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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring 6 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.51% 0.70% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.26% 3.67% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £531 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £390 £488
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% -20.00% -0.51%
75th Percentile £616 £450 £494
90th Percentile £633 - -
South East median daily rate £443 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +10.63% -33.33% +4.35%

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 266 327 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.58% 19.08% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 221 169
10th Percentile £325 £363 £313
25th Percentile £409 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £663 £702
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £50.87 £24.68
25th Percentile - - £36.45
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +9.88% -18.31%
75th Percentile - - £67.63
90th Percentile - £64.25 £74.56
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Berkshire

Spring
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

Spring
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 18 September 2025. 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 4 £572 +27.21% 2
Wokingham - 1 £575 -
Spring
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Drupal
1 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
1 3 (50.00%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) jMock
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) React Developer
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) React
4 2 (33.33%) WireMock
4 2 (33.33%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (16.67%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (16.67%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Process Management
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) API Design
5 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (16.67%) Design Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) SFIA
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat