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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 170 203
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 -110
Contract jobs citing Spring 668 478 513
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.52% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.80% 6.79% 5.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 285 375
10th Percentile £356 £356 £400
25th Percentile £412 £433 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -16.50%
75th Percentile £576 £630 £633
90th Percentile £638 £764 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.06% -6.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 7
10th Percentile £50.00 - £41.53
25th Percentile £52.50 - £45.88
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
75th Percentile £81.00 - £57.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £70.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £48.43
% change year-on-year - - -26.90%

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 8,567 7,037 9,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.23% 22.40% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,707 4,457 6,656
10th Percentile £357 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £722 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 90 192
10th Percentile £35.00 £24.78 £25.78
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.31 £46.11
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £77.32 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year - +17.12% -14.62%

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 1 February 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 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 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 1 February 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 +31 547 £500 -13.04% 203
UK excluding London +20 330 £465 -1.06% 147
London +5 270 £525 -10.26% 89
Work from Home +28 185 £500 +2.04% 112
North of England +31 154 £475 - 34
North West +51 116 £465 +3.33% 27
Scotland -6 69 £588 +33.37% 11
South East +27 49 £400 +2.56% 50
Midlands -47 40 £446 -18.95% 17
West Midlands -37 37 £469 -14.73% 15
Yorkshire -45 24 £500 -4.76% 5
North East -5 21 £475 +6.74% 2
South West -18 21 £409 -25.64% 30
East of England -24 3 £450 +20.00% 4
East Midlands - 3 £308 - 2
Northern Ireland -2 1 £425 -5.56%

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 26 (3.89%) Confluence
2 18 (2.69%) Apache
3 11 (1.65%) Camunda
4 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.50%) JBoss
4 10 (1.50%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.90%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.90%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.45%) Drupal
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) nginx
7 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.45%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Apache TomEE
9 1 (0.15%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.65%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 361 (54.04%) AWS
2 186 (27.84%) Azure
3 129 (19.31%) GitHub
4 108 (16.17%) GCP
5 68 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
6 65 (9.73%) Serverless
7 56 (8.38%) Amazon S3
8 55 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.04%) OpenShift
10 34 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
11 31 (4.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 29 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.84%) Azure AKS
15 18 (2.69%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (2.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 13 (1.95%) Datadog
18 12 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (1.80%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.50%) HTTP
1 10 (1.50%) SSL
2 5 (0.75%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.60%) DNS
3 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.45%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (20.36%) PostgreSQL
2 114 (17.07%) MongoDB
3 97 (14.52%) NoSQL
4 86 (12.87%) Relational Database
5 50 (7.49%) MySQL
6 36 (5.39%) DynamoDB
7 27 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.29%) DB2
9 19 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (2.84%) SQL Server
10 18 (2.69%) RDBMS
11 15 (2.25%) DocumentDB
12 14 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.95%) Redis
14 12 (1.80%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.35%) HBase
16 8 (1.20%) Big Data
16 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
17 7 (1.05%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 167 (25.00%) Git
2 153 (22.90%) Jenkins
3 140 (20.96%) JUnit
4 122 (18.26%) GitLab
5 61 (9.13%) Maven
6 58 (8.68%) Cucumber
7 55 (8.23%) Gradle
8 52 (7.78%) JIRA
9 43 (6.44%) Mockito
10 32 (4.79%) Sonatype Nexus
11 31 (4.64%) Selenium
12 23 (3.44%) IntelliJ
13 21 (3.14%) Postman
14 20 (2.99%) Cypress.io
15 19 (2.84%) JMeter
16 13 (1.95%) Eclipse
16 13 (1.95%) Gatling
17 12 (1.80%) Artifactory
18 10 (1.50%) REST Assured
18 10 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 180 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 149 (22.31%) Finance
3 118 (17.66%) Public Sector
4 105 (15.72%) Banking
5 41 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.44%) Investment Banking
7 11 (1.65%) Front Office
7 11 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.20%) Retail
9 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Electronics
12 3 (0.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 418 (62.57%) Developer
2 304 (45.51%) Java Developer
3 146 (21.86%) Senior
4 103 (15.42%) Java Engineer
4 103 (15.42%) Senior Developer
5 102 (15.27%) Full-Stack Developer
6 86 (12.87%) Senior Java Developer
7 58 (8.68%) Software Engineer
8 54 (8.08%) Lead
9 39 (5.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 32 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (4.19%) Lead Developer
13 22 (3.29%) Architect
13 22 (3.29%) Backend Developer
13 22 (3.29%) SQL Developer
14 21 (3.14%) AWS Developer
15 18 (2.69%) Lead Java Developer
15 18 (2.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 16 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 510 (76.35%) Spring Boot
2 207 (30.99%) Kafka
3 178 (26.65%) RESTful
4 154 (23.05%) React
5 137 (20.51%) REST
6 117 (17.51%) AngularJS
7 89 (13.32%) Node.js
8 86 (12.87%) Hibernate
9 80 (11.98%) HTML
10 55 (8.23%) CSS
11 42 (6.29%) JSON
12 41 (6.14%) JPA
13 40 (5.99%) OAuth
14 38 (5.69%) OAuth2
15 37 (5.54%) JMS
16 32 (4.79%) Playwright
17 30 (4.49%) HTML5
17 30 (4.49%) Spring Cloud
17 30 (4.49%) Spring MVC
18 28 (4.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 101 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.44%) Equities
5 21 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.05%) Derivative
9 7 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.90%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (0.75%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.60%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.60%) NHS
13 3 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (9.88%) Linux
2 15 (2.25%) Unix
3 7 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.75%) Windows
5 3 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Solaris
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 389 (58.23%) Microservices
2 373 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 274 (41.02%) Agile
4 231 (34.58%) DevOps
5 203 (30.39%) Containerisation
6 182 (27.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 160 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
8 134 (20.06%) Test Automation
9 124 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 110 (16.47%) Event-Driven
11 100 (14.97%) TDD
12 87 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 86 (12.87%) Scrum
14 82 (12.28%) Code Quality
15 81 (12.13%) SDLC
16 72 (10.78%) Observability
17 66 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (9.88%) Mentoring
18 59 (8.83%) Unit Testing
19 58 (8.68%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 636 (95.21%) Java
2 172 (25.75%) SQL
3 104 (15.57%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.77%) TypeScript
5 79 (11.83%) Python
6 27 (4.04%) Shell Script
7 26 (3.89%) Kotlin
8 13 (1.95%) Scala
9 12 (1.80%) Go
10 11 (1.65%) Ruby
11 7 (1.05%) C#
12 6 (0.90%) Groovy
13 5 (0.75%) Bash
14 4 (0.60%) PHP
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.30%) C++
16 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.30%) Rust
17 1 (0.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 167 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 142 (21.26%) SC Cleared
3 25 (3.74%) Degree
4 22 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.80%) OCP
6 12 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.30%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.15%) CCSP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) CISSP
10 1 (0.15%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.73%) QA
2 47 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.59%) ISO 20022
4 16 (2.40%) PSD2
4 16 (2.40%) SEPA
4 16 (2.40%) WCAG
5 9 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.75%) NIST
7 4 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.45%) HL7
8 3 (0.45%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) GDPR
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 280 (41.92%) Docker
2 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.45%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 295 (44.16%) Kubernetes
2 101 (15.12%) Terraform
3 53 (7.93%) Grafana
4 38 (5.69%) Ansible
5 24 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 22 (3.29%) Argo
7 14 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.80%) Kibana
9 9 (1.35%) Puppet
10 6 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.30%) Rancher
11 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 66 (9.88%) Oracle
2 32 (4.79%) Google
3 26 (3.89%) Microsoft
4 23 (3.44%) Splunk
5 22 (3.29%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.99%) Sybase
7 15 (2.25%) VMware
8 9 (1.35%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.35%) webMethods
9 6 (0.90%) Confluent
9 6 (0.90%) PagerDuty
9 6 (0.90%) Solace
10 5 (0.75%) Adobe
10 5 (0.75%) IBM
10 5 (0.75%) Virgin Media
11 4 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.60%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.60%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.60%) SAP
12 3 (0.45%) Informatica