Spring Contracts in the North West

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Spring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 129 127
Rank change year-on-year +31 -2 -23
Contract jobs citing Spring 38 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.37% 0.84% 1.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.54% 4.49% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 37
10th Percentile £418 £420 £425
25th Percentile £489 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.40% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £609 £625
90th Percentile £651 £649 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - -
75th Percentile £48.43 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

Spring is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 504 602 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 18.18% 18.70% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 474 741
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.12%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £740 £647 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 26
10th Percentile £37.63 £35.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.10 £25.69
Median hourly rate £47.31 £42.80 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +5.37% +19.46%
75th Percentile £71.87 £45.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 - £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Manchester +35 27 £525 +7.14% 9
Lancashire - 7 - - 4
Cheshire -13 4 £489 +5.19%
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) Confluence
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Apigee
3 4 (10.53%) Kong
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) HTTP
1 3 (7.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 7 (18.42%) Relational Database
3 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.53%) OLAP
4 4 (10.53%) OLTP
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) JUnit
3 9 (23.68%) Git
4 8 (21.05%) JIRA
5 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket
5 4 (10.53%) GitLab
5 4 (10.53%) Maven
6 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.26%) Mockito
8 1 (2.63%) Gradle
General
1 9 (23.68%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.79%) Banking
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (65.79%) Developer
1 25 (65.79%) Java Developer
2 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (10.53%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Junior
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (65.79%) Spring Boot
2 17 (44.74%) JPA
2 17 (44.74%) REST
3 14 (36.84%) Hibernate
4 8 (21.05%) Spring Security
5 7 (18.42%) React
6 6 (15.79%) J2EE
6 6 (15.79%) Kafka
7 4 (10.53%) Apache Camel
7 4 (10.53%) IBM Integration Bus
7 4 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (10.53%) SOAP
7 4 (10.53%) Spring Integration
7 4 (10.53%) Web Services
8 3 (7.89%) JDBC
8 3 (7.89%) JWT
8 3 (7.89%) Node.js
8 3 (7.89%) WebSockets
9 2 (5.26%) RESTful
9 2 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) DataPower
2 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.26%) Derivative
2 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Microservices
2 24 (63.16%) Agile
3 14 (36.84%) Front End Development
4 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 8 (21.05%) Design Patterns
6 8 (21.05%) Observability
7 7 (18.42%) High Availability
7 7 (18.42%) OO
8 6 (15.79%) API Management
8 6 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (15.79%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.79%) Multithreading
8 6 (15.79%) Scrum
8 6 (15.79%) TDD
8 6 (15.79%) Unit Testing
9 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
9 5 (13.16%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.16%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.63%) PHP
4 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (55.26%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) IBM
2 4 (10.53%) TSYS
3 1 (2.63%) Atlassian