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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 78 95
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing Spring 24 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.08% 0.11% 0.68%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 11.16% 0.67% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £500 £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £468 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +24.67% -46.43%
75th Percentile £600 £476 £388
90th Percentile - - £393
England median daily rate £500 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.85% -12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £60.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -6.25% +30.78% -36.72%

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 215 149 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.71% 15.90% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 107 148
10th Percentile £411 £336 £325
25th Percentile £463 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +0.25% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £576
90th Percentile £738 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 11 57
10th Percentile £21.17 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £51.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -33.85%
75th Percentile £73.84 £81.35 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £82.10 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -2 9 £510 +9.09%
Bedfordshire - 8 £600 - 1
Suffolk - 4 £479 - 2
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £675 - 1
Norfolk - 1 £425 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) GitHub
2 10 (41.67%) GCP
3 8 (33.33%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
6 4 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (16.67%) Serverless
7 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.17%) Apple Pay
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Git
2 9 (37.50%) JUnit
2 9 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 7 (29.17%) IntelliJ
4 6 (25.00%) GitLab
5 3 (12.50%) Gradle
5 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.17%) Snyk
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Automotive
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 3 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) GCP Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.33%) GCP Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Software Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (95.83%) Spring Boot
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (4.17%) Celery
4 1 (4.17%) Django
4 1 (4.17%) Express.js
4 1 (4.17%) Flask
4 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.17%) JPA
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.17%) Spring Security
4 1 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (45.83%) Microservices
3 11 (45.83%) Software Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) TDD
4 8 (33.33%) BDD
4 8 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 7 (29.17%) Application Security
5 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
5 7 (29.17%) Open Source
5 7 (29.17%) Security Testing
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (20.83%) Architectural Design
7 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Checkmarx
1 9 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) New Relic
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk