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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 76 111
Rank change year-on-year -25 +35 +32
Contract jobs citing Spring 34 30 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.50% 1.90% 0.057%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.62% 9.87% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 1
10th Percentile £335 £425 -
25th Percentile £429 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £588 £325
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +80.77% -40.91%
75th Percentile £538 £725 £338
90th Percentile £561 £766 -
England median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% -14.06%

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 446 304 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.66% 19.26% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 176 172
10th Percentile £370 £381 £300
25th Percentile £450 £447 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -12.96%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £19.02 - £17.16
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +58.27% +15.83%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £17.47
90th Percentile £77.30 - £17.49
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -8.00% +20.45% -20.17%

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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 11 January 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 11 January 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 - 26 £469 - 3
Birmingham -30 4 £525 -10.64% 4
Coventry - 2 £273 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
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 9 (26.47%) WebLogic
2 8 (23.53%) Apache
2 8 (23.53%) JBoss
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
4 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.76%) Azure
4 3 (8.82%) Serverless
5 2 (5.88%) Kong
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
1 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (55.88%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Redis
5 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) Git
2 16 (47.06%) JUnit
3 13 (38.24%) Selenium
4 10 (29.41%) GitLab
5 8 (23.53%) Eclipse
5 8 (23.53%) IntelliJ
6 7 (20.59%) Mockito
7 6 (17.65%) Cucumber
7 6 (17.65%) Maven
8 2 (5.88%) Gatling
8 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
8 2 (5.88%) JIRA
9 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 19 (55.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Finance
6 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) Java Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Java Developer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior
5 6 (17.65%) Lead
6 4 (11.76%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Calypso Developer
8 2 (5.88%) QA Leader
8 2 (5.88%) Test Leader
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Open Source Developer
9 1 (2.94%) Open Source Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (64.71%) Spring Boot
2 14 (41.18%) JSON
3 13 (38.24%) HTML
4 10 (29.41%) REST
5 9 (26.47%) Hibernate
5 9 (26.47%) SOAP
6 8 (23.53%) EJB
6 8 (23.53%) HTML5
6 8 (23.53%) J2EE
6 8 (23.53%) J2SE
6 8 (23.53%) Play Framework
6 8 (23.53%) XML
7 7 (20.59%) Playwright
7 7 (20.59%) RESTful
8 6 (17.65%) Gherkin
8 6 (17.65%) JPA
8 6 (17.65%) React
8 6 (17.65%) Swagger
9 5 (14.71%) GraalVM
9 5 (14.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Derivative
1 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Microservices
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 19 (55.88%) Agile
4 16 (47.06%) Scrum
4 16 (47.06%) Software Engineering
5 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (23.53%) Deployment Automation
7 8 (23.53%) DevOps
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (23.53%) Lean Software Development
7 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 8 (23.53%) Open Source
8 7 (20.59%) Coaching
9 6 (17.65%) OO
9 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
9 6 (17.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (88.24%) Java
2 22 (64.71%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) Scala
4 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) WCAG
2 3 (8.82%) QA
3 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (23.53%) Kibana
2 8 (23.53%) Puppet
3 7 (20.59%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) webMethods
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Calypso
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.94%) Qualys
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat