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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 172 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -99
Contract jobs citing Spring 734 480 518
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.78% 1.58% 1.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.07% 6.93% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 289 367
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £635
90th Percentile £649 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 8
10th Percentile £50.75 - £38.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £44.41
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £53.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 9,096 6,923 9,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.02% 22.73% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,091 4,493 6,370
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 90 218
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.15 £22.27
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.69 £41.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £72.73 £67.88 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.10 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 25 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 25 February 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 +45 610 £500 -9.09% 129
UK excluding London +35 375 £470 +4.44% 110
London -13 282 £525 -8.70% 48
Work from Home +8 195 £476 -2.81% 77
North of England +19 148 £475 -5.00% 30
North West +39 110 £450 -2.70% 21
Midlands +5 77 £469 +10.35% 11
West Midlands +7 74 £473 +7.39% 11
Scotland -18 61 £588 +33.22% 12
South East +17 58 £400 +2.56% 34
South West -13 27 £409 -28.87% 19
Yorkshire -52 24 £500 -4.76% 6
North East -5 21 £475 +4.40% 3
East of England -13 11 £600 - 2
East Midlands -28 3 £308 -5.67%

Spring
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 41 (5.59%) Confluence
2 21 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.72%) Apache
4 18 (2.45%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.77%) Camunda
6 12 (1.63%) JBoss
7 6 (0.82%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.82%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.41%) CMS
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.41%) nginx
11 2 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.27%) CICS
11 2 (0.27%) Drupal
11 2 (0.27%) WordPress
12 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 406 (55.31%) AWS
2 201 (27.38%) Azure
3 143 (19.48%) GitHub
4 123 (16.76%) GCP
5 77 (10.49%) Amazon S3
5 77 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
6 76 (10.35%) Serverless
7 64 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (6.95%) OpenShift
9 42 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
11 35 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
12 31 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
14 28 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (3.13%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.32%) Cloud Run
17 17 (2.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.50%) HTTP
2 10 (1.36%) SSL
3 7 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.54%) DNS
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.66%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (15.40%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.31%) NoSQL
4 85 (11.58%) Relational Database
5 50 (6.81%) MySQL
6 47 (6.40%) DynamoDB
7 41 (5.59%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (3.00%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.86%) DB2
11 17 (2.32%) RDBMS
12 15 (2.04%) DocumentDB
13 14 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.77%) Redis
15 10 (1.36%) Big Data
16 9 (1.23%) Flink
16 9 (1.23%) HBase
16 9 (1.23%) Oracle Database
17 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 187 (25.48%) Git
2 173 (23.57%) Jenkins
3 160 (21.80%) JUnit
4 127 (17.30%) GitLab
5 73 (9.95%) Maven
6 70 (9.54%) Cucumber
7 63 (8.58%) JIRA
8 56 (7.63%) Gradle
9 53 (7.22%) Mockito
10 43 (5.86%) Selenium
11 32 (4.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (3.81%) JMeter
13 23 (3.13%) IntelliJ
14 18 (2.45%) SonarQube
15 17 (2.32%) Cypress.io
15 17 (2.32%) Postman
16 15 (2.04%) Gatling
17 12 (1.63%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.50%) Eclipse
18 11 (1.50%) REST Assured
General
1 195 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 140 (19.07%) Finance
3 131 (17.85%) Public Sector
4 90 (12.26%) Banking
5 45 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.04%) Retail
8 12 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.50%) Front Office
9 11 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.54%) Military
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Electronics
13 3 (0.41%) Law
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 450 (61.31%) Developer
2 323 (44.01%) Java Developer
3 146 (19.89%) Senior
4 112 (15.26%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.31%) Full-Stack Developer
6 96 (13.08%) Senior Developer
7 79 (10.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 69 (9.40%) Lead
9 68 (9.26%) Software Engineer
10 38 (5.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 38 (5.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (3.81%) Lead Developer
13 26 (3.54%) Backend Developer
14 24 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 23 (3.13%) AWS Developer
16 22 (3.00%) Architect
17 19 (2.59%) Software Developer
18 17 (2.32%) Lead Java Developer
18 17 (2.32%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 559 (76.16%) Spring Boot
2 221 (30.11%) Kafka
3 191 (26.02%) RESTful
4 157 (21.39%) React
5 153 (20.84%) REST
6 121 (16.49%) AngularJS
7 105 (14.31%) Node.js
8 96 (13.08%) Hibernate
9 78 (10.63%) HTML
10 56 (7.63%) CSS
11 49 (6.68%) JPA
12 39 (5.31%) JSON
13 38 (5.18%) OAuth
14 36 (4.90%) Spring Cloud
15 35 (4.77%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.77%) Playwright
16 34 (4.63%) SOAP
16 34 (4.63%) WireMock
17 32 (4.36%) Spring MVC
17 32 (4.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 112 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.59%) Equities
7 14 (1.91%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
10 11 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.09%) Derivative
11 8 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.82%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (0.68%) NHS
15 4 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 70 (9.54%) Linux
2 18 (2.45%) Unix
3 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (0.95%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (58.04%) Microservices
2 416 (56.68%) CI/CD
3 296 (40.33%) Agile
4 252 (34.33%) DevOps
5 215 (29.29%) Containerisation
6 180 (24.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 167 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 143 (19.48%) Software Engineering
8 143 (19.48%) Test Automation
9 126 (17.17%) TDD
10 122 (16.62%) Event-Driven
11 108 (14.71%) Scrum
12 95 (12.94%) Observability
13 92 (12.53%) Code Quality
14 89 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 84 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (10.76%) Mentoring
17 73 (9.95%) SDLC
18 67 (9.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 61 (8.31%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 695 (94.69%) Java
2 181 (24.66%) SQL
3 107 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 95 (12.94%) TypeScript
5 85 (11.58%) Python
6 41 (5.59%) Kotlin
7 24 (3.27%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.04%) Go
9 14 (1.91%) Scala
10 11 (1.50%) Ruby
11 9 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.09%) Perl
13 7 (0.95%) C#
14 3 (0.41%) Bash
14 3 (0.41%) Groovy
14 3 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.27%) Rust
16 1 (0.14%) Clojure
16 1 (0.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 208 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 180 (24.52%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.22%) Degree
4 27 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.63%) OCP
6 12 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) OSCP
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (9.13%) QA
2 48 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.45%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.45%) WCAG
4 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.36%) PSD2
4 10 (1.36%) SEPA
5 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.68%) NIST
6 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
7 3 (0.41%) SLA
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 297 (40.46%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.82%) Postfix
4 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 324 (44.14%) Kubernetes
2 99 (13.49%) Terraform
3 82 (11.17%) Grafana
4 42 (5.72%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.90%) Ansible
6 22 (3.00%) Argo
7 14 (1.91%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.63%) Kibana
9 9 (1.23%) Puppet
10 6 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 62 (8.45%) Oracle
2 36 (4.90%) Google
2 36 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.36%) Splunk
4 24 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 19 (2.59%) Sybase
6 14 (1.91%) VMware
7 12 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.23%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.23%) webMethods
9 8 (1.09%) Solace
10 7 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.82%) Adobe
11 6 (0.82%) Databricks
11 6 (0.82%) IBM
11 6 (0.82%) PagerDuty
12 5 (0.68%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.68%) SAP
12 5 (0.68%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.54%) ION Trading