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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 30 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.80% - 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.08% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 0 0
10th Percentile £269 - -
25th Percentile £312 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £429 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

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 199 138 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.22% 17.38% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 105 148
10th Percentile £266 £306 £313
25th Percentile £352 £325 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £488 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Spring 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the East Midlands

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 18 September 2025. 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 - 29 £375 -
Spring
England

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Mule
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (3.33%) Camunda
2 1 (3.33%) JBoss
2 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 14 (46.67%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) Apigee
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.33%) Kong
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) HTTP
1 3 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MariaDB
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 6 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (10.00%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) Mockito
5 2 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.33%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) Gradle
6 1 (3.33%) JIRA
6 1 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Identity Management Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Angular Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Architect
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Senior
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 14 (46.67%) OAuth
2 14 (46.67%) OpenID
2 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 13 (43.33%) LDAP
3 13 (43.33%) SAML
4 9 (30.00%) RESTful
5 8 (26.67%) RAML
5 8 (26.67%) REST
6 7 (23.33%) Kafka
7 6 (20.00%) Spring Batch
8 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 5 (16.67%) CSS
8 5 (16.67%) HTML
8 5 (16.67%) J2EE
8 5 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (16.67%) Swagger
9 4 (13.33%) Web Services
10 3 (10.00%) JPA
10 3 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) State Machine
3 2 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) Containerisation
3 11 (36.67%) Microservices
3 11 (36.67%) RBAC
4 9 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 9 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (23.33%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
6 6 (20.00%) API Development
6 6 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
7 5 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 5 (16.67%) DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
8 4 (13.33%) Integration Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) GDPR
1 11 (36.67%) HIPAA
2 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (43.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) IBM
3 12 (40.00%) Ping Identity
4 7 (23.33%) Oracle
5 4 (13.33%) Checkmarx
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) Solace
6 1 (3.33%) Splunk
6 1 (3.33%) Teradata