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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 83 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Spring 71 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.32% 1.10% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.09% 6.55% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 7 7
10th Percentile £392 £410 £373
25th Percentile £425 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% +1.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £505 £493 -
90th Percentile £669 £516 £503
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.25
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -15.38% +41.67% -36.72%

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 504 229 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.44% 16.83% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 154 193
10th Percentile £350 £383 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +2.45% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £645 £700 £750
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £39.55 - £29.60
25th Percentile £56.50 £26.25 £39.92
Median hourly rate £60.67 £33.91 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.90% -15.23% -
75th Percentile £77.38 - £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -14 31 £470 -12.91%
Birmingham -7 22 £425 -6.59% 3
Solihull -5 14 £450 +7.14%
Warwickshire - 2 £529 - 1
Coventry - 1 £270 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
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 24 (33.80%) Confluence
2 11 (15.49%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.82%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) JBoss
4 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (63.38%) AWS
2 22 (30.99%) Azure
3 16 (22.54%) GCP
4 15 (21.13%) Amazon S3
4 15 (21.13%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (19.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (19.72%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (19.72%) AWS KMS
5 14 (19.72%) GitHub
5 14 (19.72%) Route 53
6 10 (14.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.41%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.41%) Kong
8 1 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) SSL
1 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (47.89%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (22.54%) MongoDB
3 15 (21.13%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (19.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (19.72%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.41%) IDMS
6 1 (1.41%) Ingres
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.41%) Redis
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (61.97%) Git
2 39 (54.93%) JUnit
3 27 (38.03%) Jenkins
4 24 (33.80%) JIRA
5 20 (28.17%) Selenium
6 17 (23.94%) Cucumber
6 17 (23.94%) Maven
6 17 (23.94%) Mockito
7 15 (21.13%) JMeter
7 15 (21.13%) SonarQube
7 15 (21.13%) WebDriver
8 14 (19.72%) GitLab
9 11 (15.49%) DbUnit
9 11 (15.49%) jMock
10 9 (12.68%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (8.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (4.23%) Gatling
13 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
13 2 (2.82%) IntelliJ
14 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.39%) Public Sector
3 14 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Banking
5 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Advertising
6 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Finance
6 1 (1.41%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Developer
2 26 (36.62%) Java Developer
3 18 (25.35%) Lead
4 17 (23.94%) Java Engineer
5 13 (18.31%) Senior
6 11 (15.49%) Tester
7 9 (12.68%) Automation Tester
8 8 (11.27%) Lead Java Engineer
9 7 (9.86%) Senior Automation Tester
9 7 (9.86%) Senior Tester
10 6 (8.45%) Test Leader
11 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
11 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
12 4 (5.63%) Automation Test Lead
12 4 (5.63%) Systems Tester
13 3 (4.23%) Lead Developer
13 3 (4.23%) Lead Java Developer
13 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 2 (2.82%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (66.20%) Spring Boot
2 22 (30.99%) REST
3 20 (28.17%) Hibernate
4 19 (26.76%) JPA
5 18 (25.35%) SOAP
6 17 (23.94%) Spring Batch
6 17 (23.94%) Web Services
6 17 (23.94%) WireMock
7 16 (22.54%) Spring Integration
8 15 (21.13%) AngularJS
8 15 (21.13%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (19.72%) ActiveMQ
9 14 (19.72%) RESTful
10 11 (15.49%) Node.js
10 11 (15.49%) PowerMock
11 9 (12.68%) Bootstrap
12 6 (8.45%) Swagger
13 5 (7.04%) React
14 4 (5.63%) Playwright
15 3 (4.23%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.39%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (15.49%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.35%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (71.83%) Microservices
2 42 (59.15%) CI/CD
3 39 (54.93%) Agile
4 38 (53.52%) TDD
5 30 (42.25%) Scrum
6 28 (39.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (35.21%) BDD
8 22 (30.99%) Containerisation
9 19 (26.76%) Kanban
10 18 (25.35%) Observability
10 18 (25.35%) Test Automation
11 17 (23.94%) DevOps
11 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (23.94%) Test Strategy
12 16 (22.54%) End-to-End Testing
12 16 (22.54%) Validation
13 15 (21.13%) Load Testing
14 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (18.31%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 12 (16.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 53 (74.65%) Java
2 39 (54.93%) SQL
3 10 (14.08%) Shell Script
4 6 (8.45%) Perl
4 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (64.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (60.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (49.30%) Docker
2 10 (14.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (53.52%) Kubernetes
2 31 (43.66%) Grafana
3 19 (26.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.63%) Kibana
5 2 (2.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (15.49%) Atlassian
3 7 (9.86%) Oracle
4 6 (8.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.23%) Splunk
6 2 (2.82%) webMethods
7 1 (1.41%) Actian
7 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.41%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.41%) Qualys