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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 167 178
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 -55
Contract jobs citing Spring 806 503 568
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.72% 1.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.52% 7.57% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 321 414
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £415 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £625
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +1.17% -5.13% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 5 10
10th Percentile £52.00 £58.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £41.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £82.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +79.82% -36.72%
75th Percentile £81.00 £92.50 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -20.00% +49.85% -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 9,463 6,644 8,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.03% 22.70% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,271 4,556 6,208
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £728 £780 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 112 233
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.14 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £48.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £82.87 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -25.78%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 May 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 +40 675 £500 -5.66% 143
UK excluding London +6 380 £468 +1.17% 105
London +14 333 £525 -4.55% 67
Work from Home -14 202 £475 -9.52% 114
North of England +19 157 £475 -0.52% 37
North West +34 118 £465 - 24
Midlands -29 69 £469 +11.01% 9
West Midlands -10 68 £469 +3.08% 6
Scotland -37 52 £456 +1.39% 7
South East -13 49 £423 -7.40% 25
South West -7 34 £409 -20.20% 16
Yorkshire -43 25 £475 -11.63% 6
East of England -4 24 £510 +9.09% 6
North East -5 21 £450 -3.23% 7
East Midlands -36 1 £450 +11.94% 3

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 47 (5.83%) Confluence
2 40 (4.96%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.61%) Apache
4 15 (1.86%) Camunda
5 9 (1.12%) WebLogic
6 7 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.74%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.74%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.50%) JBoss
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) Apache TomEE
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) CMS
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 445 (55.21%) AWS
2 217 (26.92%) Azure
3 153 (18.98%) GitHub
4 140 (17.37%) GCP
5 88 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (10.67%) Serverless
7 82 (10.17%) Amazon S3
8 73 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (4.47%) OpenShift
13 35 (4.34%) Azure AKS
14 34 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.23%) Route 53
19 16 (1.99%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.61%) HTTP
2 10 (1.24%) SSL
3 8 (0.99%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.50%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (21.71%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (13.65%) NoSQL
3 86 (10.67%) MongoDB
4 77 (9.55%) Relational Database
5 67 (8.31%) MySQL
6 55 (6.82%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.11%) Big Data
11 17 (2.11%) Redis
12 15 (1.86%) DocumentDB
12 15 (1.86%) Flink
13 13 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
14 10 (1.24%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.12%) DB2
16 8 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.87%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (24.69%) Git
2 181 (22.46%) Jenkins
3 137 (17.00%) JUnit
4 127 (15.76%) GitLab
5 73 (9.06%) JIRA
6 68 (8.44%) Maven
7 63 (7.82%) Gradle
8 58 (7.20%) Mockito
9 47 (5.83%) Cucumber
10 32 (3.97%) Selenium
10 32 (3.97%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.35%) JMeter
12 23 (2.85%) IntelliJ
13 17 (2.11%) WebDriver
14 15 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 14 (1.74%) Gatling
16 13 (1.61%) Cypress.io
17 12 (1.49%) Postman
18 11 (1.36%) DbUnit
18 11 (1.36%) jMock
General
1 161 (19.98%) Social Skills
2 152 (18.86%) Finance
3 149 (18.49%) Public Sector
4 74 (9.18%) Banking
5 39 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.36%) Retail
7 13 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.74%) Automotive
10 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 6 (0.74%) Front Office
10 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.74%) Law
10 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
11 5 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.62%) Publishing
11 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 469 (58.19%) Developer
2 334 (41.44%) Java Developer
3 156 (19.35%) Senior
4 129 (16.00%) Java Engineer
5 95 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 93 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 82 (10.17%) Software Engineer
8 77 (9.55%) Lead
9 69 (8.56%) Senior Java Developer
10 47 (5.83%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (4.71%) Backend Developer
12 34 (4.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 33 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.72%) Lead Developer
14 30 (3.72%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.60%) Architect
16 27 (3.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 19 (2.36%) Data Engineer
17 19 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 17 (2.11%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 650 (80.65%) Spring Boot
2 214 (26.55%) Kafka
3 208 (25.81%) RESTful
4 169 (20.97%) REST
5 157 (19.48%) React
6 126 (15.63%) Node.js
7 103 (12.78%) AngularJS
8 78 (9.68%) Hibernate
9 68 (8.44%) HTML
10 55 (6.82%) CSS
11 51 (6.33%) Spring MVC
12 48 (5.96%) JPA
13 43 (5.33%) WireMock
14 42 (5.21%) OAuth
14 42 (5.21%) Spring Cloud
15 40 (4.96%) Web Services
16 39 (4.84%) OAuth2
17 37 (4.59%) Next.js
18 35 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
19 34 (4.22%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 135 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 24 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 15 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (0.87%) Equities
11 7 (0.87%) NHS
11 7 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.74%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.62%) Derivative
13 5 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 4 (0.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.33%) Linux
2 15 (1.86%) Unix
3 9 (1.12%) Windows
4 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.74%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) Android
6 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.25%) Solaris
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (58.31%) Microservices
2 454 (56.33%) CI/CD
3 303 (37.59%) Agile
4 281 (34.86%) DevOps
5 257 (31.89%) Containerisation
6 179 (22.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 169 (20.97%) TDD
8 164 (20.35%) Software Engineering
9 148 (18.36%) Test Automation
10 141 (17.49%) Event-Driven
11 139 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (15.51%) Code Quality
13 120 (14.89%) Observability
14 109 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (12.78%) Scrum
16 97 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 84 (10.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 76 (9.43%) BDD
19 71 (8.81%) Mentoring
20 69 (8.56%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 758 (94.04%) Java
2 208 (25.81%) SQL
3 124 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 109 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 96 (11.91%) Python
6 52 (6.45%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.23%) Go
8 15 (1.86%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.99%) Scala
11 7 (0.87%) Bash
11 7 (0.87%) C#
11 7 (0.87%) Perl
12 6 (0.74%) Ruby
13 3 (0.37%) PHP
14 2 (0.25%) Groovy
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) JCL
15 1 (0.12%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 245 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 212 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 34 (4.22%) Degree
4 28 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.24%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.74%) AWS Certification
7 6 (0.74%) OCP
7 6 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) CCSP
10 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.12%) CISSP
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) OSCP
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.43%) QA
2 57 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.61%) ISO 20022
3 13 (1.61%) WCAG
4 10 (1.24%) SEPA
5 9 (1.12%) GDPR
6 8 (0.99%) PSD2
7 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.62%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.62%) NIST
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) EMIR
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
13 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 347 (43.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Postfix
3 3 (0.37%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 371 (46.03%) Kubernetes
2 106 (13.15%) Terraform
3 93 (11.54%) Grafana
4 61 (7.57%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.60%) Ansible
6 13 (1.61%) Argo
7 11 (1.36%) Kibana
8 9 (1.12%) Istio
9 5 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.50%) Rancher
11 2 (0.25%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 61 (7.57%) Oracle
2 47 (5.83%) Microsoft
3 32 (3.97%) Google
4 31 (3.85%) Splunk
5 14 (1.74%) Jaspersoft
6 12 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.24%) Solace
9 9 (1.12%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.12%) ForgeRock
10 8 (0.99%) IBM
11 7 (0.87%) Databricks
11 7 (0.87%) SAP
12 6 (0.74%) Adobe
12 6 (0.74%) Confluent
12 6 (0.74%) Okta
12 6 (0.74%) Sybase
13 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.62%) VMware