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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 91 80
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +36
Contract jobs citing Spring 68 27 30
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.97% 1.57% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.39% 8.28% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 22
10th Percentile £425 £392 £428
25th Percentile £459 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £620 - £713
90th Percentile £630 £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 2
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +30.91% -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 549 326 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.94% 18.91% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 210 221
10th Percentile £356 £360 £345
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £675
90th Percentile £645 £638 £750
England median daily rate £530 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 5
10th Percentile - £33.91 £30.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £34.96 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.11% +32.35%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £67.50
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.79 £61.80
% change year-on-year +22.29% -11.35% -4.92%

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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 25 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 25 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 -18 33 £575 +7.98% 6
Solihull -1 20 £475 +13.10% 1
Birmingham -17 15 £425 -15.00% 17
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 12 (17.65%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) GitHub
3 19 (27.94%) Amazon S3
4 17 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (17.65%) Azure
6 11 (16.18%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (16.18%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (16.18%) Serverless
7 10 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (14.71%) GCP
8 9 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (11.76%) AWS KMS
9 8 (11.76%) Route 53
10 5 (7.35%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (33.82%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 38 (55.88%) JUnit
2 37 (54.41%) Git
3 32 (47.06%) Jenkins
4 29 (42.65%) GitLab
5 22 (32.35%) Selenium
6 19 (27.94%) Cucumber
6 19 (27.94%) Maven
7 17 (25.00%) Mockito
7 17 (25.00%) SonarQube
8 12 (17.65%) Gatling
8 12 (17.65%) JIRA
9 10 (14.71%) JMeter
9 10 (14.71%) WebDriver
10 6 (8.82%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (8.82%) DbUnit
10 6 (8.82%) jMock
11 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
General
1 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Developer
1 21 (30.88%) Java Developer
2 13 (19.12%) Senior
3 12 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Lead
4 9 (13.24%) Quality Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Scrum Master
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Tester
7 6 (8.82%) Senior Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Architect
8 5 (7.35%) Automation Tester
8 5 (7.35%) Lead Java Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Automation Tester
9 3 (4.41%) Java Scrum Master
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Systems Tester
10 2 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (58.82%) Spring Boot
2 17 (25.00%) JPA
2 17 (25.00%) WireMock
3 16 (23.53%) RESTful
4 13 (19.12%) Playwright
4 13 (19.12%) REST
5 12 (17.65%) Web Services
6 11 (16.18%) Hibernate
6 11 (16.18%) SOAP
6 11 (16.18%) Spring Cloud
7 10 (14.71%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
7 10 (14.71%) OpenAPI
8 9 (13.24%) React
8 9 (13.24%) Spring Batch
8 9 (13.24%) Spring Integration
9 8 (11.76%) OAuth
10 7 (10.29%) Gherkin
11 6 (8.82%) Bootstrap
11 6 (8.82%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 13 (19.12%) Product Ownership
4 9 (13.24%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (73.53%) Microservices
2 49 (72.06%) Agile
3 43 (63.24%) CI/CD
4 40 (58.82%) Scrum
5 31 (45.59%) Test Automation
6 30 (44.12%) TDD
7 28 (41.18%) Test Strategy
8 23 (33.82%) Containerisation
8 23 (33.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (32.35%) BDD
9 22 (32.35%) Observability
10 19 (27.94%) DevOps
11 18 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (19.12%) Coaching
14 12 (17.65%) Code Quality
14 12 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
15 11 (16.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 11 (16.18%) Software Testing
15 11 (16.18%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 58 (85.29%) Java
2 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 6 (8.82%) Shell Script
4 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (57.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (52.94%) SC Cleared
3 22 (32.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (14.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.47%) QA
2 11 (16.18%) Accessibility
3 9 (13.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (69.12%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 23 (33.82%) Grafana
3 19 (27.94%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (8.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) Splunk