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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 169 213
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -125
Contract jobs citing Spring 610 530 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.45% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 6.64% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 349 418
10th Percentile £330 £365 £400
25th Percentile £405 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £675
90th Percentile £638 £765 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - £58.38
25th Percentile - - £67.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £62.50 - £77.88
90th Percentile £67.00 - £79.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 8,006 7,976 10,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.88% 21.80% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,332 5,047 7,524
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £775 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.90% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 116 189
10th Percentile £29.00 £22.00 £35.55
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.88 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +12 473 £500 -9.09% 528
UK excluding London +12 306 £465 +3.33% 425
London +3 258 £525 -10.26% 254
Work from Home +33 192 £500 - 352
Scotland +4 92 £538 +26.47% 17
North of England -3 82 £475 +5.56% 84
Midlands +12 68 £427 -27.32% 30
North West +1 57 £465 +3.33% 54
West Midlands -13 44 £500 -14.89% 19
South East +17 35 £393 -12.78% 224
East Midlands - 24 £372 - 9
South West -5 16 £503 -8.64% 23
Yorkshire -25 15 £525 +5.00% 19
Wales +12 13 £475 +13.43% 11
North East -7 10 £550 +23.60% 11
Northern Ireland -13 2 £425 -10.53% 18
East of England -19 1 - - 11

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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 21 (3.44%) JBoss
2 20 (3.28%) Confluence
3 16 (2.62%) Apache
4 14 (2.30%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.80%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.31%) CMS
7 7 (1.15%) Camunda
8 4 (0.66%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.66%) Mule
9 3 (0.49%) Alfresco
9 3 (0.49%) nginx
9 3 (0.49%) WordPress
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.33%) CICS
10 2 (0.33%) Drupal
10 2 (0.33%) Mule ESB
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 295 (48.36%) AWS
2 169 (27.70%) Azure
3 97 (15.90%) GCP
4 73 (11.97%) GitHub
5 49 (8.03%) OpenShift
6 45 (7.38%) Serverless
7 42 (6.89%) Amazon S3
8 39 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
9 38 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (5.90%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (2.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (2.62%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (1.97%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) HTTPS
1 5 (0.82%) Kerberos
2 4 (0.66%) HTTP
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) SMS
3 1 (0.16%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (21.97%) PostgreSQL
2 113 (18.52%) MongoDB
3 104 (17.05%) Relational Database
4 70 (11.48%) NoSQL
5 46 (7.54%) MySQL
6 44 (7.21%) DB2
7 38 (6.23%) DynamoDB
8 33 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (3.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 19 (3.11%) RDBMS
11 17 (2.79%) SQL Server
12 15 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (2.46%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.48%) Redis
14 7 (1.15%) Big Data
15 6 (0.98%) HBase
16 4 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (0.66%) Tick Data
17 3 (0.49%) HPCC
17 3 (0.49%) KDB
Development Applications
1 187 (30.66%) JUnit
2 160 (26.23%) Git
3 134 (21.97%) Jenkins
4 71 (11.64%) Maven
5 63 (10.33%) Cucumber
6 61 (10.00%) GitLab
7 57 (9.34%) Mockito
8 53 (8.69%) JIRA
9 41 (6.72%) Gradle
10 35 (5.74%) SonarQube
11 29 (4.75%) Sonatype Nexus
12 24 (3.93%) Selenium
13 20 (3.28%) Postman
14 17 (2.79%) Eclipse
14 17 (2.79%) IntelliJ
14 17 (2.79%) JMeter
15 12 (1.97%) Artifactory
16 10 (1.64%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.64%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.64%) Subversion
General
1 195 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 156 (25.57%) Finance
3 116 (19.02%) Banking
4 74 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 41 (6.72%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.44%) Front Office
8 20 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.49%) Automotive
14 3 (0.49%) Electronics
14 3 (0.49%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Retail
14 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (67.38%) Developer
2 345 (56.56%) Java Developer
3 117 (19.18%) Senior
4 97 (15.90%) Senior Developer
5 94 (15.41%) Senior Java Developer
6 66 (10.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 64 (10.49%) Java Engineer
8 63 (10.33%) Lead
9 48 (7.87%) Software Engineer
10 46 (7.54%) SQL Developer
11 36 (5.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 32 (5.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 32 (5.25%) Lead Developer
13 31 (5.08%) AWS Developer
14 29 (4.75%) Linux Developer
15 28 (4.59%) Lead Java Developer
16 23 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
17 19 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 18 (2.95%) Architect
19 16 (2.62%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (65.25%) Spring Boot
2 197 (32.30%) Kafka
3 152 (24.92%) RESTful
4 138 (22.62%) React
5 131 (21.48%) REST
6 111 (18.20%) Hibernate
7 94 (15.41%) AngularJS
8 73 (11.97%) HTML
9 56 (9.18%) CSS
10 54 (8.85%) JPA
10 54 (8.85%) JSON
10 54 (8.85%) SOAP
11 49 (8.03%) JMS
12 47 (7.70%) Node.js
13 45 (7.38%) Web Services
14 39 (6.39%) Spring Cloud
15 38 (6.23%) OAuth
16 34 (5.57%) XML
17 33 (5.41%) J2EE
18 25 (4.10%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.62%) Cloud Native
2 60 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (6.56%) Data Structures
4 37 (6.07%) Equities
5 21 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.80%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.48%) Derivative
11 9 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.66%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
16 3 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
16 3 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 97 (15.90%) Linux
2 38 (6.23%) Unix
3 8 (1.31%) Windows
4 6 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.49%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.33%) VMS
7 1 (0.16%) Solaris
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (57.21%) Microservices
2 315 (51.64%) Agile
3 309 (50.66%) CI/CD
4 191 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
5 174 (28.52%) DevOps
6 147 (24.10%) Containerisation
7 127 (20.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 116 (19.02%) Software Engineering
9 102 (16.72%) SDLC
10 99 (16.23%) TDD
11 98 (16.07%) Test Automation
12 90 (14.75%) Scrum
13 68 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (10.98%) Mentoring
15 66 (10.82%) Event-Driven
16 62 (10.16%) Multithreading
17 59 (9.67%) Code Quality
18 57 (9.34%) Infrastructure as Code
18 57 (9.34%) Performance Tuning
19 55 (9.02%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 596 (97.70%) Java
2 208 (34.10%) SQL
3 98 (16.07%) Python
4 93 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 71 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 52 (8.52%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.11%) Ruby
8 14 (2.30%) Scala
9 13 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.97%) PL/SQL
11 10 (1.64%) Groovy
12 9 (1.48%) Bash
13 6 (0.98%) C#
13 6 (0.98%) C++
14 5 (0.82%) C
14 5 (0.82%) Perl
14 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.49%) Rust
16 2 (0.33%) Korn
17 1 (0.16%) XPath
Qualifications
1 113 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 93 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.25%) Degree
4 27 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.48%) OCP
6 9 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.48%) QA
2 22 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.30%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.64%) WCAG
5 9 (1.48%) GDPR
5 9 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.31%) PSD2
6 8 (1.31%) SEPA
7 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 233 (38.20%) Docker
2 4 (0.66%) Postfix
2 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 206 (33.77%) Kubernetes
2 56 (9.18%) Terraform
3 31 (5.08%) Ansible
3 31 (5.08%) Grafana
4 15 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 11 (1.80%) Argo
5 11 (1.80%) Progress Chef
5 11 (1.80%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 9 (1.48%) Puppet
7 8 (1.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Rancher
8 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.16%) logstash
Vendors
1 70 (11.48%) Oracle
2 43 (7.05%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.56%) Sybase
4 25 (4.10%) Google
5 20 (3.28%) Splunk
6 19 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.95%) IBM
8 16 (2.62%) CA Agile Central
8 16 (2.62%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.97%) VMware
10 10 (1.64%) Ping Identity
10 10 (1.64%) webMethods
11 9 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.82%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.82%) Solace
13 4 (0.66%) Calypso
13 4 (0.66%) SAP
13 4 (0.66%) TIBCO
13 4 (0.66%) Virgin Media