Spring Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Pivotal Spring Framework
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 16 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 16.67% 18.00% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 57.14% 56.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £406 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £481 £448 -
90th Percentile £485 £479 -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +3.19% +1.11% -35.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 28 16 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 29.17% 32.00% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £449 £220 £249
25th Percentile £458 £410 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £460 £775
Median % change year-on-year +5.27% -40.65% +47.62%
75th Percentile £494 £598 £813
90th Percentile £676 £604 -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -4.83% +2.45% -2.44%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Solihull

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing Spring

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (68.75%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (68.75%) AWS KMS
3 11 (68.75%) Route 53
4 6 (37.50%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (68.75%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Git
2 13 (81.25%) Jenkins
2 13 (81.25%) JUnit
3 11 (68.75%) DbUnit
3 11 (68.75%) jMock
3 11 (68.75%) Maven
3 11 (68.75%) Mockito
3 11 (68.75%) SonarQube
4 9 (56.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (25.00%) JIRA
6 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (12.50%) JMeter
6 2 (12.50%) Selenium
6 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 10 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
1 14 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Selenium Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) REST
1 14 (87.50%) Spring Boot
1 14 (87.50%) Web Services
2 13 (81.25%) Hibernate
2 13 (81.25%) JPA
2 13 (81.25%) SOAP
2 13 (81.25%) Spring Batch
2 13 (81.25%) Spring Integration
3 11 (68.75%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (68.75%) AngularJS
3 11 (68.75%) PowerMock
4 10 (62.50%) Spring Cloud
5 9 (56.25%) Bootstrap
5 9 (56.25%) RESTful
6 7 (43.75%) Node.js
7 2 (12.50%) WireMock
8 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (6.25%) Kafka
8 1 (6.25%) Mustache
8 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Microservices
2 13 (81.25%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) TDD
3 12 (75.00%) BDD
3 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
4 11 (68.75%) Kanban
5 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (56.25%) Decision-Making
6 9 (56.25%) DevOps
6 9 (56.25%) Open Source
7 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (43.75%) Biometrics
9 6 (37.50%) BPMN
9 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
11 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
2 9 (56.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Grafana
2 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Atlassian
1 11 (68.75%) Jaspersoft