Hybrid/Remote Spring Security Contract Job Trends

Spring Security (Acegi)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Spring Security skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 303 336
Rank change year-on-year -19 +33 +152
Contract jobs citing Spring Security 5 7 25
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.045% 0.065% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.26% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile £340 £466 £403
25th Percentile £354 £475 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £615 £480
Median % change year-on-year -38.62% +28.13% +0.10%
75th Percentile £401 £788 £528
90th Percentile £416 £810 £538
UK median daily rate £393 £565 £485
% change year-on-year -30.53% +16.49% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Spring Security 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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,917 2,735 3,893
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.36% 25.54% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 1,883 2,744
10th Percentile £359 £356 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.87% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 25 66
10th Percentile £35.80 £25.65 £23.25
25th Percentile £55.95 £35.00 £40.55
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £71.40
90th Percentile £76.00 £91.25 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Spring Security
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring Security and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spring Security job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Spring Security
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Spring Security

Spring Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Ehcache
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) API Design
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Micro Frontends
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Confluent
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle