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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 85 134
Rank change year-on-year +6 +49 0
Contract jobs citing Spring 56 41 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.55% 1.70% 0.60%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 12.56% 10.62% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 10
10th Percentile £340 £373 £410
25th Percentile £367 £382 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +12.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £537 £622 £555
90th Percentile £545 £706 £604
England median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £70.63 - -
25th Percentile £71.56 £69.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate £76.25 £72.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% -4.00% +98.41%
75th Percentile £84.06 £74.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £86.88 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -22.41% +10.25%

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 446 386 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.28% 16.02% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 269 459
10th Percentile £314 £346 £325
25th Percentile £375 £413 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -3.51% -2.38%
75th Percentile £537 £606 £619
90th Percentile £614 £825 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 20
10th Percentile £27.20 £43.13 £37.79
25th Percentile £29.00 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £51.00 £67.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -24.16% +45.63% -34.03%
75th Percentile £74.69 £72.03 £47.14
90th Percentile £83.13 £73.10 £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.25 £61.25
% change year-on-year -3.93% -6.53% +3.81%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Cheshire -7 28 £402 +3.74% 12
Manchester -3 22 £530 -3.64% 30
Merseyside - 5 £510 - 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 13 (23.21%) JBoss
1 13 (23.21%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.93%) WebLogic
2 5 (8.93%) WebSphere
3 3 (5.36%) Mule
4 2 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) Mule ESB
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.79%) Apache
5 1 (1.79%) Camunda
5 1 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) OpenShift
3 7 (12.50%) Azure
4 6 (10.71%) GitHub
5 4 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.36%) Serverless
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.79%) Apigee
8 1 (1.79%) Datadog
8 1 (1.79%) GCP
8 1 (1.79%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 6 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.14%) DB2
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.79%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.79%) MySQL
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (58.93%) JUnit
2 31 (55.36%) Jenkins
3 25 (44.64%) Git
4 21 (37.50%) Gradle
5 17 (30.36%) JIRA
6 12 (21.43%) GitLab
7 11 (19.64%) Maven
7 11 (19.64%) Mockito
8 10 (17.86%) Liquibase
9 8 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (12.50%) Cucumber
11 6 (10.71%) Bitbucket
12 4 (7.14%) Postman
12 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
13 3 (5.36%) IntelliJ
14 2 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
14 2 (3.57%) HP UFT
14 2 (3.57%) NetBeans
14 2 (3.57%) Selenium
14 2 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 23 (41.07%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Public Sector
3 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
4 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (17.86%) Banking
5 10 (17.86%) Electronics
5 10 (17.86%) Manufacturing
5 10 (17.86%) Marketing
5 10 (17.86%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (67.86%) Developer
2 32 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) React Developer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.93%) AWS Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.14%) Scrum Master
8 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Lead
9 2 (3.57%) Technical Architect
10 1 (1.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (92.86%) Spring Boot
2 25 (44.64%) Kafka
2 25 (44.64%) React
3 20 (35.71%) REST
4 17 (30.36%) RESTful
5 12 (21.43%) SOAP
6 11 (19.64%) AngularJS
6 11 (19.64%) Swagger
7 10 (17.86%) J2EE
7 10 (17.86%) OpenAPI
7 10 (17.86%) Web Services
8 8 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
9 6 (10.71%) jQuery
9 6 (10.71%) JSON
9 6 (10.71%) JSP
9 6 (10.71%) Spring MVC
10 5 (8.93%) EJB
10 5 (8.93%) Hibernate
10 5 (8.93%) HTML
10 5 (8.93%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.71%) Private Cloud
2 6 (10.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
1 8 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) Microservices
2 32 (57.14%) Agile
3 29 (51.79%) CI/CD
4 21 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 21 (37.50%) TDD
5 19 (33.93%) DevOps
6 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (26.79%) Migration
7 15 (26.79%) Software Engineering
8 14 (25.00%) API Development
9 13 (23.21%) Scrum
9 13 (23.21%) SDLC
10 10 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (17.86%) MVC
10 10 (17.86%) Programme Management
11 9 (16.07%) Design Patterns
11 9 (16.07%) Unit Testing
12 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (55.36%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) TypeScript
4 10 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.14%) Python
7 2 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.57%) PSD2
3 2 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.57%) Puppet
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
4 1 (1.79%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (30.36%) Oracle
2 10 (17.86%) SAP
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.79%) TIBCO