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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 86 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring 76 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.77% 0.96% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.84% 5.18% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 5 7
10th Percentile £366 - £373
25th Percentile £425 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -5.56% -35.71%
75th Percentile £538 £458 -
90th Percentile £667 £474 £503
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -15.69%
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 - £47.16
% change year-on-year - - -27.45%

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 549 251 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.01% 18.52% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 156 179
10th Percentile £373 £381 £311
25th Percentile £447 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £677 £706 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £19.02 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.41
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -31.11% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.75 £44.06
90th Percentile £77.30 - £56.25
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 3 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 3 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 -1 43 £470 - 6
Birmingham -6 20 £475 +4.40% 1
Solihull -4 8 £425 +1.19% 7
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 20 (26.32%) Confluence
2 17 (22.37%) WebLogic
3 8 (10.53%) Apache
3 8 (10.53%) JBoss
4 1 (1.32%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (64.47%) AWS
2 19 (25.00%) Azure
3 12 (15.79%) GCP
4 10 (13.16%) GitHub
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon S3
5 9 (11.84%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (11.84%) AWS KMS
5 9 (11.84%) Route 53
6 8 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.63%) Kong
8 2 (2.63%) Serverless
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.32%) Apigee
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.32%) BrowserStack
9 1 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) SSL
1 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.89%) MongoDB
2 24 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (14.47%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (11.84%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.32%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.32%) Ingres
6 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.32%) Redis
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (61.84%) Git
2 43 (56.58%) JUnit
3 27 (35.53%) Selenium
4 20 (26.32%) JIRA
5 19 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 19 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 18 (23.68%) Mockito
7 17 (22.37%) GitLab
7 17 (22.37%) Maven
8 11 (14.47%) JMeter
8 11 (14.47%) WebDriver
9 10 (13.16%) SonarQube
10 8 (10.53%) Eclipse
10 8 (10.53%) IntelliJ
11 7 (9.21%) DbUnit
11 7 (9.21%) jMock
12 6 (7.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (6.58%) Bitbucket Server
14 4 (5.26%) Gatling
15 1 (1.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.37%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.84%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Finance
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (36.84%) Developer
2 24 (31.58%) Java Developer
3 20 (26.32%) Java Engineer
4 18 (23.68%) Lead
5 11 (14.47%) Senior
6 8 (10.53%) Lead Java Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Test Leader
7 7 (9.21%) Tester
8 5 (6.58%) Automation Tester
9 4 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Systems Tester
10 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Automation Tester
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Tester
11 2 (2.63%) Calypso Developer
11 2 (2.63%) Lead Java Developer
11 2 (2.63%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (61.84%) Spring Boot
2 21 (27.63%) REST
3 20 (26.32%) Hibernate
4 19 (25.00%) SOAP
5 18 (23.68%) JPA
6 15 (19.74%) WireMock
7 14 (18.42%) JSON
8 13 (17.11%) HTML
9 12 (15.79%) RESTful
9 12 (15.79%) Spring Batch
10 11 (14.47%) AngularJS
11 10 (13.16%) Playwright
11 10 (13.16%) Spring Cloud
11 10 (13.16%) Spring Integration
11 10 (13.16%) Web Services
12 9 (11.84%) ActiveMQ
12 9 (11.84%) J2EE
12 9 (11.84%) React
13 8 (10.53%) Gherkin
13 8 (10.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (9.21%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Derivative
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Unix
3 6 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (69.74%) Microservices
2 46 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 42 (55.26%) Agile
4 35 (46.05%) Scrum
5 29 (38.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (38.16%) TDD
6 24 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (28.95%) Software Engineering
8 19 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 18 (23.68%) BDD
9 18 (23.68%) Containerisation
9 18 (23.68%) DevOps
10 17 (22.37%) Mentoring
11 15 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (18.42%) Kanban
12 14 (18.42%) Observability
13 13 (17.11%) Coaching
13 13 (17.11%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (17.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 61 (80.26%) Java
2 42 (55.26%) SQL
3 11 (14.47%) Shell Script
4 8 (10.53%) Scala
5 6 (7.89%) Perl
6 5 (6.58%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (53.95%) Security Cleared
2 38 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) QA
2 7 (9.21%) WCAG
3 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (43.42%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 41 (53.95%) Kubernetes
2 28 (36.84%) Grafana
3 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
4 10 (13.16%) Kibana
5 8 (10.53%) Puppet
6 2 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle
2 9 (11.84%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (10.53%) webMethods
4 7 (9.21%) Atlassian
5 6 (7.89%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.26%) Splunk
7 2 (2.63%) Calypso
7 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.63%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.32%) Actian
8 1 (1.32%) Google
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.32%) Qualys