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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 +27
Contract jobs citing Spring 899 602 563
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.85% 1.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.64% 7.27% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 389 415
10th Percentile £363 £339 £380
25th Percentile £425 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £638
90th Percentile £700 £633 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +7.59% +1.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 1
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £69.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -0.69%
75th Percentile £76.00 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile £86.10 £92.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 11,769 8,285 9,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.81% 25.47% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,739 5,573 6,330
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £434 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £633 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 182 189
10th Percentile £29.07 £30.80 £25.60
25th Percentile £46.53 £40.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -15.32% -0.80%
75th Percentile £75.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £74.75 £74.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.18% -15.38% +9.22%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -7 711 £525 +5.00% 679
UK excluding London -29 414 £489 +7.59% 381
London -7 379 £534 +1.67% 447
Work from Home -40 221 £500 - 341
North of England -4 166 £530 +13.98% 116
North West -25 96 £550 +22.29% 75
Midlands -27 85 £540 +30.97% 47
West Midlands +1 79 £551 +10.10% 40
Scotland -42 71 £402 -13.08% 81
Yorkshire +1 53 £500 +39.16% 23
South West -15 35 £463 -8.42% 51
South East -55 29 £294 -41.20% 47
East of England -2 21 £500 +6.95% 6
North East -29 18 £450 -8.16% 18
Wales -18 11 £425 -10.53% 7
East Midlands -43 5 £400 +6.67% 7
Northern Ireland 0 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 33 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 27 (3.00%) Confluence
3 23 (2.56%) Apache
4 14 (1.56%) Camunda
5 10 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.11%) nginx
6 9 (1.00%) WebLogic
7 8 (0.89%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.56%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.44%) CMS
9 4 (0.44%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.44%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.33%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.22%) Anypoint
11 2 (0.22%) Mule
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Trello
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.33%) Finacle
3 3 (0.33%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 510 (56.73%) AWS
2 202 (22.47%) Azure
3 155 (17.24%) GitHub
4 143 (15.91%) GCP
5 90 (10.01%) GitHub Actions
6 62 (6.90%) Serverless
7 57 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (5.78%) Amazon S3
9 45 (5.01%) OpenShift
10 43 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 43 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
10 43 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
15 18 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 17 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 13 (1.45%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) HTTP
2 6 (0.67%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
3 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 2 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) Broadband
5 1 (0.11%) SMS
5 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (21.36%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (11.79%) NoSQL
3 101 (11.23%) MongoDB
3 101 (11.23%) Relational Database
4 64 (7.12%) MySQL
5 37 (4.12%) Redis
6 33 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (3.34%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (2.00%) Flink
12 16 (1.78%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.78%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.67%) Big Data
14 14 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.22%) Couchbase
16 10 (1.11%) Metadata
17 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.89%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 235 (26.14%) Jenkins
2 232 (25.81%) Git
3 159 (17.69%) JUnit
4 140 (15.57%) GitLab
5 112 (12.46%) Maven
6 100 (11.12%) Gradle
7 85 (9.45%) Mockito
8 56 (6.23%) SonarQube
9 51 (5.67%) JIRA
10 41 (4.56%) Cucumber
11 37 (4.12%) Selenium
12 22 (2.45%) Gatling
12 22 (2.45%) Liquibase
13 20 (2.22%) REST Assured
14 16 (1.78%) Bitbucket
15 14 (1.56%) IntelliJ
16 13 (1.45%) JMeter
17 11 (1.22%) GoCD
18 9 (1.00%) Bitbucket Server
18 9 (1.00%) Flyway
General
1 206 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 191 (21.25%) Finance
3 159 (17.69%) Public Sector
4 109 (12.12%) Banking
5 73 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.00%) Retail
7 16 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.33%) Law
9 12 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.00%) Military
11 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.78%) Back Office
12 7 (0.78%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.67%) Publishing
14 5 (0.56%) Games
14 5 (0.56%) Police
15 4 (0.44%) Automotive
15 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 517 (57.51%) Developer
2 424 (47.16%) Java Developer
3 187 (20.80%) Senior
4 140 (15.57%) Java Engineer
5 111 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 109 (12.12%) Software Engineer
7 92 (10.23%) Lead
8 89 (9.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 67 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (7.01%) Java Software Engineer
11 53 (5.90%) Backend Developer
12 43 (4.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 43 (4.78%) Lead Developer
13 36 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
14 35 (3.89%) Architect
15 34 (3.78%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
17 28 (3.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 23 (2.56%) Data Engineer
19 21 (2.34%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 758 (84.32%) Spring Boot
2 280 (31.15%) Kafka
3 257 (28.59%) REST
4 221 (24.58%) RESTful
5 173 (19.24%) React
6 107 (11.90%) Node.js
7 88 (9.79%) Terraform
8 84 (9.34%) JPA
9 79 (8.79%) HTML
10 73 (8.12%) Hibernate
11 69 (7.68%) AngularJS
12 67 (7.45%) CSS
13 60 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (6.45%) Spring MVC
15 57 (6.34%) Web Services
16 52 (5.78%) OAuth
17 41 (4.56%) OpenAPI
17 41 (4.56%) Redux
18 40 (4.45%) Spring Cloud
19 38 (4.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 211 (23.47%) Cloud Native
2 141 (15.68%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (8.68%) Product Ownership
4 48 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.89%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.56%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.33%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.78%) Derivative
16 7 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
17 6 (0.67%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.45%) Linux
2 32 (3.56%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) VMS
3 3 (0.33%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Solaris
4 2 (0.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) AIX
5 1 (0.11%) Android
5 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (62.07%) Microservices
2 532 (59.18%) CI/CD
3 447 (49.72%) Agile
4 304 (33.82%) DevOps
5 264 (29.37%) Software Engineering
6 262 (29.14%) Containerisation
7 228 (25.36%) Test Automation
8 206 (22.91%) Event-Driven
9 185 (20.58%) TDD
10 175 (19.47%) Scrum
11 154 (17.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 153 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 143 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (14.91%) Code Quality
15 133 (14.79%) Observability
16 131 (14.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 101 (11.23%) SDLC
18 100 (11.12%) Infrastructure as Code
19 96 (10.68%) Design Patterns
20 89 (9.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 883 (98.22%) Java
2 280 (31.15%) SQL
3 134 (14.91%) JavaScript
4 121 (13.46%) TypeScript
5 94 (10.46%) Python
6 45 (5.01%) PL/SQL
7 37 (4.12%) Kotlin
8 23 (2.56%) Shell Script
9 21 (2.34%) Bash
10 13 (1.45%) Scala
11 10 (1.11%) Ruby
12 6 (0.67%) C#
13 5 (0.56%) Groovy
14 4 (0.44%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Solidity
15 3 (0.33%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.22%) Korn
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 252 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 213 (23.69%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 32 (3.56%) Degree
5 24 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.11%) CISSP
9 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (11.90%) QA
2 78 (8.68%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.11%) WCAG
4 17 (1.89%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.22%) SEPA
6 10 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.78%) GDPR
8 6 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 3 (0.33%) EMIR
11 3 (0.33%) MiFID
12 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 402 (44.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 384 (42.71%) Kubernetes
2 72 (8.01%) Grafana
3 64 (7.12%) Prometheus
4 42 (4.67%) Ansible
5 29 (3.23%) Kibana
6 11 (1.22%) Control-M
7 10 (1.11%) Istio
8 7 (0.78%) Argo
9 4 (0.44%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.33%) Bosun
10 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) logstash
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 133 (14.79%) Oracle
2 41 (4.56%) Google
3 26 (2.89%) Microsoft
4 23 (2.56%) IBM
5 19 (2.11%) Splunk
6 18 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.22%) Solace
9 10 (1.11%) Checkmarx
10 9 (1.00%) Databricks
10 9 (1.00%) Sybase
11 8 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.78%) Confluent
12 7 (0.78%) New Relic
12 7 (0.78%) TikTok
13 6 (0.67%) FIS
14 5 (0.56%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.44%) Mistral
15 4 (0.44%) Okta