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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 175 227
Rank change year-on-year +11 +52 -138
Contract jobs citing Spring 627 518 488
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.45% 1.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.71% 6.65% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 335 373
10th Percentile £334 £361 £400
25th Percentile £411 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £650
90th Percentile £638 £778 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile - - £57.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 8,136 7,791 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.82% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,391 4,931 7,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 110 182
10th Percentile £30.08 £21.93 £32.30
25th Percentile £42.88 £37.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.04 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +23.81% -19.23%

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 9 December 2025.

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
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 9 December 2025. 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 +18 490 £488 -15.22% 149
UK excluding London +14 309 £455 +1.00% 125
London +4 266 £525 -10.26% 62
Work from Home +11 182 £500 - 110
North of England +4 107 £460 +2.17% 47
Scotland -1 88 £550 +29.41% 11
North West +32 77 £450 - 29
Midlands -10 49 £426 -27.53% 7
South East +10 41 £400 -11.11% 33
West Midlands -17 36 £455 -22.64% 7
Yorkshire -36 20 £513 -18.00% 13
East Midlands - 13 £341 -
Wales +12 12 £475 +13.43% 1
South West -16 12 £503 -8.64% 19
North East -3 11 £500 +12.36% 6
Northern Ireland -10 2 £425 -5.56% 6
East of England -21 1 - - 2

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 19 (3.03%) Confluence
2 17 (2.71%) Apache
3 13 (2.07%) WebLogic
4 11 (1.75%) JBoss
5 7 (1.12%) CMS
6 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.64%) Camunda
7 4 (0.64%) Mule
8 3 (0.48%) CICS
8 3 (0.48%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
9 2 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.32%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.32%) Drupal
9 2 (0.32%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.16%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Fidessa
1 6 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 321 (51.20%) AWS
2 199 (31.74%) Azure
3 106 (16.91%) GCP
4 97 (15.47%) GitHub
5 52 (8.29%) Serverless
6 46 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
7 43 (6.86%) OpenShift
8 42 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (6.22%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (4.15%) Azure AKS
12 22 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 21 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.07%) Datadog
15 12 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (1.75%) Apigee
17 10 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
1 5 (0.80%) SSL
2 4 (0.64%) HTTP
2 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.48%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (19.94%) PostgreSQL
2 115 (18.34%) MongoDB
3 98 (15.63%) Relational Database
4 79 (12.60%) NoSQL
5 45 (7.18%) MySQL
6 38 (6.06%) DB2
7 31 (4.94%) DynamoDB
8 18 (2.87%) Apache Cassandra
8 18 (2.87%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.59%) Redis
12 9 (1.44%) HBase
13 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.80%) Big Data
14 5 (0.80%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 162 (25.84%) JUnit
2 153 (24.40%) Git
3 131 (20.89%) Jenkins
4 79 (12.60%) GitLab
5 64 (10.21%) Cucumber
6 51 (8.13%) Maven
6 51 (8.13%) Mockito
7 46 (7.34%) JIRA
8 34 (5.42%) Gradle
9 29 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (4.15%) Selenium
11 21 (3.35%) Postman
12 20 (3.19%) JMeter
12 20 (3.19%) SonarQube
13 17 (2.71%) Eclipse
14 13 (2.07%) IntelliJ
15 12 (1.91%) Artifactory
15 12 (1.91%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.59%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.44%) Gatling
General
1 197 (31.42%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.72%) Finance
3 110 (17.54%) Banking
4 89 (14.19%) Public Sector
5 64 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (5.58%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.71%) Front Office
9 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (0.96%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.48%) Automotive
12 3 (0.48%) Electronics
12 3 (0.48%) Law
12 3 (0.48%) Marketing
12 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 413 (65.87%) Developer
2 335 (53.43%) Java Developer
3 117 (18.66%) Senior
4 93 (14.83%) Senior Developer
5 86 (13.72%) Senior Java Developer
6 73 (11.64%) Full-Stack Developer
7 70 (11.16%) Java Engineer
8 57 (9.09%) Lead
9 46 (7.34%) Software Engineer
10 38 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 38 (6.06%) SQL Developer
11 28 (4.47%) Lead Developer
12 26 (4.15%) Investment Banking Java Developer
13 24 (3.83%) Linux Developer
14 23 (3.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 22 (3.51%) Architect
15 22 (3.51%) AWS Developer
15 22 (3.51%) Lead Java Developer
16 18 (2.87%) Backend Developer
16 18 (2.87%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (71.13%) Spring Boot
2 202 (32.22%) Kafka
3 169 (26.95%) RESTful
4 130 (20.73%) React
5 123 (19.62%) REST
6 105 (16.75%) AngularJS
7 98 (15.63%) Hibernate
8 78 (12.44%) HTML
9 58 (9.25%) CSS
10 54 (8.61%) JSON
10 54 (8.61%) Node.js
11 46 (7.34%) JMS
12 44 (7.02%) OAuth
13 38 (6.06%) JPA
13 38 (6.06%) OAuth2
14 36 (5.74%) SOAP
15 31 (4.94%) Web Services
16 30 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
16 30 (4.78%) XML
17 27 (4.31%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 83 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.42%) Data Structures
4 31 (4.94%) Equities
5 26 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.44%) Derivative
11 9 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.92%) Linux
2 27 (4.31%) Unix
3 7 (1.12%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Android
6 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.32%) VMS
6 2 (0.32%) zOS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (59.65%) Microservices
2 353 (56.30%) CI/CD
3 304 (48.48%) Agile
4 199 (31.74%) DevOps
5 188 (29.98%) Problem-Solving
6 169 (26.95%) Containerisation
7 134 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 119 (18.98%) Test Automation
9 112 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 103 (16.43%) TDD
11 99 (15.79%) SDLC
12 92 (14.67%) Event-Driven
13 78 (12.44%) Scrum
14 77 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
15 69 (11.00%) Code Quality
16 67 (10.69%) Mentoring
17 61 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (8.93%) Design Patterns
19 55 (8.77%) Unit Testing
20 54 (8.61%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 604 (96.33%) Java
2 194 (30.94%) SQL
3 95 (15.15%) Python
4 93 (14.83%) JavaScript
5 74 (11.80%) TypeScript
6 40 (6.38%) Shell Script
7 21 (3.35%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.87%) Ruby
9 15 (2.39%) Scala
10 10 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.59%) Groovy
10 10 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.80%) C#
12 4 (0.64%) C++
13 3 (0.48%) C
13 3 (0.48%) Go
13 3 (0.48%) Perl
14 2 (0.32%) JCL
14 2 (0.32%) Korn
14 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 135 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 106 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.42%) Degree
4 29 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.07%) OCP
6 13 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CCSP
10 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.16%) CISSP
10 1 (0.16%) OSCP
10 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (11.32%) QA
2 24 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.19%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.75%) PSD2
4 11 (1.75%) SEPA
5 10 (1.59%) WCAG
6 6 (0.96%) GDPR
7 5 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.48%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 252 (40.19%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.32%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 246 (39.23%) Kubernetes
2 79 (12.60%) Terraform
3 36 (5.74%) Ansible
4 29 (4.63%) Grafana
5 15 (2.39%) Progress Chef
6 13 (2.07%) Argo
7 12 (1.91%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.75%) Kibana
9 9 (1.44%) Puppet
10 5 (0.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 2 (0.32%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.32%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.32%) Rancher
12 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.16%) Consul
12 1 (0.16%) Control-M
12 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (11.00%) Oracle
2 39 (6.22%) Microsoft
3 33 (5.26%) Sybase
4 31 (4.94%) Google
5 21 (3.35%) Splunk
6 17 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.55%) VMware
8 15 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.75%) IBM
10 10 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
10 10 (1.59%) webMethods
11 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.80%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.80%) Ping Identity
12 5 (0.80%) SAP
12 5 (0.80%) Virgin Media
13 4 (0.64%) Calypso
13 4 (0.64%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.64%) TIBCO