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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 56 68
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.31% 0.70% 1.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.29% 3.33% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £384 -
25th Percentile £363 £390 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £388 £494 £452
90th Percentile - £550 £665
South West median daily rate £409 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -20.20% -6.82% +1.38%

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 175 120 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 13.54% 21.05% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 133
10th Percentile £363 £347 £313
25th Percentile £413 £378 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £639 £643
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 56
10th Percentile - £61.25 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £62.38 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -
75th Percentile - £68.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £69.88 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -

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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (50.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) Quarkus
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) AOP
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace