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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 81 89
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +31
Contract jobs citing Spring 88 29 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.55% 1.74% 1.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.15% 11.11% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 20 14
10th Percentile £419 £404 -
25th Percentile £448 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -21.57% -8.93%
75th Percentile £615 - £713
90th Percentile £670 £545 £764
England median daily rate £525 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +9.38% -12.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.25
25th Percentile - - £48.13
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £55.00 £51.07
% change year-on-year +30.91% +7.71% -29.57%

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 513 261 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.89% 15.69% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 168 195
10th Percentile £350 £355 £326
25th Percentile £408 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £656
90th Percentile £659 £688 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 8
10th Percentile - - £14.21
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £33.50
Median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £56.25
90th Percentile £76.00 - £61.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -8.16%

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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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -23 32 £575 +7.98% 6
Birmingham -6 28 £425 -12.82% 13
Solihull -1 27 £450 +7.14% 1
Warwickshire -13 1 £529 -
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 26 (29.55%) Confluence
2 8 (9.09%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.18%) AWS
2 27 (30.68%) Amazon S3
2 27 (30.68%) GitHub
3 25 (28.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (28.41%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (27.27%) Azure
5 20 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (21.59%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (20.45%) GCP
8 17 (19.32%) AWS KMS
8 17 (19.32%) Route 53
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (11.36%) Serverless
10 8 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.14%) Apigee
13 1 (1.14%) Cloud Run
13 1 (1.14%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (46.59%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (19.32%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (19.32%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (19.32%) DynamoDB
3 7 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 52 (59.09%) Git
2 47 (53.41%) JUnit
3 45 (51.14%) Jenkins
4 26 (29.55%) JIRA
5 25 (28.41%) Selenium
6 23 (26.14%) Cucumber
7 22 (25.00%) Maven
7 22 (25.00%) Mockito
7 22 (25.00%) SonarQube
8 21 (23.86%) GitLab
9 18 (20.45%) JMeter
9 18 (20.45%) WebDriver
10 13 (14.77%) DbUnit
10 13 (14.77%) jMock
11 11 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (7.95%) Gatling
13 4 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
14 2 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
General
1 37 (42.05%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.82%) Public Sector
3 17 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.27%) Finance
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Developer
1 34 (38.64%) Java Developer
2 18 (20.45%) Lead
3 16 (18.18%) Senior
4 12 (13.64%) Tester
5 11 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 9 (10.23%) Automation Tester
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (9.09%) Senior Tester
8 7 (7.95%) Lead Java Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Scrum Master
8 7 (7.95%) Senior Automation Tester
9 5 (5.68%) Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Quality Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Systems Tester
9 5 (5.68%) Test Leader
10 4 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
10 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (61.36%) Spring Boot
2 24 (27.27%) JPA
2 24 (27.27%) REST
3 22 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 22 (25.00%) Web Services
4 21 (23.86%) RESTful
4 21 (23.86%) SOAP
4 21 (23.86%) WireMock
5 20 (22.73%) Spring Cloud
6 19 (21.59%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (21.59%) AngularJS
6 19 (21.59%) Spring Batch
6 19 (21.59%) Spring Integration
7 14 (15.91%) Node.js
8 13 (14.77%) PowerMock
9 11 (12.50%) Bootstrap
10 8 (9.09%) Playwright
10 8 (9.09%) React
11 5 (5.68%) OAuth
12 4 (4.55%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.09%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 12 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (73.86%) Microservices
2 57 (64.77%) CI/CD
3 53 (60.23%) Agile
4 46 (52.27%) TDD
5 42 (47.73%) Scrum
6 36 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (36.36%) Containerisation
8 31 (35.23%) Test Automation
9 30 (34.09%) BDD
9 30 (34.09%) Test Strategy
10 27 (30.68%) DevOps
11 26 (29.55%) Observability
12 21 (23.86%) Kanban
13 19 (21.59%) End-to-End Testing
13 19 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (20.45%) Validation
15 17 (19.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 16 (18.18%) Load Testing
17 15 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
17 15 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (79.55%) Java
2 32 (36.36%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.55%) Perl
6 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (65.91%) Security Cleared
2 54 (61.36%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 12 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (64.77%) Docker
2 11 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 41 (46.59%) Kubernetes
2 37 (42.05%) Grafana
3 24 (27.27%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Jaspersoft
2 13 (14.77%) Atlassian
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.41%) Splunk
5 1 (1.14%) Google
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft