Spring Contracts in the East of England

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 98 102
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -17
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.11% 0.73% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 4.86% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 14
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile £459 £363 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £375 £665
Median % change year-on-year +24.67% -43.61% +20.91%
75th Percentile £476 £393 £700
90th Percentile - £459 -
England median daily rate £530 £540 £624
% change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 149 288 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.88% 15.09% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 148 165
10th Percentile £336 £325 £327
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £499 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -4.09% +4.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 23
10th Percentile £65.00 - £21.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £80.68 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.62% -33.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £81.35 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £66.25 £74.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Essex - 1 £468 - 3
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes