Spring Contract Job Trends in the North West

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 78 81
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 +42
Contract jobs citing Spring 97 56 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.41% 2.53% 1.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.68% 11.38% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 40 30
10th Percentile £425 £331 £362
25th Percentile £500 £369 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.14% -10.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £500 £597
90th Percentile £675 £510 £701
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 1
10th Percentile £57.50 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £69.50
Median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% +4.73%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £74.50
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -23.61% -0.69%

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 709 492 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.61% 22.19% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 378 256
10th Percentile £400 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -5.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £630 £538 £575
90th Percentile £700 £678 £663
England median daily rate £535 £518 £550
% change year-on-year +3.38% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 4 7
10th Percentile £57.50 £27.20 £42.11
25th Percentile £62.50 £29.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +7.37% +2.86%
75th Percentile £77.00 £76.81 £73.00
90th Percentile £89.50 £89.08 £79.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -16.92% +10.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Spring job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the North West over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 October 2026. 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 +16 89 £560 +33.33% 59
Cheshire -21 4 £510 +13.40% 4
Merseyside -18 3 £575 +13.86% 2
Cumbria - 1 £357 -
Spring
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (4.12%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
2 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (80.41%) AWS
2 12 (12.37%) Azure
3 11 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (11.34%) Serverless
4 10 (10.31%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.25%) GCP
5 8 (8.25%) GitHub
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.06%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.06%) Kong
10 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.03%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) HTTP
2 2 (2.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) Relational Database
2 11 (11.34%) MongoDB
3 10 (10.31%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.28%) MySQL
5 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.43%) Git
1 14 (14.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.25%) GitLab
2 8 (8.25%) REST Assured
3 7 (7.22%) Claude Code
4 6 (6.19%) JUnit
4 6 (6.19%) Mockito
5 5 (5.15%) Gatling
5 5 (5.15%) Selenium
6 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.12%) Gradle
7 3 (3.09%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.06%) Burp Suite
8 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.06%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.06%) Maven
8 2 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Finance
3 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.15%) Banking
5 4 (4.12%) iGaming
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Games
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (36.08%) Java Engineer
1 35 (36.08%) Software Engineer
2 22 (22.68%) Java Software Engineer
3 21 (21.65%) Developer
4 19 (19.59%) Java Developer
5 18 (18.56%) Senior
6 16 (16.49%) Lead
7 14 (14.43%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (10.31%) AWS Software Engineer
8 10 (10.31%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Engineering Specialist
10 6 (6.19%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Technical Leader
11 4 (4.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (93.81%) Spring Boot
2 36 (37.11%) Kafka
3 30 (30.93%) REST
4 12 (12.37%) React
5 11 (11.34%) RESTful
6 9 (9.28%) Node.js
7 8 (8.25%) Spring MVC
8 7 (7.22%) Terraform
9 6 (6.19%) Jakarta EE
10 5 (5.15%) AWS CDK
10 5 (5.15%) Hibernate
10 5 (5.15%) Playwright
11 4 (4.12%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.12%) Spring Security
12 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.09%) HTML
12 3 (3.09%) Next.js
12 3 (3.09%) Spring Cloud
12 3 (3.09%) Vue
13 2 (2.06%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.11%) Cloud Native
2 27 (27.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.06%) PKI
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (65.98%) CI/CD
2 57 (58.76%) Software Engineering
3 44 (45.36%) Microservices
4 43 (44.33%) Agile
5 27 (27.84%) DevOps
6 25 (25.77%) Observability
6 25 (25.77%) Test Automation
7 24 (24.74%) Event-Driven
8 20 (20.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 20 (20.62%) Migration
9 17 (17.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (13.40%) AI
11 13 (13.40%) Containerisation
11 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
14 10 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (10.31%) SDLC
15 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (14.43%) SQL
3 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) Kotlin
6 4 (4.12%) Python
7 2 (2.06%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) Accessibility
2 7 (7.22%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (30.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (39.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.15%) Grafana
3 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Splunk
2 2 (2.06%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.06%) Google
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle
2 2 (2.06%) SAP
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft