Spring Contracts in the North West

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 88 99 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 +31 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 32 38 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 1.38% 0.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.32% 7.55% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 22
10th Percentile £358 £418 £420
25th Percentile £384 £489 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +8.00% -8.49%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £609
90th Percentile - £651 £649
England median daily rate £530 £540 £624
% change year-on-year -1.85% -13.46% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +79.82% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £48.43 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 503 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 22.21% 18.26% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 369 464
10th Percentile £363 £363 £337
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £577
90th Percentile £638 £750 £647
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £37.63 £39.24
25th Percentile £65.25 £45.88 £41.40
Median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.69 £71.87 -
90th Percentile £83.13 £75.05 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +10 20 £530 +0.95% 29
Cheshire +5 9 £384 -21.47% 13
Lancashire -3 1 £525 - 16
Merseyside - 1 £475 - 3
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.63%) JBoss
1 5 (15.63%) Tomcat
1 5 (15.63%) WebSphere
2 4 (12.50%) WebLogic
3 3 (9.38%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (3.13%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Camunda
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (6.25%) Serverless
2 2 (6.25%) Slack
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Kong
3 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (37.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.50%) DB2
3 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 14 (43.75%) JUnit
3 12 (37.50%) Gradle
4 10 (31.25%) Git
4 10 (31.25%) Liquibase
4 10 (31.25%) Mockito
5 6 (18.75%) GitLab
6 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 4 (12.50%) JIRA
7 3 (9.38%) Maven
8 2 (6.25%) CA Release Automation
8 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 2 (6.25%) HP UFT
8 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
8 2 (6.25%) Jasmine
8 2 (6.25%) NetBeans
8 2 (6.25%) Selenium
8 2 (6.25%) Subversion
9 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 14 (43.75%) Public Sector
3 10 (31.25%) Electronics
3 10 (31.25%) Manufacturing
3 10 (31.25%) Marketing
3 10 (31.25%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Billing
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Developer
2 14 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Java Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) React Developer
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Scrum Master
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Applications Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Java Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (93.75%) Spring Boot
2 15 (46.88%) Kafka
3 13 (40.63%) OpenAPI
3 13 (40.63%) React
3 13 (40.63%) Swagger
4 7 (21.88%) AngularJS
4 7 (21.88%) RESTful
4 7 (21.88%) Web Services
5 6 (18.75%) J2EE
6 5 (15.63%) Hibernate
6 5 (15.63%) JSP
6 5 (15.63%) Node.js
6 5 (15.63%) REST
6 5 (15.63%) Servlets
6 5 (15.63%) SOAP
7 4 (12.50%) CSS
7 4 (12.50%) EJB
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
7 4 (12.50%) RAML
7 4 (12.50%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Private Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Microservices
2 21 (65.63%) Agile
3 19 (59.38%) CI/CD
4 15 (46.88%) Containerisation
4 15 (46.88%) TDD
5 13 (40.63%) Software Engineering
6 11 (34.38%) DevOps
7 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (31.25%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (31.25%) Migration
7 10 (31.25%) Programme Management
8 9 (28.13%) SDLC
9 8 (25.00%) Scrum
10 7 (21.88%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (18.75%) API Development
11 6 (18.75%) Clean Code
11 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven
11 6 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 5 (15.63%) Build Automation
12 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (62.50%) SQL
3 13 (40.63%) TypeScript
4 9 (28.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
1 2 (6.25%) Puppet
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) SAP
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Adobe
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) TIBCO