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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 152 165
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +42
Contract jobs citing Spring 934 608 582
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.84% 1.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.85% 7.04% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 385 418
10th Percentile £359 £336 £375
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.70% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 6 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £55.00 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile £79.60 £81.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% +1.05%

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 11,905 8,636 9,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.69% 26.08% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 5,740 6,160
10th Percentile £375 £355 £356
25th Percentile £440 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 188 188
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -14.19% +4.88%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% -11.54% +11.03%

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 2 October 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 2 October 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 2 October 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 -1 727 £525 +5.00% 837
UK excluding London -22 434 £500 +11.11% 467
London -9 380 £536 +1.13% 528
Work from Home -42 227 £500 - 392
North of England -3 162 £550 +19.63% 149
Midlands -9 115 £525 +27.27% 50
West Midlands +28 109 £528 +5.50% 39
North West -16 92 £565 +31.40% 90
Scotland -41 73 £402 -17.54% 103
Yorkshire +11 54 £500 +25.00% 28
South West -21 30 £538 +6.44% 62
South East -58 29 £297 -28.00% 49
North East -34 17 £470 -14.55% 31
East of England - 17 £500 - 7
Wales -13 12 £425 -10.53% 18
East Midlands -40 5 £400 +8.70% 11
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 29

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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 31 (3.32%) Apache
2 28 (3.00%) Confluence
3 27 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.18%) Camunda
4 11 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 10 (1.07%) nginx
6 9 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.96%) WebLogic
7 5 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.43%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.43%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.43%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.21%) Mule
10 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Solana
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.43%) Quorum
2 4 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.43%) Ripple
3 3 (0.32%) Finacle
3 3 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 532 (56.96%) AWS
2 195 (20.88%) Azure
3 158 (16.92%) GitHub
4 138 (14.78%) GCP
5 90 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
6 67 (7.17%) Serverless
7 63 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (6.42%) Amazon S3
9 51 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
11 43 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (4.60%) OpenShift
12 41 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (2.89%) GitHub Copilot
15 21 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
17 15 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.39%) HTTP
2 7 (0.75%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.32%) Firewall
3 3 (0.32%) SSL
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (20.56%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (13.06%) MongoDB
3 109 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 103 (11.03%) NoSQL
5 51 (5.46%) MySQL
6 37 (3.96%) Redis
7 35 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
7 35 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.57%) DynamoDB
8 24 (2.57%) Flink
9 22 (2.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 22 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (1.93%) Oracle Database
11 15 (1.61%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.39%) Big Data
13 11 (1.18%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.07%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.07%) Metadata
15 8 (0.86%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 259 (27.73%) Git
2 245 (26.23%) Jenkins
3 171 (18.31%) JUnit
4 164 (17.56%) GitLab
5 136 (14.56%) Maven
6 112 (11.99%) Gradle
7 94 (10.06%) Mockito
8 62 (6.64%) SonarQube
9 56 (6.00%) Cucumber
10 50 (5.35%) JIRA
11 46 (4.93%) Selenium
12 34 (3.64%) Gatling
13 22 (2.36%) REST Assured
14 19 (2.03%) Bitbucket
15 17 (1.82%) Liquibase
16 12 (1.28%) Claude Code
17 11 (1.18%) GoCD
17 11 (1.18%) IntelliJ
18 9 (0.96%) Flyway
18 9 (0.96%) JProfiler
General
1 218 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 200 (21.41%) Finance
3 169 (18.09%) Public Sector
4 131 (14.03%) Banking
5 84 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.21%) Retail
7 21 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.39%) Back Office
11 11 (1.18%) Front Office
12 10 (1.07%) Military
13 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.86%) Law
14 7 (0.75%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.54%) iGaming
15 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 520 (55.67%) Developer
2 432 (46.25%) Java Developer
3 196 (20.99%) Senior
4 159 (17.02%) Java Engineer
5 112 (11.99%) Senior Developer
6 108 (11.56%) Software Engineer
7 99 (10.60%) Lead
8 88 (9.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 68 (7.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (6.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 48 (5.14%) Backend Developer
12 46 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 46 (4.93%) Lead Developer
13 42 (4.50%) Senior Java Engineer
14 39 (4.18%) Lead Java Developer
15 33 (3.53%) Architect
15 33 (3.53%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 23 (2.46%) Technical Leader
18 22 (2.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 788 (84.37%) Spring Boot
2 302 (32.33%) Kafka
3 283 (30.30%) REST
4 230 (24.63%) RESTful
5 159 (17.02%) React
6 106 (11.35%) Node.js
7 101 (10.81%) JPA
8 93 (9.96%) Terraform
9 84 (8.99%) Hibernate
10 76 (8.14%) AngularJS
11 70 (7.49%) HTML
12 62 (6.64%) Web Services
13 60 (6.42%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (6.32%) CSS
15 56 (6.00%) OAuth
16 53 (5.67%) OpenAPI
16 53 (5.67%) Spring MVC
17 52 (5.57%) Playwright
18 43 (4.60%) SOAP
19 41 (4.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 230 (24.63%) Cloud Native
2 156 (16.70%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (9.53%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
5 30 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 16 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 13 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 9 (0.96%) Derivative
12 8 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.75%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.75%) Equities
14 6 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 63 (6.75%) Linux
2 40 (4.28%) Unix
3 3 (0.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) AIX
4 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Solaris
4 2 (0.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (61.88%) Microservices
2 569 (60.92%) CI/CD
3 482 (51.61%) Agile
4 309 (33.08%) DevOps
5 272 (29.12%) Software Engineering
6 267 (28.59%) Containerisation
7 257 (27.52%) Test Automation
8 230 (24.63%) Event-Driven
9 207 (22.16%) Scrum
10 185 (19.81%) TDD
11 155 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 153 (16.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 147 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
14 145 (15.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 127 (13.60%) Observability
16 123 (13.17%) Code Quality
17 103 (11.03%) SDLC
18 101 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
19 95 (10.17%) Design Patterns
19 95 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 919 (98.39%) Java
2 289 (30.94%) SQL
3 130 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 120 (12.85%) TypeScript
5 84 (8.99%) Python
6 47 (5.03%) PL/SQL
7 31 (3.32%) Kotlin
8 30 (3.21%) Shell Script
9 20 (2.14%) Bash
10 14 (1.50%) Scala
11 10 (1.07%) Ruby
12 5 (0.54%) C#
12 5 (0.54%) Groovy
13 4 (0.43%) Solidity
14 3 (0.32%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.21%) Go
15 2 (0.21%) Korn
15 2 (0.21%) PromQL
16 1 (0.11%) Bicep
16 1 (0.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 260 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 224 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 98 (10.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.53%) Degree
5 25 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.92%) QA
2 91 (9.74%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.00%) WCAG
4 20 (2.14%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.50%) SEPA
6 10 (1.07%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.75%) GDPR
8 6 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.54%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.32%) EMIR
11 3 (0.32%) MiFID
12 2 (0.21%) NIST
12 2 (0.21%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 422 (45.18%) Docker
2 4 (0.43%) Postfix
3 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 408 (43.68%) Kubernetes
2 71 (7.60%) Grafana
3 62 (6.64%) Prometheus
4 40 (4.28%) Ansible
5 37 (3.96%) Kibana
6 11 (1.18%) Control-M
7 9 (0.96%) Argo
7 9 (0.96%) Istio
8 4 (0.43%) Bosun
8 4 (0.43%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.21%) Consul
9 2 (0.21%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.11%) Kiali
10 1 (0.11%) logstash
10 1 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 140 (14.99%) Oracle
2 42 (4.50%) Google
3 21 (2.25%) IBM
3 21 (2.25%) Splunk
4 17 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 16 (1.71%) Microsoft
6 12 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 10 (1.07%) Sybase
8 9 (0.96%) Databricks
8 9 (0.96%) New Relic
9 8 (0.86%) Solace
10 7 (0.75%) Confluent
10 7 (0.75%) FIS
10 7 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.75%) TikTok
11 6 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.64%) Checkmarx
12 5 (0.54%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.54%) Temenos