Spring Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Spring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 84 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 +33 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 31 27 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.69% 1.41% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.72% 8.08% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 1
10th Percentile £406 £425 -
25th Percentile £430 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £725 -
90th Percentile £545 £766 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 334 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.37% 17.50% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 199 214
10th Percentile £368 £361 £333
25th Percentile £418 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.53% -5.10%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £600
90th Percentile £676 £750 £688
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £33.91 £22.40 £17.20
25th Percentile £41.96 £34.63 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £30.63
90th Percentile - £71.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.04% -3.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Spring

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Birmingham -16 14 £500 -14.89% 3
Shropshire - 11 £531 - 1
Solihull - 5 £460 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 5 (16.13%) JBoss
1 5 (16.13%) WebLogic
2 4 (12.90%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
3 1 (3.23%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon S3
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (22.58%) AWS KMS
4 7 (22.58%) Route 53
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.45%) Serverless
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.23%) Azure
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (32.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 10 (32.26%) MongoDB
4 8 (25.81%) DynamoDB
5 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (61.29%) JUnit
2 16 (51.61%) Git
3 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
4 11 (35.48%) Maven
5 9 (29.03%) SonarQube
6 7 (22.58%) GitLab
6 7 (22.58%) Mockito
7 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (16.13%) DbUnit
7 5 (16.13%) jMock
8 4 (12.90%) Eclipse
8 4 (12.90%) IntelliJ
8 4 (12.90%) Selenium
9 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
3 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Finance
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (70.97%) Developer
2 21 (67.74%) Java Developer
3 9 (29.03%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) Lead Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Java Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) AWS Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Java Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Open Source Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Open Source Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) REST
2 16 (51.61%) Spring Boot
3 15 (48.39%) SOAP
4 11 (35.48%) Hibernate
5 10 (32.26%) ActiveMQ
5 10 (32.26%) Web Services
6 9 (29.03%) AngularJS
6 9 (29.03%) JPA
7 8 (25.81%) Kafka
7 8 (25.81%) RESTful
8 7 (22.58%) Bootstrap
8 7 (22.58%) Spring Batch
8 7 (22.58%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (22.58%) Spring Integration
9 6 (19.35%) Gherkin
9 6 (19.35%) React
10 5 (16.13%) JSON
10 5 (16.13%) PowerMock
11 4 (12.90%) HTML5
11 4 (12.90%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Microservices
2 19 (61.29%) Agile
3 17 (54.84%) Scrum
4 13 (41.94%) DevOps
4 13 (41.94%) TDD
5 12 (38.71%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
7 9 (29.03%) Open Source
7 9 (29.03%) SDLC
8 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
9 7 (22.58%) BDD
10 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
11 5 (16.13%) Kanban
11 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
11 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
12 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) Korn
4 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (22.58%) Grafana
2 7 (22.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Atlassian
1 5 (16.13%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (16.13%) webMethods
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Trillium