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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 82 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +28
Contract jobs citing Spring 79 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.78% 0.98% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.11% 5.49% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 5 7
10th Percentile £373 - £373
25th Percentile £425 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -5.56% -35.71%
75th Percentile £538 £458 -
90th Percentile £665 £474 £503
England median daily rate £500 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -6.89% -0.56% -14.42%
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 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -32.03%

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 560 237 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.72% 17.87% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 150 191
10th Percentile £360 £381 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -14.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £703 £688
England median daily rate £525 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 7
10th Percentile £19.02 - £16.15
25th Percentile - £26.25 £28.71
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £77.30 - £56.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -7 43 £470 - 1
Birmingham -10 22 £425 -6.59% 1
Solihull -3 9 £425 +1.19% 2
Coventry - 2 £273 - 1
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
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 23 (29.11%) Confluence
2 17 (21.52%) WebLogic
3 8 (10.13%) Apache
3 8 (10.13%) JBoss
4 1 (1.27%) nginx
4 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 53 (67.09%) AWS
2 22 (27.85%) Azure
3 15 (18.99%) GCP
4 13 (16.46%) GitHub
5 10 (12.66%) Amazon S3
5 10 (12.66%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (11.39%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (11.39%) AWS KMS
6 9 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (11.39%) Route 53
7 8 (10.13%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) Kong
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.27%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.27%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) SSL
1 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (35.44%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (30.38%) MongoDB
3 11 (13.92%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (11.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (11.39%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.27%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.27%) Ingres
7 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.27%) Redis
7 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (64.56%) Git
2 45 (56.96%) JUnit
3 30 (37.97%) Selenium
4 23 (29.11%) Jenkins
4 23 (29.11%) JIRA
5 22 (27.85%) Cucumber
6 19 (24.05%) GitLab
7 18 (22.78%) Mockito
8 17 (21.52%) Maven
9 14 (17.72%) JMeter
9 14 (17.72%) WebDriver
10 10 (12.66%) SonarQube
11 8 (10.13%) Eclipse
11 8 (10.13%) IntelliJ
12 7 (8.86%) DbUnit
12 7 (8.86%) jMock
13 6 (7.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket Server
15 4 (5.06%) Gatling
16 1 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.52%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (10.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Advertising
6 1 (1.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
6 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (35.44%) Developer
2 24 (30.38%) Java Developer
3 20 (25.32%) Java Engineer
4 18 (22.78%) Lead
5 14 (17.72%) Senior
6 10 (12.66%) Tester
7 8 (10.13%) Automation Tester
7 8 (10.13%) Lead Java Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Test Leader
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Automation Tester
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Tester
10 4 (5.06%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.06%) Systems Tester
11 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (2.53%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.53%) Operations Engineer
12 2 (2.53%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (60.76%) Spring Boot
2 22 (27.85%) REST
3 20 (25.32%) Hibernate
4 19 (24.05%) SOAP
5 18 (22.78%) JPA
5 18 (22.78%) WireMock
6 14 (17.72%) JSON
7 13 (16.46%) HTML
8 12 (15.19%) RESTful
8 12 (15.19%) Spring Batch
9 11 (13.92%) AngularJS
9 11 (13.92%) Web Services
10 10 (12.66%) Playwright
10 10 (12.66%) React
10 10 (12.66%) Spring Cloud
10 10 (12.66%) Spring Integration
11 9 (11.39%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (11.39%) J2EE
11 9 (11.39%) Node.js
12 8 (10.13%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.66%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.53%) Derivative
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.25%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
3 6 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (70.89%) Microservices
2 50 (63.29%) CI/CD
3 46 (58.23%) Agile
4 36 (45.57%) Scrum
5 33 (41.77%) TDD
6 32 (40.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (30.38%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (27.85%) Software Engineering
9 21 (26.58%) BDD
9 21 (26.58%) Test Automation
10 18 (22.78%) Containerisation
10 18 (22.78%) DevOps
11 17 (21.52%) Mentoring
11 17 (21.52%) Observability
12 16 (20.25%) End-to-End Testing
12 16 (20.25%) Test Strategy
13 15 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (18.99%) Validation
14 14 (17.72%) Kanban
14 14 (17.72%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (77.22%) Java
2 42 (53.16%) SQL
3 11 (13.92%) Shell Script
4 8 (10.13%) Scala
5 6 (7.59%) Perl
6 5 (6.33%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 44 (55.70%) Security Cleared
2 41 (51.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) QA
2 7 (8.86%) WCAG
3 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (46.84%) Docker
2 6 (7.59%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 45 (56.96%) Kubernetes
2 31 (39.24%) Grafana
3 16 (20.25%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.66%) Kibana
5 8 (10.13%) Puppet
6 2 (2.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (12.66%) Oracle
2 9 (11.39%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (10.13%) webMethods
4 7 (8.86%) Atlassian
5 6 (7.59%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.06%) Splunk
7 2 (2.53%) Calypso
7 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.53%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.27%) Actian
8 1 (1.27%) Google
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.27%) Qualys