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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 99 111
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.31% 0.63% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.43% 2.99% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% - -
75th Percentile £616 £450 -
90th Percentile £633 - -
South East median daily rate £393 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -12.78% -12.20% -10.87%

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 280 335 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.57% 20.98% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 221 158
10th Percentile £325 £383 £307
25th Percentile £413 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £643 £659 £675
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £37.18 £42.20 £35.70
25th Percentile £44.48 £57.89 £54.94
Median hourly rate £56.66 £61.60 £72.28
Median % change year-on-year -8.03% -14.78% +5.33%
75th Percentile £68.83 - £90.25
90th Percentile £76.13 £68.23 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £58.59
% change year-on-year -24.53% +13.07% -9.86%

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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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 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 +15 1 £645 +43.31% 3
Bracknell -8 1 £400 +2.56%
Wokingham - 1 £575 -
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%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) React Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) React
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Design Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) SFIA
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat