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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 154 175
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 -38
Contract jobs citing Spring 822 540 596
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.86% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.47% 8.12% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 348 430
10th Percentile £385 £354 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 11
10th Percentile - £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £72.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +41.67% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +12.73% +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 9,701 6,651 9,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.64% 22.91% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,371 4,552 6,286
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £424 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 285 116 259
10th Percentile £31.62 £29.16 £21.95
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.75 £66.88
90th Percentile £81.15 £81.18 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -15.38%

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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

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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 6 June 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 6 June 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 6 June 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 +23 690 £521 +4.20% 185
UK excluding London -20 375 £475 +5.56% 117
London +11 349 £525 - 95
Work from Home -34 205 £478 -4.50% 109
North of England +17 154 £479 +3.09% 44
North West +22 108 £500 +27.23% 27
Midlands -37 72 £466 +9.63% 7
West Midlands -22 68 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +10 45 £409 -23.91% 19
Scotland -52 43 £417 -7.28% 8
South East -36 38 £500 +21.21% 12
Yorkshire -41 29 £450 -14.29% 12
East of England 0 27 £510 +9.09% 6
North East -8 24 £450 -4.76% 6
East Midlands -44 3 £402 +8.21% 3
Wales -17 2 - - 11
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 10

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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 45 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 44 (5.35%) Confluence
3 23 (2.80%) Apache
4 15 (1.82%) Camunda
5 10 (1.22%) Ethereum
5 10 (1.22%) Hyperledger
6 9 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.09%) WebLogic
7 7 (0.85%) nginx
7 7 (0.85%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.49%) JBoss
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.61%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.61%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.49%) Quorum
2 4 (0.49%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 434 (52.80%) AWS
2 203 (24.70%) Azure
3 149 (18.13%) GitHub
4 140 (17.03%) GCP
5 92 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (8.88%) Amazon S3
7 71 (8.64%) Serverless
8 62 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.99%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.14%) OpenShift
13 33 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.16%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (2.68%) Route 53
17 20 (2.43%) Cloud Run
18 19 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 18 (2.19%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.22%) HTTP
2 5 (0.61%) SSL
3 4 (0.49%) DNS
3 4 (0.49%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (22.51%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (13.02%) NoSQL
3 90 (10.95%) MongoDB
4 81 (9.85%) Relational Database
5 62 (7.54%) MySQL
6 53 (6.45%) DynamoDB
7 49 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 24 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.55%) Big Data
11 21 (2.55%) Redis
12 18 (2.19%) Flink
13 16 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.22%) DocumentDB
16 8 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.97%) Db2
17 7 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 204 (24.82%) Git
2 194 (23.60%) Jenkins
3 143 (17.40%) JUnit
4 128 (15.57%) GitLab
5 73 (8.88%) Gradle
6 71 (8.64%) JIRA
7 70 (8.52%) Maven
8 67 (8.15%) Mockito
9 44 (5.35%) Selenium
10 43 (5.23%) Cucumber
11 36 (4.38%) SonarQube
12 25 (3.04%) IntelliJ
12 25 (3.04%) JMeter
13 20 (2.43%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.31%) Gatling
14 19 (2.31%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.19%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.70%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.58%) jMock
17 13 (1.58%) Serenity BDD
General
1 160 (19.46%) Social Skills
2 158 (19.22%) Finance
3 141 (17.15%) Public Sector
4 95 (11.56%) Banking
5 46 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (2.92%) Retail
7 15 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.34%) Law
10 10 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.85%) Military
11 7 (0.85%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.73%) Automotive
12 6 (0.73%) Front Office
12 6 (0.73%) Publishing
13 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 452 (54.99%) Developer
2 334 (40.63%) Java Developer
3 175 (21.29%) Senior
4 144 (17.52%) Java Engineer
5 111 (13.50%) Software Engineer
6 98 (11.92%) Senior Developer
7 82 (9.98%) Lead
8 78 (9.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 75 (9.12%) Senior Java Developer
10 63 (7.66%) Java Software Engineer
11 43 (5.23%) Backend Developer
12 32 (3.89%) Software Developer
13 31 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.77%) Lead Developer
14 29 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 27 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
16 23 (2.80%) Architect
16 23 (2.80%) Data Engineer
16 23 (2.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 20 (2.43%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 675 (82.12%) Spring Boot
2 231 (28.10%) Kafka
3 192 (23.36%) REST
3 192 (23.36%) RESTful
4 160 (19.46%) React
5 124 (15.09%) Node.js
6 83 (10.10%) AngularJS
7 64 (7.79%) Hibernate
8 61 (7.42%) JPA
9 57 (6.93%) HTML
10 51 (6.20%) Spring Cloud
11 50 (6.08%) Web Services
12 49 (5.96%) CSS
12 49 (5.96%) Spring MVC
13 48 (5.84%) WireMock
14 39 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
15 38 (4.62%) OAuth
16 34 (4.14%) Next.js
16 34 (4.14%) OAuth2
17 33 (4.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 150 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 104 (12.65%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 16 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.70%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.46%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.85%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.73%) Blockchain
15 5 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.61%) Public Cloud
15 5 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.08%) Linux
2 19 (2.31%) Unix
3 10 (1.22%) Windows
4 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.61%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (58.27%) Microservices
2 464 (56.45%) CI/CD
3 325 (39.54%) Agile
4 285 (34.67%) DevOps
5 255 (31.02%) Containerisation
6 205 (24.94%) Software Engineering
7 170 (20.68%) TDD
8 169 (20.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 151 (18.37%) Test Automation
10 144 (17.52%) Event-Driven
11 136 (16.55%) Observability
12 124 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (14.36%) Scrum
15 111 (13.50%) Code Quality
16 89 (10.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 87 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 83 (10.10%) BDD
19 69 (8.39%) Mentoring
20 63 (7.66%) AI
Programming Languages
1 779 (94.77%) Java
2 235 (28.59%) SQL
3 127 (15.45%) JavaScript
4 118 (14.36%) TypeScript
5 93 (11.31%) Python
6 52 (6.33%) Kotlin
7 24 (2.92%) PL/SQL
8 16 (1.95%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.82%) Go
10 10 (1.22%) Scala
11 9 (1.09%) C#
12 8 (0.97%) Ruby
13 7 (0.85%) Bash
14 6 (0.73%) Perl
15 5 (0.61%) Solidity
16 2 (0.24%) Groovy
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
17 1 (0.12%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 242 (29.44%) Security Cleared
2 211 (25.67%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.65%) Degree
5 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (9.00%) QA
2 67 (8.15%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.46%) ISO 20022
3 12 (1.46%) WCAG
4 10 (1.22%) SEPA
5 8 (0.97%) GDPR
6 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.73%) PSD2
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.61%) SLA
9 4 (0.49%) NIST
10 3 (0.36%) EMIR
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 365 (44.40%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 360 (43.80%) Kubernetes
2 106 (12.90%) Grafana
3 90 (10.95%) Terraform
4 75 (9.12%) Prometheus
5 33 (4.01%) Ansible
6 13 (1.58%) Argo
7 11 (1.34%) Istio
7 11 (1.34%) Kibana
8 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Consul
9 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 73 (8.88%) Oracle
2 41 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.26%) Google
4 30 (3.65%) Splunk
5 17 (2.07%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.70%) Atlassian
7 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.34%) IBM
8 11 (1.34%) Solace
9 10 (1.22%) Sybase
10 9 (1.09%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.85%) Databricks
12 6 (0.73%) Confluent
12 6 (0.73%) Okta
13 5 (0.61%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.61%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.61%) New Relic
13 5 (0.61%) Teradata
14 4 (0.49%) SAP