Spring Contract Job Trends in the South East

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 158 191
Rank change year-on-year +17 +33 -73
Contract jobs citing Spring 43 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.97% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.18% 1.70% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 6 5
10th Percentile £301 - £328
25th Percentile £330 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £390 £648
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% -39.77% +16.14%
75th Percentile £475 £435 £738
90th Percentile £575 £475 £760
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 696 588 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.65% 16.13% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 379 456
10th Percentile £275 £300 £308
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 10 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.94 £45.93
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.44 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.49 £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.45% -20.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the South East over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Hampshire +12 30 £385 - 11
Thames Valley -12 7 £575 +47.44% 23
Berkshire -12 4 £575 +47.44% 17
Buckinghamshire - 3 £575 - 3
Surrey -3 2 £428 - 10
West Sussex -10 2 £280 - 3
East Sussex - 1 £450 - 1
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.98%) Apache
1 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Drupal
2 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (81.40%) AWS
2 26 (60.47%) GitHub
3 14 (32.56%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (30.23%) OpenShift
5 9 (20.93%) Datadog
6 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
6 7 (16.28%) Azure
6 7 (16.28%) GCP
7 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (9.30%) Serverless
8 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (55.81%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (25.58%) NoSQL
3 8 (18.60%) HBase
3 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
4 7 (16.28%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.98%) MySQL
7 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (2.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Cucumber
1 25 (58.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (53.49%) JUnit
3 18 (41.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (34.88%) Gradle
5 10 (23.26%) JMeter
6 9 (20.93%) Git
7 8 (18.60%) Artifactory
8 5 (11.63%) Maven
9 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
10 3 (6.98%) Gatling
10 3 (6.98%) Storybook
11 2 (4.65%) GitLab
11 2 (4.65%) Selenium
12 1 (2.33%) JIRA
12 1 (2.33%) Postman
12 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
12 1 (2.33%) TestNG
12 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (39.53%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Electronics
4 3 (6.98%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Marketing
4 3 (6.98%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (79.07%) Developer
2 31 (72.09%) Java Developer
3 13 (30.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (23.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (20.93%) Java Engineer
6 7 (16.28%) AWS Developer
6 7 (16.28%) Senior
6 7 (16.28%) Senior Developer
6 7 (16.28%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Backend Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Kafka Developer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Kafka Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Lead
9 1 (2.33%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
9 1 (2.33%) Node.js Developer
9 1 (2.33%) QA Leader
9 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (74.42%) Spring Boot
2 18 (41.86%) Kafka
3 11 (25.58%) Hibernate
4 10 (23.26%) RESTful
5 9 (20.93%) React
6 6 (13.95%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.95%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (11.63%) CSS
7 5 (11.63%) HTML
8 4 (9.30%) JPA
9 3 (6.98%) REST
9 3 (6.98%) Spring Batch
9 3 (6.98%) Spring MVC
9 3 (6.98%) Vitest
10 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (2.33%) Express.js
10 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
10 1 (2.33%) MERN Stack
10 1 (2.33%) Thymeleaf
10 1 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (88.37%) CI/CD
2 21 (48.84%) Microservices
3 20 (46.51%) Agile
4 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (37.21%) Observability
6 11 (25.58%) Containerisation
6 11 (25.58%) DevOps
7 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.60%) Performance Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Software Testing
9 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
9 6 (13.95%) Scrum
9 6 (13.95%) SOA
9 6 (13.95%) User Stories
10 5 (11.63%) API Development
10 5 (11.63%) User Experience
11 4 (9.30%) Front End Development
11 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (9.30%) Secure Coding
11 4 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.65%) C#
6 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) OCP
1 10 (23.26%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Kubernetes
2 13 (30.23%) Ansible
3 9 (20.93%) Progress Chef
4 6 (13.95%) Grafana
5 5 (11.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) VMware
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle