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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 164 199
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 -91
Contract jobs citing Spring 759 499 522
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.72% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.06% 7.60% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 314 370
10th Percentile £357 £357 £380
25th Percentile £413 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +0.48% -12.92%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £461 £490
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.87% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 10
10th Percentile £51.00 £65.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £69.38 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.75 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -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 9,412 6,563 8,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.07% 22.60% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,272 4,482 6,282
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 98 184
10th Percentile £35.05 £26.25 £20.58
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.19 £36.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.27 £74.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.97
% change year-on-year - +35.52% -23.26%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +25 640 £500 -5.66% 141
UK excluding London +10 379 £465 +0.81% 102
London -19 297 £525 -4.55% 58
Work from Home -21 187 £475 -6.86% 109
North of England +9 155 £475 -0.52% 49
North West +38 116 £465 -7.00% 31
Midlands -13 78 £469 +10.35% 6
West Midlands +3 77 £469 +6.59% 3
South East 0 54 £405 -1.82% 18
Scotland -31 49 £569 +26.39% 7
South West -3 34 £409 -23.91% 14
Yorkshire -48 24 £500 -6.98% 11
North East -2 22 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -13 16 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -36 1 £450 +11.94% 3

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 47 (6.19%) Confluence
2 28 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.64%) Apache
4 14 (1.84%) Camunda
5 13 (1.71%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.05%) JBoss
7 7 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.79%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.79%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.40%) nginx
11 2 (0.26%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.26%) CICS
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 426 (56.13%) AWS
2 215 (28.33%) Azure
3 150 (19.76%) GitHub
4 128 (16.86%) GCP
5 89 (11.73%) Serverless
6 86 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (10.28%) Amazon S3
8 73 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.87%) OpenShift
12 36 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 32 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
15 31 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (2.24%) AWS Fargate
19 14 (1.84%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.45%) HTTP
2 10 (1.32%) SSL
3 7 (0.92%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.53%) DNS
5 3 (0.40%) Kerberos
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (22.27%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (15.02%) NoSQL
3 93 (12.25%) MongoDB
4 81 (10.67%) Relational Database
5 66 (8.70%) MySQL
6 53 (6.98%) DynamoDB
7 40 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.29%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.98%) DocumentDB
12 14 (1.84%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.71%) DB2
13 13 (1.71%) Redis
14 12 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.58%) Big Data
15 11 (1.45%) Flink
16 9 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.05%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.92%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 200 (26.35%) Git
2 179 (23.58%) Jenkins
3 150 (19.76%) JUnit
4 129 (17.00%) GitLab
5 73 (9.62%) JIRA
6 70 (9.22%) Maven
7 61 (8.04%) Cucumber
8 54 (7.11%) Mockito
9 53 (6.98%) Gradle
10 43 (5.67%) Selenium
11 32 (4.22%) JMeter
12 24 (3.16%) SonarQube
13 23 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
14 21 (2.77%) IntelliJ
15 17 (2.24%) WebDriver
16 16 (2.11%) Postman
17 15 (1.98%) Gatling
18 14 (1.84%) Cypress.io
19 10 (1.32%) REST Assured
20 9 (1.19%) Artifactory
General
1 180 (23.72%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.58%) Finance
3 134 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 76 (10.01%) Banking
5 43 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.24%) Retail
7 14 (1.84%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 7 (0.92%) Front Office
10 6 (0.79%) Law
11 5 (0.66%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.53%) Automotive
12 4 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.53%) Military
12 4 (0.53%) Publishing
13 3 (0.40%) Electronics
13 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 453 (59.68%) Developer
2 320 (42.16%) Java Developer
3 152 (20.03%) Senior
4 118 (15.55%) Java Engineer
5 98 (12.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.38%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.75%) Software Engineer
8 73 (9.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (8.43%) Lead
10 42 (5.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 37 (4.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 35 (4.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (4.22%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.82%) Architect
15 25 (3.29%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.29%) Software Developer
16 24 (3.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 18 (2.37%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.37%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.24%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 597 (78.66%) Spring Boot
2 206 (27.14%) Kafka
3 202 (26.61%) RESTful
4 165 (21.74%) React
4 165 (21.74%) REST
5 114 (15.02%) Node.js
6 111 (14.62%) AngularJS
7 84 (11.07%) Hibernate
8 77 (10.14%) HTML
9 60 (7.91%) CSS
10 50 (6.59%) Spring MVC
11 49 (6.46%) JPA
12 42 (5.53%) WireMock
13 41 (5.40%) OAuth
14 38 (5.01%) HTML5
14 38 (5.01%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.61%) Spring Cloud
15 35 (4.61%) Web Services
16 34 (4.48%) Jest
17 33 (4.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 112 (14.76%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.27%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.19%) Equities
11 8 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.05%) Derivative
12 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.79%) NHS
14 4 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.85%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Unix
3 9 (1.19%) Windows
4 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (58.76%) Microservices
2 424 (55.86%) CI/CD
3 300 (39.53%) Agile
4 266 (35.05%) DevOps
5 218 (28.72%) Containerisation
6 183 (24.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 154 (20.29%) TDD
8 149 (19.63%) Software Engineering
9 148 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (19.10%) Test Automation
11 130 (17.13%) Event-Driven
12 109 (14.36%) Code Quality
13 108 (14.23%) Observability
14 107 (14.10%) Scrum
15 103 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 89 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 80 (10.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 71 (9.35%) BDD
18 71 (9.35%) Mentoring
19 68 (8.96%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 710 (93.54%) Java
2 188 (24.77%) SQL
3 112 (14.76%) JavaScript
4 105 (13.83%) TypeScript
5 80 (10.54%) Python
6 50 (6.59%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.24%) Go
8 16 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.05%) C#
10 8 (1.05%) Scala
11 7 (0.92%) Perl
12 4 (0.53%) Bash
12 4 (0.53%) Ruby
13 3 (0.40%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.13%) COBOL
14 1 (0.13%) JCL
14 1 (0.13%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 219 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 185 (24.37%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.35%) Degree
4 26 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.19%) OCP
7 9 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.66%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.49%) QA
2 55 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.64%) WCAG
4 16 (2.11%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.19%) PSD2
5 9 (1.19%) SEPA
6 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.66%) NIST
6 5 (0.66%) SLA
7 4 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.53%) GDPR
7 4 (0.53%) HL7
8 3 (0.40%) NCSC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.13%) GRC
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 305 (40.18%) Docker
2 7 (0.92%) Postfix
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.40%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 343 (45.19%) Kubernetes
2 94 (12.38%) Terraform
3 89 (11.73%) Grafana
4 52 (6.85%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.61%) Ansible
6 13 (1.71%) Argo
7 10 (1.32%) Kibana
8 9 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.92%) Istio
10 4 (0.53%) Puppet
10 4 (0.53%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 63 (8.30%) Oracle
2 50 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.08%) Google
4 30 (3.95%) Splunk
5 14 (1.84%) Red Hat
6 11 (1.45%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.45%) Sybase
7 10 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.19%) Solace
8 9 (1.19%) VMware
9 8 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.05%) IBM
10 7 (0.92%) ForgeRock
10 7 (0.92%) SAP
11 6 (0.79%) Adobe
11 6 (0.79%) Databricks
12 5 (0.66%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.53%) ION Trading
13 4 (0.53%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.53%) webMethods