Spring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 118 137
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 -46
Contract jobs citing Spring 18 29 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.68% 0.99% 0.95%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.51% 5.89% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 33
10th Percentile £400 £459 £425
25th Percentile £450 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.95% +13.51%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £600
90th Percentile £613 £601 £688
South East median daily rate £450 £523 £575
% change year-on-year -13.88% -9.13% +25.85%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 399 492 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.99% 16.84% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 361 468
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -0.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £525 £522 £525
% change year-on-year +0.62% -0.62% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 5
10th Percentile £56.62 £23.47 £18.65
25th Percentile £56.65 £50.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +100.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile - £79.19 £62.25
90th Percentile £61.68 £80.25 £65.32
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £63.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -2.61% +40.56% -10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire -9 12 £475 -2.56% 3
Buckinghamshire +33 5 £525 -
Oxfordshire -2 1 £350 -41.67%
Spring
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (5.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 4 (22.22%) Serverless
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.11%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) Impala
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) JUnit
3 3 (16.67%) Subversion
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA
4 2 (11.11%) JMeter
4 2 (11.11%) Maven
4 2 (11.11%) Toad
4 2 (11.11%) VisualAge
5 1 (5.56%) Appium
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (5.56%) Mockito
5 1 (5.56%) Selenium
5 1 (5.56%) TestNG
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 11 (61.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 10 (55.56%) Kafka
3 6 (33.33%) Apache Camel
3 6 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (33.33%) REST
3 6 (33.33%) Web Services
4 5 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (27.78%) Hibernate
5 4 (22.22%) Apache CXF
5 4 (22.22%) J2EE
5 4 (22.22%) JSP
5 4 (22.22%) Symfony
6 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (16.67%) Node.js
6 3 (16.67%) SOAP
7 2 (11.11%) Mustache
7 2 (11.11%) React
8 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 1 (5.56%) RESTful
8 1 (5.56%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Microservices
2 9 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 4 (22.22%) SOLID
4 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (11.11%) BDD
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (5.56%) Manual Testing
6 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) Shell Script
5 4 (22.22%) PHP
5 4 (22.22%) Scala
6 2 (11.11%) Groovy
7 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Control-M
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) IBM
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
1 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk