Spring Job Trends in Manchester

Pivotal Spring Framework
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 97 168
Rank change year-on-year -3 +71 -77
Permanent jobs citing Spring 69 67 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.21% 3.00% 1.01%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 13.12% 10.57% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 54 24 40
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £74,870 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,253 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.82% +35.32% -6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,474 £84,250
North West median annual salary £67,500 £85,253 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.82% +21.79% +3.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Spring falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 526 634 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.24% 28.39% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 452 392 945
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £61,418 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -1.73% +9.65% -0.87%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Spring job vacancy trend in Manchester

Spring
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Spring

Spring
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spring in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Spring in Manchester

Spring
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Altrincham +9 10 £65,000 -
Spring
North West

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (4.35%) Apache
1 3 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.90%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) AWS
2 19 (27.54%) Serverless
3 9 (13.04%) Azure
4 7 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (10.14%) GCP
5 5 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.90%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) AMQP
1 3 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.25%) MySQL
4 3 (4.35%) Big Data
4 3 (4.35%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) JIRA
3 7 (10.14%) JUnit
4 5 (7.25%) GitLab
5 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.80%) Maven
5 4 (5.80%) Spock
6 2 (2.90%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
General
1 17 (24.64%) Finance
2 5 (7.25%) Advertising
3 3 (4.35%) Aerospace
4 2 (2.90%) Banking
4 2 (2.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Developer
1 25 (36.23%) Senior
2 24 (34.78%) Java Developer
3 22 (31.88%) Java Engineer
4 21 (30.43%) Software Engineer
5 19 (27.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (18.84%) Senior Developer
6 13 (18.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (15.94%) Lead
8 10 (14.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (14.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (13.04%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (11.59%) Lead Java Engineer
11 7 (10.14%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 7 (10.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 6 (8.70%) Java Software Developer
12 6 (8.70%) Senior Java Software Developer
12 6 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (79.71%) Spring Boot
2 22 (31.88%) AngularJS
3 19 (27.54%) React
4 16 (23.19%) Vue
5 14 (20.29%) REST
6 10 (14.49%) Node.js
7 9 (13.04%) RESTful
8 7 (10.14%) CSS
8 7 (10.14%) HTML
9 6 (8.70%) gRPC
9 6 (8.70%) Kafka
9 6 (8.70%) OAuth
9 6 (8.70%) OAuth2
10 4 (5.80%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.35%) Material-UI
11 3 (4.35%) OpenAPI
11 3 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.35%) Spring Batch
11 3 (4.35%) Swagger
12 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.80%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.35%) CentOS
1 3 (4.35%) Debian
1 3 (4.35%) Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (4.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) Microservices
2 37 (53.62%) Agile
3 35 (50.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (47.83%) CI/CD
5 30 (43.48%) DevOps
6 27 (39.13%) Scrum
7 25 (36.23%) TDD
8 24 (34.78%) Software Engineering
9 21 (30.43%) Test Automation
10 20 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (27.54%) Clean Code
11 19 (27.54%) Containerisation
11 19 (27.54%) Mentoring
12 15 (21.74%) AI
12 15 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (18.84%) Code Quality
14 10 (14.49%) Kanban
14 10 (14.49%) SDLC
15 9 (13.04%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 10 (14.49%) Python
5 9 (13.04%) SQL
6 6 (8.70%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.80%) Groovy
8 2 (2.90%) C
9 1 (1.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) DV Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Degree
System Software
1 23 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 17 (24.64%) Terraform
3 8 (11.59%) Ansible
4 3 (4.35%) Puppet
5 2 (2.90%) Packer
5 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (5.80%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.80%) Splunk
2 3 (4.35%) Google
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle
2 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 3 (4.35%) SaltStack
3 2 (2.90%) Pega
3 2 (2.90%) WSO2