Spring Contracts in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 232 95
Rank change year-on-year +49 -137 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 409 429 1,905
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.31% 1.07% 2.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.01% 4.82% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 336 1,382
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £456 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -8.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £736
90th Percentile £795 £856 £799
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 34
10th Percentile - £58.61 £61.25
25th Percentile £69.50 £64.38 £62.69
Median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.32% +1.88%
75th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £88.80 £75.39
UK median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +2.86% +3.70% +2.66%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,804 8,899 17,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.84% 22.17% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,335 6,545 13,070
10th Percentile £356 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 179 204
10th Percentile £26.90 £37.71 £22.75
25th Percentile £46.18 £46.18 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% -14.62% +32.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £78.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.56 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.99% -14.52% +32.65%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in England

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +14 265 £585 -2.50% 59
North of England +43 56 £450 -10.00% 17
North West +48 40 £450 -5.26% 12
West Midlands +29 27 £588 +17.50% 8
Midlands +29 27 £588 +51.61% 10
South West +20 22 £550 - 11
South East +33 21 £450 -12.20% 20
East of England +20 10 £375 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire 0 8 £500 - 2
North East - 8 £445 - 3
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (5.13%) Confluence
2 9 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.20%) Tomcat
3 6 (1.47%) MQSeries
3 6 (1.47%) Red Hat Fuse
4 5 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (1.22%) SAS
5 4 (0.98%) JBoss
6 3 (0.73%) Camunda
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) GemFire
8 1 (0.24%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.22%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.49%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 174 (42.54%) AWS
2 88 (21.52%) Azure
3 50 (12.22%) GCP
4 41 (10.02%) GitHub
5 25 (6.11%) OpenShift
6 13 (3.18%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (2.93%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.93%) Serverless
8 9 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.47%) Kong
12 5 (1.22%) Apigee
12 5 (1.22%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (1.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.98%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) SSH
2 3 (0.73%) SSL
3 2 (0.49%) AMQP
3 2 (0.49%) SMS
3 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.16%) MongoDB
2 56 (13.69%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (11.25%) NoSQL
4 45 (11.00%) DB2
5 39 (9.54%) Apache Cassandra
6 27 (6.60%) Redis
7 26 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 20 (4.89%) MySQL
9 16 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (3.42%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.42%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.44%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.96%) Bigtable
12 8 (1.96%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.71%) Big Data
13 7 (1.71%) Couchbase
13 7 (1.71%) NewSQL
13 7 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 102 (24.94%) Git
2 78 (19.07%) Jenkins
3 50 (12.22%) Maven
4 42 (10.27%) GitLab
5 39 (9.54%) JIRA
6 34 (8.31%) JUnit
7 27 (6.60%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.93%) Bitbucket
8 12 (2.93%) Cypress.io
9 11 (2.69%) Gradle
10 10 (2.44%) Selenium
11 9 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (2.20%) IntelliJ
12 8 (1.96%) Artifactory
13 7 (1.71%) Subversion
14 6 (1.47%) fastlane
14 6 (1.47%) Mockito
14 6 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (1.22%) JMeter
15 5 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 125 (30.56%) Finance
2 79 (19.32%) Banking
3 41 (10.02%) Investment Banking
4 40 (9.78%) Social Skills
5 20 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.16%) Retail
8 8 (1.96%) Front Office
8 8 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.47%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.73%) Military
11 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 265 (64.79%) Developer
2 206 (50.37%) Java Developer
3 48 (11.74%) Senior
4 36 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
4 36 (8.80%) Software Engineer
5 32 (7.82%) Lead
6 31 (7.58%) Senior Developer
7 28 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 26 (6.36%) Architect
8 26 (6.36%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (5.38%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.91%) AWS Architect
11 15 (3.67%) GCP Developer
11 15 (3.67%) React Developer
12 14 (3.42%) Applications Developer
13 11 (2.69%) Angular Developer
14 10 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.44%) JavaScript Developer
14 10 (2.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 10 (2.44%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (64.30%) Spring Boot
2 96 (23.47%) React
3 72 (17.60%) RESTful
4 71 (17.36%) Hibernate
5 70 (17.11%) Kafka
6 69 (16.87%) AngularJS
7 44 (10.76%) Node.js
8 42 (10.27%) HTML
9 41 (10.02%) REST
10 39 (9.54%) CSS
11 28 (6.85%) Dropwizard
11 28 (6.85%) J2EE
12 27 (6.60%) JPA
13 26 (6.36%) Web Services
13 26 (6.36%) XML
14 24 (5.87%) Java EE
15 23 (5.62%) Spring MVC
16 21 (5.13%) SOAP
17 19 (4.65%) GraphQL
18 17 (4.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.91%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.42%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.18%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.93%) Derivative
6 11 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.20%) Credit Derivative
7 9 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.47%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.47%) Replication
11 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (0.98%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.89%) Unix
2 61 (14.91%) Linux
3 8 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.49%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (37.65%) Microservices
2 144 (35.21%) CI/CD
3 127 (31.05%) Agile
4 78 (19.07%) DevOps
5 74 (18.09%) Software Engineering
6 61 (14.91%) Continuous Integration
6 61 (14.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (14.91%) OO
7 59 (14.43%) TDD
8 52 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (12.71%) Scrum
9 51 (12.47%) Test Automation
10 50 (12.22%) Design Patterns
11 47 (11.49%) Web Development
12 33 (8.07%) Multithreading
12 33 (8.07%) OOD
13 32 (7.82%) Computer Science
13 32 (7.82%) Continuous Deployment
14 28 (6.85%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.85%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 396 (96.82%) Java
2 87 (21.27%) SQL
3 82 (20.05%) JavaScript
4 38 (9.29%) Python
5 23 (5.62%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 16 (3.91%) Scala
8 10 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.47%) C#
9 6 (1.47%) Perl
9 6 (1.47%) R
10 5 (1.22%) Bash
10 5 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.73%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Groovy
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) AspectJ
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) Go
13 1 (0.24%) VC++
Qualifications
1 69 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.80%) Degree
4 22 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.73%) OCP
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.69%) QA
2 8 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.49%) WCAG
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) GDPR
4 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (25.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Lustre
2 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.47%) Terraform
3 19 (4.65%) Ansible
3 19 (4.65%) Grafana
4 12 (2.93%) Kibana
5 10 (2.44%) Istio
6 9 (2.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.47%) Podman
7 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.22%) Bosun
9 4 (0.98%) Karpenter
9 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.73%) logstash
11 2 (0.49%) Control-M
12 1 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.24%) Consul
12 1 (0.24%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.24%) Packer
12 1 (0.24%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 81 (19.80%) Oracle
2 31 (7.58%) Google
3 17 (4.16%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.16%) Splunk
4 14 (3.42%) IBM
5 13 (3.18%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.44%) ION Trading
6 10 (2.44%) Virgin Media
7 7 (1.71%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.47%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.47%) Confluent
8 6 (1.47%) MKS
9 5 (1.22%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.22%) SAP
10 4 (0.98%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.98%) Databricks
10 4 (0.98%) Tradeweb
11 3 (0.73%) Murex
11 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.73%) SEEBURGER