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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 144 176
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 882 627 591
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.92% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.63% 8.51% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 417 435
10th Percentile £363 £354 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -9.52% -8.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £628 £754
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £61.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +30.91% +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 10,224 7,364 8,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.39% 22.60% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,669 4,969 6,075
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% -1.36%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 260
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.73
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.71 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +6.00% +7.20% -0.87%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +10 708 £525 +5.00% 199
UK excluding London -30 409 £500 +11.11% 115
London -13 361 £525 +0.96% 121
Work from Home -50 224 £500 - 89
North of England +10 146 £523 +12.37% 32
North West -8 87 £540 +32.19% 16
Midlands -27 83 £475 +13.10% 21
West Midlands -7 80 £475 -3.55% 16
Scotland -48 59 £405 -10.11% 12
South West -1 49 £410 -21.06% 10
Yorkshire -13 43 £550 +2.33% 8
South East -45 39 £481 +5.48% 30
East of England +5 28 £510 +9.09%
North East -31 19 £450 -8.16% 9
Wales -21 7 £375 -21.05% 5
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 5
East Midlands -41 2 £401 +6.93% 5

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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 44 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.20%) Confluence
3 27 (3.06%) Apache
4 16 (1.81%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.25%) nginx
6 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.13%) Camunda
6 10 (1.13%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.13%) Hyperledger
7 8 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Drupal
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.57%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 469 (53.17%) AWS
2 225 (25.51%) Azure
3 161 (18.25%) GCP
4 146 (16.55%) GitHub
5 90 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (7.60%) Amazon S3
7 63 (7.14%) Serverless
8 53 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (4.31%) OpenShift
12 37 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 33 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (2.72%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.15%) AWS KMS
18 18 (2.04%) Route 53
19 17 (1.93%) Cloud Run
20 16 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.47%) HTTP
2 7 (0.79%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (22.68%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (11.68%) NoSQL
3 100 (11.34%) Relational Database
4 90 (10.20%) MongoDB
5 68 (7.71%) MySQL
6 43 (4.88%) DynamoDB
7 42 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (3.29%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
10 25 (2.83%) Redis
11 24 (2.72%) Flink
12 22 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 19 (2.15%) Big Data
14 18 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.36%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
17 9 (1.02%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.91%) Db2
18 8 (0.91%) Metadata
19 7 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 233 (26.42%) Git
2 223 (25.28%) Jenkins
3 152 (17.23%) JUnit
4 110 (12.47%) GitLab
5 93 (10.54%) Maven
6 86 (9.75%) Gradle
7 68 (7.71%) JIRA
7 68 (7.71%) Mockito
8 45 (5.10%) Selenium
9 42 (4.76%) Cucumber
10 41 (4.65%) SonarQube
11 28 (3.17%) JMeter
12 20 (2.27%) Gatling
12 20 (2.27%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.15%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.04%) Liquibase
15 16 (1.81%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.59%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.47%) jMock
17 13 (1.47%) Serenity BDD
General
1 189 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.29%) Finance
3 153 (17.35%) Public Sector
4 96 (10.88%) Banking
5 69 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.29%) Retail
7 17 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.36%) Law
10 11 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.13%) Military
12 6 (0.68%) Automotive
12 6 (0.68%) Publishing
12 6 (0.68%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.57%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Front Office
14 4 (0.45%) Games
14 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 504 (57.14%) Developer
2 406 (46.03%) Java Developer
3 179 (20.29%) Senior
4 133 (15.08%) Java Engineer
5 104 (11.79%) Software Engineer
6 101 (11.45%) Senior Developer
7 93 (10.54%) Lead
8 80 (9.07%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (6.69%) Java Software Engineer
11 58 (6.58%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.20%) Lead Developer
13 33 (3.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (3.74%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 33 (3.74%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.29%) Lead Java Developer
15 28 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.17%) Senior Java Engineer
16 27 (3.06%) Architect
17 22 (2.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 729 (82.65%) Spring Boot
2 249 (28.23%) Kafka
3 222 (25.17%) REST
4 215 (24.38%) RESTful
5 156 (17.69%) React
6 111 (12.59%) Node.js
7 73 (8.28%) JPA
8 72 (8.16%) AngularJS
9 68 (7.71%) Hibernate
10 64 (7.26%) HTML
11 61 (6.92%) Web Services
12 58 (6.58%) CSS
13 56 (6.35%) Spring MVC
14 43 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (4.76%) OAuth
15 42 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
15 42 (4.76%) WireMock
16 36 (4.08%) Redux
17 32 (3.63%) HTML5
17 32 (3.63%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 163 (18.48%) Cloud Native
2 130 (14.74%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (7.71%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
6 21 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.04%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.36%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.91%) Derivative
13 8 (0.91%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.79%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.68%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.46%) Linux
2 25 (2.83%) Unix
3 10 (1.13%) Windows
4 9 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.45%) Solaris
5 4 (0.45%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (59.98%) Microservices
2 526 (59.64%) CI/CD
3 399 (45.24%) Agile
4 319 (36.17%) DevOps
5 262 (29.71%) Containerisation
6 217 (24.60%) Software Engineering
7 193 (21.88%) TDD
8 185 (20.98%) Test Automation
9 167 (18.93%) Event-Driven
10 160 (18.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 160 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
10 160 (18.14%) Scrum
11 148 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (15.65%) Observability
13 131 (14.85%) Code Quality
14 110 (12.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 93 (10.54%) BDD
16 88 (9.98%) Design Patterns
17 85 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 851 (96.49%) Java
2 264 (29.93%) SQL
3 125 (14.17%) JavaScript
4 108 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.11%) Python
6 46 (5.22%) Kotlin
7 40 (4.54%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.04%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.47%) Scala
10 12 (1.36%) Go
11 10 (1.13%) Bash
12 8 (0.91%) C#
12 8 (0.91%) Ruby
13 6 (0.68%) Perl
14 5 (0.57%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 2 (0.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 275 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 237 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.74%) Degree
5 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.43%) QA
2 71 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 8 (0.91%) WCAG
5 7 (0.79%) GDPR
5 7 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.79%) SEPA
6 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 3 (0.34%) EMIR
7 3 (0.34%) MiFID
7 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.23%) PSD2
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 394 (44.67%) Docker
2 11 (1.25%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 378 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 90 (10.20%) Grafana
3 80 (9.07%) Terraform
4 76 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.54%) Ansible
6 13 (1.47%) Kibana
7 8 (0.91%) Control-M
7 8 (0.91%) Istio
8 5 (0.57%) Argo
9 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 112 (12.70%) Oracle
2 46 (5.22%) Google
3 39 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 33 (3.74%) Splunk
5 17 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.70%) IBM
8 14 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 12 (1.36%) Solace
10 11 (1.25%) Databricks
10 11 (1.25%) Sybase
11 10 (1.13%) Checkmarx
12 9 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.79%) Okta
13 7 (0.79%) TikTok
14 6 (0.68%) New Relic
15 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
16 4 (0.45%) Ab Initio
16 4 (0.45%) Teradata