Spring Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Pivotal Spring Framework
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Spring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 10 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 3.82% 3.38% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.54% 18.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £470 £360 -
25th Percentile £500 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £585 -
90th Percentile £585 £600 -
North East median daily rate £550 £440 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 57 38 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.76% 18.36% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 41
10th Percentile £350 £329 £325
25th Percentile £425 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £433 £570
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% -24.12% +3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £625
90th Percentile £600 £624 £720
North East median daily rate £488 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +14.71% -22.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £51.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +3.94% - -6.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Spring job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spring

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Tyne and Wear

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Spring

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 10 £550 +7.32% 2
Spring
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Node.js
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
4 3 (30.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) Kafka
6 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) MVC
3 4 (40.00%) SFIA
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) API Development
4 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform