Spring Contracts in Manchester

Pivotal Spring Framework
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 112
Rank change year-on-year +10 +43 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 20 27 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.16% 1.78% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.37% 7.48% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 3
10th Percentile £457 £417 £482
25th Percentile £515 £513 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +7.14% -8.84%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £573
90th Percentile £546 £654 £619
North West median daily rate £465 £525 £486
% change year-on-year -11.43% +8.00% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 -
% change year-on-year +79.82% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Spring in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
2 2 (10.00%) Slack
3 1 (5.00%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (60.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) MySQL
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) JUnit
2 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (50.00%) Gradle
3 10 (50.00%) Liquibase
3 10 (50.00%) Mockito
4 6 (30.00%) GitLab
5 4 (20.00%) Git
6 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (10.00%) Jasmine
6 2 (10.00%) JIRA
7 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (5.00%) gulp
7 1 (5.00%) Maven
7 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
1 13 (65.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (50.00%) Electronics
2 10 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 10 (50.00%) Marketing
2 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Developer
2 11 (55.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Java Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (30.00%) React Developer
4 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (60.00%) Kafka
2 12 (60.00%) OpenAPI
2 12 (60.00%) Swagger
3 11 (55.00%) React
4 4 (20.00%) RESTful
5 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (10.00%) Node.js
6 2 (10.00%) Spring Batch
6 2 (10.00%) Spring Security
7 1 (5.00%) Apache CXF
7 1 (5.00%) Express.js
7 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.00%) Java EE
7 1 (5.00%) JAX-RS
7 1 (5.00%) MERN Stack
7 1 (5.00%) Mongoose
7 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.00%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Microservices
2 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (70.00%) TDD
4 13 (65.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (60.00%) Agile
6 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (50.00%) DevOps
6 10 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (50.00%) Migration
6 10 (50.00%) Programme Management
7 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (25.00%) Build Automation
9 5 (25.00%) Clean Code
10 3 (15.00%) SDLC
11 2 (10.00%) API Design
11 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
11 2 (10.00%) Kernel Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (75.00%) SQL
3 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle