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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 88 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 +18
Contract jobs citing Spring 41 27 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.07% 1.43% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.35% 8.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 1
10th Percentile £364 £425 -
25th Percentile £430 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £541 £725 -
90th Percentile £557 £766 -
England median daily rate £492 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.56% -7.80%

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 396 333 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.04% 17.68% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 180 214
10th Percentile £373 £374 £325
25th Percentile £447 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £739 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £19.33 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.34% +141.43% -69.83%
75th Percentile - £59.94 £30.63
90th Percentile - £68.98 £38.50
England median hourly rate £54.85 £65.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -15.62% +17.12% -14.62%

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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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 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
Shropshire - 19 £530 - 2
Birmingham -7 16 £500 -14.89% 1
Solihull - 4 £420 -
Coventry - 1 £275 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 - - 3
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 7 (17.07%) JBoss
1 7 (17.07%) WebLogic
2 6 (14.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.44%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 25 (60.98%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (24.39%) Amazon S3
3 9 (21.95%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (14.63%) AWS KMS
4 6 (14.63%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (14.63%) Route 53
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.32%) Azure
6 3 (7.32%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Kong
7 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) MongoDB
2 13 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (21.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (17.07%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.44%) MySQL
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (63.41%) JUnit
2 24 (58.54%) Git
3 15 (36.59%) Maven
4 13 (31.71%) GitLab
4 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
5 12 (29.27%) Mockito
6 11 (26.83%) Selenium
7 8 (19.51%) SonarQube
8 6 (14.63%) Cucumber
8 6 (14.63%) Eclipse
8 6 (14.63%) IntelliJ
9 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (9.76%) DbUnit
9 4 (9.76%) jMock
10 1 (2.44%) Gatling
10 1 (2.44%) Postman
10 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Finance
5 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (63.41%) Developer
2 23 (56.10%) Java Developer
3 9 (21.95%) Lead
4 6 (14.63%) Java Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) Lead Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Calypso Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Applications Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Architect
8 1 (2.44%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.44%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) Spring Boot
2 18 (43.90%) REST
3 17 (41.46%) SOAP
4 13 (31.71%) JPA
5 12 (29.27%) Hibernate
5 12 (29.27%) JSON
6 11 (26.83%) Gherkin
6 11 (26.83%) HTML
7 10 (24.39%) React
8 9 (21.95%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
8 9 (21.95%) RESTful
8 9 (21.95%) Web Services
9 8 (19.51%) Kafka
10 7 (17.07%) Spring Batch
11 6 (14.63%) EJB
11 6 (14.63%) HTML5
11 6 (14.63%) J2EE
11 6 (14.63%) Spring Integration
11 6 (14.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Derivative
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) Microservices
2 27 (65.85%) Agile
3 23 (56.10%) Scrum
4 17 (41.46%) CI/CD
5 14 (34.15%) DevOps
5 14 (34.15%) Software Engineering
6 13 (31.71%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (31.71%) TDD
7 10 (24.39%) Open Source
8 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (21.95%) SDLC
8 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
9 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
10 7 (17.07%) BDD
10 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.07%) OO
11 6 (14.63%) Coaching
11 6 (14.63%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (97.56%) Java
2 19 (46.34%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) Scala
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) C
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) Korn
5 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
1 13 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) WCAG
2 3 (7.32%) QA
3 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 12 (29.27%) Grafana
3 7 (17.07%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.63%) Kibana
4 6 (14.63%) Puppet
5 2 (4.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) webMethods
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (9.76%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.88%) Calypso
5 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Trillium