Spring Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 79 111
Rank change year-on-year -26 +32 -44
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.067% 0.78% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 5.29% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £317 -
25th Percentile - £346 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile - £391 £606
90th Percentile - £396 £708
England median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.39% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £69.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

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 286 189 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.04% 14.75% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 95 135
10th Percentile £363 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £308 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £600
90th Percentile £750 £600 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 14 12
10th Percentile £40.75 £26.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £62.50 £42.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% -16.92%
75th Percentile - - £60.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £67.50 £66.58
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spring

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spring

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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 13 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
Suffolk -1 1 - - 1
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
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%) Consul