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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 66 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.47% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% 2.56% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £648 £551 £321
25th Percentile £649 £553 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £563 £413
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +36.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile - £578 £478
90th Percentile - £584 £514
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 144 117 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 17.02% 17.33% 18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 60 130
10th Percentile £213 £349 £300
25th Percentile £370 £398 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £593 £575
90th Percentile £648 £700 £689
South West median daily rate £539 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 15
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £54.25
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £79.40 £69.80 £76.75
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%

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%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Power Apps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (75.00%) Vue
3 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
3 1 (25.00%) LESS
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Argo
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft