Spring Contracts in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 56 42
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 83 122 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.87% 4.57% 5.46%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.35% 18.97% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 94 150
10th Percentile £375 £415 £413
25th Percentile £400 £445 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £479 £486
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -1.49% +14.08%
75th Percentile £500 £544 £538
90th Percentile £538 £625 £568
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.54% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.00
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.55% +17.50%
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -34.46% +6.81% +3.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 429 643 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.02% 24.06% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 473 574
10th Percentile £325 £400 £394
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +15.41%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £654 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £36.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.33
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +12.38% +18.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £60.00
90th Percentile - £66.71 £69.55
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Glasgow +24 57 £435 -19.44% 11
Edinburgh -3 20 £440 -8.14% 6
West Lothian +5 3 £580 -7.20%
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (9.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.41%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.41%) JBoss
3 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.41%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 59 (71.08%) AWS
2 13 (15.66%) Amazon S3
2 13 (15.66%) Azure
3 10 (12.05%) GCP
3 10 (12.05%) OpenShift
4 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.43%) Serverless
6 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.82%) npm
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) Oracle Database
1 10 (12.05%) Relational Database
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.82%) Big Data
4 4 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.41%) GIS
6 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 14 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.84%) JIRA
3 8 (9.64%) Git
4 7 (8.43%) Maven
5 6 (7.23%) JUnit
6 5 (6.02%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.82%) Subversion
8 1 (1.20%) Gradle
8 1 (1.20%) Mockito
General
1 11 (13.25%) Finance
1 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Banking
3 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (84.34%) Developer
2 56 (67.47%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.07%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (16.87%) Senior
5 13 (15.66%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 12 (14.46%) Senior Developer
7 11 (13.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Full Stack Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Angular Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.61%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.61%) UI Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Designer
12 2 (2.41%) HTML Developer
12 2 (2.41%) Senior Designer
12 2 (2.41%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (71.08%) Spring Boot
2 34 (40.96%) REST
3 24 (28.92%) Kafka
3 24 (28.92%) React
4 22 (26.51%) AngularJS
5 21 (25.30%) CSS
6 19 (22.89%) RESTful
7 16 (19.28%) HTML
8 12 (14.46%) JPA
9 8 (9.64%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (9.64%) OpenTracing
9 8 (9.64%) Spring Security
10 7 (8.43%) AWS CDK
10 7 (8.43%) OAuth
10 7 (8.43%) OAuth2
10 7 (8.43%) Spring Batch
10 7 (8.43%) Web Services
11 5 (6.02%) Spring MVC
11 5 (6.02%) Spring Web Flow
11 5 (6.02%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.46%) Data Structures
2 10 (12.05%) Public Cloud
3 9 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.41%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Unix
2 6 (7.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.86%) Microservices
2 52 (62.65%) Agile
3 38 (45.78%) CI/CD
4 25 (30.12%) Full Stack Development
4 25 (30.12%) SDLC
5 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
6 16 (19.28%) DevOps
7 15 (18.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 15 (18.07%) Machine Learning
8 14 (16.87%) Operational Stability
8 14 (16.87%) Scrum
8 14 (16.87%) TDD
9 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
10 12 (14.46%) Decision-Making
11 10 (12.05%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (12.05%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.05%) Unit Testing
12 9 (10.84%) MVC
13 8 (9.64%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (43.37%) SQL
3 15 (18.07%) JavaScript
3 15 (18.07%) TypeScript
4 8 (9.64%) Kotlin
4 8 (9.64%) Scala
5 6 (7.23%) Python
6 3 (3.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.20%) C
7 1 (1.20%) Groovy
7 1 (1.20%) PHP
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Degree
2 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (28.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.46%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.05%) Grafana
3 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.64%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.61%) Kibana
5 1 (1.20%) Packer
5 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.87%) Oracle
2 3 (3.61%) IBM
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (1.20%) Solace
4 1 (1.20%) VMware