Spring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 146 89
Rank change year-on-year -39 -57 -2
Contract jobs citing Spring 165 403 1,274
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.69% 2.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.43% 6.74% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 305 935
10th Percentile £404 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £479 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.26% +11.40%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £702 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.54% +10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 22
10th Percentile £38.45 £54.75 £50.13
25th Percentile £43.63 £61.25 £55.63
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £62.88
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +11.33% +11.28%
75th Percentile £64.63 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.55 - £69.88
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -34.46% +6.81% +3.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

Spring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spring trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Spring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Spring hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (4.85%) Confluence
2 4 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.42%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.82%) Apache
3 3 (1.82%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.82%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.21%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.61%) JBoss
5 1 (0.61%) Jetty
5 1 (0.61%) Magnolia
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (45.45%) AWS
2 24 (14.55%) GCP
3 22 (13.33%) Azure
4 14 (8.48%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.06%) GitHub
6 10 (6.06%) Serverless
7 8 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.03%) Apigee
10 5 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.03%) Kong
11 4 (2.42%) npm
12 3 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.82%) Datadog
12 3 (1.82%) WhatsApp
13 2 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.21%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) FTP
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
1 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.30%) MySQL
3 14 (8.48%) Relational Database
4 13 (7.88%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.85%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.85%) Oracle Database
6 7 (4.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.42%) Big Data
8 4 (2.42%) OLAP
8 4 (2.42%) OLTP
8 4 (2.42%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.21%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.21%) KDB
10 2 (1.21%) Redis
11 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.12%) Git
3 17 (10.30%) Maven
4 13 (7.88%) JIRA
4 13 (7.88%) JUnit
5 11 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.45%) Selenium
7 5 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.03%) GitLab
7 5 (3.03%) Gradle
7 5 (3.03%) Mockito
7 5 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.82%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.82%) JMeter
8 3 (1.82%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.82%) Subversion
9 2 (1.21%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.21%) TestNG
General
1 28 (16.97%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.36%) Finance
3 26 (15.76%) Banking
4 13 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Retail
7 6 (3.64%) Front Office
7 6 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.82%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (69.09%) Developer
2 87 (52.73%) Java Developer
3 25 (15.15%) Senior
4 18 (10.91%) Senior Developer
5 16 (9.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 16 (9.70%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.48%) Lead
6 14 (8.48%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (6.06%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Architect
9 9 (5.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 9 (5.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.03%) AWS Architect
12 5 (3.03%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Core Java Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (2.42%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (76.36%) Spring Boot
2 65 (39.39%) REST
3 30 (18.18%) Web Services
4 25 (15.15%) Kafka
5 22 (13.33%) RESTful
6 20 (12.12%) Node.js
6 20 (12.12%) React
7 18 (10.91%) Hibernate
8 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
8 17 (10.30%) CSS
8 17 (10.30%) JPA
8 17 (10.30%) SOAP
9 15 (9.09%) HTML
9 15 (9.09%) jQuery
9 15 (9.09%) Spring Security
10 13 (7.88%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (7.27%) JAX-RS
11 12 (7.27%) JSON
11 12 (7.27%) SAML
12 11 (6.67%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.42%) DataPower
6 3 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.82%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (1.82%) Derivative
6 3 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.61%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.70%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Unix
3 2 (1.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (41.21%) Agile
2 66 (40.00%) Microservices
3 52 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 33 (20.00%) TDD
5 31 (18.79%) DevOps
6 30 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 27 (16.36%) SDLC
8 24 (14.55%) Full Stack Development
9 22 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 16 (9.70%) Scrum
10 16 (9.70%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.48%) OO
13 13 (7.88%) MVC
14 12 (7.27%) Design Patterns
15 11 (6.67%) Data Modelling
16 10 (6.06%) Event-Driven
16 10 (6.06%) Roadmaps
17 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 9 (5.45%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 160 (96.97%) Java
2 40 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 31 (18.79%) SQL
4 15 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.06%) Python
7 5 (3.03%) C
7 5 (3.03%) Scala
8 4 (2.42%) PHP
8 4 (2.42%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.82%) Perl
10 2 (1.21%) C#
10 2 (1.21%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Go
11 1 (0.61%) Groovy
11 1 (0.61%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (20.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.45%) Degree
4 8 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) CISSP
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.21%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.21%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.21%) QA
2 2 (1.21%) SLA
3 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (26.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.88%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (6.67%) Grafana
4 7 (4.24%) Terraform
5 6 (3.64%) Kibana
6 5 (3.03%) Ansible
7 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.82%) Zipkin
9 2 (1.21%) Packer
10 1 (0.61%) Argo
10 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.61%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.61%) logstash
10 1 (0.61%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (14.55%) Oracle
2 17 (10.30%) Google
3 10 (6.06%) IBM
4 9 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.42%) SAP
6 4 (2.42%) TSYS
7 3 (1.82%) Adobe
7 3 (1.82%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.21%) Dell
8 2 (1.21%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.21%) Intel
8 2 (1.21%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.21%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.21%) New Relic
8 2 (1.21%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.61%) Apiary
9 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.61%) WSO2