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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 148 165
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Spring 851 577 605
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.92% 1.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.57% 8.41% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 375 447
10th Percentile £382 £356 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -8.57% -11.02%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £671 £625 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £470
% change year-on-year +6.22% -4.15% -9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 11
10th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £62.00 £55.00 £42.94
Median hourly rate £76.00 £65.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% +41.67% -35.61%
75th Percentile £90.00 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +37.27% +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 9,934 6,861 9,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.84% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,532 4,676 6,354
10th Percentile £363 £356 £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 £650
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 282 134 280
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.12 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -11.43%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

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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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +8 708 £525 +5.00% 123
UK excluding London -32 384 £478 +6.22% 94
London +9 365 £525 - 57
Work from Home -47 206 £479 -4.15% 57
North of England +3 153 £500 +7.53% 35
North West +1 101 £510 +24.85% 16
Midlands -41 73 £475 +13.10% 6
West Midlands -20 70 £475 -5.00% 5
Scotland -51 47 £405 -10.11% 12
South West +3 46 £409 -21.16% 17
South East -35 38 £481 +16.67% 16
Yorkshire -27 32 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England -1 27 £510 +9.09% 4
North East -18 25 £450 -8.16% 7
Wales -12 3 - - 3
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 1
Northern Ireland -5 1 - - 1

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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 46 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.82%) Confluence
3 27 (3.17%) Apache
4 15 (1.76%) Camunda
5 12 (1.41%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.18%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.18%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.18%) nginx
7 7 (0.82%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.35%) JBoss
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.24%) Drupal
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.47%) Quorum
2 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.24%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 458 (53.82%) AWS
2 215 (25.26%) Azure
3 146 (17.16%) GCP
4 142 (16.69%) GitHub
5 88 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 68 (7.99%) Serverless
8 62 (7.29%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.00%) OpenShift
13 29 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.06%) Azure AKS
15 22 (2.59%) Route 53
16 18 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.12%) AWS KMS
17 16 (1.88%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.29%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
2 4 (0.47%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) SMS
4 1 (0.12%) SSL
4 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (23.03%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (12.69%) NoSQL
3 90 (10.58%) Relational Database
4 88 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 65 (7.64%) MySQL
6 52 (6.11%) DynamoDB
7 49 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (3.29%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.94%) Redis
11 24 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.47%) Big Data
12 21 (2.47%) Flink
13 16 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.53%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.06%) Db2
16 8 (0.94%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.94%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 212 (24.91%) Git
2 208 (24.44%) Jenkins
3 155 (18.21%) JUnit
4 120 (14.10%) GitLab
5 83 (9.75%) Maven
6 73 (8.58%) Mockito
7 72 (8.46%) Gradle
8 69 (8.11%) JIRA
9 45 (5.29%) Cucumber
9 45 (5.29%) Selenium
10 38 (4.47%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.17%) JMeter
12 19 (2.23%) Gatling
12 19 (2.23%) REST Assured
12 19 (2.23%) WebDriver
13 18 (2.12%) IntelliJ
13 18 (2.12%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.65%) DbUnit
15 13 (1.53%) jMock
15 13 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
General
1 174 (20.45%) Finance
1 174 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.80%) Public Sector
3 101 (11.87%) Banking
4 54 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (2.70%) Retail
6 18 (2.12%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.41%) Law
7 12 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 9 (1.06%) Military
10 6 (0.71%) Automotive
10 6 (0.71%) Front Office
10 6 (0.71%) Publishing
10 6 (0.71%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.47%) Police
11 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 473 (55.58%) Developer
2 365 (42.89%) Java Developer
3 172 (20.21%) Senior
4 144 (16.92%) Java Engineer
5 105 (12.34%) Software Engineer
6 91 (10.69%) Lead
7 90 (10.58%) Senior Developer
8 73 (8.58%) Senior Java Developer
9 70 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (6.93%) Java Software Engineer
11 46 (5.41%) Backend Developer
12 38 (4.47%) Lead Developer
13 30 (3.53%) Senior Java Engineer
13 30 (3.53%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (3.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 26 (3.06%) Lead Java Developer
16 25 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 24 (2.82%) Data Engineer
18 22 (2.59%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 700 (82.26%) Spring Boot
2 243 (28.55%) Kafka
3 207 (24.32%) RESTful
4 201 (23.62%) REST
5 156 (18.33%) React
6 116 (13.63%) Node.js
7 79 (9.28%) AngularJS
8 69 (8.11%) Hibernate
8 69 (8.11%) JPA
9 54 (6.35%) HTML
9 54 (6.35%) Web Services
10 50 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
10 50 (5.88%) Spring MVC
10 50 (5.88%) WireMock
11 49 (5.76%) CSS
12 38 (4.47%) OAuth
12 38 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
13 34 (4.00%) OAuth2
14 32 (3.76%) SOAP
15 31 (3.64%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 154 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 116 (13.63%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 25 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.82%) Data Centre
14 7 (0.82%) Derivative
14 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 6 (0.71%) Blockchain
15 6 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.88%) Linux
2 21 (2.47%) Unix
3 9 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.06%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) VMS
5 3 (0.35%) Solaris
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (57.93%) Microservices
2 488 (57.34%) CI/CD
3 357 (41.95%) Agile
4 312 (36.66%) DevOps
5 252 (29.61%) Containerisation
6 208 (24.44%) Software Engineering
7 183 (21.50%) TDD
8 169 (19.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 166 (19.51%) Test Automation
10 162 (19.04%) Event-Driven
11 141 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (15.86%) Scrum
13 133 (15.63%) Observability
14 131 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (13.28%) Code Quality
16 104 (12.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (10.93%) BDD
18 84 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
19 74 (8.70%) Mentoring
20 68 (7.99%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 816 (95.89%) Java
2 257 (30.20%) SQL
3 121 (14.22%) JavaScript
4 110 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 97 (11.40%) Python
6 45 (5.29%) Kotlin
7 31 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 17 (2.00%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.76%) Go
10 11 (1.29%) Scala
11 10 (1.18%) C#
12 8 (0.94%) Bash
12 8 (0.94%) Ruby
13 6 (0.71%) Perl
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
15 2 (0.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) Korn
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 252 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 220 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 30 (3.53%) Degree
5 25 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (10.81%) QA
2 70 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.41%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.18%) SEPA
4 10 (1.18%) WCAG
5 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.82%) GDPR
5 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.71%) PSD2
7 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) EMIR
9 3 (0.35%) MiFID
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 372 (43.71%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) Postfix
3 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 361 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 93 (10.93%) Grafana
3 86 (10.11%) Terraform
4 73 (8.58%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.35%) Ansible
6 13 (1.53%) Kibana
7 7 (0.82%) Argo
7 7 (0.82%) Istio
8 4 (0.47%) Control-M
8 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Consul
9 2 (0.24%) Rancher
9 2 (0.24%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 89 (10.46%) Oracle
2 43 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.11%) Google
4 31 (3.64%) Splunk
5 17 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.76%) IBM
7 14 (1.65%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.41%) Solace
8 12 (1.41%) Sybase
9 10 (1.18%) Databricks
10 9 (1.06%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Okta
13 5 (0.59%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.59%) Confluent
13 5 (0.59%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.59%) New Relic
13 5 (0.59%) TikTok