Spring Contracts

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 138 89
Rank change year-on-year -39 -49 -15
Contract jobs citing Spring 591 1,057 2,495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.90% 2.83%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.47% 8.29% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 818 1,825
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £421 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £681
90th Percentile £700 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 40 33
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.25
25th Percentile £42.94 £60.59 £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £71.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -35.61% +8.71% +3.62%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £75.39
90th Percentile £56.25 £78.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.46% +10.67% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 9,133 12,749 23,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.09% 22.89% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,304 9,299 17,416
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 151 226
10th Percentile £22.05 £30.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.97 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £67.27
90th Percentile £74.49 £80.25 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England -49 457 £535 -13.01% 177
London -57 280 £550 -15.38% 72
UK excluding London -9 250 £475 -9.52% 143
Work from Home -46 162 £525 -5.62% 126
Scotland +14 84 £440 -8.14% 18
North of England +31 71 £531 -11.46% 32
North West +49 52 £525 -4.55% 25
South West -4 34 £538 +2.38% 22
South East -34 33 £425 -20.71% 38
Yorkshire +7 18 £550 -8.33% 5
East of England -7 14 £375 -36.01% 3
Midlands +7 9 £450 -35.71% 7
West Midlands +2 9 £450 -35.71% 5
Northern Ireland +3 5 £575 - 19
North East -6 1 £550 -21.43% 2

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (3.72%) Confluence
2 13 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.52%) Anypoint
4 7 (1.18%) JBoss
5 6 (1.02%) SAS
5 6 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.85%) Apache
6 5 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.85%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.68%) Camunda
7 4 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.51%) WildFly
9 2 (0.34%) CMS
9 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.17%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.85%) Shopify
3 3 (0.51%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 242 (40.95%) AWS
2 84 (14.21%) Azure
3 60 (10.15%) GCP
4 36 (6.09%) Amazon S3
5 32 (5.41%) Serverless
6 28 (4.74%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
9 23 (3.89%) GitHub
10 20 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.20%) Apigee
13 11 (1.86%) Kong
14 9 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.35%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.35%) SaaS
16 6 (1.02%) Datadog
17 5 (0.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.69%) SSH
2 5 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.51%) SSL
4 2 (0.34%) FTP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (11.34%) Relational Database
3 54 (9.14%) NoSQL
4 31 (5.25%) MySQL
5 25 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.89%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.71%) Apache Cassandra
8 14 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.69%) Couchbase
10 10 (1.69%) KDB
10 10 (1.69%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.35%) Big Data
11 8 (1.35%) Redis
12 6 (1.02%) DB2
12 6 (1.02%) OLAP
12 6 (1.02%) OLTP
13 5 (0.85%) Oracle OLAP
14 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 113 (19.12%) Git
2 101 (17.09%) Jenkins
3 79 (13.37%) JUnit
4 56 (9.48%) JIRA
5 55 (9.31%) Maven
6 27 (4.57%) Cucumber
7 26 (4.40%) Mockito
8 23 (3.89%) Selenium
9 17 (2.88%) GitLab
10 16 (2.71%) Gradle
11 14 (2.37%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.69%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.52%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (1.18%) JMeter
16 6 (1.02%) Liquibase
16 6 (1.02%) Subversion
16 6 (1.02%) TestNG
17 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 135 (22.84%) Finance
2 93 (15.74%) Social Skills
3 84 (14.21%) Banking
4 67 (11.34%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.55%) Front Office
6 21 (3.55%) Retail
7 20 (3.38%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (0.85%) Law
9 5 (0.85%) Marketing
10 4 (0.68%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.51%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.34%) Back Office
12 2 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.17%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 422 (71.40%) Developer
2 310 (52.45%) Java Developer
3 77 (13.03%) Senior
4 56 (9.48%) Full Stack Developer
5 50 (8.46%) Senior Developer
6 47 (7.95%) Software Engineer
7 42 (7.11%) Java Engineer
7 42 (7.11%) Lead
8 41 (6.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 26 (4.40%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 24 (4.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 21 (3.55%) Architect
12 18 (3.05%) Lead Developer
12 18 (3.05%) Software Developer
13 15 (2.54%) Backend Developer
13 15 (2.54%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (2.20%) AWS Architect
14 13 (2.20%) Lead Java Developer
15 12 (2.03%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (67.51%) Spring Boot
2 205 (34.69%) REST
3 111 (18.78%) React
4 90 (15.23%) Kafka
5 89 (15.06%) Hibernate
6 88 (14.89%) JPA
7 77 (13.03%) AngularJS
8 75 (12.69%) RESTful
9 71 (12.01%) Web Services
10 64 (10.83%) CSS
11 55 (9.31%) HTML
12 52 (8.80%) Node.js
13 45 (7.61%) SOAP
14 33 (5.58%) J2EE
15 32 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (5.41%) Spring Security
16 31 (5.25%) JSON
17 27 (4.57%) GWT
17 27 (4.57%) JAX-RS
17 27 (4.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.60%) Data Structures
2 35 (5.92%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 20 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.88%) Derivative
7 14 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.37%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.35%) Credit Derivative
11 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.18%) Insider Threat
13 6 (1.02%) DataPower
13 6 (1.02%) Product Ownership
14 5 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.15%) Linux
2 58 (9.81%) Unix
3 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.85%) Windows
5 1 (0.17%) AIX
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (42.47%) Agile
1 251 (42.47%) Microservices
2 176 (29.78%) CI/CD
3 134 (22.67%) TDD
4 110 (18.61%) DevOps
5 101 (17.09%) Software Engineering
6 86 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
6 86 (14.55%) Scrum
7 72 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (11.51%) Test Automation
9 65 (11.00%) SDLC
10 63 (10.66%) Unit Testing
11 59 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
12 50 (8.46%) Front End Development
13 48 (8.12%) Design Patterns
14 47 (7.95%) Mentoring
15 45 (7.61%) OO
16 43 (7.28%) BDD
17 42 (7.11%) Computer Science
18 38 (6.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 576 (97.46%) Java
2 150 (25.38%) SQL
3 89 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 64 (10.83%) TypeScript
5 57 (9.64%) Python
6 27 (4.57%) Kotlin
7 24 (4.06%) Scala
8 19 (3.21%) Perl
8 19 (3.21%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.88%) C
10 8 (1.35%) C++
11 6 (1.02%) PHP
12 5 (0.85%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.85%) Swift
13 4 (0.68%) C#
14 3 (0.51%) Bash
14 3 (0.51%) Go
15 2 (0.34%) Rust
15 2 (0.34%) XPath
16 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 147 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 119 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.29%) DV Cleared
4 45 (7.61%) Degree
5 34 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.34%) OCP
9 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) CISSP
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.23%) QA
2 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.68%) SLA
4 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) GRC
5 1 (0.17%) MiFID
5 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (24.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 124 (20.98%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (4.23%) Grafana
4 22 (3.72%) Ansible
4 22 (3.72%) Terraform
5 16 (2.71%) Kibana
6 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.35%) Zipkin
8 3 (0.51%) Control-M
8 3 (0.51%) logstash
9 2 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.17%) Anchore
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (14.21%) Oracle
2 45 (7.61%) Google
3 38 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.72%) IBM
5 19 (3.21%) SAP
6 18 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.54%) MuleSoft
8 14 (2.37%) ION Trading
9 11 (1.86%) SEEBURGER
10 8 (1.35%) WSO2
11 7 (1.18%) Adobe
12 6 (1.02%) TSYS
13 5 (0.85%) New Relic
13 5 (0.85%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.85%) Splunk
14 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.51%) Dell
14 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.51%) Intel
14 3 (0.51%) Micro Focus