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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 183 210
Rank change year-on-year +11 +27 -119
Contract jobs citing Spring 598 452 480
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.43% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.38% 6.52% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 274 349
10th Percentile £343 £356 £405
25th Percentile £411 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +4.76% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £638 £772 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile £42.50 - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £48.43
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £57.50 - £77.50
90th Percentile £60.50 - £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.71%

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 8,101 6,934 9,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.35% 22.00% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,364 4,405 6,555
10th Percentile £356 £353 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 82 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.33 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.00 £33.69 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.36 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year - +16.82% -17.69%

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 12 January 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 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
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 12 January 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 +25 481 £486 -15.43% 260
UK excluding London +12 299 £450 - 227
London +5 243 £525 -10.26% 74
Work from Home +18 170 £500 +4.99% 133
North of England +25 132 £465 +3.33% 49
North West +39 96 £450 - 26
Scotland -7 73 £588 +33.22% 13
South East +19 42 £405 +3.85% 75
Midlands -33 41 £435 -25.96% 26
West Midlands -30 34 £469 -20.17% 13
Yorkshire -31 23 £475 -20.83% 17
North East -2 16 £475 +6.74% 6
South West -22 12 £455 -17.36% 32
East Midlands - 7 £289 - 12
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 -5.56% 4
East of England -26 2 £450 +20.00% 21
Wales - 1 £475 - 12

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 22 (3.68%) Confluence
2 17 (2.84%) Apache
3 11 (1.84%) JBoss
3 11 (1.84%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.00%) CMS
5 5 (0.84%) Camunda
5 5 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.67%) Mule
7 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.50%) CICS
7 3 (0.50%) nginx
7 3 (0.50%) WordPress
8 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.33%) Apache TomEE
8 2 (0.33%) Drupal
8 2 (0.33%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Fidessa
1 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 323 (54.01%) AWS
2 184 (30.77%) Azure
3 109 (18.23%) GitHub
4 100 (16.72%) GCP
5 61 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
6 55 (9.20%) Serverless
7 48 (8.03%) OpenShift
8 43 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (7.02%) Amazon S3
10 29 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 26 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (4.18%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
17 13 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 12 (2.01%) Datadog
19 11 (1.84%) AWS Step Functions
19 11 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.51%) SSL
2 5 (0.84%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.67%) DNS
3 4 (0.67%) HTTP
3 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (20.40%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (17.22%) MongoDB
3 90 (15.05%) NoSQL
4 82 (13.71%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.69%) MySQL
6 33 (5.52%) DynamoDB
7 26 (4.35%) DB2
8 17 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (2.84%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.68%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (2.34%) Redis
12 13 (2.17%) DocumentDB
13 10 (1.67%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.51%) HBase
15 7 (1.17%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.67%) Big Data
16 4 (0.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 149 (24.92%) Git
2 130 (21.74%) Jenkins
3 129 (21.57%) JUnit
4 99 (16.56%) GitLab
5 55 (9.20%) Cucumber
6 47 (7.86%) Gradle
7 46 (7.69%) Maven
8 42 (7.02%) Mockito
9 41 (6.86%) JIRA
10 29 (4.85%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (4.35%) Selenium
12 21 (3.51%) IntelliJ
13 19 (3.18%) Cypress.io
13 19 (3.18%) JMeter
14 18 (3.01%) Postman
15 16 (2.68%) SonarQube
16 13 (2.17%) Eclipse
17 12 (2.01%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.84%) Gatling
19 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
General
1 175 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 141 (23.58%) Finance
3 101 (16.89%) Banking
4 94 (15.72%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.84%) Front Office
8 11 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.17%) Retail
10 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Electronics
12 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.50%) Law
12 3 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (63.21%) Developer
2 294 (49.16%) Java Developer
3 125 (20.90%) Senior
4 94 (15.72%) Senior Developer
5 83 (13.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 80 (13.38%) Java Engineer
6 80 (13.38%) Senior Java Developer
7 55 (9.20%) Software Engineer
8 54 (9.03%) Lead
9 38 (6.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 28 (4.68%) Lead Developer
10 28 (4.68%) SQL Developer
11 27 (4.52%) Java Software Engineer
12 23 (3.85%) Architect
13 22 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.18%) Lead Java Developer
15 18 (3.01%) Investment Banking Java Developer
15 18 (3.01%) Linux Developer
16 17 (2.84%) AWS Developer
16 17 (2.84%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (74.92%) Spring Boot
2 185 (30.94%) Kafka
3 154 (25.75%) RESTful
4 137 (22.91%) React
5 118 (19.73%) REST
6 107 (17.89%) AngularJS
7 88 (14.72%) Hibernate
8 80 (13.38%) HTML
9 68 (11.37%) Node.js
10 55 (9.20%) CSS
11 52 (8.70%) JSON
12 43 (7.19%) OAuth
13 40 (6.69%) OAuth2
14 38 (6.35%) JPA
15 35 (5.85%) JMS
16 31 (5.18%) Spring Cloud
17 27 (4.52%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (4.35%) HTML5
19 25 (4.18%) SOAP
19 25 (4.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 88 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.18%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 25 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.85%) Equities
5 13 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.17%) Derivative
8 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (0.84%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 68 (11.37%) Linux
2 18 (3.01%) Unix
3 7 (1.17%) Windows
4 6 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.33%) Android
5 2 (0.33%) VMS
5 2 (0.33%) zOS
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Solaris
6 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (58.53%) Microservices
2 328 (54.85%) CI/CD
3 252 (42.14%) Agile
4 204 (34.11%) DevOps
5 180 (30.10%) Containerisation
6 152 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
7 147 (24.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 118 (19.73%) Software Engineering
9 115 (19.23%) Test Automation
10 96 (16.05%) Event-Driven
11 95 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 91 (15.22%) TDD
13 81 (13.55%) SDLC
14 67 (11.20%) Scrum
15 65 (10.87%) Code Quality
15 65 (10.87%) Observability
16 62 (10.37%) Mentoring
17 58 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
18 55 (9.20%) Design Patterns
19 53 (8.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 572 (95.65%) Java
2 174 (29.10%) SQL
3 98 (16.39%) JavaScript
4 82 (13.71%) Python
5 80 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 34 (5.69%) Kotlin
7 29 (4.85%) Shell Script
8 13 (2.17%) Scala
9 11 (1.84%) Ruby
10 9 (1.51%) Bash
11 8 (1.34%) Groovy
12 7 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.84%) Go
14 3 (0.50%) C#
15 2 (0.33%) C++
15 2 (0.33%) COBOL
15 2 (0.33%) Perl
15 2 (0.33%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 131 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 111 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.85%) Degree
4 24 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.01%) OCP
6 12 (2.01%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.17%) CCSP
10 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.17%) CISSP
10 1 (0.17%) OSCP
10 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.54%) QA
2 38 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.68%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.34%) WCAG
5 13 (2.17%) PSD2
5 13 (2.17%) SEPA
6 9 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.84%) NIST
8 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.50%) GDPR
9 3 (0.50%) HL7
9 3 (0.50%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 252 (42.14%) Docker
2 7 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.50%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 260 (43.48%) Kubernetes
2 94 (15.72%) Terraform
3 44 (7.36%) Grafana
4 40 (6.69%) Ansible
5 21 (3.51%) Argo
6 16 (2.68%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.51%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.67%) Kibana
9 9 (1.51%) Puppet
10 5 (0.84%) Istio
11 2 (0.33%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.33%) Rancher
12 1 (0.17%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.17%) Consul
12 1 (0.17%) Control-M
12 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 61 (10.20%) Oracle
2 31 (5.18%) Google
3 29 (4.85%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.68%) Sybase
5 20 (3.34%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.84%) Splunk
7 15 (2.51%) VMware
8 12 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.51%) webMethods
10 6 (1.00%) Confluent
11 5 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (0.84%) IBM
11 5 (0.84%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.84%) SAP
11 5 (0.84%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.67%) Solace
12 4 (0.67%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.50%) AppDynamics
13 3 (0.50%) Checkmarx