Spring Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Pivotal Spring Framework
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 28 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 4.06% 3.02% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.28% 16.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 0
10th Percentile £349 £314 -
25th Percentile £372 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £378 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% - -
75th Percentile £492 £397 -
90th Percentile £500 £681 -
North West median daily rate £445 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.70% -19.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 172 96 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.96% 18.11% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 70 35
10th Percentile £313 £307 £394
25th Percentile £358 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £395 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -21.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £492 £510 £544
90th Percentile £686 £613 £583
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £36.58 - -
25th Percentile £46.44 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £64.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% - -
75th Percentile £81.44 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £90.93 - -
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £56.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year -9.88% +22.54% -38.43%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Spring job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Spring

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Cheshire

Spring
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. 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
Knutsford -5 24 £445 +16.49% 1
Chester - 2 £725 - 1
Spring
North West

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (28.57%) JBoss
1 8 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 3 (10.71%) Mule
3 2 (7.14%) Mule ESB
3 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
4 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) DB2
1 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (78.57%) Git
2 19 (67.86%) JIRA
3 13 (46.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (46.43%) JUnit
4 7 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 6 (21.43%) GitLab
5 6 (21.43%) Gradle
5 6 (21.43%) Maven
5 6 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (53.57%) Banking
2 11 (39.29%) Finance
3 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Developer
2 18 (64.29%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Payments Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Developer in Test
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) React Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 21 (75.00%) REST
3 9 (32.14%) Kafka
4 8 (28.57%) JMS
4 8 (28.57%) React
4 8 (28.57%) RESTful
5 7 (25.00%) SOAP
5 7 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (14.29%) J2EE
7 3 (10.71%) Web Services
8 2 (7.14%) JSON
8 2 (7.14%) RAML
8 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
8 2 (7.14%) XML
9 1 (3.57%) EJB
9 1 (3.57%) JSP
9 1 (3.57%) Middleware
9 1 (3.57%) Servlets
9 1 (3.57%) Spring Batch
9 1 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
1 6 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Microservices
2 18 (64.29%) Agile
3 17 (60.71%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 12 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (39.29%) SDLC
7 10 (35.71%) DevOps
8 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
8 9 (32.14%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (28.57%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 8 (28.57%) TDD
10 7 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 6 (21.43%) Design Patterns
11 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
11 6 (21.43%) Scrum
11 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
12 5 (17.86%) AI
12 5 (17.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (64.29%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (50.00%) QA
2 10 (35.71%) ISO 20022
3 8 (28.57%) PSD2
3 8 (28.57%) SEPA
4 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
4 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft