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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 149 177
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 -37
Contract jobs citing Spring 843 555 592
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.89% 1.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.61% 8.25% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 355 431
10th Percentile £387 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -5.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £670 £630 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 9 11
10th Percentile - £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £75.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +21.82% +19.88% -34.46%

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 9,789 6,726 9,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.59% 22.85% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,432 4,599 6,367
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £536
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -2.94% -2.59%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 118 263
10th Percentile £31.03 £29.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +18.94% -23.85%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.56 £68.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.35 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -15.38%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +25 703 £521 +4.15% 148
UK excluding London -13 380 £475 +5.56% 95
London +16 361 £525 - 78
Work from Home -40 206 £478 -4.50% 95
North of England +16 154 £500 +7.53% 30
North West +25 105 £510 +32.81% 14
Midlands -47 71 £467 +9.84% 4
West Midlands -22 68 £475 -5.00% 3
South West +10 47 £409 -22.10% 19
Scotland -54 46 £407 -9.50% 11
South East -49 36 £500 +21.21% 19
Yorkshire -30 29 £463 -11.90% 12
East of England +4 27 £510 +9.09% 6
North East -17 25 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -14 2 - - 3
East Midlands -43 2 £401 +7.94% 1
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 4

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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 45 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.86%) Confluence
3 25 (2.97%) Apache
4 15 (1.78%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.19%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.19%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 7 (0.83%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.47%) JBoss
10 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.24%) CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.47%) Quorum
2 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 3 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 448 (53.14%) AWS
2 208 (24.67%) Azure
3 146 (17.32%) GCP
4 145 (17.20%) GitHub
5 92 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (8.66%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.30%) Serverless
8 62 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.03%) OpenShift
13 27 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.08%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
15 22 (2.61%) Route 53
16 20 (2.37%) Cloud Run
17 19 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.19%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
2 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.24%) Firewall
3 2 (0.24%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (22.89%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (12.81%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.79%) MongoDB
4 84 (9.96%) Relational Database
5 65 (7.71%) MySQL
6 52 (6.17%) DynamoDB
7 50 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.85%) Redis
12 21 (2.49%) Big Data
13 20 (2.37%) Flink
14 16 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.07%) Db2
17 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
18 7 (0.83%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.83%) Hadoop
18 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 207 (24.56%) Git
2 199 (23.61%) Jenkins
3 147 (17.44%) JUnit
4 127 (15.07%) GitLab
5 73 (8.66%) Maven
6 71 (8.42%) Gradle
7 69 (8.19%) JIRA
8 68 (8.07%) Mockito
9 42 (4.98%) Selenium
10 41 (4.86%) Cucumber
11 36 (4.27%) SonarQube
12 25 (2.97%) JMeter
13 24 (2.85%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.25%) Gatling
14 19 (2.25%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.14%) Liquibase
15 18 (2.14%) REST Assured
16 14 (1.66%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.54%) jMock
17 13 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (19.93%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.57%) Finance
3 142 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 98 (11.63%) Banking
5 49 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.32%) Retail
7 17 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.42%) Law
8 12 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.19%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.83%) Military
11 6 (0.71%) Automotive
11 6 (0.71%) Front Office
11 6 (0.71%) Publishing
12 5 (0.59%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.47%) Police
13 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 466 (55.28%) Developer
2 352 (41.76%) Java Developer
3 175 (20.76%) Senior
4 146 (17.32%) Java Engineer
5 109 (12.93%) Software Engineer
6 95 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 84 (9.96%) Lead
8 78 (9.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 74 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
10 62 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
11 44 (5.22%) Backend Developer
12 33 (3.91%) Lead Developer
13 32 (3.80%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 29 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
17 24 (2.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.73%) Architect
18 23 (2.73%) Data Engineer
19 22 (2.61%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 695 (82.44%) Spring Boot
2 235 (27.88%) Kafka
3 199 (23.61%) REST
4 198 (23.49%) RESTful
5 161 (19.10%) React
6 125 (14.83%) Node.js
7 84 (9.96%) AngularJS
8 65 (7.71%) Hibernate
9 64 (7.59%) JPA
10 54 (6.41%) HTML
11 52 (6.17%) Spring Cloud
11 52 (6.17%) Web Services
12 51 (6.05%) Spring MVC
13 49 (5.81%) CSS
14 48 (5.69%) WireMock
15 39 (4.63%) OAuth
16 36 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 35 (4.15%) OAuth2
18 34 (4.03%) RabbitMQ
19 33 (3.91%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 152 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 107 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
6 18 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.83%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.71%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.71%) Derivative
13 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.81%) Linux
2 20 (2.37%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.36%) Solaris
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (58.01%) Microservices
2 472 (55.99%) CI/CD
3 341 (40.45%) Agile
4 303 (35.94%) DevOps
5 256 (30.37%) Containerisation
6 209 (24.79%) Software Engineering
7 176 (20.88%) TDD
8 172 (20.40%) Full-Stack Development
9 153 (18.15%) Test Automation
10 150 (17.79%) Event-Driven
11 137 (16.25%) Observability
12 134 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (15.07%) Scrum
14 125 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (13.29%) Code Quality
16 94 (11.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 89 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (10.44%) BDD
19 70 (8.30%) Mentoring
20 66 (7.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 802 (95.14%) Java
2 243 (28.83%) SQL
3 124 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 115 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 97 (11.51%) Python
6 47 (5.58%) Kotlin
7 25 (2.97%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.78%) Go
10 10 (1.19%) Scala
11 9 (1.07%) C#
12 8 (0.95%) Ruby
13 7 (0.83%) Bash
14 6 (0.71%) Perl
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
16 2 (0.24%) Groovy
16 2 (0.24%) Korn
16 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 2 (0.24%) PromQL
17 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 243 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 210 (24.91%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (3.32%) Degree
5 23 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (9.85%) QA
2 69 (8.19%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.42%) ISO 20022
3 12 (1.42%) WCAG
4 10 (1.19%) SEPA
5 8 (0.95%) GDPR
6 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.59%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) NIST
10 3 (0.36%) EMIR
10 3 (0.36%) MiFID
11 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.12%) ITGC
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 367 (43.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.30%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 357 (42.35%) Kubernetes
2 103 (12.22%) Grafana
3 90 (10.68%) Terraform
4 75 (8.90%) Prometheus
5 36 (4.27%) Ansible
6 13 (1.54%) Argo
7 11 (1.30%) Istio
7 11 (1.30%) Kibana
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Consul
9 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.12%) Control-M
10 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 78 (9.25%) Oracle
2 41 (4.86%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.27%) Google
4 30 (3.56%) Splunk
5 17 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
6 14 (1.66%) Atlassian
6 14 (1.66%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.54%) IBM
7 13 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 11 (1.30%) Solace
8 11 (1.30%) Sybase
9 9 (1.07%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.07%) Databricks
10 6 (0.71%) Confluent
10 6 (0.71%) New Relic
10 6 (0.71%) Okta
11 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.59%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.59%) Teradata