Spring Contract Job Trends in the North East

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 38 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 10 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.70% 2.90% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.82% 11.25% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £428 £369 -
25th Percentile £450 £418 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% - -
75th Percentile £575 £551 -
90th Percentile - £598 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 78 80 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 21.02% 25.81% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 44 39
10th Percentile £393 £335 £351
25th Percentile £419 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £455 £540
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -15.74% -1.82%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £623
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £45.85 £34.37 -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +13.69% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
England median hourly rate £59.75 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% -18.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the North East over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Spring

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Tyne and Wear -4 10 £500 +12.36% 5
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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