Spring Contracts in the West Midlands

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 104 110
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Spring 32 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.15% 0.44% 0.59%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.11% 3.03% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 9
10th Percentile £410 £431 £560
25th Percentile £424 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -35.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £540 £516 £710
England median daily rate £500 £540 £610
% change year-on-year -7.41% -11.48% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.88% -34.46% +6.63%

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 244 297 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.41% 14.47% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 198 245
10th Percentile £375 £313 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £584 £643 £675
90th Percentile £688 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 1
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -26.90%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -10.54% +23.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the West Midlands

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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 1 July 2025. 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
Birmingham +16 16 £485 +7.78% 38
Solihull - 10 £420 -
Shropshire - 5 £533 - 7
Warwickshire - 1 - - 3
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.13%) JBoss
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.13%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Amazon S3
3 14 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (43.75%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (31.25%) AWS KMS
4 10 (31.25%) Route 53
5 8 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.13%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
8 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (46.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (37.50%) DynamoDB
5 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
6 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.13%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) JUnit
2 20 (62.50%) Maven
3 19 (59.38%) Jenkins
4 14 (43.75%) Git
4 14 (43.75%) Mockito
5 11 (34.38%) SonarQube
6 7 (21.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (21.88%) DbUnit
6 7 (21.88%) jMock
7 5 (15.63%) GitLab
8 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
8 3 (9.38%) Gradle
9 1 (3.13%) Ant
9 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
4 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (84.38%) Developer
1 27 (84.38%) Java Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Lead
3 7 (21.88%) Lead Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Lead Java Developer
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Applications Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Java Applications Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Java Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.13%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (65.63%) Spring Boot
2 19 (59.38%) REST
3 17 (53.13%) SOAP
4 16 (50.00%) Web Services
5 15 (46.88%) ActiveMQ
6 14 (43.75%) JPA
7 13 (40.63%) Hibernate
7 13 (40.63%) RESTful
8 12 (37.50%) AngularJS
9 11 (34.38%) Bootstrap
9 11 (34.38%) Spring Batch
9 11 (34.38%) Spring Integration
10 10 (31.25%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (21.88%) PowerMock
12 5 (15.63%) Kafka
12 5 (15.63%) React
13 4 (12.50%) Gherkin
14 2 (6.25%) Node.js
14 2 (6.25%) WireMock
15 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Microservices
2 22 (68.75%) Agile
3 21 (65.63%) TDD
4 19 (59.38%) Scrum
5 14 (43.75%) DevOps
6 11 (34.38%) BDD
7 10 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
9 8 (25.00%) Kanban
9 8 (25.00%) Risk Management
10 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
10 7 (21.88%) Open Source
10 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (18.75%) SDLC
12 4 (12.50%) Architectural Design
12 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 3 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
13 3 (9.38%) Front End Development
13 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
14 2 (6.25%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (53.13%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) C
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Korn
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) Docker
2 8 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Grafana
1 10 (31.25%) Prometheus
2 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (21.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Sybase
3 1 (3.13%) Trillium
3 1 (3.13%) webMethods