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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 149 172
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing Spring 856 579 607
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.94% 1.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.64% 8.46% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 375 448
10th Percentile £382 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £671 £625 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £450 £472
% change year-on-year +6.11% -4.71% -9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 11
10th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £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 £85.50 £88.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £95.00 £92.50 £56.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +33.64% +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 9,902 6,841 9,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.54% 22.87% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,500 4,661 6,385
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 282 129 280
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.21 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.56 £41.60 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% -17.31%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £68.19
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.08 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -13.46%

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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

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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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +11 714 £523 +4.50% 113
UK excluding London -26 389 £478 +6.11% 95
London +6 366 £525 - 47
Work from Home -42 207 £478 -4.50% 55
North of England +12 157 £500 +7.53% 30
North West +13 105 £510 +24.85% 13
Midlands -46 72 £471 +12.12% 5
West Midlands -20 69 £475 -5.00% 4
South West +7 48 £409 -21.16% 18
Scotland -47 47 £405 -10.00% 8
South East -39 38 £481 +16.67% 18
Yorkshire -30 32 £500 -4.76% 14
East of England 0 27 £510 +9.09% 3
North East -19 25 £450 -8.16% 5
Wales -13 3 - - 3
East Midlands -44 2 £401 +6.93% 1
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 10

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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 (5.37%) Apache Spark
2 41 (4.79%) Confluence
3 27 (3.15%) Apache
4 15 (1.75%) Camunda
5 12 (1.40%) WebLogic
6 10 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.17%) Ethereum
6 10 (1.17%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.17%) 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 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Drupal
10 2 (0.23%) Mule
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Fidessa
1 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 459 (53.62%) AWS
2 212 (24.77%) Azure
3 146 (17.06%) GCP
4 142 (16.59%) GitHub
5 88 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
6 74 (8.64%) Amazon S3
7 69 (8.06%) Serverless
8 62 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
9 41 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
10 40 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (3.97%) OpenShift
13 28 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.04%) Azure AKS
15 22 (2.57%) Route 53
16 18 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 18 (2.10%) AWS KMS
17 16 (1.87%) 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
1 195 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (12.97%) NoSQL
3 91 (10.63%) MongoDB
4 88 (10.28%) Relational Database
5 66 (7.71%) MySQL
6 52 (6.07%) DynamoDB
7 49 (5.72%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
9 27 (3.15%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.92%) Redis
11 24 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.45%) Big Data
12 21 (2.45%) Flink
13 16 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.05%) Db2
16 8 (0.93%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.93%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 211 (24.65%) Git
2 206 (24.07%) Jenkins
3 153 (17.87%) JUnit
4 123 (14.37%) GitLab
5 81 (9.46%) Maven
6 73 (8.53%) Gradle
7 70 (8.18%) Mockito
8 69 (8.06%) JIRA
9 45 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 45 (5.26%) Selenium
10 37 (4.32%) SonarQube
11 27 (3.15%) JMeter
12 20 (2.34%) IntelliJ
13 19 (2.22%) Gatling
13 19 (2.22%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.22%) WebDriver
14 18 (2.10%) Liquibase
15 14 (1.64%) DbUnit
16 13 (1.52%) jMock
16 13 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
General
1 175 (20.44%) Finance
2 172 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 144 (16.82%) Public Sector
4 103 (12.03%) Banking
5 53 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.69%) Retail
7 18 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.40%) Law
8 12 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.17%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.05%) Military
11 6 (0.70%) Automotive
11 6 (0.70%) Front Office
11 6 (0.70%) Publishing
11 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.47%) Police
12 4 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 475 (55.49%) Developer
2 365 (42.64%) Java Developer
3 175 (20.44%) Senior
4 146 (17.06%) Java Engineer
5 107 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 93 (10.86%) Senior Developer
7 89 (10.40%) Lead
8 74 (8.64%) Full-Stack Developer
8 74 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 61 (7.13%) Java Software Engineer
10 45 (5.26%) Backend Developer
11 36 (4.21%) Lead Developer
12 30 (3.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 30 (3.50%) Senior Java Engineer
12 30 (3.50%) Software Developer
13 29 (3.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (2.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 24 (2.80%) Data Engineer
15 24 (2.80%) Lead Java Developer
16 22 (2.57%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 703 (82.13%) Spring Boot
2 241 (28.15%) Kafka
3 205 (23.95%) RESTful
4 199 (23.25%) REST
5 158 (18.46%) React
6 118 (13.79%) Node.js
7 78 (9.11%) AngularJS
8 68 (7.94%) Hibernate
8 68 (7.94%) JPA
9 54 (6.31%) Web Services
10 53 (6.19%) HTML
11 51 (5.96%) Spring Cloud
11 51 (5.96%) Spring MVC
12 50 (5.84%) WireMock
13 48 (5.61%) CSS
14 37 (4.32%) OAuth
14 37 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (3.97%) OAuth2
16 32 (3.74%) SOAP
17 31 (3.62%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 153 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 115 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 17 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.64%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.05%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.82%) Data Centre
13 7 (0.82%) Derivative
13 7 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (0.70%) Blockchain
14 6 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.84%) Linux
2 21 (2.45%) Unix
3 9 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (1.05%) Windows
4 5 (0.58%) 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 (0.23%) Android
6 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (57.71%) Microservices
2 485 (56.66%) CI/CD
3 356 (41.59%) Agile
4 309 (36.10%) DevOps
5 250 (29.21%) Containerisation
6 209 (24.42%) Software Engineering
7 181 (21.14%) TDD
8 173 (20.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 165 (19.28%) Test Automation
10 159 (18.57%) Event-Driven
11 139 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (15.42%) Observability
13 131 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 131 (15.30%) Scrum
14 113 (13.20%) Code Quality
15 101 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 93 (10.86%) BDD
17 82 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (8.53%) Mentoring
19 67 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 821 (95.91%) Java
2 257 (30.02%) SQL
3 123 (14.37%) JavaScript
4 112 (13.08%) TypeScript
5 98 (11.45%) Python
6 47 (5.49%) Kotlin
7 31 (3.62%) PL/SQL
8 16 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.75%) Go
10 11 (1.29%) Scala
11 10 (1.17%) C#
12 8 (0.93%) Bash
12 8 (0.93%) Ruby
13 6 (0.70%) Perl
14 5 (0.58%) Solidity
15 2 (0.23%) Groovy
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) PHP
15 2 (0.23%) PromQL
16 1 (0.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 251 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 219 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 29 (3.39%) Degree
5 24 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.63%) QA
2 67 (7.83%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.40%) ISO 20022
4 10 (1.17%) SEPA
4 10 (1.17%) 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 (0.70%) PSD2
7 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.58%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) NIST
9 3 (0.35%) EMIR
9 3 (0.35%) MiFID
10 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.23%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 370 (43.22%) Docker
2 11 (1.29%) Postfix
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 358 (41.82%) Kubernetes
2 95 (11.10%) Grafana
3 84 (9.81%) Terraform
4 73 (8.53%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.32%) Ansible
6 12 (1.40%) Kibana
7 7 (0.82%) Argo
7 7 (0.82%) Istio
8 4 (0.47%) Control-M
9 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.23%) Consul
10 2 (0.23%) Rancher
10 2 (0.23%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.12%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.12%) Kiali
Vendors
1 87 (10.16%) Oracle
2 43 (5.02%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.09%) Google
4 31 (3.62%) Splunk
5 17 (1.99%) Jaspersoft
6 15 (1.75%) IBM
7 14 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 14 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.40%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.40%) Solace
8 12 (1.40%) Sybase
9 10 (1.17%) Databricks
10 9 (1.05%) Checkmarx
11 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.70%) Okta
13 5 (0.58%) Ab Initio
13 5 (0.58%) Confluent
13 5 (0.58%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.58%) New Relic
13 5 (0.58%) TikTok