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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 64 78
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring 6 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.75% 0.76% 0.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.20% 4.41% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £388 £425 £436
25th Percentile £400 £443 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £503 £519
Median % change year-on-year +28.96% -3.13% -1.19%
75th Percentile £650 £555 £559
90th Percentile - £563 £599
South West median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - +4.76%

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 143 136 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 17.83% 17.24% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 70 142
10th Percentile £285 £349 £313
25th Percentile £368 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £584
90th Percentile £644 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 18
10th Percentile £61.40 - £64.25
25th Percentile - £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 - -
90th Percentile £78.00 £74.00 £73.38
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -7.14% +34.11% -19.70%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Bristol over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Bristol

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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) React Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (16.67%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) React
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) Node.js
3 3 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (50.00%) Vue
4 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
4 1 (16.67%) LESS
4 1 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Sass
4 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Web Development
4 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Analytics
6 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 1 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
6 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (16.67%) User Experience
6 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Argo
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft