Spring Contracts in the South East

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Spring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spring over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 136 152
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -29
Contract jobs citing Spring 33 76 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 1.34% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.47% 7.76% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 72
10th Percentile £359 £453 £476
25th Percentile £375 £481 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £586
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -10.45% +30.28%
75th Percentile £488 £616 £650
90th Percentile £500 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £618 £600
% change year-on-year -12.96% +2.92% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 12
10th Percentile - £57.51 £46.63
25th Percentile - £61.44 £57.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +10.67% -3.44%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £66.16
90th Percentile - - £68.68
England median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.76
% change year-on-year -36.72% +10.25% +0.40%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Spring is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 739 980 1,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.09% 17.29% 19.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 691 988
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £619
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 38
10th Percentile £35.00 £50.88 £29.60
25th Percentile £56.58 £55.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £67.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +50.00% -12.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.75 £79.51 £67.55
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.22% +11.94%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +9 15 £475 -2.56% 7
West Sussex +13 10 £394 -32.16% 6
Berkshire -18 8 £475 -2.56% 2
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £575 +9.52% 4
East Sussex +7 3 £490 - 5
Hampshire -29 3 £400 -20.00% 14
Oxfordshire 0 2 £350 -41.67% 1
Surrey +6 1 £375 -44.44%
Kent - 1 £500 - 1
Spring
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (9.09%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.06%) JBoss
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.12%) Serverless
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Azure
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (24.24%) Couchbase
3 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
4 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data
7 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.03%) Impala
7 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JUnit
3 3 (9.09%) JMeter
4 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) Appium
5 1 (3.03%) IntelliJ
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Mockito
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) TestNG
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (84.85%) Developer
2 25 (75.76%) Java Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (6.06%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
6 1 (3.03%) Core Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (63.64%) Kafka
1 21 (63.64%) Spring Boot
2 10 (30.30%) REST
3 8 (24.24%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (15.15%) Node.js
4 5 (15.15%) Vert.x
5 4 (12.12%) React
5 4 (12.12%) Symfony
5 4 (12.12%) Web Services
6 3 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.06%) Apache Camel
7 2 (6.06%) GWT
7 2 (6.06%) Jest
7 2 (6.06%) Mustache
7 2 (6.06%) Redux
7 2 (6.06%) RESTful
7 2 (6.06%) Restlet
8 1 (3.03%) jQuery
8 1 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Educational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Agile
1 14 (42.42%) Microservices
1 14 (42.42%) TDD
2 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
2 8 (24.24%) Scrum
3 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
3 5 (15.15%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (15.15%) High Availability
3 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps
4 4 (12.12%) SOLID
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Workflow
6 2 (6.06%) Analytics
6 2 (6.06%) Data Modelling
6 2 (6.06%) Kanban
6 2 (6.06%) Mentoring
6 2 (6.06%) SEO
6 2 (6.06%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (39.39%) JavaScript
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) PHP
5 3 (9.09%) Scala
6 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) OCP
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Kibana
4 1 (3.03%) Control-M
4 1 (3.03%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Google
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.06%) Splunk
2 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat