Spring Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Surrey

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.54% 0.87% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.04% 5.63% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £348 £613 £545
25th Percentile £376 £618 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -34.23% +1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £486 £675 £713
90th Percentile £517 - £750
South East median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 98 71 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 26.56% 15.43% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 46 97
10th Percentile - - £270
25th Percentile £204 £203 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £226 £525
Median % change year-on-year +109.94% -56.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £522 £575
90th Percentile £608 £609 £674
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £35.75 - £51.53
25th Percentile £48.13 £57.50 £60.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £75.77
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.81% +68.37%
75th Percentile £80.65 £62.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £86.31 - £76.82
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Surrey

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Spring

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Surrey over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Surrey

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Guildford - 1 £330 - 1
Staines - 1 £525 -
Spring
South East

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes