Spring Contracts in the North of England

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Spring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 130 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -39
Contract jobs citing Spring 60 89 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.28% 1.53% 1.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.75% 7.91% 6.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 75 85
10th Percentile £414 £440 £436
25th Percentile £489 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £600
90th Percentile £650 £723 £700
England median daily rate £540 £622 £600
% change year-on-year -13.11% +3.58% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.88 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.59% - -
75th Percentile £48.43 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.65
% change year-on-year -36.72% +10.43% +0.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

Spring is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 889 1,125 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.94% 19.37% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 880 1,231
10th Percentile £350 £369 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile £598 £596 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 26
10th Percentile £13.87 £43.56 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £48.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +47.06% +25.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +8.15%

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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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +36 38 £525 +8.30% 15
Yorkshire +10 21 £550 -8.33% 10
North East -11 1 £550 -21.43% 5
Spring
England

Spring
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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) Apigee
3 4 (6.67%) Kong
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.67%) GitHub
5 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) HTTP
1 3 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (21.67%) Relational Database
2 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.67%) OLAP
3 4 (6.67%) OLTP
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Big Data
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) JUnit
2 15 (25.00%) Git
3 13 (21.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (13.33%) JIRA
5 5 (8.33%) GitLab
6 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (6.67%) Maven
6 4 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (5.00%) Mockito
8 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.33%) Gradle
9 1 (1.67%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 20 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (73.33%) Developer
2 39 (65.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Junior
6 4 (6.67%) Junior Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Junior Java Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Angular Developer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 24 (40.00%) REST
3 23 (38.33%) JPA
4 21 (35.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (21.67%) React
6 9 (15.00%) Web Services
7 8 (13.33%) Spring Security
8 7 (11.67%) J2EE
8 7 (11.67%) Kafka
8 7 (11.67%) Node.js
9 6 (10.00%) JWT
9 6 (10.00%) RESTful
10 5 (8.33%) SOAP
11 4 (6.67%) Apache Camel
11 4 (6.67%) IBM Integration Bus
11 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (6.67%) Spring Integration
12 3 (5.00%) OAuth
12 3 (5.00%) OpenID
12 3 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) DataPower
2 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.33%) Derivative
2 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) Agile
2 32 (53.33%) Microservices
3 22 (36.67%) Front End Development
4 20 (33.33%) DevOps
5 15 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 13 (21.67%) High Availability
6 13 (21.67%) Scrum
7 12 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 12 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 12 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 10 (16.67%) TDD
9 8 (13.33%) Design Patterns
9 8 (13.33%) Observability
10 7 (11.67%) OO
11 6 (10.00%) API Management
11 6 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
11 6 (10.00%) Multithreading
12 5 (8.33%) Event-Driven
12 5 (8.33%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 59 (98.33%) Java
2 12 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.00%) SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Python
6 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.67%) Anchore
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.67%) Kibana
4 1 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 4 (6.67%) IBM
2 4 (6.67%) TSYS
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Google