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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 96 86
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing Spring 82 27 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.34% 1.50% 1.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.21% 7.71% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 20
10th Percentile £426 £394 £425
25th Percentile £460 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% -14.89% -2.08%
75th Percentile £626 - £725
90th Percentile £648 £546 £766
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -7.17%

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 577 350 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.46% 19.42% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 397 228 215
10th Percentile £363 £368 £361
25th Percentile £413 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £658 £750
England median daily rate £530 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +2.12% -5.64% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 3
10th Percentile - £33.91 £22.40
25th Percentile £58.43 £35.48 £34.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £54.35 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.20% -13.04% -

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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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -24 36 £575 +7.98% 11
Solihull +5 29 £475 +3.26% 1
Birmingham -6 17 £425 -15.00% 23
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 16 (19.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 64 (78.05%) AWS
2 28 (34.15%) GitHub
3 21 (25.61%) Amazon S3
4 20 (24.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (24.39%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (15.85%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (15.85%) Amazon EKS
6 13 (15.85%) Serverless
7 12 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.98%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (10.98%) Azure
9 8 (9.76%) AWS KMS
9 8 (9.76%) Route 53
10 7 (8.54%) GCP
11 5 (6.10%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (1.22%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.71%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.41%) MongoDB
3 10 (12.20%) Relational Database
4 8 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.10%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.22%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 45 (54.88%) JUnit
2 43 (52.44%) Git
3 39 (47.56%) Jenkins
4 31 (37.80%) GitLab
5 28 (34.15%) Maven
6 25 (30.49%) Mockito
7 23 (28.05%) SonarQube
8 22 (26.83%) Selenium
9 19 (23.17%) Cucumber
10 16 (19.51%) JIRA
11 13 (15.85%) Gatling
12 7 (8.54%) JMeter
12 7 (8.54%) WebDriver
13 6 (7.32%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (7.32%) DbUnit
13 6 (7.32%) jMock
14 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
14 2 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (29.27%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Finance
5 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Developer
1 32 (39.02%) Java Developer
2 20 (24.39%) Senior
3 17 (20.73%) Lead
4 13 (15.85%) Senior Developer
4 13 (15.85%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (14.63%) Java Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Scrum Master
7 10 (12.20%) Quality Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Java Scrum Master
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Lead Java Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Senior Tester
9 5 (6.10%) Tester
10 4 (4.88%) Automation Tester
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Automation Tester
10 4 (4.88%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.44%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (68.29%) Spring Boot
2 26 (31.71%) JPA
2 26 (31.71%) RESTful
3 21 (25.61%) REST
4 18 (21.95%) Hibernate
5 17 (20.73%) AngularJS
5 17 (20.73%) SOAP
5 17 (20.73%) Spring Cloud
5 17 (20.73%) Web Services
6 16 (19.51%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (19.51%) Playwright
7 14 (17.07%) WireMock
8 11 (13.41%) OpenAPI
8 11 (13.41%) React
9 10 (12.20%) OAuth
10 9 (10.98%) Gherkin
10 9 (10.98%) Spring Batch
10 9 (10.98%) Spring Integration
11 8 (9.76%) Kafka
12 7 (8.54%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.93%) Cloud Native
2 19 (23.17%) Product Ownership
3 15 (18.29%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (8.54%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.98%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (78.05%) Agile
2 61 (74.39%) Microservices
3 54 (65.85%) Scrum
4 53 (64.63%) CI/CD
5 43 (52.44%) Test Automation
6 34 (41.46%) TDD
7 33 (40.24%) Containerisation
7 33 (40.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (35.37%) Test Strategy
9 25 (30.49%) DevOps
10 24 (29.27%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (28.05%) Code Quality
12 22 (26.83%) Observability
13 20 (24.39%) Sprint Planning
14 19 (23.17%) BDD
14 19 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (21.95%) Backlog Refinement
15 18 (21.95%) Coaching
16 17 (20.73%) Kanban
17 16 (19.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (91.46%) Java
2 18 (21.95%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) TypeScript
4 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.32%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (52.44%) Security Cleared
2 40 (48.78%) SC Cleared
3 26 (31.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (15.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.61%) QA
2 13 (15.85%) Accessibility
3 12 (14.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (65.85%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 35 (42.68%) Kubernetes
2 28 (34.15%) Grafana
3 22 (26.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (10.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (9.76%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (7.32%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.88%) Oracle
4 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.44%) Splunk