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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 63 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring 19 33 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.12% 2.29% 0.67%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.56% 9.51% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 7
10th Percentile £448 £418 £410
25th Percentile £515 £513 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £545 £613 £548
90th Percentile £546 £665 £620
North West median daily rate £402 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -23.43% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £70.63 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 - -
North West median hourly rate £76.25 £47.16 -
% change year-on-year +61.70% - -

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 222 347 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 24.78% 24.11% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 263 291
10th Percentile £387 £363 £338
25th Percentile £401 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £628 £575
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 0
10th Percentile £70.63 £65.50 -
25th Percentile £71.56 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £86.88 £81.30 -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -42.01%

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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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) JBoss
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.53%) Serverless
3 1 (5.26%) Kong
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (63.16%) Relational Database
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (68.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (63.16%) Gradle
2 12 (63.16%) JUnit
3 10 (52.63%) Liquibase
3 10 (52.63%) Mockito
4 6 (31.58%) GitLab
5 4 (21.05%) Git
6 3 (15.79%) Maven
7 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
7 2 (10.53%) JIRA
7 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (5.26%) gulp
8 1 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 14 (73.68%) Finance
2 11 (57.89%) Public Sector
3 10 (52.63%) Electronics
3 10 (52.63%) Manufacturing
3 10 (52.63%) Marketing
3 10 (52.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Java Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Java Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) React Developer
4 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (94.74%) Spring Boot
2 12 (63.16%) Kafka
3 11 (57.89%) React
4 10 (52.63%) OpenAPI
4 10 (52.63%) Swagger
5 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
6 2 (10.53%) Node.js
6 2 (10.53%) RESTful
7 1 (5.26%) Apache CXF
7 1 (5.26%) Express.js
7 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.26%) Java EE
7 1 (5.26%) JavaFX
7 1 (5.26%) JAX-RS
7 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.26%) REST
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
7 1 (5.26%) Spring MVC
7 1 (5.26%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Microservices
2 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
3 14 (73.68%) Software Engineering
4 13 (68.42%) Agile
4 13 (68.42%) Containerisation
5 12 (63.16%) TDD
6 10 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (52.63%) DevOps
6 10 (52.63%) Digital Marketing
6 10 (52.63%) Migration
6 10 (52.63%) Programme Management
7 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven
7 6 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 5 (26.32%) Build Automation
8 5 (26.32%) Clean Code
8 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (10.53%) Design Patterns
9 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 11 (57.89%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft