Spring Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.83% 0.50% 1.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.45% 3.85% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £541 £406 £508
25th Percentile £547 £416 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £572 £466 £594
90th Percentile £574 £479 £613
South East median daily rate £400 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -11.11% -12.20% -10.87%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 52 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.24% 13.00% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 38 102
10th Percentile £320 £406 £376
25th Percentile £361 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% +3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £475 £625 £643
90th Percentile £565 £675 £714
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £13.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Milton Keynes +7 3 £563 +28.57% 1
Spring
South East

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Storybook
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) React
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Vitest
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP