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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 128 92
Rank change year-on-year -48 -36 -15
Contract jobs citing Spring 569 1,147 2,464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.34% 2.00% 2.79%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.39% 8.65% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 888 1,793
10th Percentile £375 £450 £426
25th Percentile £436 £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 £706 £779 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +13.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 32
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.13
25th Percentile £42.94 £59.26 £59.38
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.27
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +11.08% +12.53%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £75.29
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.70 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.46% +10.67% +9.05%

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 8,906 13,255 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.94% 23.15% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,185 9,676 17,493
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 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 144 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.35
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -61 436 £540 -13.11% 212
London -65 261 £550 -15.38% 107
UK excluding London -24 243 £488 -7.14% 165
Work from Home -66 153 £525 -8.70% 127
Scotland +13 82 £439 -8.40% 20
North of England +15 66 £550 -4.35% 29
North West +30 44 £525 +12.33% 20
South West -17 34 £550 - 14
South East -26 32 £463 -13.71% 59
Yorkshire +10 21 £550 -8.33% 6
East of England +4 14 £375 -46.43% 7
West Midlands +13 10 £450 -35.71% 10
Midlands +5 10 £450 -30.77% 12
Northern Ireland +3 5 £588 +30.56% 18
North East -9 1 £550 -21.43% 4

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 25 (4.39%) Confluence
2 11 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.58%) JBoss
4 8 (1.41%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.23%) Apache
6 6 (1.05%) SAS
6 6 (1.05%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.88%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.70%) Camunda
9 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.53%) nginx
9 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.35%) WildFly
11 1 (0.18%) CMS
11 1 (0.18%) CoreMedia CMS
11 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 249 (43.76%) AWS
2 80 (14.06%) Azure
3 55 (9.67%) GCP
4 37 (6.50%) Amazon S3
5 30 (5.27%) Serverless
6 29 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (4.22%) OpenShift
8 23 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (3.69%) GitHub
10 16 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.11%) Apigee
12 10 (1.76%) Kong
13 9 (1.58%) Amazon MSK
13 9 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (1.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.23%) SaaS
16 6 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.23%) SSH
2 4 (0.70%) HTTP
3 3 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (14.59%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (12.30%) Relational Database
3 49 (8.61%) NoSQL
4 28 (4.92%) MySQL
5 26 (4.57%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.34%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.76%) Couchbase
9 10 (1.76%) KDB
9 10 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.58%) Redis
11 8 (1.41%) DB2
12 6 (1.05%) OLAP
12 6 (1.05%) OLTP
13 5 (0.88%) Big Data
13 5 (0.88%) Oracle OLAP
13 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (18.45%) Git
2 93 (16.34%) Jenkins
3 77 (13.53%) JUnit
4 51 (8.96%) JIRA
5 47 (8.26%) Maven
6 29 (5.10%) Cucumber
7 27 (4.75%) Mockito
8 23 (4.04%) Selenium
9 21 (3.69%) GitLab
10 15 (2.64%) Gradle
11 11 (1.93%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.76%) TestNG
13 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.58%) JMeter
13 9 (1.58%) Postman
13 9 (1.58%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.58%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.23%) CircleCI
General
1 122 (21.44%) Finance
2 92 (16.17%) Social Skills
3 71 (12.48%) Banking
3 71 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 28 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.51%) Front Office
6 18 (3.16%) Retail
7 17 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.28%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.23%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
11 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.35%) Back Office
12 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.18%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 401 (70.47%) Developer
2 292 (51.32%) Java Developer
3 77 (13.53%) Senior
4 57 (10.02%) Full Stack Developer
5 49 (8.61%) Senior Developer
5 49 (8.61%) Software Engineer
6 46 (8.08%) Java Engineer
7 42 (7.38%) Lead
7 42 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 27 (4.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 22 (3.87%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 21 (3.69%) Architect
11 18 (3.16%) Lead Developer
12 17 (2.99%) Backend Developer
12 17 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 16 (2.81%) Software Developer
14 13 (2.28%) AWS Architect
14 13 (2.28%) AWS Developer
14 13 (2.28%) Lead Java Developer
14 13 (2.28%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (67.49%) Spring Boot
2 200 (35.15%) REST
3 112 (19.68%) React
4 89 (15.64%) Kafka
5 87 (15.29%) Hibernate
6 83 (14.59%) JPA
7 74 (13.01%) AngularJS
8 68 (11.95%) RESTful
9 66 (11.60%) Web Services
10 58 (10.19%) CSS
11 56 (9.84%) Node.js
12 49 (8.61%) HTML
13 40 (7.03%) SOAP
14 32 (5.62%) J2EE
15 31 (5.45%) JAX-RS
16 30 (5.27%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (5.27%) Spring Security
17 29 (5.10%) JSON
18 26 (4.57%) GWT
19 25 (4.39%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.15%) Data Structures
2 29 (5.10%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 17 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.64%) Derivative
7 14 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.28%) Fixed Income
8 13 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (1.58%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
14 7 (1.23%) Insider Threat
15 6 (1.05%) DataPower
16 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
16 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.61%) Linux
2 46 (8.08%) Unix
3 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) AIX
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (43.59%) Agile
2 241 (42.36%) Microservices
3 173 (30.40%) CI/CD
4 133 (23.37%) TDD
5 105 (18.45%) DevOps
6 102 (17.93%) Software Engineering
7 85 (14.94%) Full Stack Development
8 82 (14.41%) Scrum
9 74 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (11.95%) SDLC
11 67 (11.78%) Test Automation
11 67 (11.78%) Unit Testing
12 53 (9.31%) Front End Development
13 49 (8.61%) Mentoring
14 48 (8.44%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (7.73%) OO
16 43 (7.56%) BDD
17 38 (6.68%) OOP
18 37 (6.50%) High Availability
19 36 (6.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 558 (98.07%) Java
2 141 (24.78%) SQL
3 90 (15.82%) JavaScript
4 60 (10.54%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.37%) Python
6 25 (4.39%) C
7 22 (3.87%) Kotlin
8 18 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.99%) Scala
10 14 (2.46%) Perl
11 6 (1.05%) C++
11 6 (1.05%) PHP
12 5 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.88%) Swift
13 3 (0.53%) Bash
13 3 (0.53%) C#
13 3 (0.53%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.18%) VBA
14 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 158 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 128 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.79%) DV Cleared
4 40 (7.03%) Degree
5 31 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.10%) QA
2 10 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.70%) SLA
4 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) MiFID
5 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 142 (24.96%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 119 (20.91%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.75%) Grafana
3 26 (4.57%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.69%) Terraform
5 20 (3.51%) Kibana
6 19 (3.34%) Ansible
7 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.41%) Zipkin
9 4 (0.70%) Packer
10 3 (0.53%) Istio
10 3 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.18%) Anchore
11 1 (0.18%) Argo
11 1 (0.18%) Control-M
11 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.18%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.18%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (14.41%) Oracle
2 40 (7.03%) Google
3 34 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.87%) IBM
5 19 (3.34%) SAP
6 18 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.93%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.76%) ION Trading
8 10 (1.76%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 7 (1.23%) WSO2
10 6 (1.05%) TSYS
11 5 (0.88%) New Relic
11 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.88%) Splunk
12 3 (0.53%) Dell
12 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.53%) Intel
12 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus