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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 87 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing Spring 46 27 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.19% 1.43% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.95% 7.85% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 20 1
10th Percentile £350 £425 -
25th Percentile £429 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +17.50% -10.71%
75th Percentile £538 £725 -
90th Percentile £553 £766 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.39% -10.76%

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 420 344 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.97% 18.20% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 192 206
10th Percentile £368 £396 £325
25th Percentile £447 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £601 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £736 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 3
10th Percentile £27.21 £30.13 £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £35.94 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +178.57% -52.24%
75th Percentile - £63.44 £30.63
90th Percentile - £70.38 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.62% +18.18% -15.38%

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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 16 November 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 16 November 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 - 24 £475 - 6
Birmingham -19 16 £500 -14.89% 2
Solihull - 3 - -
Coventry - 2 £273 - 2
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 10 (21.74%) WebLogic
2 8 (17.39%) Apache
2 8 (17.39%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) nginx
3 1 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.17%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) AWS
2 10 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (21.74%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (13.04%) AWS KMS
5 6 (13.04%) Route 53
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.70%) Azure
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (6.52%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.17%) Kong
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) MongoDB
2 13 (28.26%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (19.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (15.22%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.35%) MySQL
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (60.87%) JUnit
2 27 (58.70%) Git
3 14 (30.43%) GitLab
3 14 (30.43%) Maven
4 13 (28.26%) Selenium
5 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
5 12 (26.09%) Mockito
6 8 (17.39%) Eclipse
6 8 (17.39%) IntelliJ
6 8 (17.39%) SonarQube
7 6 (13.04%) Cucumber
8 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (8.70%) DbUnit
8 4 (8.70%) jMock
9 2 (4.35%) Gatling
10 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (2.17%) JIRA
10 1 (2.17%) Postman
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.39%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (56.52%) Developer
2 23 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Lead
4 9 (19.57%) Java Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Senior
6 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Lead Java Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.35%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Calypso Developer
9 2 (4.35%) QA Leader
9 2 (4.35%) Test Leader
10 1 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (56.52%) Spring Boot
2 19 (41.30%) REST
2 19 (41.30%) SOAP
3 14 (30.43%) Hibernate
3 14 (30.43%) JSON
4 13 (28.26%) HTML
4 13 (28.26%) JPA
5 11 (23.91%) Gherkin
5 11 (23.91%) RESTful
6 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
6 10 (21.74%) React
7 9 (19.57%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (17.39%) EJB
8 8 (17.39%) HTML5
8 8 (17.39%) J2EE
8 8 (17.39%) J2SE
8 8 (17.39%) Kafka
8 8 (17.39%) Spring Batch
8 8 (17.39%) Web Services
8 8 (17.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Derivative
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
1 8 (17.39%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (80.43%) Microservices
2 30 (65.22%) Agile
3 26 (56.52%) Scrum
4 22 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 18 (39.13%) Software Engineering
6 16 (34.78%) DevOps
7 15 (32.61%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (30.43%) TDD
9 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (26.09%) Open Source
11 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (19.57%) Mentoring
11 9 (19.57%) SDLC
11 9 (19.57%) Test Automation
12 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
12 8 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
12 8 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (17.39%) Lean Software Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) Java
2 24 (52.17%) SQL
3 9 (19.57%) Scala
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Korn
6 1 (2.17%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
1 15 (32.61%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) WCAG
2 4 (8.70%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (52.17%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 13 (28.26%) Grafana
3 8 (17.39%) Puppet
4 7 (15.22%) Kibana
4 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) webMethods
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.70%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.35%) Calypso
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.35%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Trillium