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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 108 142
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 +2
Contract jobs citing Spring 45 70 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.36% 1.47% 1.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.96% 7.69% 6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 58 55
10th Percentile £358 £375 £457
25th Percentile £382 £483 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -11.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £622 £700
90th Percentile £550 £669 £720
England median daily rate £500 £538 £618
% change year-on-year -6.98% -12.96% +2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £70.63 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 £45.88 £61.25
Median hourly rate £76.25 £47.16 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.70% -24.55% -
75th Percentile £84.06 £48.43 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.88 £61.47 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +10.25%

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 647 910 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.51% 19.17% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 608 838
10th Percentile £358 £362 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £548 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 7
10th Percentile - £13.87 £37.78
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.63 £41.99
Median hourly rate £76.25 £46.18 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.11% -26.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91.20 £70.81 £66.88
90th Percentile £95.61 £72.70 £74.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +23.22%

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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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -10 33 £402 -23.43% 40
Yorkshire +1 7 £525 -4.55% 11
North East +8 6 £473 -14.09% 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 7 (15.56%) JBoss
1 7 (15.56%) Tomcat
2 5 (11.11%) Confluence
2 5 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 4 (8.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.22%) Apache
4 1 (2.22%) Camunda
4 1 (2.22%) CMS
4 1 (2.22%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 5 (11.11%) Kong
3 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) Azure
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub
5 1 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (48.89%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (28.89%) Relational Database
3 12 (26.67%) NoSQL
4 11 (24.44%) MongoDB
5 10 (22.22%) MySQL
6 4 (8.89%) DB2
6 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (51.11%) Jenkins
2 20 (44.44%) Git
3 16 (35.56%) JUnit
4 15 (33.33%) Gradle
5 12 (26.67%) GitLab
6 11 (24.44%) Maven
7 10 (22.22%) Liquibase
7 10 (22.22%) Mockito
8 8 (17.78%) JIRA
8 8 (17.78%) SonarQube
8 8 (17.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (15.56%) Artifactory
10 6 (13.33%) Bitbucket
11 5 (11.11%) gulp
12 2 (4.44%) CA Release Automation
12 2 (4.44%) HP UFT
12 2 (4.44%) IntelliJ
12 2 (4.44%) NetBeans
12 2 (4.44%) Selenium
12 2 (4.44%) Subversion
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 17 (37.78%) Public Sector
3 10 (22.22%) Electronics
3 10 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 10 (22.22%) Marketing
3 10 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Billing
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
2 17 (37.78%) Java Developer
3 12 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Java Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) React Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Software Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Lead
8 4 (8.89%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Scrum Master
9 3 (6.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Senior
10 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 1 (2.22%) Applications Architect
11 1 (2.22%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (93.33%) Spring Boot
2 20 (44.44%) Kafka
3 19 (42.22%) React
4 15 (33.33%) Node.js
5 12 (26.67%) AngularJS
5 12 (26.67%) Swagger
6 11 (24.44%) OpenAPI
7 10 (22.22%) RESTful
8 8 (17.78%) Hibernate
8 8 (17.78%) Web Services
9 7 (15.56%) J2EE
9 7 (15.56%) REST
9 7 (15.56%) SOAP
10 6 (13.33%) Apache CXF
10 6 (13.33%) Dropwizard
10 6 (13.33%) JAX-RS
10 6 (13.33%) Spring MVC
11 5 (11.11%) MERN Stack
11 5 (11.11%) Mongoose
11 5 (11.11%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Microservices
2 26 (57.78%) Agile
3 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 17 (37.78%) TDD
5 15 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 15 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) DevOps
6 11 (24.44%) Event-Driven
7 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (22.22%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (22.22%) Migration
7 10 (22.22%) Programme Management
8 9 (20.00%) Scrum
8 9 (20.00%) SDLC
9 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (15.56%) API Development
10 7 (15.56%) MVC
10 7 (15.56%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 45 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (57.78%) SQL
3 18 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (28.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 20 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
1 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.44%) Puppet
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) SAP
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) TIBCO