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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 94 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 -12 +35
Contract jobs citing Spring 77 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.24% 1.49% 1.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.56% 7.76% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 20
10th Percentile £425 £394 £425
25th Percentile £460 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -14.89% -2.08%
75th Percentile £626 - £725
90th Percentile £652 £546 £766
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 568 335 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.51% 19.23% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 216 218
10th Percentile £361 £362 £357
25th Percentile £413 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £651 £641 £750
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 3
10th Percentile - £33.91 £22.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.48 £34.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £54.79 £62.50
% change year-on-year +23.15% -12.34% -0.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Spring job vacancy trend 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 2 September 2026.

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 2 September 2026. 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
Shropshire -18 34 £575 +7.98% 10
Solihull +3 26 £475 +3.26% 1
Birmingham -9 17 £425 -15.00% 29
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (18.18%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (76.62%) AWS
2 26 (33.77%) GitHub
3 20 (25.97%) Amazon S3
4 18 (23.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (23.38%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (20.78%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (15.58%) Serverless
7 10 (12.99%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.69%) Azure
9 8 (10.39%) AWS KMS
9 8 (10.39%) Route 53
10 7 (9.09%) GCP
11 5 (6.49%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (1.30%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.47%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
3 9 (11.69%) Relational Database
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.39%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 41 (53.25%) JUnit
2 40 (51.95%) Git
3 36 (46.75%) Jenkins
4 29 (37.66%) GitLab
5 24 (31.17%) Maven
6 22 (28.57%) Mockito
6 22 (28.57%) SonarQube
7 20 (25.97%) Selenium
8 17 (22.08%) Cucumber
9 14 (18.18%) JIRA
10 13 (16.88%) Gatling
11 7 (9.09%) JMeter
11 7 (9.09%) WebDriver
12 6 (7.79%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (7.79%) DbUnit
12 6 (7.79%) jMock
13 2 (2.60%) REST Assured
13 2 (2.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.87%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Finance
5 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Developer
1 31 (40.26%) Java Developer
2 18 (23.38%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) Lead
4 13 (16.88%) Senior Developer
4 13 (16.88%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (15.58%) Java Engineer
6 10 (12.99%) Quality Engineer
7 9 (11.69%) Scrum Master
8 5 (6.49%) Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Lead Java Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Lead Java Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Tester
8 5 (6.49%) Tester
9 4 (5.19%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.19%) Java Scrum Master
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Automation Tester
10 2 (2.60%) Java Technical Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (66.23%) Spring Boot
2 22 (28.57%) JPA
2 22 (28.57%) RESTful
3 20 (25.97%) REST
4 17 (22.08%) Web Services
5 16 (20.78%) Hibernate
5 16 (20.78%) SOAP
5 16 (20.78%) Spring Cloud
6 15 (19.48%) ActiveMQ
6 15 (19.48%) AngularJS
7 14 (18.18%) Playwright
7 14 (18.18%) WireMock
8 10 (12.99%) OpenAPI
8 10 (12.99%) React
9 9 (11.69%) Kafka
9 9 (11.69%) Spring Batch
9 9 (11.69%) Spring Integration
10 8 (10.39%) OAuth
11 7 (9.09%) Gherkin
12 6 (7.79%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 16 (20.78%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (20.78%) Product Ownership
3 7 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) Agile
2 56 (72.73%) Microservices
3 50 (64.94%) CI/CD
4 49 (63.64%) Scrum
5 38 (49.35%) Test Automation
6 33 (42.86%) TDD
7 29 (37.66%) Containerisation
8 28 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (35.06%) Test Strategy
10 23 (29.87%) DevOps
11 21 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (25.97%) Observability
13 19 (24.68%) BDD
14 18 (23.38%) Code Quality
15 17 (22.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (20.78%) Coaching
16 16 (20.78%) Sprint Planning
17 15 (19.48%) Kanban
17 15 (19.48%) Software Testing
18 14 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 70 (90.91%) Java
2 18 (23.38%) SQL
3 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.79%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (51.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (48.05%) SC Cleared
3 24 (31.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (14.29%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (24.68%) QA
2 12 (15.58%) Accessibility
3 10 (12.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (66.23%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
2 25 (32.47%) Grafana
3 21 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 7 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (7.79%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.90%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk