Spring Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 5 30 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.38% 3.84% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.07% 14.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 28 0
10th Percentile £344 £269 -
25th Percentile £365 £312 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £401 £416 -
90th Percentile £402 £429 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 163 205 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.50% 26.21% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 173 107
10th Percentile £381 £268 £306
25th Percentile £412 £358 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £621
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.60 -
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.96 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -
75th Percentile £26.88 £24.05 -
90th Percentile £28.75 £24.71 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.14% -13.04% -0.79%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Spring job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -8 5 £400 +6.67% 1
Spring
England

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (60.00%) Kafka
3 3 (60.00%) OAuth
3 3 (60.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) JWT
4 2 (40.00%) OpenID
4 2 (40.00%) SAML
4 2 (40.00%) SOAP
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (20.00%) JPA
5 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) API Development
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle