Spring Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 87 109
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.36% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.63% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £313 £506 -
25th Percentile £406 £516 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +13.16% -2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £566 £488
90th Percentile £598 £579 -
South East median daily rate £500 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +21.21% -2.94% -20.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 278 245 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.39% 21.82% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 167 189
10th Percentile £352 £350 £325
25th Percentile £404 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £655 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 18
10th Percentile £56.01 £30.87 £56.61
25th Percentile £72.36 £31.80 £56.65
Median hourly rate £80.96 £54.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +47.86% -11.12% -21.78%
75th Percentile £84.34 £81.02 -
90th Percentile £86.48 £87.91 £61.72
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £54.88 £61.60
% change year-on-year +9.34% -10.92% -8.74%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Spring job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Spring

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Reading -25 2 £575 +15.00% 1
Bracknell - 1 £600 -
Spring
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Core Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Mustache
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Thymeleaf
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes