Spring Contracts in Northern Ireland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 26 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Spring 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.77% 2.68% 4.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 16.22% 15.38% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £336 - £400
25th Percentile £400 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £455 - £514
90th Percentile £470 - £536
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +3.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 37 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 23.27% 17.45% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 19
10th Percentile £266 £495 £398
25th Percentile £325 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +50.00% -17.53%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £456
90th Percentile £544 - £536
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 - -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £16.12 -
Median % change year-on-year +354.25% - -
75th Percentile £78.47 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Northern Ireland

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Spring in Northern Ireland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -8 6 £404 - 24
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (33.33%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Derivative
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle