Spring Contract Job Trends in Reading

Pivotal Spring Framework
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Spring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 84 89
Rank change year-on-year +24 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.68% 0.72% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 3.33% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £536 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% - -
75th Percentile £609 - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £390 -
% change year-on-year +37.82% - -

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 144 240 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 24.49% 21.72% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 167 115
10th Percentile £350 £384 £350
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £663
90th Percentile £650 £675 £706
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £23.08
25th Percentile - - £32.43
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £48.27
Median % change year-on-year - +27.63% -36.28%
75th Percentile - - £63.85
90th Percentile - £69.56 £73.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.60 £55.31
% change year-on-year -47.55% +11.37% -19.40%

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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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Spring

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
1 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Mockito
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (25.00%) DbUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) jMock
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) WireMock
3 2 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (25.00%) PowerMock
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SFIA
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft