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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Spring 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% - 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.68% - 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £249 - -
25th Percentile £269 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £308 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.50%
75th Percentile £413 - £394
90th Percentile £434 - -
England median daily rate £485 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -12.70%

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 171 91 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.17% 15.29% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 73 87
10th Percentile £351 £314 £313
25th Percentile £388 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% - -
75th Percentile £546 £538 £530
90th Percentile £638 £581 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £21.21 - £22.90
25th Percentile £22.64 - £26.02
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +119.93%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £58.25
90th Percentile £25.14 - £62.30
England median hourly rate £59.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -4.80% +20.45% -20.17%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the East Midlands

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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

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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 26 December 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 - 6 £308 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £450 - 4
Spring
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Mule
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Identity Management Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) RAML
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Swagger
3 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 2 (25.00%) OAuth
3 2 (25.00%) OpenID
3 2 (25.00%) SAML
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Express.js
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Checkmarx
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Ping Identity