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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.23% 0.29% 1.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 1.54% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - £382 £358
25th Percentile - £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% -8.86%
75th Percentile - £395 £550
90th Percentile - £398 £593
South West median daily rate £436 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -14.25% -5.35% +2.38%

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 155 130 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.89% 18.95% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 67 90
10th Percentile £400 £323 £325
25th Percentile £427 £355 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £435 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.25% -8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £567
90th Percentile £672 £630 £615
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 70
10th Percentile - £61.55 £43.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -1.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £69.08 £75.22 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%

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%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) 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 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk