Spring Contracts in the Midlands

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 123 142
Rank change year-on-year +34 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing Spring 22 10 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 0.36% 0.73%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.90% 2.60% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 18
10th Percentile £362 £373 £493
25th Percentile £402 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -25.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £489 - £700
90th Percentile £533 £503 -
England median daily rate £530 £540 £624
% change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +19 15 £455 +1.11% 29
East Midlands - 7 £402 - 17
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) JBoss
2 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (27.27%) AWS KMS
3 6 (27.27%) Route 53
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.55%) Apigee
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Kong
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (31.82%) DynamoDB
2 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
6 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.55%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Jenkins
1 14 (63.64%) JUnit
2 12 (54.55%) Maven
3 10 (45.45%) Mockito
4 5 (22.73%) Gradle
5 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (18.18%) Git
5 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
6 3 (13.64%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
6 3 (13.64%) DbUnit
6 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 3 (13.64%) jMock
7 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 2 (9.09%) HP UFT
7 2 (9.09%) IntelliJ
7 2 (9.09%) NetBeans
7 2 (9.09%) Selenium
7 2 (9.09%) Subversion
8 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
2 19 (86.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) Spring Boot
2 13 (59.09%) Hibernate
3 11 (50.00%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) REST
5 9 (40.91%) AngularJS
5 9 (40.91%) RESTful
6 7 (31.82%) Bootstrap
6 7 (31.82%) HTML
6 7 (31.82%) SOAP
6 7 (31.82%) Spring Integration
7 6 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (27.27%) JPA
8 5 (22.73%) jQuery
8 5 (22.73%) Spring Batch
9 4 (18.18%) CSS
9 4 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (13.64%) J2EE
10 3 (13.64%) Kafka
10 3 (13.64%) PowerMock
10 3 (13.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Agile
1 16 (72.73%) Microservices
2 12 (54.55%) Scrum
2 12 (54.55%) TDD
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 7 (31.82%) BDD
5 6 (27.27%) Kanban
6 5 (22.73%) Open Source
6 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
7 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.64%) API Development
8 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Front End Development
8 3 (13.64%) SDLC
8 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) Python
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Postfix
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Grafana
2 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.09%) Puppet
5 1 (4.55%) Kibana
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Sybase