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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 146 174
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 850 624 566
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.59% 1.90% 1.45%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 7.51% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 408 423
10th Percentile £353 £335 £380
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £552 £638
90th Percentile £694 £638 £765
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £37.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +15.56% -22.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £88.70 £92.50 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -22.41%

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 11,743 8,312 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.92% 25.36% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 5,611 6,463
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £634 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 184 227
10th Percentile £29.54 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £47.60 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +22.67% -10.71% +4.35%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -20 668 £525 +5.00% 166
UK excluding London -42 377 £475 +5.56% 135
London -1 371 £528 +0.48% 73
Work from Home -61 208 £500 - 113
North of England -8 150 £510 +9.68% 47
North West -16 84 £540 +21.35% 23
Scotland -37 70 £402 -10.67% 10
Midlands -46 61 £475 +14.46% 20
West Midlands -21 56 £525 +5.00% 17
Yorkshire -1 48 £525 +46.12% 10
South West -25 36 £500 -0.99% 22
South East -50 30 £367 -26.55% 29
East of England +5 20 £504 +7.70% 1
North East -25 19 £450 -8.16% 15
Wales -18 11 £425 -10.53% 6
East Midlands -45 4 £400 +6.67% 3
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 2

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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 34 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.06%) Apache
3 23 (2.71%) Confluence
4 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.18%) Camunda
5 9 (1.06%) nginx
6 8 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.47%) CMS
9 4 (0.47%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.47%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Trello
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (0.47%) Quorum
1 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
1 4 (0.47%) Ripple
2 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 474 (55.76%) AWS
2 207 (24.35%) Azure
3 150 (17.65%) GitHub
4 144 (16.94%) GCP
5 93 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (7.18%) Serverless
7 53 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 45 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 41 (4.82%) OpenShift
12 40 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
13 38 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
14 30 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
16 18 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (1.76%) Azure AKS
18 14 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.06%) HTTP
2 6 (0.71%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) AMQP
5 1 (0.12%) Broadband
5 1 (0.12%) SMS
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (22.71%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (11.88%) NoSQL
3 92 (10.82%) Relational Database
4 89 (10.47%) MongoDB
5 66 (7.76%) MySQL
6 35 (4.12%) Redis
7 34 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.88%) SQL Server
9 24 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.12%) Flink
12 16 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.76%) Big Data
14 13 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.41%) Oracle Database
16 10 (1.18%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.18%) Metadata
17 9 (1.06%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.94%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 233 (27.41%) Jenkins
2 220 (25.88%) Git
3 140 (16.47%) JUnit
4 121 (14.24%) GitLab
5 94 (11.06%) Maven
6 93 (10.94%) Gradle
7 71 (8.35%) Mockito
8 50 (5.88%) JIRA
9 41 (4.82%) SonarQube
10 36 (4.24%) Cucumber
11 31 (3.65%) Selenium
12 21 (2.47%) Liquibase
13 17 (2.00%) Gatling
13 17 (2.00%) JMeter
14 16 (1.88%) REST Assured
15 14 (1.65%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.53%) Bitbucket
17 11 (1.29%) GoCD
18 10 (1.18%) WebDriver
19 9 (1.06%) JProfiler
General
1 187 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 180 (21.18%) Finance
3 149 (17.53%) Public Sector
4 96 (11.29%) Banking
5 66 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.41%) Retail
7 15 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.41%) Law
10 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.06%) Military
12 8 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.82%) Back Office
13 7 (0.82%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.71%) Publishing
15 5 (0.59%) Police
16 4 (0.47%) Automotive
16 4 (0.47%) Front Office
16 4 (0.47%) Games
16 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 493 (58.00%) Developer
2 402 (47.29%) Java Developer
3 178 (20.94%) Senior
4 131 (15.41%) Java Engineer
5 110 (12.94%) Software Engineer
6 106 (12.47%) Senior Developer
7 85 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 81 (9.53%) Lead
9 65 (7.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 65 (7.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 55 (6.47%) Backend Developer
11 40 (4.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 36 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 36 (4.24%) Software Developer
13 33 (3.88%) Architect
14 30 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (3.41%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 23 (2.71%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (83.76%) Spring Boot
2 248 (29.18%) Kafka
3 239 (28.12%) REST
4 222 (26.12%) RESTful
5 163 (19.18%) React
6 111 (13.06%) Node.js
7 87 (10.24%) Terraform
8 71 (8.35%) HTML
9 70 (8.24%) JPA
10 66 (7.76%) AngularJS
10 66 (7.76%) Hibernate
11 62 (7.29%) CSS
12 60 (7.06%) Spring MVC
13 54 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
14 50 (5.88%) Web Services
15 49 (5.76%) OAuth
16 38 (4.47%) Redux
17 36 (4.24%) OAuth2
18 35 (4.12%) Spring Cloud
19 34 (4.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 194 (22.82%) Cloud Native
2 142 (16.71%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.35%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 16 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 12 (1.41%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.29%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.82%) Derivative
14 7 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.59%) Spread Betting
15 5 (0.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.76%) Linux
2 32 (3.76%) Unix
3 5 (0.59%) Windows
4 4 (0.47%) VMS
5 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.24%) Solaris
5 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.12%) AIX
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (61.88%) Microservices
2 514 (60.47%) CI/CD
3 416 (48.94%) Agile
4 301 (35.41%) DevOps
5 255 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 240 (28.24%) Software Engineering
7 202 (23.76%) Test Automation
8 188 (22.12%) Event-Driven
9 175 (20.59%) TDD
10 154 (18.12%) Full-Stack Development
11 150 (17.65%) Scrum
12 146 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (14.94%) Observability
15 123 (14.47%) Code Quality
16 121 (14.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 102 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
18 94 (11.06%) Design Patterns
19 84 (9.88%) Clean Code
20 80 (9.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 832 (97.88%) Java
2 269 (31.65%) SQL
3 125 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 115 (13.53%) TypeScript
5 92 (10.82%) Python
6 39 (4.59%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 20 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.00%) Bash
10 12 (1.41%) Scala
11 11 (1.29%) Ruby
12 7 (0.82%) C#
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 4 (0.47%) Go
14 4 (0.47%) Solidity
15 2 (0.24%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) Korn
Qualifications
1 247 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 206 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (3.06%) Degree
5 18 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.53%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.24%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.24%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.12%) CISSP
9 1 (0.12%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.06%) QA
2 73 (8.59%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) WCAG
4 10 (1.18%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.18%) ISO 20022
5 7 (0.82%) GDPR
5 7 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.82%) SEPA
6 6 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.35%) EMIR
7 3 (0.35%) MiFID
8 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) HL7
9 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) ITGC
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 392 (46.12%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 370 (43.53%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.76%) Grafana
3 58 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 44 (5.18%) Ansible
5 22 (2.59%) Kibana
6 11 (1.29%) Control-M
7 9 (1.06%) Istio
8 7 (0.82%) Argo
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.24%) Consul
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
10 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 118 (13.88%) Oracle
2 40 (4.71%) Google
3 29 (3.41%) Microsoft
4 18 (2.12%) Splunk
5 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
5 14 (1.65%) IBM
6 12 (1.41%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.29%) Solace
8 10 (1.18%) Checkmarx
8 10 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
9 8 (0.94%) Atlassian
9 8 (0.94%) Databricks
9 8 (0.94%) New Relic
9 8 (0.94%) Sybase
10 7 (0.82%) Confluent
10 7 (0.82%) TikTok
11 6 (0.71%) Okta
12 5 (0.59%) SAP
13 4 (0.47%) FIS
13 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock