Spring Contracts in the South West

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 114 112
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 14 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.80% 1.10% 1.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.96% 7.48% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 43
10th Percentile £400 £300 £450
25th Percentile £468 £400 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £588
90th Percentile £718 £700 £625
England median daily rate £500 £536 £615
% change year-on-year -6.76% -12.80% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.75
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.88% -34.46% +6.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 282 481 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.06% 14.65% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 306 405
10th Percentile £355 £325 £368
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £714
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 66 22
10th Percentile £60.63 £43.75 £52.63
25th Percentile £62.38 £45.00 £56.56
Median hourly rate £66.25 £66.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.92% +2.20%
75th Percentile £68.19 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the South West over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Dorset +8 4 £473 +18.25% 4
Bristol +5 4 £400 -5.88% 20
Gloucestershire +11 3 £695 +26.36% 10
Wiltshire - 2 £550 - 4
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Alfresco
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) Flink
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Lead
4 3 (21.43%) React Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leader
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior React Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) REST
3 4 (28.57%) React
4 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (21.43%) JPA
4 3 (21.43%) Middleware
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth
4 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
4 3 (21.43%) SOAP
4 3 (21.43%) Spring Security
5 2 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (14.29%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 2 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
5 2 (14.29%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) Web Services
5 2 (14.29%) XML
6 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) User Stories
5 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) SOLID
5 2 (14.29%) Sprint Review
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Epics
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle