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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 93 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +37
Contract jobs citing Spring 86 27 25
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.46% 1.59% 1.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.23% 10.23% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 19 18
10th Percentile £419 £398 -
25th Percentile £448 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £615 - £713
90th Percentile £670 £546 £765
England median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -10.00%
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 £71.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +29.09% -2.22% -22.41%

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 499 264 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.26% 15.58% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 167 198
10th Percentile £350 £355 £327
25th Percentile £410 £410 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -11.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £661
90th Percentile £655 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 7
10th Percentile £57.65 - £29.65
25th Percentile £59.37 £33.91 £39.96
Median hourly rate £66.58 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £74.69 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.38 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -7.35%

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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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -23 32 £570 +7.04% 7
Birmingham -3 26 £425 -15.00% 12
Solihull -3 26 £450 +7.14% 1
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 23 (26.74%) Confluence
2 7 (8.14%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (68.60%) AWS
2 28 (32.56%) GitHub
3 26 (30.23%) Amazon S3
4 24 (27.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (27.91%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (25.58%) Azure
6 21 (24.42%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (19.77%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (19.77%) GCP
8 15 (17.44%) AWS KMS
8 15 (17.44%) Route 53
9 11 (12.79%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (12.79%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (12.79%) Serverless
10 9 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.49%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.16%) Apigee
13 1 (1.16%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (45.35%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (17.44%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (17.44%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 49 (56.98%) Git
2 46 (53.49%) JUnit
3 44 (51.16%) Jenkins
4 26 (30.23%) Selenium
5 24 (27.91%) Cucumber
6 23 (26.74%) JIRA
7 22 (25.58%) GitLab
8 20 (23.26%) Maven
8 20 (23.26%) Mockito
8 20 (23.26%) SonarQube
9 18 (20.93%) JMeter
9 18 (20.93%) WebDriver
10 11 (12.79%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (12.79%) DbUnit
10 11 (12.79%) jMock
11 8 (9.30%) Gatling
12 3 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
13 2 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 35 (40.70%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.23%) Public Sector
3 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Finance
7 1 (1.16%) Advertising
7 1 (1.16%) Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Developer
1 32 (37.21%) Java Developer
2 19 (22.09%) Lead
3 16 (18.60%) Senior
4 12 (13.95%) Tester
5 11 (12.79%) Java Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Automation Tester
7 8 (9.30%) Scrum Master
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Senior Tester
8 7 (8.14%) Lead Java Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Automation Tester
9 6 (6.98%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Architect
10 5 (5.81%) Systems Tester
10 5 (5.81%) Test Leader
11 4 (4.65%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (4.65%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (59.30%) Spring Boot
2 22 (25.58%) JPA
2 22 (25.58%) RESTful
3 21 (24.42%) REST
3 21 (24.42%) WireMock
4 20 (23.26%) Hibernate
4 20 (23.26%) Web Services
5 19 (22.09%) SOAP
6 18 (20.93%) Spring Cloud
7 17 (19.77%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (19.77%) AngularJS
7 17 (19.77%) Spring Batch
7 17 (19.77%) Spring Integration
8 12 (13.95%) Node.js
9 11 (12.79%) Bootstrap
9 11 (12.79%) PowerMock
10 9 (10.47%) Playwright
10 9 (10.47%) React
11 5 (5.81%) OAuth
12 4 (4.65%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.56%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (17.44%) Cloud Native
3 14 (16.28%) Distributed Architecture
4 13 (15.12%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.49%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.77%) Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (73.26%) Microservices
2 55 (63.95%) CI/CD
3 53 (61.63%) Agile
4 43 (50.00%) TDD
5 41 (47.67%) Scrum
6 35 (40.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (38.37%) Test Automation
8 32 (37.21%) Containerisation
8 32 (37.21%) Test Strategy
9 28 (32.56%) BDD
10 26 (30.23%) Observability
11 25 (29.07%) DevOps
12 20 (23.26%) End-to-End Testing
13 18 (20.93%) Kanban
13 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (20.93%) Validation
14 17 (19.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 16 (18.60%) Load Testing
16 15 (17.44%) Technical Leadership
17 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 68 (79.07%) Java
2 31 (36.05%) SQL
3 8 (9.30%) PL/SQL
4 6 (6.98%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.49%) Perl
7 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 56 (65.12%) Security Cleared
2 52 (60.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (12.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) QA
2 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (66.28%) Docker
2 9 (10.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 41 (47.67%) Kubernetes
2 34 (39.53%) Grafana
3 24 (27.91%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (12.79%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Splunk
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft