Spring Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 108 117 124
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 8 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.72% 0.70%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.42% 4.04% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 3
10th Percentile £430 - £285
25th Percentile £475 £390 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% -33.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £602 £450 £619
90th Percentile £628 £488 £623
South East median daily rate £385 £400 £600
% change year-on-year -3.75% -33.33% +4.35%

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 330 396 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.81% 17.89% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 266 287
10th Percentile £313 £369 £313
25th Percentile £380 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £661 £699
South East median daily rate £465 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -11.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile - £50.87 £40.05
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -22.40%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £54.94
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £63.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -5.14%

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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

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Spring

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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 25 September 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 +13 7 £538 +37.82% 30
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - - 1
Spring
South East

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) Drupal
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
1 3 (37.50%) Mockito
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) jMock
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) React
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (25.00%) JPA
4 2 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
4 2 (25.00%) WireMock
4 2 (25.00%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) Apollo GraphQL
5 1 (12.50%) Playwright
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Process Management
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) OO
5 1 (12.50%) OOD
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat