Spring Job Trends in Merseyside

Pivotal Spring Framework
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Spring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Spring 10 10 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.76% 1.77% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.01% 17.24% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £75,000
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% +5.08% +14.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 111 58 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 8.42% 10.27% 19.18%
Number of salaries quoted 86 37 123
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,152 £46,250 £40,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +13.04% +27.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Spring job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Spring
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Spring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Spring

Spring
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Liverpool -10 10 £70,000 - 2
Spring
North West

Spring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Mockito
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (80.00%) Banking
1 8 (80.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) React
2 8 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 8 (80.00%) REST
2 8 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (20.00%) Jest
3 2 (20.00%) Playwright
3 2 (20.00%) React Native
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (80.00%) Design Patterns
1 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 8 (80.00%) Observability
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) IBM