Spring Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Pivotal Spring Framework
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.24% 0.35% 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.85% 1.68% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £563 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +53.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £388 £588 £450
90th Percentile - - £689
South West median daily rate £409 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -20.20% -6.82% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 162 119 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.86% 21.06% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 56 131
10th Percentile £353 £338 £300
25th Percentile £425 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £550
90th Percentile £658 £631 £644
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £518
% change year-on-year -3.67% +5.31% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 52
10th Percentile - £61.25 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £68.75 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.12%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Bristol

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Spring

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) JAX-RS
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth
2 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) AOP
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google