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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 176 214
Rank change year-on-year +10 +38 -122
Contract jobs citing Spring 627 462 472
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.45% 1.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 6.59% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 280 342
10th Percentile £350 £356 £403
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +3.57% -16.00%
75th Percentile £580 £630 £650
90th Percentile £638 £766 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £464 £500
% change year-on-year -2.96% -7.25% -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 - - -9.09%

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 8,283 7,014 9,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.33% 22.03% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,497 4,460 6,425
10th Percentile £356 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -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 195 83 168
10th Percentile £32.17 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £44.75 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 15 January 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

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 15 January 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 15 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 +31 505 £496 -13.74% 207
UK excluding London -2 306 £450 -2.96% 168
London +10 260 £525 -10.26% 77
Work from Home +28 171 £500 +2.04% 135
North of England +25 134 £458 +1.67% 35
North West +43 96 £450 - 23
Scotland -9 74 £588 +33.22% 13
South East +22 45 £400 +2.56% 60
Midlands -27 41 £430 -26.81% 14
West Midlands -31 34 £469 -20.17% 13
Yorkshire -40 25 £450 -14.29% 7
North East -3 18 £475 +6.74% 5
South West -23 13 £425 -22.73% 27
East Midlands - 7 £289 - 1
Northern Ireland -5 2 £425 -5.56% 2
East of England -27 2 £450 +20.00% 10
Wales - 1 £475 - 8

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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 25 (3.99%) Confluence
2 18 (2.87%) Apache
3 11 (1.75%) JBoss
3 11 (1.75%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.96%) CMS
6 5 (0.80%) Camunda
6 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.64%) Mule
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.48%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.32%) CICS
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 344 (54.86%) AWS
2 192 (30.62%) Azure
3 114 (18.18%) GitHub
4 103 (16.43%) GCP
5 62 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (9.41%) Serverless
7 49 (7.81%) OpenShift
8 47 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 47 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (4.63%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (3.99%) Azure AKS
12 23 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (1.91%) Datadog
17 11 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (1.75%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.44%) SSL
2 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.64%) DNS
3 4 (0.64%) HTTP
3 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (17.07%) MongoDB
3 96 (15.31%) NoSQL
4 85 (13.56%) Relational Database
5 46 (7.34%) MySQL
6 35 (5.58%) DynamoDB
7 27 (4.31%) DB2
8 18 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (2.87%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 15 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 14 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (2.07%) DocumentDB
12 13 (2.07%) Redis
13 11 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.44%) HBase
14 9 (1.44%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.12%) Tick Data
16 6 (0.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 151 (24.08%) Git
2 140 (22.33%) Jenkins
3 134 (21.37%) JUnit
4 111 (17.70%) GitLab
5 56 (8.93%) Cucumber
6 52 (8.29%) Maven
7 48 (7.66%) Gradle
8 43 (6.86%) JIRA
8 43 (6.86%) Mockito
9 32 (5.10%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (4.31%) Selenium
11 21 (3.35%) IntelliJ
12 19 (3.03%) Cypress.io
12 19 (3.03%) JMeter
13 17 (2.71%) Postman
14 15 (2.39%) SonarQube
15 13 (2.07%) Eclipse
16 12 (1.91%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.75%) Gatling
18 9 (1.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 180 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 144 (22.97%) Finance
3 107 (17.07%) Banking
4 102 (16.27%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 13 (2.07%) Front Office
8 12 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.12%) Retail
11 6 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.64%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.48%) Electronics
14 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.48%) Law
14 3 (0.48%) Marketing
15 2 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 397 (63.32%) Developer
2 304 (48.48%) Java Developer
3 131 (20.89%) Senior
4 96 (15.31%) Senior Developer
5 89 (14.19%) Full-Stack Developer
6 86 (13.72%) Java Engineer
7 82 (13.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 56 (8.93%) Software Engineer
9 54 (8.61%) Lead
10 38 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 29 (4.63%) Lead Developer
12 28 (4.47%) Java Software Engineer
12 28 (4.47%) SQL Developer
13 25 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.83%) Architect
15 20 (3.19%) Lead Java Developer
16 19 (3.03%) Backend Developer
17 18 (2.87%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.87%) Investment Banking Java Developer
17 18 (2.87%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (74.00%) Spring Boot
2 195 (31.10%) Kafka
3 160 (25.52%) RESTful
4 144 (22.97%) React
5 120 (19.14%) REST
6 108 (17.22%) AngularJS
7 86 (13.72%) Hibernate
8 85 (13.56%) HTML
9 77 (12.28%) Node.js
10 60 (9.57%) CSS
11 52 (8.29%) JSON
12 43 (6.86%) OAuth
13 40 (6.38%) OAuth2
14 38 (6.06%) JPA
15 35 (5.58%) JMS
16 30 (4.78%) HTML5
16 30 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
17 27 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
18 25 (3.99%) Playwright
18 25 (3.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 93 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.15%) Equities
3 26 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.99%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.12%) Derivative
9 7 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.80%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.64%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.69%) Linux
2 18 (2.87%) Unix
3 7 (1.12%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.32%) Android
5 2 (0.32%) VMS
5 2 (0.32%) zOS
6 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Solaris
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (57.74%) Microservices
2 343 (54.70%) CI/CD
3 260 (41.47%) Agile
4 213 (33.97%) DevOps
5 191 (30.46%) Containerisation
6 156 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 152 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (19.14%) Software Engineering
9 117 (18.66%) Test Automation
10 101 (16.11%) Event-Driven
11 98 (15.63%) TDD
12 95 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 79 (12.60%) SDLC
14 72 (11.48%) Scrum
15 67 (10.69%) Code Quality
16 65 (10.37%) Mentoring
17 64 (10.21%) Observability
18 59 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
19 58 (9.25%) Design Patterns
20 54 (8.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 599 (95.53%) Java
2 180 (28.71%) SQL
3 105 (16.75%) JavaScript
4 87 (13.88%) Python
5 83 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 31 (4.94%) Kotlin
7 30 (4.78%) Shell Script
8 14 (2.23%) Scala
9 13 (2.07%) Ruby
10 8 (1.28%) Bash
11 7 (1.12%) Groovy
11 7 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.96%) Go
13 5 (0.80%) C#
14 2 (0.32%) C++
14 2 (0.32%) Korn
14 2 (0.32%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) PHP
14 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 146 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 125 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.63%) Degree
4 23 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.91%) OCP
6 12 (1.91%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.16%) CCSP
9 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.16%) CISSP
9 1 (0.16%) OSCP
9 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.16%) QA
2 41 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.51%) ISO 20022
4 14 (2.23%) WCAG
5 13 (2.07%) PSD2
5 13 (2.07%) SEPA
6 9 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.80%) NIST
8 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.48%) GDPR
9 3 (0.48%) HL7
9 3 (0.48%) NCSC
10 2 (0.32%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.16%) GRC
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
System Software
1 265 (42.26%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 277 (44.18%) Kubernetes
2 99 (15.79%) Terraform
3 44 (7.02%) Grafana
4 40 (6.38%) Ansible
5 21 (3.35%) Argo
6 16 (2.55%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.39%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.91%) Kibana
9 9 (1.44%) Puppet
10 5 (0.80%) Istio
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Rancher
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
12 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 60 (9.57%) Oracle
2 31 (4.94%) Google
3 29 (4.63%) Microsoft
4 24 (3.83%) Sybase
5 20 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.71%) Splunk
7 15 (2.39%) VMware
8 11 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.44%) webMethods
10 6 (0.96%) Confluent
10 6 (0.96%) Solace
11 5 (0.80%) Adobe
11 5 (0.80%) IBM
11 5 (0.80%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.80%) SAP
11 5 (0.80%) Virgin Media
12 4 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.64%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.64%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.48%) AppDynamics