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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 97 84
Rank change year-on-year +28 -13 +33
Contract jobs citing Spring 109 30 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.02% 1.63% 1.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.22% 8.40% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 19 20
10th Percentile £415 £400 £425
25th Percentile £448 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -14.89% +17.50%
75th Percentile £620 - £725
90th Percentile £633 £546 £766
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%

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 633 357 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.55% 19.43% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 228 206
10th Percentile £363 £371 £369
25th Percentile £413 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +11.68%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £661
90th Percentile £667 £679 £750
England median daily rate £535 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 2
10th Percentile - - £19.33
25th Percentile £58.43 £33.91 £26.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +18.34% +141.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £59.94
90th Percentile - - £68.98
England median hourly rate £65.83 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +19.69% -15.38% +8.33%

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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 30 September 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 30 September 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 59 £528 -0.47% 11
Solihull +9 29 - - 1
Birmingham -6 18 £581 +16.25% 18
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 14 (12.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 82 (75.23%) AWS
2 32 (29.36%) GitHub
3 20 (18.35%) Amazon S3
4 19 (17.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (17.43%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (11.93%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (11.93%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (11.93%) Serverless
7 12 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (7.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (6.42%) AWS KMS
9 7 (6.42%) Route 53
10 5 (4.59%) Azure
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.75%) GCP
12 1 (0.92%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.10%) MongoDB
2 22 (20.18%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (11.01%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.42%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (6.42%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 59 (54.13%) JUnit
2 55 (50.46%) Git
3 48 (44.04%) GitLab
4 36 (33.03%) Jenkins
5 35 (32.11%) Maven
6 33 (30.28%) SonarQube
7 32 (29.36%) Mockito
8 29 (26.61%) Selenium
9 26 (23.85%) Cucumber
10 24 (22.02%) Gatling
11 14 (12.84%) JIRA
12 5 (4.59%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (4.59%) DbUnit
12 5 (4.59%) jMock
13 3 (2.75%) JMeter
13 3 (2.75%) WebDriver
14 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 2 (1.83%) Serenity BDD
General
1 43 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.44%) Public Sector
3 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.42%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Finance
6 2 (1.83%) Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Developer
1 41 (37.61%) Java Developer
2 22 (20.18%) Java Engineer
3 21 (19.27%) Quality Engineer
4 20 (18.35%) Lead
4 20 (18.35%) Senior
5 15 (13.76%) Senior Developer
5 15 (13.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (10.09%) Scrum Master
7 8 (7.34%) Lead Developer
7 8 (7.34%) Lead Java Developer
8 6 (5.50%) Java Scrum Master
9 5 (4.59%) Architect
9 5 (4.59%) Lead Java Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.75%) Java Software Developer
11 3 (2.75%) Software Developer
12 2 (1.83%) Project Leader
12 2 (1.83%) Technical Architect
12 2 (1.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (67.89%) Spring Boot
2 33 (30.28%) JPA
3 28 (25.69%) Playwright
3 28 (25.69%) RESTful
4 24 (22.02%) REST
5 22 (20.18%) OpenAPI
6 19 (17.43%) Hibernate
7 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
7 18 (16.51%) Gherkin
7 18 (16.51%) Spring Cloud
7 18 (16.51%) WireMock
8 17 (15.60%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (15.60%) SOAP
8 17 (15.60%) Web Services
9 12 (11.01%) React
10 11 (10.09%) Kafka
11 10 (9.17%) OAuth
11 10 (9.17%) Swagger
12 9 (8.26%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (7.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 19 (17.43%) Product Ownership
3 11 (10.09%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.34%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.15%) Agile
2 75 (68.81%) Microservices
2 75 (68.81%) Scrum
3 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
4 56 (51.38%) Test Automation
5 42 (38.53%) TDD
6 37 (33.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (33.03%) Containerisation
8 32 (29.36%) Software Testing
9 31 (28.44%) Coaching
9 31 (28.44%) Test Strategy
10 29 (26.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (25.69%) Code Quality
12 26 (23.85%) DevOps
12 26 (23.85%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (21.10%) BDD
13 23 (21.10%) OWASP
14 22 (20.18%) Sprint Planning
15 21 (19.27%) SDLC
15 21 (19.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (97.25%) Java
2 24 (22.02%) SQL
3 11 (10.09%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.17%) Shell Script
5 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.75%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.83%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 43 (39.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 41 (37.61%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.93%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (26.61%) QA
2 26 (23.85%) Accessibility
3 22 (20.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (56.88%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (44.04%) Kubernetes
2 25 (22.94%) Grafana
3 19 (17.43%) Prometheus
4 15 (13.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (6.42%) Oracle
2 5 (4.59%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.83%) Splunk