Spring Contracts

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 172 155
Rank change year-on-year +27 -17 -63
Contract jobs citing Spring 597 611 949
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 1.41% 1.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.48% 6.56% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 454 730
10th Percentile £356 £375 £450
25th Percentile £406 £425 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -9.87% +0.43%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £713
90th Percentile £631 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £520
% change year-on-year -2.70% -11.06% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 39
10th Percentile £54.00 £35.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.00 £59.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -34.46% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £56.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £59.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.88% -34.46% +10.67%

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 17 Contract 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 2 July 2025. 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 +7 415 £500 -7.41% 1,021
UK excluding London +47 275 £450 -2.70% 558
London +5 254 £525 -8.70% 610
Work from Home +52 207 £500 -9.09% 512
Scotland +13 116 £450 +3.45% 105
Midlands +59 62 £420 -6.67% 75
North of England -5 59 £465 -15.45% 145
North West +4 46 £415 -20.95% 98
West Midlands +33 32 £493 +9.44% 47
East Midlands - 30 £375 - 28
South East +28 14 £456 +1.39% 111
South West +19 12 £519 +4.53% 58
North East +6 8 £490 -10.91% 17
Wales +10 6 £475 +13.43% 16
Northern Ireland -6 6 £404 -29.78% 29
Yorkshire -15 6 £525 -6.67% 30
East of England +8 1 £468 +24.67% 20

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.52%) JBoss
2 17 (2.85%) Apache
2 17 (2.85%) Camunda
3 15 (2.51%) Confluence
3 15 (2.51%) Tomcat
4 14 (2.35%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.34%) Alfresco
5 8 (1.34%) WebLogic
6 7 (1.17%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) GemFire
8 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.17%) Mule
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.17%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.34%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.17%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 255 (42.71%) AWS
2 70 (11.73%) Azure
3 58 (9.72%) GCP
4 45 (7.54%) Amazon S3
5 40 (6.70%) Serverless
6 37 (6.20%) Amazon SQS
7 36 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
8 33 (5.53%) OpenShift
9 32 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (5.03%) GitHub
11 20 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (1.84%) AWS KMS
15 11 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (1.84%) Kong
15 11 (1.84%) Route 53
16 10 (1.68%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.17%) HTTPS
2 6 (1.01%) HTTP
3 4 (0.67%) SSL
4 3 (0.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.34%) Internet
5 2 (0.34%) Kerberos
5 2 (0.34%) LAN
5 2 (0.34%) SMS
6 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (27.14%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (23.62%) Relational Database
3 139 (23.28%) MongoDB
4 68 (11.39%) NoSQL
5 64 (10.72%) DB2
6 61 (10.22%) MySQL
7 32 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (5.03%) DynamoDB
9 24 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 22 (3.69%) SQL Server
11 21 (3.52%) RDBMS
12 16 (2.68%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (2.35%) Redis
14 11 (1.84%) Big Data
15 10 (1.68%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
17 8 (1.34%) GIS
18 5 (0.84%) Hadoop
19 4 (0.67%) KDB
19 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 205 (34.34%) JUnit
2 161 (26.97%) Jenkins
3 120 (20.10%) Git
4 100 (16.75%) Maven
5 83 (13.90%) Gradle
6 82 (13.74%) Mockito
7 59 (9.88%) GitLab
8 48 (8.04%) JIRA
9 39 (6.53%) Cucumber
9 39 (6.53%) Liquibase
10 38 (6.37%) SonarQube
11 22 (3.69%) Bitbucket
11 22 (3.69%) IntelliJ
12 19 (3.18%) Artifactory
12 19 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
13 17 (2.85%) Bitbucket Server
14 10 (1.68%) Subversion
15 8 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (1.34%) DbUnit
15 8 (1.34%) Eclipse
General
1 174 (29.15%) Finance
2 151 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 99 (16.58%) Banking
4 97 (16.25%) Public Sector
5 86 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (8.21%) Investment Banking
7 28 (4.69%) Front Office
8 23 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.52%) Electronics
9 21 (3.52%) Manufacturing
9 21 (3.52%) Marketing
10 12 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 12 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Retail
13 3 (0.50%) Automotive
13 3 (0.50%) Back Office
14 2 (0.34%) Police
14 2 (0.34%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (70.18%) Developer
2 340 (56.95%) Java Developer
3 90 (15.08%) Senior
4 71 (11.89%) Senior Developer
5 70 (11.73%) Lead
6 64 (10.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 62 (10.39%) Senior Java Developer
8 54 (9.05%) Java Engineer
9 49 (8.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 47 (7.87%) Software Engineer
11 39 (6.53%) SQL Developer
12 38 (6.37%) Lead Developer
13 31 (5.19%) Lead Java Developer
14 30 (5.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
15 27 (4.52%) Linux Developer
16 26 (4.36%) Architect
16 26 (4.36%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 25 (4.19%) AWS Developer
18 21 (3.52%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (64.66%) Spring Boot
2 191 (31.99%) Kafka
3 150 (25.13%) React
4 123 (20.60%) RESTful
5 115 (19.26%) REST
6 112 (18.76%) Hibernate
7 95 (15.91%) AngularJS
8 72 (12.06%) Web Services
9 59 (9.88%) HTML
10 56 (9.38%) Swagger
11 54 (9.05%) JPA
11 54 (9.05%) SOAP
12 50 (8.38%) JMS
12 50 (8.38%) OpenAPI
13 48 (8.04%) Node.js
14 43 (7.20%) CSS
15 32 (5.36%) J2EE
15 32 (5.36%) Spring Cloud
16 31 (5.19%) OAuth
17 26 (4.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.55%) Data Structures
2 52 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (6.87%) Equities
4 31 (5.19%) Cloud Native
5 19 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.35%) PKI
8 13 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 12 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.68%) Derivative
11 9 (1.51%) Equity Derivative
12 8 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.67%) Mainframe
16 3 (0.50%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.93%) Linux
2 35 (5.86%) Unix
3 6 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.67%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) AIX
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (54.77%) Microservices
2 317 (53.10%) Agile
3 239 (40.03%) CI/CD
4 167 (27.97%) DevOps
5 153 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (24.96%) TDD
7 133 (22.28%) Software Engineering
8 129 (21.61%) Containerisation
9 108 (18.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 103 (17.25%) SDLC
11 81 (13.57%) Scrum
12 66 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
12 66 (11.06%) Multithreading
12 66 (11.06%) Open Source
13 60 (10.05%) Migration
14 58 (9.72%) Event-Driven
15 56 (9.38%) Clean Code
16 55 (9.21%) Code Quality
17 54 (9.05%) Test Automation
18 53 (8.88%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 578 (96.82%) Java
2 245 (41.04%) SQL
3 114 (19.10%) Python
4 100 (16.75%) JavaScript
4 100 (16.75%) TypeScript
5 63 (10.55%) Shell Script
6 13 (2.18%) Scala
7 12 (2.01%) Perl
8 11 (1.84%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.34%) Ruby
10 7 (1.17%) Bash
10 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.01%) C
11 6 (1.01%) C#
11 6 (1.01%) Groovy
12 5 (0.84%) C++
13 4 (0.67%) Rust
14 2 (0.34%) Go
15 1 (0.17%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 154 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 139 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.03%) Degree
4 25 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.34%) OCP
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.34%) Sun Certification
8 2 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.17%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.86%) QA
2 16 (2.68%) GDPR
3 10 (1.68%) HIPAA
4 7 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.17%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
7 3 (0.50%) WCAG
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 212 (35.51%) Docker
2 9 (1.51%) Postfix
3 6 (1.01%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.50%) Lustre
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 163 (27.30%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.21%) Terraform
3 42 (7.04%) Grafana
4 28 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.18%) Ansible
6 12 (2.01%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 8 (1.34%) Istio
7 8 (1.34%) Kibana
7 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.17%) Puppet
9 3 (0.50%) Control-M
9 3 (0.50%) Karpenter
9 3 (0.50%) Podman
9 3 (0.50%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (11.89%) Oracle
2 58 (9.72%) Sybase
3 37 (6.20%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.53%) Splunk
5 26 (4.36%) SAP
6 21 (3.52%) IBM
7 20 (3.35%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.85%) CA Agile Central
8 17 (2.85%) Google
9 13 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.84%) Atlassian
10 11 (1.84%) Ping Identity
10 11 (1.84%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.68%) Jaspersoft
12 5 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.84%) TIBCO
13 2 (0.34%) ION Trading
13 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.34%) Virgin Media
14 1 (0.17%) DocuSign