Spring Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Pivotal Spring Framework
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 58 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Spring 11 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.54% 0.76% 1.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.67% 2.91% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £448 £426 £479
25th Percentile £513 £435 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -23.40% -2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £650
90th Percentile £589 £550 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 194 172 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 27.09% 26.26% 26.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 113 197
10th Percentile £363 £419 £412
25th Percentile £402 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.53%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £654 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -73.89% +24.00%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £16.19 £44.39
% change year-on-year - -63.53% -11.22%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Leeds

Spring
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Spring

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Leeds

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Spring

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Relational Database
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 2 (18.18%) Gradle
4 2 (18.18%) JUnit
4 2 (18.18%) Log4j
4 2 (18.18%) Mockito
4 2 (18.18%) Subversion
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (9.09%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Calypso Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) Kafka
3 3 (27.27%) Node.js
4 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (18.18%) PowerMock
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) .NET
5 1 (9.09%) Apache CXF
5 1 (9.09%) Dropwizard
5 1 (9.09%) JAX-RS
5 1 (9.09%) JPA
5 1 (9.09%) LangChain
5 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
5 1 (9.09%) Micronaut
5 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) Spring WebFlux
5 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) API Development
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (18.18%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
6 2 (18.18%) Distributed Cache
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Memory Management
6 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Calypso
2 1 (9.09%) Google