Spring Contract Job Trends in Wales

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 12 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 2.50% 0.47% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.81% 2.25% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £457 £403 -
25th Percentile £463 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -6.94% -
75th Percentile £488 £431 £475
90th Percentile - £437 -
UK median daily rate £478 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.76% -12.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 81 89 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.88% 20.84% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 50 69
10th Percentile £368 £193 £207
25th Percentile £425 £232 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +25.81% -18.42%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £519
90th Percentile £648 £553 £553
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 0
10th Percentile £48.15 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £25.44 -
90th Percentile £86.50 £25.60 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Wales

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Spring

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Spring

Spring
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 Wales - 8 £475 - 2
South Wales +7 4 £469 +11.94% 10
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 4 (33.33%) MySQL
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) API Design
2 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Ruby
2 5 (41.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Google