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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 149 174
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 -17
Contract jobs citing Spring 902 620 612
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.92% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.81% 8.48% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 412 457
10th Percentile £375 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £675 £625 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £460 £466
% change year-on-year +4.27% -1.29% -9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £56.75 £55.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -34.46%
75th Percentile £87.75 £88.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £59.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +36.36% +19.88% -34.46%

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 10,235 7,315 9,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.50% 22.65% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,706 4,941 6,413
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £655
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 154 282
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.12 £22.75
25th Percentile £50.38 £38.16 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -0.22% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.43 £79.61 £74.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

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 9 July 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 9 July 2026.

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 9 July 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 +7 741 £525 +5.00% 283
UK excluding London -32 409 £480 +4.27% 187
London -1 385 £525 - 159
Work from Home -43 217 £490 -2.00% 103
North of England +5 155 £500 +7.53% 47
North West +5 94 £525 +26.51% 29
Midlands -44 77 £475 +13.10% 20
West Midlands -22 74 £475 -3.55% 17
Scotland -44 54 £405 -11.29% 13
South West +3 50 £410 -20.96% 74
Yorkshire -14 42 £500 -4.76% 10
South East -28 41 £450 -1.37% 19
East of England +3 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -16 24 £450 -8.16% 8
Wales -19 7 £375 -21.05% 5
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 6
East Midlands -41 2 £401 +6.93% 3

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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 47 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.55%) Confluence
3 30 (3.33%) Apache
4 14 (1.55%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.44%) Camunda
6 11 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.11%) Ethereum
7 10 (1.11%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.11%) nginx
8 7 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.55%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.33%) JBoss
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.22%) CMS
12 2 (0.22%) Drupal
12 2 (0.22%) MQSeries
12 2 (0.22%) Mule
12 2 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Maya
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.55%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.44%) Quorum
2 4 (0.44%) Ripple
3 3 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 472 (52.33%) AWS
2 226 (25.06%) Azure
3 155 (17.18%) GCP
4 149 (16.52%) GitHub
5 90 (9.98%) GitHub Actions
6 72 (7.98%) Amazon S3
7 68 (7.54%) Serverless
8 59 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
9 42 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (3.66%) OpenShift
14 32 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (2.88%) Azure AKS
17 19 (2.11%) Route 53
18 18 (2.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 18 (2.00%) AWS KMS
19 17 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.22%) HTTP
2 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) SSL
4 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (22.17%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (11.97%) NoSQL
3 94 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 93 (10.31%) MongoDB
5 63 (6.98%) MySQL
6 48 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (5.21%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (3.55%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.55%) Flink
10 23 (2.55%) Redis
11 22 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.33%) Big Data
13 17 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (1.66%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.11%) Db2
16 9 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 221 (24.50%) Git
2 219 (24.28%) Jenkins
3 161 (17.85%) JUnit
4 119 (13.19%) GitLab
5 88 (9.76%) Maven
6 76 (8.43%) Gradle
7 72 (7.98%) Mockito
8 70 (7.76%) JIRA
9 45 (4.99%) Selenium
10 43 (4.77%) Cucumber
11 38 (4.21%) SonarQube
12 28 (3.10%) JMeter
13 19 (2.11%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.11%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.00%) Gatling
14 18 (2.00%) Liquibase
15 17 (1.88%) IntelliJ
16 14 (1.55%) DbUnit
17 13 (1.44%) jMock
17 13 (1.44%) Postman
General
1 190 (21.06%) Social Skills
2 181 (20.07%) Finance
3 164 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 103 (11.42%) Banking
5 58 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.99%) Retail
7 20 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.33%) Law
10 11 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.22%) Military
11 7 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 6 (0.67%) Automotive
12 6 (0.67%) Front Office
12 6 (0.67%) Publishing
13 4 (0.44%) Games
13 4 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.44%) Police
13 4 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 512 (56.76%) Developer
2 401 (44.46%) Java Developer
3 176 (19.51%) Senior
4 145 (16.08%) Java Engineer
5 105 (11.64%) Software Engineer
6 96 (10.64%) Lead
7 95 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 76 (8.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 75 (8.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (6.54%) Backend Developer
10 59 (6.54%) Java Software Engineer
11 40 (4.43%) Lead Developer
12 33 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 31 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 30 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 30 (3.33%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.22%) Lead Java Developer
15 29 (3.22%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (2.77%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.44%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 736 (81.60%) Spring Boot
2 253 (28.05%) Kafka
3 218 (24.17%) REST
4 214 (23.73%) RESTful
5 160 (17.74%) React
6 123 (13.64%) Node.js
7 79 (8.76%) AngularJS
8 70 (7.76%) JPA
9 69 (7.65%) Hibernate
10 59 (6.54%) HTML
11 57 (6.32%) Web Services
12 52 (5.76%) CSS
13 51 (5.65%) WireMock
14 50 (5.54%) Spring MVC
15 45 (4.99%) Spring Cloud
16 41 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (4.10%) OAuth
18 35 (3.88%) Redux
19 33 (3.66%) HTML5
20 32 (3.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 123 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.44%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.11%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 8 (0.89%) Derivative
15 8 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 7 (0.78%) Data Centre
16 7 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.99%) Linux
2 23 (2.55%) Unix
3 10 (1.11%) Windows
4 9 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.55%) VMS
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Solaris
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.22%) Android
8 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (58.31%) CI/CD
1 526 (58.31%) Microservices
2 389 (43.13%) Agile
3 329 (36.47%) DevOps
4 271 (30.04%) Containerisation
5 216 (23.95%) Software Engineering
6 200 (22.17%) TDD
7 182 (20.18%) Test Automation
8 177 (19.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 171 (18.96%) Event-Driven
10 153 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (16.30%) Scrum
12 138 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 132 (14.63%) Observability
14 126 (13.97%) Code Quality
15 107 (11.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 93 (10.31%) BDD
17 83 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (8.65%) Mentoring
19 75 (8.31%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 868 (96.23%) Java
2 264 (29.27%) SQL
3 126 (13.97%) JavaScript
4 113 (12.53%) TypeScript
5 100 (11.09%) Python
6 45 (4.99%) Kotlin
7 34 (3.77%) PL/SQL
8 19 (2.11%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.55%) Scala
10 13 (1.44%) Go
11 11 (1.22%) C#
12 9 (1.00%) Bash
12 9 (1.00%) Ruby
13 6 (0.67%) Perl
14 5 (0.55%) Solidity
15 3 (0.33%) Groovy
16 2 (0.22%) PHP
16 2 (0.22%) PromQL
17 1 (0.11%) Korn
17 1 (0.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 274 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 235 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (3.88%) Degree
5 28 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.22%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.11%) CISSP
10 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (10.31%) QA
2 71 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.11%) ISO 20022
3 10 (1.11%) WCAG
4 8 (0.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.89%) SEPA
5 7 (0.78%) GDPR
5 7 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.55%) SLA
7 4 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) PSD2
8 3 (0.33%) EMIR
8 3 (0.33%) MiFID
9 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) ITGC
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) NIST
System Software
1 398 (44.12%) Docker
2 11 (1.22%) Postfix
3 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 388 (43.02%) Kubernetes
2 90 (9.98%) Grafana
3 87 (9.65%) Terraform
4 72 (7.98%) Prometheus
5 38 (4.21%) Ansible
6 14 (1.55%) Kibana
7 7 (0.78%) Istio
8 6 (0.67%) Control-M
9 5 (0.55%) Argo
10 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Consul
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
11 2 (0.22%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.11%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.11%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.11%) Kiali
12 1 (0.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 98 (10.86%) Oracle
2 45 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.32%) Google
4 34 (3.77%) Splunk
5 17 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
6 16 (1.77%) IBM
7 15 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.55%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.55%) Solace
9 13 (1.44%) Sybase
10 11 (1.22%) Databricks
11 10 (1.11%) Checkmarx
11 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.78%) Okta
14 6 (0.67%) New Relic
14 6 (0.67%) TikTok
15 5 (0.55%) Ab Initio
15 5 (0.55%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.55%) Teradata