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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 91 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Spring 21 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.96% 0.080% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.61% 0.49% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 9
10th Percentile £433 - £350
25th Percentile £481 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £468 £375
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% +24.67% -26.83%
75th Percentile £580 £476 £388
90th Percentile £600 - £390
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%

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 244 204 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.15% 16.23% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 99 106
10th Percentile £290 £354 £300
25th Percentile £416 £425 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +14.29% -14.88%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 49 61
10th Percentile £17.12 £38.85 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £43.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -25.22%
75th Percentile £73.46 £67.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £81.35 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the East of England

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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 11 August 2026. 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 -10 10 £510 +9.09%
Suffolk - 6 £507 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £475 - 1
Norfolk - 1 £425 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £600 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Spring
England

Spring
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) GitHub
2 10 (47.62%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.76%) Apple Pay
5 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Couchbase
2 2 (9.52%) Redis
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.76%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Git
2 9 (42.86%) JUnit
2 9 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 8 (38.10%) GitLab
4 7 (33.33%) IntelliJ
5 6 (28.57%) Gradle
6 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Automotive
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
1 13 (61.90%) Java Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Java Software Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Software Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) GCP Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Backend Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (9.52%) GCP Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Software Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Node.js
3 2 (9.52%) JWT
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth
3 2 (9.52%) OAuth2
3 2 (9.52%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) RxJava
4 1 (4.76%) Celery
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) JPA
4 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Security
4 1 (4.76%) Swagger
4 1 (4.76%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) LIMS
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 13 (61.90%) TDD
4 11 (52.38%) Microservices
5 10 (47.62%) DevOps
6 9 (42.86%) Agile
7 8 (38.10%) BDD
8 7 (33.33%) Code Quality
8 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (33.33%) Open Source
8 7 (33.33%) Security Testing
9 6 (28.57%) Application Security
9 6 (28.57%) High Availability
9 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
9 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
10 5 (23.81%) Architectural Design
10 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Engineering
10 5 (23.81%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Go
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Checkmarx
1 9 (42.86%) Google