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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 141 175
Rank change year-on-year -31 +34 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 872 651 560
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.63% 1.96% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 8.71% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 433 421
10th Percentile £355 £333 £380
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £638
90th Percentile £675 £637 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £90.50 £92.50 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -21.05%

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 10,240 7,471 8,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.11% 22.55% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,667 5,028 5,796
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -6.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 171 242
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £41.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.55% -17.08%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.01 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £57.78
% change year-on-year +13.04% -0.48% -1.32%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -17 686 £525 +5.00% 404
UK excluding London -32 395 £475 +5.56% 199
London -19 369 £525 +2.69% 282
Work from Home -54 222 £490 -2.00% 184
North of England -8 136 £510 +9.68% 57
Midlands -26 90 £475 +14.46% 22
West Midlands +8 87 £485 -3.00% 19
North West -26 76 £540 +25.58% 33
Scotland -35 69 £400 -11.11% 38
Yorkshire -3 42 £500 +39.16% 13
South West -19 38 £481 -5.41% 24
South East -50 33 £450 -1.37% 36
East of England +1 21 £507 +8.45% 1
North East -32 19 £450 -8.16% 12
Wales -21 9 £425 -10.53% 12
Northern Ireland 0 2 - - 10
East Midlands -42 2 £401 +6.93% 3

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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 39 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.78%) Confluence
3 26 (2.98%) Apache
4 15 (1.72%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.26%) nginx
6 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.15%) Camunda
7 8 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.46%) CMS
9 4 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.46%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.34%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) Mule
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.46%) Quorum
1 4 (0.46%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.46%) Ripple
2 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 478 (54.82%) AWS
2 209 (23.97%) Azure
3 156 (17.89%) GCP
4 152 (17.43%) GitHub
5 95 (10.89%) GitHub Actions
6 64 (7.34%) Amazon S3
6 64 (7.34%) Serverless
7 55 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
8 49 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 45 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (4.70%) OpenShift
13 38 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (1.95%) AWS KMS
15 17 (1.95%) Azure AKS
15 17 (1.95%) Cloud Run
15 17 (1.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 16 (1.83%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 7 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (23.39%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (11.12%) NoSQL
3 88 (10.09%) Relational Database
4 85 (9.75%) MongoDB
5 67 (7.68%) MySQL
6 41 (4.70%) DynamoDB
7 40 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.44%) Redis
9 26 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 26 (2.98%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
11 22 (2.52%) Flink
12 18 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
13 16 (1.83%) Big Data
14 11 (1.26%) Oracle Database
14 11 (1.26%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.03%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.03%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.92%) Db2
16 8 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 238 (27.29%) Git
2 235 (26.95%) Jenkins
3 153 (17.55%) JUnit
4 119 (13.65%) GitLab
5 96 (11.01%) Maven
6 89 (10.21%) Gradle
7 73 (8.37%) Mockito
8 63 (7.22%) JIRA
9 45 (5.16%) Cucumber
9 45 (5.16%) SonarQube
10 42 (4.82%) Selenium
11 25 (2.87%) JMeter
12 21 (2.41%) Liquibase
13 19 (2.18%) Gatling
13 19 (2.18%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.72%) REST Assured
15 14 (1.61%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.49%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.38%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.26%) jMock
General
1 189 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 175 (20.07%) Finance
3 156 (17.89%) Public Sector
4 97 (11.12%) Banking
5 70 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.78%) Retail
7 17 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.38%) Law
10 9 (1.03%) Military
11 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.80%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.69%) Publishing
14 5 (0.57%) Automotive
14 5 (0.57%) Back Office
14 5 (0.57%) Front Office
14 5 (0.57%) Police
15 4 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 503 (57.68%) Developer
2 409 (46.90%) Java Developer
3 168 (19.27%) Senior
4 134 (15.37%) Java Engineer
5 108 (12.39%) Software Engineer
6 101 (11.58%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.21%) Lead
8 82 (9.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (7.57%) Java Software Engineer
10 60 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 56 (6.42%) Backend Developer
12 37 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 36 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 36 (4.13%) Lead Developer
14 31 (3.56%) Architect
15 30 (3.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 28 (3.21%) Lead Java Developer
17 26 (2.98%) Senior Java Engineer
18 22 (2.52%) Data Engineer
19 20 (2.29%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 711 (81.54%) Spring Boot
2 243 (27.87%) Kafka
3 237 (27.18%) REST
4 215 (24.66%) RESTful
5 157 (18.00%) React
6 115 (13.19%) Node.js
7 73 (8.37%) JPA
8 72 (8.26%) Hibernate
9 68 (7.80%) AngularJS
10 64 (7.34%) HTML
11 59 (6.77%) CSS
12 57 (6.54%) Web Services
13 55 (6.31%) Spring MVC
14 48 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
15 46 (5.28%) OAuth
16 39 (4.47%) Spring Cloud
16 39 (4.47%) WireMock
17 38 (4.36%) Redux
18 33 (3.78%) HTML5
18 33 (3.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 186 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 145 (16.63%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.91%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 21 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.83%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.03%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.92%) Derivative
16 7 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.31%) Linux
2 29 (3.33%) Unix
3 9 (1.03%) Windows
4 7 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.46%) Solaris
5 4 (0.46%) VMS
5 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (60.89%) Microservices
2 526 (60.32%) CI/CD
3 416 (47.71%) Agile
4 304 (34.86%) DevOps
5 263 (30.16%) Containerisation
6 230 (26.38%) Software Engineering
7 196 (22.48%) TDD
8 195 (22.36%) Test Automation
9 171 (19.61%) Event-Driven
10 166 (19.04%) Scrum
11 153 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 143 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
14 138 (15.83%) Observability
15 124 (14.22%) Code Quality
16 109 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 95 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 93 (10.67%) Design Patterns
19 81 (9.29%) BDD
20 78 (8.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 845 (96.90%) Java
2 271 (31.08%) SQL
3 122 (13.99%) JavaScript
4 104 (11.93%) TypeScript
5 99 (11.35%) Python
6 47 (5.39%) PL/SQL
7 45 (5.16%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 16 (1.83%) Bash
10 12 (1.38%) Scala
11 10 (1.15%) Ruby
12 7 (0.80%) C#
13 5 (0.57%) Groovy
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Solidity
15 3 (0.34%) Perl
16 2 (0.23%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.23%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
Qualifications
1 267 (30.62%) Security Cleared
2 230 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 52 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (3.10%) Degree
5 21 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.24%) QA
2 71 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.49%) WCAG
4 10 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 9 (1.03%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.80%) GDPR
6 7 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.80%) SEPA
7 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.46%) SLA
9 3 (0.34%) EMIR
9 3 (0.34%) MiFID
10 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.11%) ITGC
11 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 398 (45.64%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 378 (43.35%) Kubernetes
2 86 (9.86%) Grafana
3 84 (9.63%) Terraform
4 70 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 45 (5.16%) Ansible
6 21 (2.41%) Kibana
7 11 (1.26%) Control-M
8 7 (0.80%) Istio
9 6 (0.69%) Argo
10 3 (0.34%) Bosun
10 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.23%) Consul
11 2 (0.23%) Rancher
11 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 113 (12.96%) Oracle
2 48 (5.50%) Google
3 30 (3.44%) Microsoft
4 26 (2.98%) Splunk
5 16 (1.83%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.72%) Jaspersoft
7 14 (1.61%) IBM
8 12 (1.38%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.38%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.26%) Solace
10 10 (1.15%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.15%) Sybase
11 9 (1.03%) Databricks
12 8 (0.92%) New Relic
13 7 (0.80%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.80%) TikTok
14 6 (0.69%) Confluent
14 6 (0.69%) Okta
15 4 (0.46%) FIS
15 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock