Spring Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Pivotal Spring Framework
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.33% 3.55% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 15.38% 14.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £428 £422 -
25th Percentile £450 £435 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £575 £585 -
90th Percentile - £600 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £445 -
% change year-on-year +12.36% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 65 50 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.67% 25.38% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 34
10th Percentile £380 £338 £370
25th Percentile £406 £393 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% -17.86% +1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +5.98% -16.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £45.85 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.50 - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Spring

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) Flask
5 1 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) BDD
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) API Design
5 3 (30.00%) API Development
5 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (30.00%) SFIA
6 2 (20.00%) API Testing
6 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) WCAG
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform