Spring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 99 128 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 -16 +24
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 17 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.63% 1.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 4.63% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 23
10th Percentile - £408 £451
25th Percentile - £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £550 £534
90th Percentile - £613 £568
South East median daily rate £456 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -3.95% -9.52% -8.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 275 367 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.20% 13.66% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 234 352
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £617 £625
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 8
10th Percentile £23.35 £56.58 £52.90
25th Percentile £27.11 £56.65 £75.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £61.60 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% -21.78% +20.23%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £80.25
90th Percentile £86.38 £62.00 £80.48
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.66% -12.00% +55.56%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +23 3 £500 +5.26% 29
Spring
South East

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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