 39 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.34%) Retail
7 14 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.74%) Automotive
10 6 (0.74%) Front Office
10 6 (0.74%) Law
10 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.62%) Publishing
12 4 (0.49%) Military
12 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 463 (56.95%) Developer
2 328 (40.34%) Java Developer
3 162 (19.93%) Senior
4 134 (16.48%) Java Engineer
5 95 (11.69%) Senior Developer
6 92 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
6 92 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 79 (9.72%) Lead
8 71 (8.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 50 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
10 41 (5.04%) Backend Developer
11 33 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (3.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 32 (3.94%) Software Developer
13 30 (3.69%) Lead Developer
14 29 (3.57%) Architect
15 26 (3.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 22 (2.71%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.46%) Senior Java Engineer
18 19 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 665 (81.80%) Spring Boot
2 214 (26.32%) Kafka
3 198 (24.35%) RESTful
4 175 (21.53%) REST
5 160 (19.68%) React
6 122 (15.01%) Node.js
7 102 (12.55%) AngularJS
8 70 (8.61%) Hibernate
9 66 (8.12%) HTML
10 53 (6.52%) CSS
11 51 (6.27%) Spring MVC
12 47 (5.78%) JPA
13 45 (5.54%) Spring Cloud
14 44 (5.41%) WireMock
15 42 (5.17%) Web Services
16 41 (5.04%) OAuth
17 38 (4.67%) OAuth2
18 37 (4.55%) Next.js
19 36 (4.43%) OpenTelemetry
20 34 (4.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 141 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 90 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.86%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.86%) NHS
13 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.49%) Equities
14 4 (0.49%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.49%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.66%) Linux
2 15 (1.85%) Unix
3 10 (1.23%) Windows
4 8 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (58.18%) Microservices
2 454 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 304 (37.39%) Agile
4 281 (34.56%) DevOps
5 265 (32.60%) Containerisation
6 180 (22.14%) Software Engineering
7 176 (21.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 168 (20.66%) TDD
9 152 (18.70%) Test Automation
10 144 (17.71%) Event-Driven
11 134 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (15.13%) Code Quality
13 121 (14.88%) Observability
14 110 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (12.30%) Scrum
16 99 (12.18%) Infrastructure as Code
17 87 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 76 (9.35%) BDD
19 68 (8.36%) Mentoring
20 67 (8.24%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 765 (94.10%) Java
2 214 (26.32%) SQL
3 125 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 113 (13.90%) TypeScript
5 96 (11.81%) Python
6 54 (6.64%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.21%) Go
8 14 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.23%) Scala
11 7 (0.86%) Bash
11 7 (0.86%) C#
12 6 (0.74%) Perl
12 6 (0.74%) Ruby
13 3 (0.37%) PHP
14 2 (0.25%) Groovy
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) JCL
15 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 252 (31.00%) Security Cleared
2 217 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.06%) Degree
4 29 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.49%) OCP
9 4 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) CCSP
11 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.12%) CISSP
11 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.12%) OSCP
11 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (8.73%) QA
2 56 (6.89%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.85%) ISO 20022
4 13 (1.60%) WCAG
5 12 (1.48%) SEPA
6 9 (1.11%) GDPR
7 8 (0.98%) PSD2
8 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 4 (0.49%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.25%) EMIR
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 353 (43.42%) Docker
2 10 (1.23%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
4 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 372 (45.76%) Kubernetes
2 102 (12.55%) Terraform
3 96 (11.81%) Grafana
4 64 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.44%) Ansible
6 14 (1.72%) Argo
7 12 (1.48%) Kibana
8 10 (1.23%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 60 (7.38%) Oracle
2 46 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.94%) Google
4 30 (3.69%) Splunk
5 14 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.48%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.11%) Checkmarx
8 9 (1.11%) ForgeRock
8 9 (1.11%) IBM
8 9 (1.11%) Solace
9 7 (0.86%) Databricks
10 6 (0.74%) Adobe
10 6 (0.74%) Confluent
10 6 (0.74%) Okta
10 6 (0.74%) Sybase
11 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.62%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.62%) SAP