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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 181 218
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 -129
Contract jobs citing Spring 627 498 487
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.45% 1.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 6.60% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 320 367
10th Percentile £343 £362 £402
25th Percentile £411 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% -13.65%
75th Percentile £575 £639 £650
90th Percentile £638 £780 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £40.00 - £61.50
25th Percentile £46.25 - £65.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - £77.75
90th Percentile £64.75 - £77.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 8,286 7,543 9,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.52% 21.92% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,488 4,801 6,886
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 101 175
10th Percentile £30.70 £21.25 £31.55
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -1.15% +24.53% -19.70%

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 17 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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 17 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 +22 490 £475 -17.39% 257
UK excluding London +6 313 £462 +2.56% 278
London +3 258 £525 -11.02% 46
Work from Home +20 185 £500 +2.04% 245
North of England +12 119 £455 +1.00% 75
North West +30 88 £450 -2.70% 41
Scotland +2 84 £550 +29.41% 35
Midlands -9 48 £429 -26.98% 24
South East +18 43 £410 +5.13% 73
West Midlands -24 36 £455 -22.64% 13
Yorkshire -36 23 £475 -24.00% 26
Wales +12 12 £475 +13.43% 7
East Midlands - 12 £375 - 10
North East -7 11 £475 +6.74% 9
South West -10 9 £525 -4.55% 32
Northern Ireland -11 2 £425 -5.56% 8
East of England -20 2 £450 +20.00% 28

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 21 (3.35%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) CICS
8 3 (0.48%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) WordPress
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%) WebSphere
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
1 324 (51.67%) AWS
2 196 (31.26%) Azure
3 103 (16.43%) GitHub
4 101 (16.11%) GCP
5 51 (8.13%) Serverless
6 48 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
7 45 (7.18%) OpenShift
8 40 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (6.22%) Amazon S3
10 27 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
11 26 (4.15%) Azure AKS
12 25 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
13 22 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
15 13 (2.07%) Datadog
16 12 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
18 9 (1.44%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.44%) SSL
2 5 (0.80%) Kerberos
3 4 (0.64%) HTTP
3 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (18.50%) MongoDB
3 96 (15.31%) Relational Database
4 80 (12.76%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.70%) MySQL
6 36 (5.74%) DB2
7 32 (5.10%) DynamoDB
8 19 (3.03%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.71%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (1.91%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.59%) Redis
14 9 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.44%) DocumentDB
14 9 (1.44%) HBase
15 6 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 4 (0.64%) Big Data
16 4 (0.64%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 154 (24.56%) JUnit
2 152 (24.24%) Git
3 132 (21.05%) Jenkins
4 89 (14.19%) GitLab
5 67 (10.69%) Cucumber
6 49 (7.81%) Maven
6 49 (7.81%) Mockito
7 48 (7.66%) JIRA
8 40 (6.38%) Gradle
9 29 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (4.47%) Selenium
11 21 (3.35%) JMeter
11 21 (3.35%) Postman
12 19 (3.03%) SonarQube
13 18 (2.87%) IntelliJ
14 16 (2.55%) Eclipse
15 13 (2.07%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.91%) Artifactory
17 10 (1.59%) Bitbucket
17 10 (1.59%) Gatling
General
1 195 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 155 (24.72%) Finance
3 112 (17.86%) Banking
4 90 (14.35%) Public Sector
5 63 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.55%) Front Office
7 16 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
9 5 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.48%) Automotive
10 3 (0.48%) Electronics
10 3 (0.48%) Law
10 3 (0.48%) Marketing
11 2 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 410 (65.39%) Developer
2 327 (52.15%) Java Developer
3 121 (19.30%) Senior
4 96 (15.31%) Senior Developer
5 85 (13.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 76 (12.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 74 (11.80%) Java Engineer
8 53 (8.45%) Lead
9 52 (8.29%) Software Engineer
10 38 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 35 (5.58%) SQL Developer
12 27 (4.31%) Lead Developer
13 24 (3.83%) AWS Developer
13 24 (3.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (3.83%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 22 (3.51%) Linux Developer
15 21 (3.35%) Java Software Engineer
15 21 (3.35%) Lead Java Developer
16 20 (3.19%) Architect
17 19 (3.03%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (73.05%) Spring Boot
2 205 (32.70%) Kafka
3 161 (25.68%) RESTful
4 130 (20.73%) React
5 126 (20.10%) REST
6 106 (16.91%) AngularJS
7 94 (14.99%) Hibernate
8 82 (13.08%) HTML
9 60 (9.57%) Node.js
10 57 (9.09%) CSS
11 54 (8.61%) JSON
12 44 (7.02%) JMS
13 39 (6.22%) OAuth
14 37 (5.90%) JPA
15 33 (5.26%) OAuth2
16 31 (4.94%) SOAP
17 30 (4.78%) Spring Cloud
18 28 (4.47%) HTML5
19 27 (4.31%) J2EE
19 27 (4.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (12.60%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.63%) Equities
5 26 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.99%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.75%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.44%) Derivative
11 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.96%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
15 5 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
16 4 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 79 (12.60%) Linux
2 24 (3.83%) Unix
3 8 (1.28%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.64%) Android
6 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.32%) zOS
8 1 (0.16%) Solaris
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (59.65%) Microservices
2 348 (55.50%) CI/CD
3 288 (45.93%) Agile
4 197 (31.42%) DevOps
5 184 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
6 172 (27.43%) Containerisation
7 138 (22.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 124 (19.78%) Test Automation
9 115 (18.34%) Software Engineering
10 100 (15.95%) TDD
11 95 (15.15%) SDLC
12 94 (14.99%) Event-Driven
13 78 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 75 (11.96%) Scrum
15 69 (11.00%) Code Quality
16 64 (10.21%) Mentoring
17 61 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (8.93%) API Design
18 56 (8.93%) Unit Testing
19 54 (8.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 602 (96.01%) Java
2 186 (29.67%) SQL
3 97 (15.47%) JavaScript
4 91 (14.51%) Python
5 72 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 39 (6.22%) Shell Script
7 29 (4.63%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.87%) Ruby
9 14 (2.23%) Scala
10 10 (1.59%) Bash
10 10 (1.59%) Groovy
10 10 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.80%) C#
12 3 (0.48%) C++
12 3 (0.48%) Go
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.32%) C
13 2 (0.32%) COBOL
13 2 (0.32%) PHP
13 2 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 132 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 106 (16.91%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.42%) Degree
4 28 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.07%) OCP
6 13 (2.07%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.96%) 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 31 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.19%) ISO 20022
4 11 (1.75%) PSD2
4 11 (1.75%) SEPA
5 10 (1.59%) WCAG
6 5 (0.80%) GDPR
6 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.48%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 249 (39.71%) Docker
2 7 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.48%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 256 (40.83%) Kubernetes
2 79 (12.60%) Terraform
3 36 (5.74%) Ansible
4 34 (5.42%) 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 4 (0.64%) 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 70 (11.16%) Oracle
2 36 (5.74%) Microsoft
3 31 (4.94%) Sybase
4 29 (4.63%) Google
5 20 (3.19%) Splunk
6 18 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.55%) VMware
8 13 (2.07%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
9 10 (1.59%) IBM
9 10 (1.59%) webMethods
10 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.96%) Virgin Media
11 5 (0.80%) ION Trading
11 5 (0.80%) SAP
12 4 (0.64%) Calypso
12 4 (0.64%) Confluent
12 4 (0.64%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.64%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.64%) TIBCO