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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 152 175
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 -28
Contract jobs citing Spring 850 561 602
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.88% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.65% 8.27% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 359 443
10th Percentile £385 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% -6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £670 £634 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 11
10th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £85.50 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +33.64% +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 9,826 6,783 9,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.79% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,451 4,628 6,345
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 127 275
10th Percentile £30.45 £29.18 £22.50
25th Percentile £52.19 £40.42 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.15 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +19 710 £524 +4.80% 184
UK excluding London -18 385 £478 +6.11% 132
London +20 362 £525 - 95
Work from Home -39 206 £478 -4.50% 96
North of England +19 157 £500 +7.53% 45
North West +23 105 £510 +32.81% 25
Midlands -39 73 £471 +12.12% 9
West Midlands -13 70 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +11 47 £409 -21.16% 22
Scotland -51 45 £405 -10.00% 12
South East -32 37 £500 +21.21% 15
Yorkshire -37 31 £488 -7.14% 16
East of England -1 27 £510 +9.09% 5
North East -18 26 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -12 2 - - 7
East Midlands -45 2 £401 +7.94% 5
Northern Ireland -4 1 - - 18

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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 (5.29%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.82%) Confluence
3 25 (2.94%) Apache
4 15 (1.76%) Camunda
5 12 (1.41%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.18%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.18%) Hyperledger
7 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.94%) nginx
9 7 (0.82%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.35%) JBoss
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.24%) CMS
12 2 (0.24%) Drupal
12 2 (0.24%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.35%) 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
1 455 (53.53%) AWS
2 213 (25.06%) Azure
3 147 (17.29%) GCP
4 143 (16.82%) GitHub
5 90 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (8.71%) Amazon S3
7 70 (8.24%) Serverless
8 62 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 28 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 22 (2.59%) Route 53
16 18 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.12%) AWS KMS
17 16 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.29%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
2 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 89 (10.47%) MongoDB
4 87 (10.24%) Relational Database
5 67 (7.88%) MySQL
6 51 (6.00%) DynamoDB
7 49 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 26 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (2.94%) Redis
11 21 (2.47%) Big Data
12 20 (2.35%) Flink
13 16 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.06%) Db2
16 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 209 (24.59%) Git
2 203 (23.88%) Jenkins
3 149 (17.53%) JUnit
4 125 (14.71%) GitLab
5 80 (9.41%) Maven
6 73 (8.59%) Gradle
7 69 (8.12%) Mockito
8 68 (8.00%) JIRA
9 45 (5.29%) Selenium
10 44 (5.18%) Cucumber
11 37 (4.35%) SonarQube
12 27 (3.18%) JMeter
13 21 (2.47%) IntelliJ
14 19 (2.24%) Gatling
14 19 (2.24%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.24%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.12%) Liquibase
16 14 (1.65%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.53%) jMock
17 13 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
General
1 170 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 168 (19.76%) Finance
3 143 (16.82%) Public Sector
4 100 (11.76%) Banking
5 51 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.71%) Retail
7 18 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.41%) Law
8 12 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.94%) Military
11 6 (0.71%) Automotive
11 6 (0.71%) Front Office
11 6 (0.71%) Publishing
11 6 (0.71%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.47%) Police
12 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 475 (55.88%) Developer
2 363 (42.71%) Java Developer
3 175 (20.59%) Senior
4 144 (16.94%) Java Engineer
5 106 (12.47%) Software Engineer
6 93 (10.94%) Senior Developer
7 88 (10.35%) Lead
8 76 (8.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 74 (8.71%) Senior Java Developer
10 61 (7.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 45 (5.29%) Backend Developer
12 36 (4.24%) Lead Developer
13 32 (3.76%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 30 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 25 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.82%) Lead Java Developer
18 23 (2.71%) Architect
18 23 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 699 (82.24%) Spring Boot
2 240 (28.24%) Kafka
3 203 (23.88%) RESTful
4 199 (23.41%) REST
5 158 (18.59%) React
6 119 (14.00%) Node.js
7 79 (9.29%) AngularJS
8 68 (8.00%) Hibernate
9 65 (7.65%) JPA
10 53 (6.24%) HTML
11 52 (6.12%) Spring MVC
11 52 (6.12%) Web Services
12 51 (6.00%) Spring Cloud
13 49 (5.76%) CSS
13 49 (5.76%) WireMock
14 38 (4.47%) OAuth
15 37 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
16 35 (4.12%) OAuth2
17 31 (3.65%) Spring Batch
17 31 (3.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 154 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 113 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 20 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.06%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.82%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.82%) Derivative
12 7 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.71%) Blockchain
13 6 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.88%) Linux
2 21 (2.47%) Unix
3 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.06%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Solaris
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (57.65%) Microservices
2 479 (56.35%) CI/CD
3 352 (41.41%) Agile
4 308 (36.24%) DevOps
5 252 (29.65%) Containerisation
6 207 (24.35%) Software Engineering
7 177 (20.82%) TDD
8 173 (20.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 160 (18.82%) Test Automation
10 158 (18.59%) Event-Driven
11 137 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
12 134 (15.76%) Observability
13 131 (15.41%) Scrum
14 130 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (13.41%) Code Quality
16 99 (11.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 92 (10.82%) BDD
18 85 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 72 (8.47%) Mentoring
20 64 (7.53%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 813 (95.65%) Java
2 253 (29.76%) SQL
3 121 (14.24%) JavaScript
4 112 (13.18%) TypeScript
5 97 (11.41%) Python
6 48 (5.65%) Kotlin
7 29 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.76%) Go
10 10 (1.18%) Scala
11 9 (1.06%) C#
12 8 (0.94%) Bash
12 8 (0.94%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) Perl
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
15 2 (0.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 248 (29.18%) Security Cleared
2 216 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 28 (3.29%) Degree
5 23 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.82%) 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 89 (10.47%) QA
2 68 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.29%) WCAG
5 10 (1.18%) SEPA
6 7 (0.82%) GDPR
6 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.82%) 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 (0.35%) EMIR
10 3 (0.35%) 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 (43.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 356 (41.88%) Kubernetes
2 96 (11.29%) Grafana
3 86 (10.12%) Terraform
4 73 (8.59%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.12%) Ansible
6 12 (1.41%) Kibana
7 8 (0.94%) Argo
7 8 (0.94%) Istio
8 4 (0.47%) Control-M
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%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 83 (9.76%) Oracle
2 41 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.12%) Google
4 31 (3.65%) Splunk
5 17 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.76%) IBM
7 14 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.41%) Solace
8 12 (1.41%) Sybase
9 9 (1.06%) Checkmarx
9 9 (1.06%) Databricks
10 6 (0.71%) Okta
11 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.59%) Confluent
11 5 (0.59%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.59%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.59%) New Relic
11 5 (0.59%) Teradata