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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 155 166
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Spring 906 614 576
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.66% 1.86% 1.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.65% 7.28% 6.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 395 423
10th Percentile £375 £338 £380
25th Percentile £425 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £638
90th Percentile £705 £638 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -1.51%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 11,843 8,430 9,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 25.53% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,765 5,674 6,372
10th Percentile £375 £355 £359
25th Percentile £435 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.63% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £45.31 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +27.30% -14.77% -1.44%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +8.33%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -1 718 £525 +5.00% 368
UK excluding London -34 415 £500 +8.11% 226
London -4 384 £535 +1.42% 233
Work from Home -51 220 £500 - 198
North of England -12 164 £540 +16.13% 61
North West -17 94 £555 +26.86% 40
Midlands -20 89 £551 +33.45% 28
West Midlands +7 83 £558 +11.55% 25
Scotland -36 68 £403 -12.81% 44
Yorkshire +4 54 £500 +8.11% 12
South West -27 35 £463 -7.96% 35
South East -42 31 £297 -40.60% 38
East of England -12 21 £500 +6.95% 2
North East -37 17 £450 -8.16% 9
Wales -16 11 £425 -10.53% 6
East Midlands -38 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 - - 15

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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 32 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 28 (3.09%) Confluence
3 22 (2.43%) Apache
4 14 (1.55%) Camunda
5 10 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.10%) nginx
6 9 (0.99%) Tomcat
6 9 (0.99%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.44%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.22%) Mule
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.33%) Finacle
3 3 (0.33%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 517 (57.06%) AWS
2 198 (21.85%) Azure
3 156 (17.22%) GitHub
4 146 (16.11%) GCP
5 93 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (7.17%) Serverless
7 60 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 47 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
10 46 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (5.08%) OpenShift
11 45 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.43%) GitHub Copilot
15 21 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (2.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 17 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 14 (1.55%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.32%) HTTP
2 6 (0.66%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) 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
1 195 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (11.92%) MongoDB
2 108 (11.92%) NoSQL
3 106 (11.70%) Relational Database
4 65 (7.17%) MySQL
5 37 (4.08%) Redis
6 34 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.99%) Flink
11 17 (1.88%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.77%) Big Data
12 16 (1.77%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.21%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.10%) Metadata
16 8 (0.88%) Db2
Development Applications
1 246 (27.15%) Jenkins
2 236 (26.05%) Git
3 162 (17.88%) JUnit
4 142 (15.67%) GitLab
5 119 (13.13%) Maven
6 104 (11.48%) Gradle
7 89 (9.82%) Mockito
8 59 (6.51%) SonarQube
9 52 (5.74%) JIRA
10 42 (4.64%) Cucumber
11 35 (3.86%) Selenium
12 23 (2.54%) Gatling
13 22 (2.43%) REST Assured
14 21 (2.32%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.88%) Bitbucket
16 14 (1.55%) IntelliJ
17 11 (1.21%) GoCD
17 11 (1.21%) JMeter
18 9 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (0.99%) Flyway
General
1 210 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 194 (21.41%) Finance
3 161 (17.77%) Public Sector
4 114 (12.58%) Banking
5 77 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.98%) Retail
7 17 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.21%) Law
11 10 (1.10%) Military
12 8 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 7 (0.77%) Back Office
13 7 (0.77%) Front Office
14 5 (0.55%) Games
14 5 (0.55%) Police
14 5 (0.55%) Publishing
15 4 (0.44%) Automotive
15 4 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 522 (57.62%) Developer
2 431 (47.57%) Java Developer
3 193 (21.30%) Senior
4 140 (15.45%) Java Engineer
5 114 (12.58%) Senior Developer
6 108 (11.92%) Software Engineer
7 96 (10.60%) Lead
8 90 (9.93%) Senior Java Developer
9 67 (7.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 62 (6.84%) Java Software Engineer
11 51 (5.63%) Backend Developer
12 44 (4.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 44 (4.86%) Lead Developer
13 37 (4.08%) Lead Java Developer
14 36 (3.97%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.64%) Architect
15 33 (3.64%) Senior Java Engineer
16 30 (3.31%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.65%) Technical Leader
18 23 (2.54%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 770 (84.99%) Spring Boot
2 285 (31.46%) Kafka
3 264 (29.14%) REST
4 228 (25.17%) RESTful
5 174 (19.21%) React
6 110 (12.14%) Node.js
7 88 (9.71%) JPA
7 88 (9.71%) Terraform
8 80 (8.83%) HTML
9 78 (8.61%) Hibernate
10 75 (8.28%) AngularJS
11 68 (7.51%) CSS
12 61 (6.73%) RabbitMQ
13 60 (6.62%) Web Services
14 59 (6.51%) Spring MVC
15 50 (5.52%) OAuth
16 42 (4.64%) OpenAPI
16 42 (4.64%) Spring Cloud
17 41 (4.53%) Redux
18 39 (4.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 216 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 139 (15.34%) Distributed Systems
3 83 (9.16%) Product Ownership
4 51 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (1.66%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.10%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
17 7 (0.77%) Derivative
18 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
18 6 (0.66%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.63%) Linux
2 33 (3.64%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) VMS
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (62.25%) Microservices
2 541 (59.71%) CI/CD
3 452 (49.89%) Agile
4 311 (34.33%) DevOps
5 270 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 262 (28.92%) Software Engineering
7 237 (26.16%) Test Automation
8 208 (22.96%) Event-Driven
9 186 (20.53%) TDD
10 183 (20.20%) Scrum
11 155 (17.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 154 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 147 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
14 140 (15.45%) Code Quality
15 133 (14.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 131 (14.46%) Observability
17 105 (11.59%) SDLC
18 102 (11.26%) Infrastructure as Code
19 96 (10.60%) Design Patterns
20 95 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 892 (98.45%) Java
2 282 (31.13%) SQL
3 138 (15.23%) JavaScript
4 124 (13.69%) TypeScript
5 92 (10.15%) Python
6 46 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.97%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 19 (2.10%) Bash
10 14 (1.55%) Scala
11 9 (0.99%) Ruby
12 6 (0.66%) C#
13 5 (0.55%) Groovy
14 4 (0.44%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Solidity
15 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.22%) Korn
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 257 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 218 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.64%) Degree
5 25 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.25%) QA
2 77 (8.50%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.10%) WCAG
4 18 (1.99%) ISO 20022
5 12 (1.32%) SEPA
6 10 (1.10%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.77%) GDPR
8 6 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.55%) PSD2
10 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 412 (45.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 388 (42.83%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.06%) Grafana
3 65 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.64%) Ansible
5 29 (3.20%) Kibana
6 11 (1.21%) Control-M
7 10 (1.10%) Istio
8 8 (0.88%) Argo
9 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.33%) Bosun
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 139 (15.34%) Oracle
2 45 (4.97%) Google
3 23 (2.54%) IBM
4 22 (2.43%) Microsoft
5 19 (2.10%) Splunk
6 18 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.21%) Solace
9 10 (1.10%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.10%) Sybase
10 9 (0.99%) Databricks
11 8 (0.88%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.77%) Confluent
12 7 (0.77%) FIS
12 7 (0.77%) New Relic
12 7 (0.77%) TikTok
13 6 (0.66%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.55%) Temenos
15 4 (0.44%) SAP