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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 165 197
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 -99
Contract jobs citing Spring 735 483 525
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.59% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.05% 6.98% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 293 370
10th Percentile £356 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £635
90th Percentile £648 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +3.65% -9.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 9
10th Percentile £50.75 - £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
75th Percentile £81.00 - £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 - £58.25
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 9,132 6,923 9,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.00% 22.74% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,102 4,522 6,405
10th Percentile £358 £360 £341
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -1.69% -6.64%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 89 228
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.05 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.50 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.23 £75.46
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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +41 613 £500 -9.09% 193
UK excluding London +27 373 £469 +3.65% 174
London -6 284 £525 -4.55% 57
Work from Home +13 196 £476 -4.75% 123
North of England +19 145 £475 -5.00% 47
North West +36 107 £450 -2.70% 27
Midlands +10 80 £469 +10.35% 19
West Midlands +12 77 £470 +10.59% 14
South East +17 58 £400 +2.56% 48
Scotland -22 58 £594 +34.64% 15
South West -12 28 £409 -28.87% 24
Yorkshire -58 24 £500 -4.76% 12
North East -2 21 £475 +4.40% 8
East of England -19 11 £600 - 11
East Midlands -25 3 £308 -28.74% 5

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 46 (6.26%) Confluence
2 21 (2.86%) Apache
2 21 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.45%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.77%) Camunda
5 12 (1.63%) JBoss
6 6 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.82%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.82%) Hyperledger
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) Apache TomEE
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Maya
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 411 (55.92%) AWS
2 205 (27.89%) Azure
3 145 (19.73%) GitHub
4 124 (16.87%) GCP
5 80 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
6 77 (10.48%) Amazon S3
7 76 (10.34%) Serverless
8 64 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.80%) OpenShift
10 42 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
12 36 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
15 28 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (3.27%) Azure AKS
17 18 (2.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (2.31%) Datadog
19 15 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.50%) HTTP
2 10 (1.36%) SSL
3 7 (0.95%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.68%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.54%) DNS
6 3 (0.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.04%) PostgreSQL
2 110 (14.97%) MongoDB
3 105 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 82 (11.16%) Relational Database
5 49 (6.67%) MySQL
6 47 (6.39%) DynamoDB
7 41 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
9 22 (2.99%) SQL Server
10 21 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 18 (2.45%) DB2
12 17 (2.31%) RDBMS
13 15 (2.04%) DocumentDB
14 14 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.77%) Redis
16 10 (1.36%) Big Data
16 10 (1.36%) Flink
17 9 (1.22%) HBase
17 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
18 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 192 (26.12%) Git
2 175 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 158 (21.50%) JUnit
4 127 (17.28%) GitLab
5 74 (10.07%) Maven
6 73 (9.93%) Cucumber
7 68 (9.25%) JIRA
8 55 (7.48%) Gradle
9 52 (7.07%) Mockito
10 46 (6.26%) Selenium
11 32 (4.35%) JMeter
11 32 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (3.13%) IntelliJ
13 18 (2.45%) SonarQube
14 17 (2.31%) Cypress.io
15 16 (2.18%) Gatling
15 16 (2.18%) Postman
16 13 (1.77%) WebDriver
17 12 (1.63%) Artifactory
18 11 (1.50%) Eclipse
General
1 195 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 140 (19.05%) Finance
3 131 (17.82%) Public Sector
4 89 (12.11%) Banking
5 45 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (2.99%) Investment Banking
7 16 (2.18%) Retail
8 14 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (1.50%) Front Office
9 11 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.54%) Military
12 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.41%) Electronics
13 3 (0.41%) Law
13 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 452 (61.50%) Developer
2 325 (44.22%) Java Developer
3 144 (19.59%) Senior
4 110 (14.97%) Java Engineer
5 105 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 94 (12.79%) Senior Developer
7 77 (10.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 68 (9.25%) Lead
9 66 (8.98%) Software Engineer
10 38 (5.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 37 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (3.54%) Backend Developer
13 26 (3.54%) Lead Developer
14 24 (3.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 23 (3.13%) AWS Developer
16 22 (2.99%) Architect
17 20 (2.72%) Software Developer
18 17 (2.31%) Azure Engineer
19 15 (2.04%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 559 (76.05%) Spring Boot
2 220 (29.93%) Kafka
3 190 (25.85%) RESTful
4 156 (21.22%) React
5 153 (20.82%) REST
6 120 (16.33%) AngularJS
7 105 (14.29%) Node.js
8 99 (13.47%) Hibernate
9 78 (10.61%) HTML
10 57 (7.76%) CSS
11 49 (6.67%) JPA
12 38 (5.17%) JSON
12 38 (5.17%) OAuth
13 37 (5.03%) WireMock
14 36 (4.90%) Spring Cloud
15 35 (4.76%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.76%) Playwright
16 34 (4.63%) SOAP
16 34 (4.63%) Spring MVC
17 33 (4.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 109 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.59%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.31%) Equities
7 15 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 13 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.09%) Derivative
11 8 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.82%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.68%) NHS
14 4 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (9.25%) Linux
2 19 (2.59%) Unix
3 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.09%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Android
6 2 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (58.37%) Microservices
2 416 (56.60%) CI/CD
3 295 (40.14%) Agile
4 249 (33.88%) DevOps
5 215 (29.25%) Containerisation
6 179 (24.35%) Full-Stack Development
7 164 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
8 144 (19.59%) Test Automation
9 139 (18.91%) Software Engineering
10 131 (17.82%) TDD
11 122 (16.60%) Event-Driven
12 106 (14.42%) Scrum
13 97 (13.20%) Observability
14 91 (12.38%) Code Quality
15 90 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 86 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (10.61%) Mentoring
18 71 (9.66%) SDLC
19 67 (9.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 61 (8.30%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 693 (94.29%) Java
2 179 (24.35%) SQL
3 108 (14.69%) JavaScript
4 96 (13.06%) TypeScript
5 81 (11.02%) Python
6 43 (5.85%) Kotlin
7 23 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 15 (2.04%) Go
9 14 (1.90%) Scala
10 10 (1.36%) Ruby
11 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.09%) Perl
13 7 (0.95%) C#
14 3 (0.41%) Bash
14 3 (0.41%) Groovy
14 3 (0.41%) PHP
15 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.14%) Clojure
16 1 (0.14%) Korn
16 1 (0.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 214 (29.12%) Security Cleared
2 185 (25.17%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.35%) Degree
4 27 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.63%) OCP
6 12 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.14%) CISSP
12 1 (0.14%) OSCP
12 1 (0.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.25%) QA
2 47 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.45%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.45%) WCAG
4 10 (1.36%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.36%) PSD2
4 10 (1.36%) SEPA
5 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.68%) NIST
6 4 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.54%) SLA
7 3 (0.41%) HL7
7 3 (0.41%) NCSC
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
8 2 (0.27%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 297 (40.41%) Docker
2 7 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.82%) Postfix
4 3 (0.41%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 325 (44.22%) Kubernetes
2 98 (13.33%) Terraform
3 86 (11.70%) Grafana
4 45 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 38 (5.17%) Ansible
6 22 (2.99%) Argo
7 14 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.63%) Kibana
9 9 (1.22%) Puppet
10 6 (0.82%) Istio
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.27%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 62 (8.44%) Oracle
2 36 (4.90%) Microsoft
3 34 (4.63%) Google
4 32 (4.35%) Splunk
5 24 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.31%) Sybase
7 14 (1.90%) VMware
8 11 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 9 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.22%) webMethods
10 8 (1.09%) Solace
11 7 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.95%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.82%) Adobe
12 6 (0.82%) Databricks
12 6 (0.82%) IBM
12 6 (0.82%) PagerDuty
13 5 (0.68%) SAP
13 5 (0.68%) Virgin Media
14 4 (0.54%) ION Trading