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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 68 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing Spring 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.66% 1.03% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.60% 5.52% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £388 £393 £436
25th Percentile £400 £431 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -13.25% -1.19%
75th Percentile £650 £504 £559
90th Percentile - £558 £599
South West median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% +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 139 163 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 18.48% 18.67% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 80 153
10th Percentile £309 £348 £320
25th Percentile £381 £417 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £700 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 41 21
10th Percentile £62.35 - -
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 £68.00 - -
90th Percentile £73.00 £74.44 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.80% -1.92%

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 15 October 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) React Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (60.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Argo
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat