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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 130 130
Rank change year-on-year +47 0 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 52 20 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.86% 0.66% 1.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.38% 3.63% 5.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 37
10th Percentile £375 £416 £425
25th Percentile £425 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £594
90th Percentile £696 £668 £715
England median daily rate £536 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -12.80% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.88 - -
Median hourly rate £47.16 - -
75th Percentile £48.43 - -
90th Percentile £61.47 - -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £66.63
% change year-on-year -34.46% +5.06% +1.69%

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 501 551 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.94% 18.29% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 435 720
10th Percentile £350 £338 £362
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £750 £650 £650
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 31
10th Percentile £37.63 £37.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £37.77 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -42.01% +118.75%
75th Percentile £72.03 £44.78 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £45.62 £81.00
England median hourly rate £49.75 £65.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year -23.46% +22.07% +17.03%

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 13 June 2024.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the North West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 June 2024. 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
Manchester +31 34 £525 +12.00% 21
Cheshire +2 13 £438 -28.57% 1
Lancashire - 5 - -
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 7 (13.46%) Confluence
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (11.54%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Apigee
3 6 (11.54%) Kong
4 3 (5.77%) SAP Fieldglass
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTP
1 3 (5.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.46%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.54%) OLAP
3 6 (11.54%) OLTP
3 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (9.62%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) Power BI
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.15%) JIRA
3 10 (19.23%) JUnit
4 9 (17.31%) Git
5 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (7.69%) Maven
6 3 (5.77%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.85%) Mockito
8 1 (1.92%) Gradle
General
1 13 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.38%) Banking
4 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Developer
2 30 (57.69%) Java Developer
3 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 9 (17.31%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Architect
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Junior
7 2 (3.85%) Junior Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Junior Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 17 (32.69%) JPA
3 15 (28.85%) REST
4 14 (26.92%) Hibernate
5 10 (19.23%) React
6 8 (15.38%) Kafka
6 8 (15.38%) Spring Security
7 7 (13.46%) Java EE
7 7 (13.46%) RESTful
8 6 (11.54%) Apache Camel
8 6 (11.54%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (11.54%) J2EE
8 6 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (11.54%) SOAP
8 6 (11.54%) Spring Integration
8 6 (11.54%) Web Services
9 4 (7.69%) Node.js
10 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
10 3 (5.77%) JWT
10 3 (5.77%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) DataPower
2 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.77%) Derivative
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Microservices
2 27 (51.92%) Agile
3 19 (36.54%) Design Patterns
4 17 (32.69%) OO
5 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
6 15 (28.85%) DevOps
7 14 (26.92%) Front End Development
7 14 (26.92%) Software Engineering
8 12 (23.08%) Low Latency
9 10 (19.23%) Software Testing
10 8 (15.38%) Observability
10 8 (15.38%) TDD
11 7 (13.46%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven
11 7 (13.46%) High Availability
11 7 (13.46%) Scrum
11 7 (13.46%) Technical Debt
12 6 (11.54%) CQRS
12 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (11.54%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
3 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (44.23%) Security Cleared
2 22 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.31%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (19.23%) Oracle
2 6 (11.54%) IBM
2 6 (11.54%) TSYS
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.92%) Atlassian