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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 170 194
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 -89
Contract jobs citing Spring 762 474 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.63% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.20% 7.16% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 298 376
10th Percentile £356 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £421 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% - -13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £492
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.58% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £51.00 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £42.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £67.50 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 - £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 9,295 6,621 8,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.73% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,217 4,492 6,234
10th Percentile £358 £363 £334
25th Percentile £414 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £495
% change year-on-year +1.01% - -2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 96 196
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £39.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.09 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 24 March 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 24 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 24 March 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 +27 638 £500 -6.80% 141
UK excluding London +24 387 £465 +3.33% 106
London -4 291 £525 -5.83% 60
Work from Home -11 191 £475 -5.00% 105
North of England +17 152 £475 +1.60% 51
North West +41 115 £468 +1.08% 33
Midlands -7 79 £469 +10.35% 3
West Midlands 0 77 £469 +10.35% 1
South East +8 60 £400 -3.03% 18
Scotland -25 55 £588 +30.56% 8
South West -7 33 £409 -23.91% 15
Yorkshire -54 23 £500 -4.76% 11
North East -5 21 £450 +1.12% 7
East of England -12 16 £510 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -34 2 £335 -22.36% 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 49 (6.43%) Confluence
2 25 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.49%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) WebLogic
5 12 (1.57%) Camunda
6 8 (1.05%) JBoss
7 7 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.79%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.79%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.39%) nginx
12 2 (0.26%) Apache TomEE
12 2 (0.26%) CICS
12 2 (0.26%) CMS
12 2 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.44%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 429 (56.30%) AWS
2 223 (29.27%) Azure
3 162 (21.26%) GitHub
4 135 (17.72%) GCP
5 86 (11.29%) Serverless
6 85 (11.15%) GitHub Actions
7 80 (10.50%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.04%) OpenShift
10 43 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
13 33 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.07%) Azure AKS
15 30 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (2.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (2.23%) AWS Fargate
18 17 (2.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) HTTP
2 10 (1.31%) SSL
3 7 (0.92%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.52%) DNS
6 3 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (23.10%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (15.22%) NoSQL
3 100 (13.12%) MongoDB
4 79 (10.37%) Relational Database
5 57 (7.48%) MySQL
6 51 (6.69%) DynamoDB
7 41 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.76%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.23%) DB2
12 16 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 15 (1.97%) DocumentDB
14 14 (1.84%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.44%) Big Data
15 11 (1.44%) Redis
16 10 (1.31%) Flink
17 9 (1.18%) BigQuery
17 9 (1.18%) HBase
18 8 (1.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 204 (26.77%) Git
2 184 (24.15%) Jenkins
3 159 (20.87%) JUnit
4 130 (17.06%) GitLab
5 73 (9.58%) JIRA
6 71 (9.32%) Cucumber
6 71 (9.32%) Maven
7 55 (7.22%) Gradle
7 55 (7.22%) Mockito
8 43 (5.64%) Selenium
9 32 (4.20%) JMeter
10 27 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (2.76%) SonarQube
12 20 (2.62%) IntelliJ
13 17 (2.23%) WebDriver
14 16 (2.10%) Gatling
14 16 (2.10%) Postman
15 15 (1.97%) Cypress.io
16 11 (1.44%) Artifactory
17 10 (1.31%) REST Assured
General
1 198 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.50%) Finance
3 132 (17.32%) Public Sector
4 81 (10.63%) Banking
5 44 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.49%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.23%) Retail
8 15 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.31%) Front Office
10 8 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Law
13 4 (0.52%) Automotive
13 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.52%) Military
13 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.52%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.39%) Electronics
14 3 (0.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 460 (60.37%) Developer
2 323 (42.39%) Java Developer
3 150 (19.69%) Senior
4 117 (15.35%) Java Engineer
5 101 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.34%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 72 (9.45%) Software Engineer
9 65 (8.53%) Lead
10 43 (5.64%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (4.46%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 33 (4.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 29 (3.81%) Architect
14 25 (3.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (3.15%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.15%) Software Developer
16 21 (2.76%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
18 16 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 588 (77.17%) Spring Boot
2 210 (27.56%) Kafka
3 196 (25.72%) RESTful
4 166 (21.78%) React
5 161 (21.13%) REST
6 120 (15.75%) AngularJS
7 118 (15.49%) Node.js
8 87 (11.42%) Hibernate
9 80 (10.50%) HTML
10 64 (8.40%) CSS
11 50 (6.56%) JPA
12 45 (5.91%) Spring MVC
13 42 (5.51%) WireMock
14 41 (5.38%) OAuth
15 38 (4.99%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.46%) Web Services
17 33 (4.33%) Playwright
17 33 (4.33%) Spring Cloud
18 32 (4.20%) HTML5
18 32 (4.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 119 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 75 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 16 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.97%) Equities
9 14 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.05%) Derivative
12 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 6 (0.79%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.66%) NHS
15 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.35%) Linux
2 14 (1.84%) Unix
3 9 (1.18%) Windows
4 8 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (58.27%) Microservices
2 435 (57.09%) CI/CD
3 306 (40.16%) Agile
4 270 (35.43%) DevOps
5 221 (29.00%) Containerisation
6 184 (24.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 158 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
8 148 (19.42%) TDD
9 146 (19.16%) Software Engineering
10 145 (19.03%) Test Automation
11 125 (16.40%) Event-Driven
12 110 (14.44%) Observability
13 106 (13.91%) Code Quality
14 105 (13.78%) Scrum
15 97 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 88 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 77 (10.10%) Mentoring
18 73 (9.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 70 (9.19%) SDLC
20 69 (9.06%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 714 (93.70%) Java
2 187 (24.54%) SQL
3 115 (15.09%) JavaScript
4 109 (14.30%) TypeScript
5 90 (11.81%) Python
6 50 (6.56%) Kotlin
7 20 (2.62%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.23%) Go
9 12 (1.57%) Ruby
10 10 (1.31%) Scala
11 9 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.05%) C#
13 7 (0.92%) Perl
14 4 (0.52%) Bash
15 3 (0.39%) PHP
16 1 (0.13%) C++
16 1 (0.13%) COBOL
16 1 (0.13%) Groovy
16 1 (0.13%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 221 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 189 (24.80%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.99%) Degree
4 32 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.57%) OCP
6 12 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.45%) QA
2 53 (6.96%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.49%) WCAG
4 17 (2.23%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.18%) PSD2
6 9 (1.18%) SEPA
7 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.66%) NIST
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.52%) GDPR
9 3 (0.39%) HL7
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 311 (40.81%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Postfix
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 350 (45.93%) Kubernetes
2 95 (12.47%) Terraform
3 91 (11.94%) Grafana
4 51 (6.69%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.59%) Ansible
6 22 (2.89%) Argo
7 11 (1.44%) Kibana
8 9 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.92%) Istio
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 4 (0.52%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 61 (8.01%) Oracle
2 47 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 38 (4.99%) Google
4 31 (4.07%) Splunk
5 23 (3.02%) Red Hat
6 15 (1.97%) Sybase
7 10 (1.31%) Dynatrace
7 10 (1.31%) Solace
8 9 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (1.18%) VMware
9 7 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.92%) ForgeRock
9 7 (0.92%) SAP
10 6 (0.79%) Adobe
10 6 (0.79%) Databricks
10 6 (0.79%) IBM
10 6 (0.79%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.52%) Checkmarx
11 4 (0.52%) Confluent
11 4 (0.52%) Virgin Media