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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 129 136
Rank change year-on-year +57 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring 50 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.46% 0.36% 0.71%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.23% 2.42% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 7 16
10th Percentile £317 £373 -
25th Percentile £363 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -30.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £475 - £700
90th Percentile £500 £503 -
England median daily rate £500 £538 £620
% change year-on-year -6.98% -13.31% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +10.25%

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 378 414 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.57% 14.88% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 283 441
10th Percentile £305 £290 £313
25th Percentile £373 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £539 £621 £594
90th Percentile £638 £710 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £556
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.08% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 0
10th Percentile £31.46 £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.18% - -
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 -
90th Percentile - £57.38 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Spring
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 30 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 30 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 +34 28 £475 +5.56% 115
East Midlands - 22 £375 - 82
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 3 (6.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) Mule
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) AWS
2 16 (32.00%) Amazon S3
3 15 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (22.00%) AWS KMS
4 11 (22.00%) Route 53
5 9 (18.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (18.00%) GCP
6 3 (6.00%) Azure
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.00%) Apigee
8 1 (2.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.00%) Kong
8 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) HTTP
1 3 (6.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (6.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (28.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (26.00%) DynamoDB
5 8 (16.00%) Relational Database
6 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
8 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (2.00%) MariaDB
9 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 27 (54.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (50.00%) JUnit
3 21 (42.00%) Maven
4 18 (36.00%) Git
5 17 (34.00%) Mockito
6 14 (28.00%) SonarQube
7 8 (16.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (12.00%) DbUnit
8 6 (12.00%) jMock
9 5 (10.00%) Gradle
10 4 (8.00%) GitLab
11 3 (6.00%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
11 3 (6.00%) JIRA
11 3 (6.00%) TeamCity
12 2 (4.00%) HP UFT
12 2 (4.00%) IntelliJ
12 2 (4.00%) NetBeans
12 2 (4.00%) Selenium
12 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (76.00%) Developer
2 36 (72.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.00%) Lead
4 7 (14.00%) Lead Developer
4 7 (14.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Identity Management Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Java Applications Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (64.00%) Spring Boot
2 29 (58.00%) Hibernate
3 24 (48.00%) REST
4 22 (44.00%) Web Services
5 18 (36.00%) AngularJS
6 17 (34.00%) RESTful
7 16 (32.00%) JPA
8 15 (30.00%) SOAP
9 14 (28.00%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (28.00%) Spring Batch
10 12 (24.00%) Bootstrap
10 12 (24.00%) Spring Integration
11 10 (20.00%) HTML
11 10 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (18.00%) OAuth
12 9 (18.00%) OpenID
13 8 (16.00%) Kafka
13 8 (16.00%) LDAP
13 8 (16.00%) SAML
14 7 (14.00%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.00%) State Machine
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Microservices
2 30 (60.00%) Agile
3 24 (48.00%) Scrum
4 22 (44.00%) TDD
5 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 15 (30.00%) DevOps
7 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (24.00%) BDD
9 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (18.00%) Kanban
11 8 (16.00%) Open Source
11 8 (16.00%) Risk Management
12 7 (14.00%) API Development
12 7 (14.00%) SDLC
12 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (12.00%) RBAC
14 5 (10.00%) DevSecOps
14 5 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (98.00%) Java
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Python
7 1 (2.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) GDPR
1 6 (12.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) Docker
2 7 (14.00%) Postfix
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Grafana
2 9 (18.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (16.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.00%) Puppet
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) IBM
1 8 (16.00%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Ping Identity
3 6 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) Solace
5 1 (2.00%) Sybase
5 1 (2.00%) Teradata