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 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 97 107
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing Spring 7 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.58% 0.71% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.55% 3.65% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.82% - -
75th Percentile £602 £450 -
90th Percentile £628 - -
South East median daily rate £385 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -3.75% -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 274 329 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.89% 19.50% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 217 159
10th Percentile £323 £370 £312
25th Percentile £400 £450 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £663 £701
South East median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £50.87 £28.16
25th Percentile - - £45.13
Median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
Median % change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%
75th Percentile - - £61.84
90th Percentile - £64.25 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%

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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

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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 25 September 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 25 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 +24 4 £572 +27.21% 5
Bracknell -3 1 £400 +2.56%
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 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Drupal
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Mockito
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) DbUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) jMock
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) React Developer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) REST
3 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) React
4 2 (28.57%) Spring Batch
4 2 (28.57%) WireMock
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (14.29%) Playwright
5 1 (14.29%) PowerMock
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Process Management
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Workflow
6 1 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (14.29%) Design Thinking
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Observability
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Review
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat