Spring Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Pivotal Spring Framework
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring 2 9 16
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.54% 2.74% 3.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% 15.25% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 13
10th Percentile - £520 £522
25th Percentile £463 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £723 £675
Median % change year-on-year -27.34% +7.04% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £734 £706
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £425 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +35.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 76 59 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.38% 17.99% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 35 61
10th Percentile £412 £435 £375
25th Percentile £481 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £681 £641 £688
90th Percentile £750 £734 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +33.42% -11.42%
75th Percentile £73.25 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £82.70 - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - +25.26% -20.17%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Spring

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Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Spring

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 January 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
Cheltenham -1 1 - - 3
Spring
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform