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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing Spring 82 30 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.37% 1.83% 0.42%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.02% 11.76% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 20 5
10th Percentile £416 £404 £428
25th Percentile £425 £418 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £669 £545 -
England median daily rate £525 £480 £540
% change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -10.00%
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 £72.00 £55.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%

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 512 255 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.81% 15.53% 14.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 161 191
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £635
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.16% -5.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 9
10th Percentile - - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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
Birmingham -2 29 £425 -12.82% 9
Shropshire -34 27 £575 +7.98% 7
Solihull -1 25 £450 +7.14% 1
Warwickshire -16 1 £529 -
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 26 (31.71%) Confluence
2 8 (9.76%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 54 (65.85%) AWS
2 25 (30.49%) Amazon S3
3 24 (29.27%) GitHub
4 23 (28.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 23 (28.05%) Amazon EC2
4 23 (28.05%) Azure
5 19 (23.17%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (20.73%) AWS KMS
7 17 (20.73%) GCP
7 17 (20.73%) Route 53
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.76%) Serverless
9 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.22%) Apigee
11 1 (1.22%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.22%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (20.73%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (20.73%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (20.73%) DynamoDB
3 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.22%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 48 (58.54%) Git
2 44 (53.66%) Jenkins
2 44 (53.66%) JUnit
3 26 (31.71%) JIRA
4 23 (28.05%) Selenium
5 21 (25.61%) Maven
5 21 (25.61%) Mockito
6 20 (24.39%) Cucumber
6 20 (24.39%) SonarQube
7 18 (21.95%) GitLab
7 18 (21.95%) JMeter
7 18 (21.95%) WebDriver
8 13 (15.85%) DbUnit
8 13 (15.85%) jMock
9 11 (13.41%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (6.10%) Gatling
11 4 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (3.66%) REST Assured
12 3 (3.66%) Serenity BDD
General
1 34 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.93%) Public Sector
3 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Finance
7 1 (1.22%) Advertising
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (41.46%) Developer
1 34 (41.46%) Java Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Lead
3 16 (19.51%) Senior
4 12 (14.63%) Tester
5 9 (10.98%) Automation Tester
5 9 (10.98%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Tester
7 7 (8.54%) Senior Automation Tester
8 6 (7.32%) Scrum Master
9 5 (6.10%) Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Lead Java Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Systems Tester
9 5 (6.10%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.88%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (4.88%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (63.41%) Spring Boot
2 23 (28.05%) JPA
2 23 (28.05%) REST
3 22 (26.83%) Hibernate
3 22 (26.83%) Web Services
4 21 (25.61%) SOAP
4 21 (25.61%) Spring Cloud
5 19 (23.17%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (23.17%) AngularJS
5 19 (23.17%) RESTful
5 19 (23.17%) Spring Batch
5 19 (23.17%) Spring Integration
5 19 (23.17%) WireMock
6 14 (17.07%) Node.js
7 13 (15.85%) PowerMock
8 11 (13.41%) Bootstrap
9 6 (7.32%) Playwright
9 6 (7.32%) React
10 5 (6.10%) Kafka
10 5 (6.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (17.07%) Distributed Architecture
3 11 (13.41%) Cloud Native
4 10 (12.20%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) Microservices
2 52 (63.41%) CI/CD
3 47 (57.32%) Agile
4 43 (52.44%) TDD
5 36 (43.90%) Scrum
6 33 (40.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (37.80%) Containerisation
8 29 (35.37%) BDD
9 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
9 27 (32.93%) Test Strategy
10 25 (30.49%) DevOps
10 25 (30.49%) Observability
11 21 (25.61%) Kanban
12 18 (21.95%) End-to-End Testing
12 18 (21.95%) Validation
13 17 (20.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 16 (19.51%) Load Testing
14 16 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (14.63%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (78.05%) Java
2 31 (37.80%) SQL
3 8 (9.76%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.32%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.88%) Perl
6 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (69.51%) Security Cleared
2 52 (63.41%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 52 (63.41%) Docker
2 11 (13.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (46.34%) Grafana
2 36 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 25 (30.49%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (15.85%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.88%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.88%) Splunk
4 3 (3.66%) Oracle
5 1 (1.22%) Google
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft