Spring Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.42% 0.75% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.85% 3.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 - -
South East median daily rate £405 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 26 29 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 10.88% 21.80% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 36
10th Percentile £274 £327 £413
25th Percentile £286 £416 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £583
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -22.75% +4.02%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £678
90th Percentile £638 £630 £680
South East median daily rate £475 £528 £525
% change year-on-year -9.95% +0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £29.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £66.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.53% +10.42% -6.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Spring job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 22 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
Burgess Hill -5 1 £280 - 4
Spring
South East

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk