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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 78 112
Rank change year-on-year -26 +34 +17
Contract jobs citing Spring 42 21 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.66% 1.43% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.25% 7.53% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 2
10th Percentile £344 - £336
25th Percentile £427 £425 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £470 £444
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +5.92% -36.61%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £520
90th Percentile £559 £595 £557
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 509 279 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.16% 18.97% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 159 178
10th Percentile £380 £381 £296
25th Percentile £450 £434 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £596
90th Percentile £685 £715 £688
England median daily rate £521 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £19.64 - £15.03
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £38.61 £27.50 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year +40.38% +58.27% -
75th Percentile £57.13 £28.75 £23.11
90th Percentile £77.28 - £33.19
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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -8 30 £469 - 7
Birmingham -25 7 £525 +11.70% 2
Solihull -2 2 - - 4
Coventry - 2 £273 -
Warwickshire - 2 £529 -
Staffordshire - 1 £338 -
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 (23.81%) WebLogic
2 8 (19.05%) Apache
2 8 (19.05%) JBoss
3 6 (14.29%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 2 (4.76%) GCP
4 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 2 (4.76%) Kong
4 2 (4.76%) Route 53
4 2 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.38%) Azure API Management
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) SSL
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (52.38%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.76%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.38%) Ingres
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (57.14%) Git
2 21 (50.00%) JUnit
3 14 (33.33%) Selenium
4 13 (30.95%) GitLab
5 11 (26.19%) Mockito
6 10 (23.81%) Maven
7 8 (19.05%) Eclipse
7 8 (19.05%) IntelliJ
8 6 (14.29%) Cucumber
8 6 (14.29%) JIRA
9 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
10 3 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (7.14%) Gatling
11 2 (4.76%) DbUnit
11 2 (4.76%) jMock
11 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
12 1 (2.38%) Postman
12 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
12 1 (2.38%) Serenity BDD
12 1 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Java Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Lead
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Lead Java Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Calypso Developer
6 2 (4.76%) QA Leader
6 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Mobile Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Open Source Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Open Source Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 14 (33.33%) JSON
3 13 (30.95%) HTML
3 13 (30.95%) REST
4 11 (26.19%) Hibernate
4 11 (26.19%) SOAP
5 10 (23.81%) JPA
6 8 (19.05%) EJB
6 8 (19.05%) HTML5
6 8 (19.05%) J2EE
6 8 (19.05%) J2SE
6 8 (19.05%) Play Framework
6 8 (19.05%) Playwright
6 8 (19.05%) XML
7 6 (14.29%) Gherkin
7 6 (14.29%) JDBC
7 6 (14.29%) RESTful
7 6 (14.29%) Swagger
8 5 (11.90%) OAuth
8 5 (11.90%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Derivative
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
1 8 (19.05%) Unix
2 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Microservices
2 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 24 (57.14%) Agile
4 23 (54.76%) Scrum
5 18 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (30.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (28.57%) DevOps
8 12 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (19.05%) Lean Software Development
10 8 (19.05%) Open Source
10 8 (19.05%) TDD
11 7 (16.67%) Coaching
11 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) Java
2 26 (61.90%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Scala
3 8 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 3 (7.14%) Perl
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) WCAG
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (54.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.19%) Grafana
3 10 (23.81%) Kibana
4 8 (19.05%) Puppet
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Oracle
1 8 (19.05%) webMethods
2 4 (9.52%) Splunk
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.76%) Calypso
4 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.76%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.38%) Actian
5 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) Qualys