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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 146 177
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 895 622 593
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.91% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.68% 8.46% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 413 440
10th Percentile £363 £351 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £671 £631 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 8
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%
75th Percentile £85.50 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £61.73
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 10,309 7,350 8,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 22.58% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,745 4,965 6,172
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £539
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -5.84% -2.00%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +6.16% -5.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 154 269
10th Percentile £29.72 £30.08 £22.50
25th Percentile £49.20 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.15
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.48% -1.49%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 July 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 +10 720 £525 +5.00% 139
UK excluding London -30 412 £500 +11.11% 91
London +3 371 £525 +0.96% 80
Work from Home -40 230 £500 - 69
North of England +4 147 £520 +11.83% 23
North West -14 87 £540 +32.19% 10
Midlands -35 83 £475 +13.10% 17
West Midlands -14 80 £475 -3.55% 13
Scotland -44 59 £405 -10.11% 9
South West 0 50 £410 -21.06% 7
Yorkshire -1 44 £525 -2.33% 8
South East -30 40 £463 +1.37% 26
East of England +8 28 £510 +9.09% 1
North East -22 19 £450 -8.16% 6
Wales -18 7 £375 -21.05% 6
Northern Ireland -3 2 - - 2
East Midlands -41 2 £401 +6.93% 4

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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 44 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 37 (4.13%) Confluence
3 27 (3.02%) Apache
4 15 (1.68%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.45%) Camunda
6 11 (1.23%) nginx
7 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.12%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.12%) Hyperledger
8 8 (0.89%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.45%) CMS
10 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.34%) JBoss
12 2 (0.22%) Drupal
12 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.22%) Mule
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.45%) Quorum
2 4 (0.45%) Ripple
3 3 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 477 (53.30%) AWS
2 232 (25.92%) Azure
3 166 (18.55%) GCP
4 151 (16.87%) GitHub
5 94 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
6 70 (7.82%) Amazon S3
7 65 (7.26%) Serverless
8 55 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (4.36%) OpenShift
12 33 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
12 33 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (2.79%) Azure AKS
15 19 (2.12%) AWS KMS
16 18 (2.01%) Route 53
17 17 (1.90%) Cloud Run
18 16 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.45%) HTTP
2 7 (0.78%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (22.57%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (11.40%) NoSQL
3 100 (11.17%) Relational Database
4 91 (10.17%) MongoDB
5 69 (7.71%) MySQL
6 44 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 44 (4.92%) DynamoDB
7 30 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (2.79%) Redis
10 24 (2.68%) Flink
11 22 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
12 19 (2.12%) Big Data
13 18 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.23%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.01%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.89%) Db2
17 8 (0.89%) Metadata
18 7 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 239 (26.70%) Git
2 226 (25.25%) Jenkins
3 156 (17.43%) JUnit
4 111 (12.40%) GitLab
5 95 (10.61%) Maven
6 88 (9.83%) Gradle
7 70 (7.82%) Mockito
8 69 (7.71%) JIRA
9 45 (5.03%) Selenium
10 44 (4.92%) Cucumber
11 41 (4.58%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.13%) JMeter
13 20 (2.23%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.12%) Gatling
14 19 (2.12%) WebDriver
15 18 (2.01%) Liquibase
16 16 (1.79%) IntelliJ
17 14 (1.56%) DbUnit
18 13 (1.45%) jMock
18 13 (1.45%) Postman
General
1 194 (21.68%) Social Skills
2 182 (20.34%) Finance
3 157 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.95%) Banking
5 69 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.13%) Retail
7 18 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.34%) Law
10 11 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.12%) Military
12 6 (0.67%) Automotive
12 6 (0.67%) Publishing
12 6 (0.67%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.56%) Police
14 4 (0.45%) Front Office
14 4 (0.45%) Games
14 4 (0.45%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 514 (57.43%) Developer
2 411 (45.92%) Java Developer
3 178 (19.89%) Senior
4 134 (14.97%) Java Engineer
5 103 (11.51%) Software Engineer
6 101 (11.28%) Senior Developer
7 96 (10.73%) Lead
8 80 (8.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 66 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
10 58 (6.48%) Backend Developer
11 57 (6.37%) Java Software Engineer
12 40 (4.47%) Lead Developer
13 35 (3.91%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 33 (3.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 30 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
17 28 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (3.02%) Architect
18 27 (3.02%) Senior Java Engineer
19 22 (2.46%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 739 (82.57%) Spring Boot
2 252 (28.16%) Kafka
3 229 (25.59%) REST
4 221 (24.69%) RESTful
5 161 (17.99%) React
6 114 (12.74%) Node.js
7 76 (8.49%) AngularJS
8 73 (8.16%) JPA
9 69 (7.71%) Hibernate
10 63 (7.04%) HTML
11 61 (6.82%) Web Services
12 58 (6.48%) Spring MVC
13 57 (6.37%) CSS
14 44 (4.92%) WireMock
15 43 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
16 42 (4.69%) OAuth
16 42 (4.69%) Spring Cloud
17 37 (4.13%) Redux
18 32 (3.58%) SOAP
18 32 (3.58%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 163 (18.21%) Cloud Native
2 129 (14.41%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (7.71%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
6 21 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.56%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.89%) Derivative
13 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
15 6 (0.67%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.59%) Linux
2 25 (2.79%) Unix
3 10 (1.12%) Windows
4 9 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.56%) VMS
6 4 (0.45%) Solaris
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Android
8 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (59.78%) Microservices
2 533 (59.55%) CI/CD
3 403 (45.03%) Agile
4 327 (36.54%) DevOps
5 267 (29.83%) Containerisation
6 216 (24.13%) Software Engineering
7 191 (21.34%) TDD
8 189 (21.12%) Test Automation
9 170 (18.99%) Event-Driven
10 164 (18.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 163 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
12 160 (17.88%) Scrum
13 149 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 139 (15.53%) Observability
15 132 (14.75%) Code Quality
16 109 (12.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 94 (10.50%) BDD
18 87 (9.72%) Design Patterns
18 87 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
19 78 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 864 (96.54%) Java
2 267 (29.83%) SQL
3 127 (14.19%) JavaScript
4 110 (12.29%) TypeScript
5 98 (10.95%) Python
6 46 (5.14%) Kotlin
7 40 (4.47%) PL/SQL
8 18 (2.01%) Shell Script
9 13 (1.45%) Scala
10 12 (1.34%) Go
11 10 (1.12%) Bash
12 9 (1.01%) C#
13 8 (0.89%) Ruby
14 6 (0.67%) Perl
15 5 (0.56%) Solidity
16 3 (0.34%) Groovy
17 2 (0.22%) PHP
17 2 (0.22%) PromQL
18 1 (0.11%) Korn
18 1 (0.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 278 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 240 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.80%) Degree
5 28 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.06%) QA
2 71 (7.93%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.01%) ISO 20022
3 9 (1.01%) WCAG
4 7 (0.78%) GDPR
4 7 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (0.78%) SEPA
5 5 (0.56%) SLA
6 3 (0.34%) EMIR
6 3 (0.34%) MiFID
6 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.22%) PSD2
8 1 (0.11%) HL7
8 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 400 (44.69%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 385 (43.02%) Kubernetes
2 92 (10.28%) Grafana
3 82 (9.16%) Terraform
4 77 (8.60%) Prometheus
5 41 (4.58%) Ansible
6 13 (1.45%) Kibana
7 8 (0.89%) Control-M
7 8 (0.89%) Istio
8 5 (0.56%) Argo
9 4 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Consul
10 2 (0.22%) Rancher
10 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.11%) Kiali
11 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 114 (12.74%) Oracle
2 46 (5.14%) Google
3 42 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 34 (3.80%) Splunk
5 17 (1.90%) IBM
5 17 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 12 (1.34%) Solace
9 11 (1.23%) Databricks
9 11 (1.23%) Sybase
10 10 (1.12%) Checkmarx
10 10 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.78%) Okta
12 7 (0.78%) TikTok
13 6 (0.67%) New Relic
14 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.45%) Ab Initio
15 4 (0.45%) Teradata