Spring Contracts in Reading

Pivotal Spring Framework
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 57 80 60
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +36
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.92% 2.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.21% 5.50% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 19
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +0.52%
75th Percentile - £488 £500
90th Percentile - - £532
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 136 200 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 22.78% 16.78% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 131 173
10th Percentile £350 £325 £407
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £680
90th Percentile £663 £675 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £72.76
25th Percentile - £56.65 £76.89
Median hourly rate £77.19 £58.30 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +32.40% -26.38% +143.66%
75th Percentile - £61.60 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £77.19 £61.60 £78.75
% change year-on-year +25.31% -21.78% +20.23%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Reading

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Spring in Reading

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Mockito
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (33.33%) DbUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) jMock
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Camel
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) WireMock
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Process Management
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Jaspersoft