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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 86 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing Spring 73 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.72% 0.86% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.44% 4.60% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 4 5
10th Percentile £380 £415 £353
25th Percentile £429 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -2.22% -35.71%
75th Percentile £539 £464 -
90th Percentile £668 £477 £529
England median daily rate £500 £550 £544
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.15% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £45.88
% change year-on-year - - -29.42%

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 543 261 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.22% 18.70% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 157 175
10th Percentile £375 £381 £313
25th Percentile £449 £434 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +13.51% -14.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £605
90th Percentile £677 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £19.64 - £15.63
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £28.71
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% -4.21% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £77.28 - £39.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -5 43 £470 - 3
Birmingham -7 18 £475 +4.40% 1
Solihull -2 7 £425 +1.19% 5
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
Coventry - 2 £273 -
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 17 (23.29%) Confluence
1 17 (23.29%) WebLogic
2 8 (10.96%) Apache
2 8 (10.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.37%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 45 (61.64%) AWS
2 16 (21.92%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) GCP
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon S3
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (10.96%) AWS KMS
4 8 (10.96%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (10.96%) GitHub
4 8 (10.96%) Route 53
5 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.74%) Kong
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Apigee
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.37%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) SSL
1 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.25%) MongoDB
2 20 (27.40%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.70%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (10.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (10.96%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.74%) MySQL
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.37%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.37%) Ingres
6 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.37%) Redis
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (58.90%) Git
2 39 (53.42%) JUnit
3 24 (32.88%) Selenium
4 17 (23.29%) JIRA
4 17 (23.29%) Mockito
5 16 (21.92%) Cucumber
5 16 (21.92%) GitLab
5 16 (21.92%) Jenkins
5 16 (21.92%) Maven
6 9 (12.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (10.96%) Eclipse
7 8 (10.96%) IntelliJ
7 8 (10.96%) JMeter
7 8 (10.96%) WebDriver
8 6 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (8.22%) DbUnit
8 6 (8.22%) jMock
9 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (5.48%) Gatling
10 1 (1.37%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (47.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Advertising
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
6 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (38.36%) Developer
2 24 (32.88%) Java Developer
3 20 (27.40%) Java Engineer
4 17 (23.29%) Lead
5 10 (13.70%) Senior
6 8 (10.96%) Lead Java Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Test Leader
9 5 (6.85%) Tester
10 4 (5.48%) Automation Tester
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.11%) Automation Test Lead
11 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (4.11%) Systems Tester
12 2 (2.74%) Calypso Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Lead Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Operations Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) Quality Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (64.38%) Spring Boot
2 20 (27.40%) REST
3 19 (26.03%) Hibernate
4 18 (24.66%) SOAP
5 17 (23.29%) JPA
6 14 (19.18%) JSON
7 13 (17.81%) HTML
8 12 (16.44%) WireMock
9 11 (15.07%) RESTful
9 11 (15.07%) Spring Batch
10 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
10 10 (13.70%) Playwright
11 9 (12.33%) J2EE
11 9 (12.33%) React
11 9 (12.33%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (12.33%) Spring Integration
11 9 (12.33%) Web Services
12 8 (10.96%) EJB
12 8 (10.96%) J2SE
12 8 (10.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.85%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Derivative
4 2 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.55%) Linux
2 8 (10.96%) Unix
3 6 (8.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (68.49%) Microservices
2 43 (58.90%) CI/CD
3 39 (53.42%) Agile
4 34 (46.58%) Scrum
5 26 (35.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (34.25%) TDD
7 23 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (30.14%) Software Engineering
9 17 (23.29%) DevOps
10 16 (21.92%) Containerisation
10 16 (21.92%) Mentoring
10 16 (21.92%) Test Automation
11 14 (19.18%) BDD
12 13 (17.81%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (17.81%) Kanban
12 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (16.44%) Coaching
13 12 (16.44%) Open Source
14 11 (15.07%) Observability
15 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (83.56%) Java
2 41 (56.16%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) Shell Script
4 8 (10.96%) Scala
5 6 (8.22%) Perl
6 5 (6.85%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.11%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (49.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 7 (9.59%) WCAG
3 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (39.73%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (52.05%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.88%) Grafana
3 10 (13.70%) Kibana
4 9 (12.33%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.96%) Puppet
6 2 (2.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Oracle
2 8 (10.96%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (10.96%) webMethods
3 6 (8.22%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.22%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.48%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Calypso
5 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.74%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.37%) Actian
6 1 (1.37%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.37%) Qualys