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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 66 112
Rank change year-on-year -47 +46 +27
Contract jobs citing Spring 35 34 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.47% 2.16% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.43% 11.04% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 22 1
10th Percentile £335 £425 -
25th Percentile £429 £489 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £325
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +69.23% -43.48%
75th Percentile £528 £713 £338
90th Percentile £561 £765 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -15.38%

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 471 308 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.77% 19.53% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 179 176
10th Percentile £375 £381 £313
25th Percentile £450 £435 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +20.55% -13.10%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £575
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.72% - -4.35%
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% -
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £17.47
90th Percentile £77.30 - £17.49
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 24 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 24 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 -15 27 £469 - 7
Birmingham -36 4 £525 -4.55% 4
Coventry - 2 £273 -
Staffordshire - 1 £338 - 1
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 (25.71%) WebLogic
2 8 (22.86%) Apache
2 8 (22.86%) JBoss
3 3 (8.57%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (11.43%) Azure
4 2 (5.71%) Kong
4 2 (5.71%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
1 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.71%) MySQL
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.86%) DocumentDB
4 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (54.29%) Git
2 18 (51.43%) JUnit
3 13 (37.14%) Selenium
4 12 (34.29%) GitLab
5 9 (25.71%) Mockito
6 8 (22.86%) Eclipse
6 8 (22.86%) IntelliJ
6 8 (22.86%) Maven
7 6 (17.14%) Cucumber
8 3 (8.57%) JIRA
9 2 (5.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (5.71%) Gatling
9 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
10 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Calypso Developer
7 2 (5.71%) QA Leader
7 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Messaging Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Java Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (68.57%) Spring Boot
2 14 (40.00%) JSON
3 13 (37.14%) HTML
4 10 (28.57%) REST
5 9 (25.71%) Hibernate
5 9 (25.71%) SOAP
6 8 (22.86%) EJB
6 8 (22.86%) HTML5
6 8 (22.86%) J2EE
6 8 (22.86%) J2SE
6 8 (22.86%) JPA
6 8 (22.86%) Play Framework
6 8 (22.86%) XML
7 7 (20.00%) Playwright
8 6 (17.14%) Gherkin
8 6 (17.14%) RESTful
8 6 (17.14%) Swagger
9 5 (14.29%) OAuth
9 5 (14.29%) OAuth2
9 5 (14.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Derivative
1 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Unix
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Microservices
2 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 21 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (51.43%) Scrum
4 16 (45.71%) Software Engineering
5 12 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
8 8 (22.86%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (22.86%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (22.86%) DevOps
8 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (22.86%) Lean Software Development
8 8 (22.86%) Open Source
9 7 (20.00%) Coaching
10 6 (17.14%) OO
10 6 (17.14%) Software Testing
10 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (88.57%) Java
2 24 (68.57%) SQL
3 8 (22.86%) Scala
4 7 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) WCAG
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Kubernetes
2 10 (28.57%) Kibana
3 8 (22.86%) Puppet
4 7 (20.00%) Grafana
5 2 (5.71%) Ansible
6 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) webMethods
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Calypso
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) PagerDuty
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.71%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.86%) Qualys