Spring Contracts

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 174 142 91
Rank change year-on-year -32 -51 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 591 1,038 2,472
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.87% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.41% 8.15% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 805 1,811
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £423 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.54% +10.38%
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 41 34
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.38
25th Percentile £42.94 £61.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +6.81% +3.21%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £75.36
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% -0.39%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
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 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £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 12 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 12 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 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
England -49 457 £536 -12.80% 189
London -49 281 £550 -15.38% 82
UK excluding London -22 249 £475 -9.52% 150
Work from Home -39 165 £525 -4.55% 139
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
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 21 (3.55%) 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
1 243 (41.12%) AWS
2 83 (14.04%) Azure
3 60 (10.15%) GCP
4 36 (6.09%) Amazon S3
5 34 (5.75%) Serverless
6 28 (4.74%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (4.06%) GitHub
9 20 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (2.20%) Apigee
12 11 (1.86%) Kong
13 9 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (1.35%) Amazon MSK
14 8 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.35%) SaaS
15 6 (1.02%) Datadog
16 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 87 (14.72%) 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 11 (1.86%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.69%) KDB
12 9 (1.52%) Couchbase
13 8 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.35%) Big Data
13 8 (1.35%) Redis
14 6 (1.02%) DB2
14 6 (1.02%) OLAP
14 6 (1.02%) OLTP
15 5 (0.85%) Oracle OLAP
16 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 26 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.40%) Mockito
7 23 (3.89%) Selenium
8 17 (2.88%) GitLab
8 17 (2.88%) Gradle
9 14 (2.37%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.69%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (1.18%) JMeter
14 6 (1.02%) Liquibase
14 6 (1.02%) Subversion
14 6 (1.02%) TestNG
15 5 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 134 (22.67%) Finance
2 93 (15.74%) Social Skills
3 85 (14.38%) Banking
4 68 (11.51%) 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%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 419 (70.90%) Developer
2 307 (51.95%) Java Developer
3 76 (12.86%) Senior
4 56 (9.48%) Full Stack Developer
5 49 (8.29%) Senior Developer
6 47 (7.95%) Software Engineer
7 43 (7.28%) Java Engineer
7 43 (7.28%) Lead
8 40 (6.77%) 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%) Java Software Engineer
14 14 (2.37%) Backend Developer
15 13 (2.20%) AWS Architect
15 13 (2.20%) Lead Java Developer
16 12 (2.03%) Senior Java Engineer
16 12 (2.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 399 (67.51%) Spring Boot
2 204 (34.52%) REST
3 113 (19.12%) React
4 90 (15.23%) Kafka
5 88 (14.89%) Hibernate
5 88 (14.89%) JPA
6 78 (13.20%) AngularJS
7 76 (12.86%) RESTful
8 71 (12.01%) Web Services
9 64 (10.83%) CSS
10 55 (9.31%) HTML
11 52 (8.80%) Node.js
12 45 (7.61%) SOAP
13 33 (5.58%) J2EE
13 33 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
14 31 (5.25%) JSON
14 31 (5.25%) Spring Security
15 27 (4.57%) GWT
15 27 (4.57%) JAX-RS
15 27 (4.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.60%) Data Structures
2 35 (5.92%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 20 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.71%) Derivative
7 14 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.20%) Fixed Income
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 7 (1.18%) Credit Derivative
11 7 (1.18%) Insider Threat
11 7 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.02%) DataPower
12 6 (1.02%) Product Ownership
13 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
1 250 (42.30%) Agile
1 250 (42.30%) Microservices
2 175 (29.61%) CI/CD
3 133 (22.50%) TDD
4 110 (18.61%) DevOps
5 103 (17.43%) Software Engineering
6 88 (14.89%) Scrum
7 87 (14.72%) Full Stack Development
8 72 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (11.51%) Test Automation
10 66 (11.17%) SDLC
11 64 (10.83%) Unit Testing
12 59 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
13 50 (8.46%) Front End Development
14 49 (8.29%) Design Patterns
15 47 (7.95%) Mentoring
16 46 (7.78%) OO
17 43 (7.28%) BDD
18 42 (7.11%) Computer Science
19 37 (6.26%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 576 (97.46%) Java
2 150 (25.38%) SQL
3 90 (15.23%) 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%) Groovy
15 2 (0.34%) Rust
15 2 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 148 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 120 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.29%) DV Cleared
4 46 (7.78%) 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
1 145 (24.53%) 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
1 125 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (4.23%) Grafana
4 23 (3.89%) Terraform
5 22 (3.72%) Ansible
6 15 (2.54%) Kibana
7 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.35%) Zipkin
9 3 (0.51%) Control-M
9 3 (0.51%) logstash
9 3 (0.51%) Packer
10 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.34%) Istio
11 1 (0.17%) Anchore
11 1 (0.17%) Argo
11 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 82 (13.87%) 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