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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 158 196
Rank change year-on-year -2 +38 -90
Contract jobs citing Spring 766 499 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.70% 1.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.10% 7.52% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 314 368
10th Percentile £357 £359 £379
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +0.48% -12.92%
75th Percentile £574 £588 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £461 £490
% change year-on-year +0.54% -5.77% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 10
10th Percentile £51.00 £65.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £69.38 £41.47
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -34.46%
75th Percentile £81.00 £90.63 £48.43
90th Percentile £95.00 £91.75 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -33.33% +79.82% -30.75%

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 9,453 6,635 8,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.22% 22.66% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,293 4,531 6,268
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £498
% change year-on-year +1.01% -0.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 98 188
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.25 £20.69
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.19 £36.82
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £85.05 £74.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.58
% change year-on-year - +33.81% -25.27%

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 29 March 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 29 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 29 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 +26 643 £500 -6.28% 141
UK excluding London +13 384 £464 +0.54% 102
London -5 297 £525 -7.08% 58
Work from Home -2 192 £475 -5.00% 109
North of England +11 156 £475 +1.06% 49
North West +35 117 £465 +0.54% 31
Midlands -6 80 £469 +6.59% 6
West Midlands +8 78 £469 +6.59% 3
South East +8 55 £416 +0.91% 18
Scotland -30 52 £569 +26.39% 7
South West -7 32 £405 -24.74% 14
Yorkshire -54 24 £500 -6.98% 11
North East -1 22 £450 -2.17% 7
East of England -15 16 £510 +9.09% 3
East Midlands -32 2 £335 -22.36% 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 48 (6.27%) Confluence
2 27 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.61%) Apache
4 14 (1.83%) Camunda
5 13 (1.70%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.04%) JBoss
7 7 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.78%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.78%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.39%) nginx
12 2 (0.26%) Apache TomEE
12 2 (0.26%) CICS
12 2 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Maya
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 430 (56.14%) AWS
2 220 (28.72%) Azure
3 152 (19.84%) GitHub
4 130 (16.97%) GCP
5 89 (11.62%) Serverless
6 85 (11.10%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (10.18%) Amazon S3
8 73 (9.53%) AWS Lambda
9 43 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
10 36 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 35 (4.57%) OpenShift
12 33 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (4.31%) Azure AKS
13 32 (4.18%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 17 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
18 14 (1.83%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.44%) HTTP
2 10 (1.31%) SSL
3 7 (0.91%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.65%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.52%) DNS
6 3 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (22.32%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (15.14%) NoSQL
3 98 (12.79%) MongoDB
4 84 (10.97%) Relational Database
5 63 (8.22%) MySQL
6 54 (7.05%) DynamoDB
7 42 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
9 25 (3.26%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.96%) DB2
11 15 (1.96%) DocumentDB
12 14 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.83%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.70%) Redis
14 12 (1.57%) Flink
15 11 (1.44%) Big Data
16 9 (1.17%) BigQuery
17 8 (1.04%) HBase
17 8 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 201 (26.24%) Git
2 182 (23.76%) Jenkins
3 158 (20.63%) JUnit
4 131 (17.10%) GitLab
5 74 (9.66%) JIRA
6 71 (9.27%) Maven
7 66 (8.62%) Cucumber
8 56 (7.31%) Mockito
9 55 (7.18%) Gradle
10 43 (5.61%) Selenium
11 32 (4.18%) JMeter
12 26 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 24 (3.13%) SonarQube
14 21 (2.74%) IntelliJ
15 17 (2.22%) WebDriver
16 16 (2.09%) Gatling
16 16 (2.09%) Postman
17 14 (1.83%) Cypress.io
18 11 (1.44%) Artifactory
19 10 (1.31%) REST Assured
General
1 187 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 141 (18.41%) Finance
3 135 (17.62%) Public Sector
4 78 (10.18%) Banking
5 45 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 17 (2.22%) Retail
7 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (1.17%) Front Office
9 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.78%) Law
11 5 (0.65%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.52%) Automotive
12 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.52%) Military
12 4 (0.52%) Publishing
12 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 459 (59.92%) Developer
2 326 (42.56%) Java Developer
3 152 (19.84%) Senior
4 117 (15.27%) Java Engineer
5 99 (12.92%) Full-Stack Developer
6 95 (12.40%) Senior Developer
7 74 (9.66%) Senior Java Developer
7 74 (9.66%) Software Engineer
8 65 (8.49%) Lead
9 42 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 38 (4.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 34 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 32 (4.18%) Backend Developer
13 30 (3.92%) Architect
14 26 (3.39%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.26%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 20 (2.61%) AWS Developer
17 18 (2.35%) Azure Engineer
18 17 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 603 (78.72%) Spring Boot
2 210 (27.42%) Kafka
3 204 (26.63%) RESTful
4 168 (21.93%) REST
5 162 (21.15%) React
6 114 (14.88%) AngularJS
6 114 (14.88%) Node.js
7 87 (11.36%) Hibernate
8 74 (9.66%) HTML
9 57 (7.44%) CSS
10 52 (6.79%) JPA
11 48 (6.27%) Spring MVC
12 43 (5.61%) WireMock
13 41 (5.35%) OAuth
14 38 (4.96%) OAuth2
15 37 (4.83%) Spring Cloud
16 35 (4.57%) HTML5
16 35 (4.57%) Web Services
17 34 (4.44%) Playwright
18 32 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 114 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 80 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 18 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 16 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.44%) Equities
10 8 (1.04%) Derivative
11 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.78%) NHS
13 4 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
13 4 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (7.05%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Unix
3 9 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.78%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Android
6 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (58.88%) Microservices
2 430 (56.14%) CI/CD
3 306 (39.95%) Agile
4 269 (35.12%) DevOps
5 222 (28.98%) Containerisation
6 182 (23.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 154 (20.10%) TDD
8 153 (19.97%) Software Engineering
9 152 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
10 149 (19.45%) Test Automation
11 131 (17.10%) Event-Driven
12 110 (14.36%) Observability
13 108 (14.10%) Scrum
14 105 (13.71%) Code Quality
15 100 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 89 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
17 79 (10.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 74 (9.66%) Mentoring
19 71 (9.27%) BDD
20 70 (9.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 717 (93.60%) Java
2 189 (24.67%) SQL
3 112 (14.62%) JavaScript
4 104 (13.58%) TypeScript
5 81 (10.57%) Python
6 51 (6.66%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.35%) Shell Script
8 17 (2.22%) Go
9 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.17%) Scala
10 8 (1.04%) C#
11 7 (0.91%) Perl
12 4 (0.52%) Bash
12 4 (0.52%) Ruby
13 3 (0.39%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.13%) COBOL
14 1 (0.13%) Korn
14 1 (0.13%) REXX
14 1 (0.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 220 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 186 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 33 (4.31%) Degree
4 26 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.57%) OCP
6 12 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
7 11 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) CCSP
11 1 (0.13%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) OSCP
11 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (9.40%) QA
2 54 (7.05%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.61%) WCAG
4 17 (2.22%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.17%) PSD2
6 9 (1.17%) SEPA
7 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.65%) NIST
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.52%) GDPR
8 4 (0.52%) HL7
9 3 (0.39%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 8583
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 311 (40.60%) Docker
2 7 (0.91%) Postfix
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 347 (45.30%) Kubernetes
2 94 (12.27%) Terraform
3 93 (12.14%) Grafana
4 53 (6.92%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.57%) Ansible
6 13 (1.70%) Argo
7 11 (1.44%) Kibana
8 9 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.91%) Istio
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 4 (0.52%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.13%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 66 (8.62%) Oracle
2 49 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 32 (4.18%) Google
4 31 (4.05%) Splunk
5 14 (1.83%) Red Hat
6 13 (1.70%) Sybase
7 12 (1.57%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
9 9 (1.17%) Solace
9 9 (1.17%) VMware
10 8 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 7 (0.91%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.91%) IBM
11 7 (0.91%) SAP
12 6 (0.78%) Adobe
12 6 (0.78%) Databricks
12 6 (0.78%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.52%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.52%) Confluent
13 4 (0.52%) Virgin Media