Spring Contracts in the North of England

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 112 123 139
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Spring 54 63 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.64% 1.32% 1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.88% 7.00% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 52 70
10th Percentile £380 £417 £445
25th Percentile £402 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% -7.61% +8.24%
75th Percentile £545 £606 £700
90th Percentile £551 £650 £725
England median daily rate £530 £540 £624
% change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.82% -26.59% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £48.43 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 685 900 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.79% 18.88% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 615 875
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £597
90th Percentile £650 £691 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 10
10th Percentile £65.25 £13.87 £44.28
25th Percentile £68.81 £21.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £86.46 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.22% -26.11% +48.81%
75th Percentile £99.42 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £72.50 £71.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +11 32 £465 -11.43% 52
Yorkshire 0 16 £538 -2.27% 15
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 13
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) JBoss
2 5 (9.26%) Tomcat
2 5 (9.26%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.85%) Apache
5 1 (1.85%) Camunda
5 1 (1.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Slack
3 7 (12.96%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (9.26%) Kong
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.41%) Serverless
6 3 (5.56%) Azure
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) HTTP
2 2 (3.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (57.41%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (35.19%) MySQL
3 18 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 13 (24.07%) Apache Cassandra
4 13 (24.07%) Relational Database
5 9 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.41%) DB2
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.70%) Metadata
8 2 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (42.59%) JUnit
2 22 (40.74%) Git
3 20 (37.04%) Jenkins
4 13 (24.07%) GitLab
5 12 (22.22%) Gradle
5 12 (22.22%) JIRA
6 10 (18.52%) Cucumber
6 10 (18.52%) Jasmine
6 10 (18.52%) Liquibase
6 10 (18.52%) Mockito
7 7 (12.96%) Maven
8 5 (9.26%) Artifactory
8 5 (9.26%) gulp
8 5 (9.26%) SonarQube
8 5 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
10 2 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (3.70%) IntelliJ
10 2 (3.70%) NetBeans
10 2 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 24 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 19 (35.19%) Finance
3 10 (18.52%) Electronics
3 10 (18.52%) Manufacturing
3 10 (18.52%) Marketing
3 10 (18.52%) Telecoms
4 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Banking
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Billing
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (68.52%) Developer
2 28 (51.85%) Java Developer
3 13 (24.07%) Senior
4 11 (20.37%) Senior Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (14.81%) Java Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (11.11%) React Developer
8 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (9.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (9.26%) Lead
9 5 (9.26%) Lead Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Scrum Master
11 3 (5.56%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 2 (3.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (94.44%) Spring Boot
2 21 (38.89%) Kafka
3 20 (37.04%) Swagger
4 19 (35.19%) OpenAPI
4 19 (35.19%) React
5 16 (29.63%) RESTful
6 12 (22.22%) AngularJS
6 12 (22.22%) Node.js
7 11 (20.37%) Spring Security
8 10 (18.52%) Spring Batch
9 9 (16.67%) Hibernate
10 7 (12.96%) Web Services
11 6 (11.11%) J2EE
12 5 (9.26%) CSS
12 5 (9.26%) HTML
12 5 (9.26%) JSP
12 5 (9.26%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (9.26%) REST
12 5 (9.26%) Servlets
12 5 (9.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
1 12 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Microservices
2 29 (53.70%) CI/CD
2 29 (53.70%) TDD
3 25 (46.30%) Agile
4 24 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 23 (42.59%) Software Engineering
6 15 (27.78%) BDD
7 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (25.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (22.22%) Test Automation
9 11 (20.37%) DevOps
9 11 (20.37%) Operational Stability
10 10 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (18.52%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (18.52%) Event-Driven
10 10 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (18.52%) Migration
10 10 (18.52%) Programme Management
10 10 (18.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (64.81%) SQL
3 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.07%) TypeScript
5 12 (22.22%) Bash
6 3 (5.56%) Python
7 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (53.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) SAP
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.70%) Databricks
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Adobe
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) TIBCO