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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 174 167
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +46
Contract jobs citing Spring 919 581 578
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.75% 1.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.76% 6.74% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 369 409
10th Percentile £362 £332 £373
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.08% -6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £705 £638 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £462 £450
% change year-on-year +2.93% +2.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £52.00 -
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 - £74.50
90th Percentile £78.18 £64.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 11,839 8,614 9,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.72% 25.97% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,780 5,717 6,085
10th Percentile £380 £356 £355
25th Percentile £440 £413 £430
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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 186 183
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.50 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +10.11%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -5 714 £525 +5.00% 835
UK excluding London -18 424 £475 +2.93% 442
London -11 374 £548 +4.29% 537
Work from Home -43 224 £505 +1.00% 387
North of England -1 164 £540 +15.14% 134
Midlands -3 113 £525 +26.51% 54
West Midlands +23 107 £525 +5.00% 42
North West -13 95 £560 +25.84% 81
Scotland -41 71 £401 -17.74% 109
Yorkshire +6 52 £500 -4.76% 24
South West -16 30 £538 +6.44% 50
South East -58 27 £294 -30.82% 39
North East -31 18 £470 -14.55% 30
Wales -11 12 £425 -10.53% 19
East of England - 11 £475 - 8
East Midlands -43 5 £400 +9.89% 12
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 29

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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 (3.37%) Apache
2 27 (2.94%) Confluence
3 25 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.31%) Camunda
5 11 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 10 (1.09%) nginx
7 9 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (0.98%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.44%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Mule
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) Solana
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) 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
1 519 (56.47%) AWS
2 187 (20.35%) Azure
3 156 (16.97%) GitHub
4 132 (14.36%) GCP
5 93 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (6.96%) Serverless
7 59 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (6.09%) Amazon S3
9 53 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (4.68%) OpenShift
12 41 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 22 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 16 (1.74%) Anthropic Claude
18 16 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 14 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.41%) HTTP
2 7 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) Firewall
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%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (20.78%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (13.38%) MongoDB
3 114 (12.40%) Relational Database
4 100 (10.88%) NoSQL
5 50 (5.44%) MySQL
6 39 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.13%) Redis
8 33 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (2.61%) Flink
10 21 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (2.18%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.18%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.63%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.20%) Big Data
14 11 (1.20%) Couchbase
14 11 (1.20%) Metadata
15 9 (0.98%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.87%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 254 (27.64%) Git
2 248 (26.99%) Jenkins
3 168 (18.28%) JUnit
4 163 (17.74%) GitLab
5 134 (14.58%) Maven
6 109 (11.86%) Gradle
7 95 (10.34%) Mockito
8 58 (6.31%) SonarQube
9 57 (6.20%) Cucumber
10 48 (5.22%) JIRA
11 47 (5.11%) Selenium
12 34 (3.70%) Gatling
13 23 (2.50%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.07%) Bitbucket
15 16 (1.74%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.52%) Claude Code
17 11 (1.20%) GoCD
18 9 (0.98%) Flyway
18 9 (0.98%) JProfiler
19 8 (0.87%) JMeter
General
1 221 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 197 (21.44%) Finance
3 166 (18.06%) Public Sector
4 131 (14.25%) Banking
5 83 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.26%) Retail
7 24 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 21 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.52%) Back Office
9 14 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.31%) Front Office
11 10 (1.09%) Military
12 9 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.87%) Law
14 7 (0.76%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.54%) iGaming
17 4 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.44%) Games
17 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 505 (54.95%) Developer
2 418 (45.48%) Java Developer
3 199 (21.65%) Senior
4 166 (18.06%) Java Engineer
5 110 (11.97%) Senior Developer
6 109 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 93 (10.12%) Lead
8 86 (9.36%) Senior Java Developer
9 70 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 65 (7.07%) Java Software Engineer
11 47 (5.11%) Backend Developer
11 47 (5.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 45 (4.90%) Senior Java Engineer
13 41 (4.46%) Lead Developer
14 36 (3.92%) Lead Java Developer
15 32 (3.48%) Architect
16 29 (3.16%) Software Developer
17 28 (3.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 25 (2.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 22 (2.39%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 773 (84.11%) Spring Boot
2 306 (33.30%) Kafka
3 291 (31.66%) REST
4 226 (24.59%) RESTful
5 160 (17.41%) React
6 101 (10.99%) JPA
6 101 (10.99%) Node.js
7 93 (10.12%) Terraform
8 83 (9.03%) Hibernate
9 79 (8.60%) AngularJS
10 73 (7.94%) HTML
11 63 (6.86%) CSS
12 62 (6.75%) Web Services
13 61 (6.64%) RabbitMQ
14 56 (6.09%) OAuth
15 53 (5.77%) Spring MVC
16 52 (5.66%) Playwright
17 51 (5.55%) OpenAPI
18 43 (4.68%) SOAP
19 39 (4.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 231 (25.14%) Cloud Native
2 165 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (9.47%) Product Ownership
4 61 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 22 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 14 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.09%) Derivative
13 10 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
14 8 (0.87%) Equities
15 6 (0.65%) Mainframe
15 6 (0.65%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.31%) Linux
2 36 (3.92%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Mac OS X
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) AIX
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
1 575 (62.57%) Microservices
2 562 (61.15%) CI/CD
3 486 (52.88%) Agile
4 303 (32.97%) DevOps
5 270 (29.38%) Software Engineering
6 262 (28.51%) Test Automation
7 260 (28.29%) Containerisation
8 233 (25.35%) Event-Driven
9 205 (22.31%) Scrum
10 186 (20.24%) TDD
11 155 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
11 155 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 152 (16.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 145 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
14 128 (13.93%) Observability
15 115 (12.51%) Code Quality
16 103 (11.21%) SDLC
17 97 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 95 (10.34%) Design Patterns
19 93 (10.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 904 (98.37%) Java
2 288 (31.34%) SQL
3 131 (14.25%) JavaScript
4 126 (13.71%) TypeScript
5 81 (8.81%) Python
6 47 (5.11%) PL/SQL
7 30 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 29 (3.16%) Kotlin
9 18 (1.96%) Bash
10 14 (1.52%) Scala
11 10 (1.09%) Ruby
12 5 (0.54%) C#
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.44%) Solidity
14 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.22%) Bicep
15 2 (0.22%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) C++
16 1 (0.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 249 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 214 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 97 (10.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (3.92%) Degree
5 26 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (13.49%) QA
2 91 (9.90%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.05%) WCAG
4 19 (2.07%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.41%) SEPA
6 12 (1.31%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.54%) PSD2
10 4 (0.44%) 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
1 407 (44.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.33%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 403 (43.85%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.51%) Grafana
3 57 (6.20%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.13%) Ansible
5 35 (3.81%) Kibana
6 11 (1.20%) Control-M
7 9 (0.98%) Argo
8 7 (0.76%) Istio
9 4 (0.44%) Bosun
9 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) logstash
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 146 (15.89%) Oracle
2 41 (4.46%) Google
3 21 (2.29%) IBM
3 21 (2.29%) Splunk
4 18 (1.96%) Dynatrace
4 18 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.31%) MuleSoft
6 10 (1.09%) Databricks
6 10 (1.09%) Sybase
7 9 (0.98%) New Relic
8 8 (0.87%) Solace
9 7 (0.76%) Confluent
9 7 (0.76%) FIS
9 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.76%) TikTok
10 6 (0.65%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.65%) Jaspersoft
11 5 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.54%) Temenos
12 4 (0.44%) webMethods