Spring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 181 159 122
Rank change year-on-year -22 -37 -29
Contract jobs citing Spring 249 341 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 1.50% 2.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.31% 8.27% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 237 484
10th Percentile £363 £437 £418
25th Percentile £400 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £613 £586
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.54% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 33 19
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £46.20
25th Percentile £42.94 £58.59 £53.75
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +10.67% -0.39%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £68.38
90th Percentile £56.25 - £75.60
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,405 4,123 6,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 18.17% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 3,067 4,324
10th Percentile £325 £350 £362
25th Percentile £410 £418 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 90 140
10th Percentile £22.75 £22.47 £19.41
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.47 £78.12 £77.03
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +17 83 £439 -8.40% 20
North of England +23 71 £531 -12.44% 35
North West +47 52 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -15 34 £538 +2.38% 23
South East -24 33 £425 -19.05% 37
Yorkshire +6 18 £550 -8.33% 6
East of England -6 14 £375 -39.86% 3
West Midlands +11 9 £450 -35.71% 6
Midlands +7 9 £450 -35.71% 8
Northern Ireland 0 5 £575 - 20
North East -9 1 £550 -21.43% 4
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (4.82%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.02%) Confluence
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.61%) JBoss
5 3 (1.20%) Apache
5 3 (1.20%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.80%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.80%) WildFly
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.40%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 112 (44.98%) AWS
2 34 (13.65%) Azure
3 26 (10.44%) GCP
4 21 (8.43%) Amazon S3
5 14 (5.62%) OpenShift
6 12 (4.82%) Serverless
7 11 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.02%) GitHub
9 8 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.81%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.81%) Kong
11 6 (2.41%) Apigee
11 6 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.61%) npm
14 3 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.20%) SAP Fieldglass
15 2 (0.80%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.20%) HTTP
1 3 (1.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.47%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.65%) Relational Database
3 21 (8.43%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.42%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.02%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.61%) Couchbase
7 8 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (2.81%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.81%) Big Data
9 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.41%) OLAP
9 6 (2.41%) OLTP
10 5 (2.01%) Oracle OLAP
11 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.20%) CockroachDB
13 2 (0.80%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.80%) GIS
13 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.80%) MySQL
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 46 (18.47%) Jenkins
2 45 (18.07%) Git
3 39 (15.66%) JUnit
4 24 (9.64%) JIRA
5 22 (8.84%) Maven
6 12 (4.82%) Mockito
7 9 (3.61%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.41%) Selenium
9 5 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.01%) GitLab
9 5 (2.01%) Subversion
10 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.20%) Gradle
11 3 (1.20%) JMeter
12 2 (0.80%) TestNG
13 1 (0.40%) Appium
13 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 41 (16.47%) Finance
2 30 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.24%) Banking
5 12 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.61%) Retail
8 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.40%) Legal
9 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (78.71%) Developer
2 155 (62.25%) Java Developer
3 31 (12.45%) Full Stack Developer
4 21 (8.43%) Senior
4 21 (8.43%) Software Engineer
5 19 (7.63%) Senior Developer
6 18 (7.23%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 18 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (5.62%) Java Engineer
8 11 (4.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Full Stack Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Architect
10 8 (3.21%) Lead
11 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (2.81%) Lead Developer
11 7 (2.81%) Lead Java Developer
11 7 (2.81%) Software Developer
12 6 (2.41%) AWS Architect
13 5 (2.01%) Angular Developer
13 5 (2.01%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (69.88%) Spring Boot
2 90 (36.14%) REST
3 63 (25.30%) React
4 55 (22.09%) Kafka
5 44 (17.67%) AngularJS
6 41 (16.47%) RESTful
7 39 (15.66%) JPA
8 29 (11.65%) Hibernate
9 28 (11.24%) CSS
10 24 (9.64%) HTML
11 22 (8.84%) Web Services
12 19 (7.63%) Node.js
13 18 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (6.43%) Spring Security
15 12 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (4.82%) Spring MVC
16 11 (4.42%) SOAP
17 10 (4.02%) AWS CDK
17 10 (4.02%) GWT
18 9 (3.61%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.02%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.41%) DataPower
6 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Insider Threat
8 3 (1.20%) Derivative
8 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.80%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
10 1 (0.40%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.83%) Linux
2 16 (6.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) AIX
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (50.60%) Agile
2 121 (48.59%) Microservices
3 75 (30.12%) CI/CD
4 56 (22.49%) TDD
5 55 (22.09%) DevOps
6 54 (21.69%) Software Engineering
7 45 (18.07%) Full Stack Development
8 39 (15.66%) Scrum
9 36 (14.46%) SDLC
10 30 (12.05%) OO
11 28 (11.24%) Test Automation
11 28 (11.24%) Unit Testing
12 23 (9.24%) Design Patterns
12 23 (9.24%) Front End Development
12 23 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (7.23%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (7.23%) High Availability
13 18 (7.23%) Mentoring
13 18 (7.23%) Operational Stability
14 17 (6.83%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 247 (99.20%) Java
2 61 (24.50%) SQL
3 46 (18.47%) JavaScript
4 40 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 20 (8.03%) Python
6 12 (4.82%) C
6 12 (4.82%) Scala
7 10 (4.02%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.41%) PHP
9 5 (2.01%) Perl
10 2 (0.80%) Rust
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) C#
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) Go
11 1 (0.40%) Groovy
11 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.25%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.02%) Degree
5 11 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.40%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.41%) QA
3 4 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.40%) GDPR
4 1 (0.40%) NCSC
4 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (24.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (20.88%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.62%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (4.42%) Grafana
4 8 (3.21%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.21%) Zipkin
5 7 (2.81%) Terraform
6 6 (2.41%) Kibana
7 3 (1.20%) Ansible
8 2 (0.80%) Control-M
8 2 (0.80%) Packer
9 1 (0.40%) Anchore
9 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 26 (10.44%) Oracle
2 16 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.82%) Google
4 10 (4.02%) IBM
5 6 (2.41%) TSYS
6 4 (1.61%) Splunk
7 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.40%) Solace
8 1 (0.40%) VMware