Spring Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 138 92
Rank change year-on-year -34 -46 -18
Contract jobs citing Spring 593 1,076 2,461
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 1.92% 2.81%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.55% 8.36% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 833 1,792
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £425 £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 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 36 34
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.38
25th Percentile £42.94 £60.59 £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +4.03%
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% -

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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -49 452 £538 -13.31% 189
London -53 271 £550 -15.38% 91
UK excluding London -5 260 £475 -9.52% 135
Work from Home -53 159 £525 -6.67% 116
Scotland +16 88 £440 -8.14% 19
North of England +27 70 £531 -11.46% 32
North West +52 51 £525 -4.55% 28
South West -8 39 £550 +4.76% 20
South East -30 33 £450 -14.29% 33
Yorkshire +9 18 £550 -8.33% 3
East of England -5 14 £375 -41.68% 4
Midlands +10 10 £450 -30.77% 8
West Midlands +6 10 £450 -35.71% 6
Northern Ireland +5 6 £575 +9.52% 16
North East -6 1 £550 -21.43% 1

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 (4.22%) Confluence
2 12 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.52%) Anypoint
4 8 (1.35%) JBoss
5 7 (1.18%) Apache
6 6 (1.01%) SAS
7 5 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.84%) WebLogic
8 4 (0.67%) Camunda
8 4 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.51%) WildFly
10 2 (0.34%) CMS
10 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.17%) CoreMedia CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.84%) Shopify
3 2 (0.34%) 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
1 251 (42.33%) AWS
2 88 (14.84%) Azure
3 58 (9.78%) GCP
4 37 (6.24%) Amazon S3
5 32 (5.40%) Serverless
6 27 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
7 25 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.88%) GitHub
9 21 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (2.19%) Apigee
12 10 (1.69%) 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 (1.01%) Datadog
16 5 (0.84%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.52%) SSH
2 4 (0.67%) HTTP
3 3 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.17%) FTP
4 1 (0.17%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (11.64%) Relational Database
3 55 (9.27%) NoSQL
4 30 (5.06%) MySQL
5 26 (4.38%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.37%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 14 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.69%) Couchbase
10 10 (1.69%) KDB
10 10 (1.69%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.52%) Redis
12 8 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.35%) DB2
13 6 (1.01%) Big Data
13 6 (1.01%) OLAP
13 6 (1.01%) OLTP
14 5 (0.84%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 114 (19.22%) Git
2 103 (17.37%) Jenkins
3 81 (13.66%) JUnit
4 58 (9.78%) JIRA
5 53 (8.94%) Maven
6 30 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 25 (4.22%) Mockito
8 23 (3.88%) Selenium
9 20 (3.37%) GitLab
10 16 (2.70%) Gradle
11 13 (2.19%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.69%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.52%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.18%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.18%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.18%) JMeter
14 7 (1.18%) TestNG
15 6 (1.01%) IntelliJ
15 6 (1.01%) Liquibase
General
1 130 (21.92%) Finance
2 97 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 78 (13.15%) Banking
4 68 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.54%) Front Office
7 19 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 19 (3.20%) Retail
8 17 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.18%) Law
10 5 (0.84%) Marketing
11 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.34%) Back Office
13 2 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.34%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.17%) Electronics
14 1 (0.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (70.66%) Developer
2 304 (51.26%) Java Developer
3 76 (12.82%) Senior
4 59 (9.95%) Full Stack Developer
5 50 (8.43%) Software Engineer
6 48 (8.09%) Senior Developer
7 45 (7.59%) Java Engineer
8 44 (7.42%) Lead
9 41 (6.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 24 (4.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 23 (3.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 20 (3.37%) Architect
13 19 (3.20%) Lead Developer
14 18 (3.04%) Software Developer
15 16 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
16 15 (2.53%) Backend Developer
17 14 (2.36%) Lead Java Developer
18 13 (2.19%) AWS Architect
18 13 (2.19%) AWS Developer
18 13 (2.19%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 400 (67.45%) Spring Boot
2 205 (34.57%) REST
3 117 (19.73%) React
4 92 (15.51%) Kafka
5 87 (14.67%) Hibernate
5 87 (14.67%) JPA
6 80 (13.49%) AngularJS
7 77 (12.98%) RESTful
8 71 (11.97%) Web Services
9 63 (10.62%) CSS
10 55 (9.27%) Node.js
11 54 (9.11%) HTML
12 44 (7.42%) SOAP
13 33 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
14 32 (5.40%) J2EE
15 31 (5.23%) Spring Security
16 30 (5.06%) JSON
17 28 (4.72%) JAX-RS
18 26 (4.38%) GWT
18 26 (4.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.41%) Data Structures
2 34 (5.73%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.87%) Derivative
7 14 (2.36%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (2.36%) Fixed Income
7 14 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 12 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
9 12 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.35%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (1.18%) Insider Threat
14 6 (1.01%) DataPower
14 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.61%) Linux
2 54 (9.11%) Unix
3 6 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.84%) 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
1 258 (43.51%) Agile
2 249 (41.99%) Microservices
3 176 (29.68%) CI/CD
4 139 (23.44%) TDD
5 113 (19.06%) DevOps
6 103 (17.37%) Software Engineering
7 90 (15.18%) Full Stack Development
8 89 (15.01%) Scrum
9 80 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (11.64%) SDLC
10 69 (11.64%) Test Automation
10 69 (11.64%) Unit Testing
11 61 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (8.77%) OO
13 50 (8.43%) Front End Development
14 49 (8.26%) Mentoring
15 45 (7.59%) Design Patterns
16 44 (7.42%) BDD
17 42 (7.08%) OOP
18 41 (6.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 579 (97.64%) Java
2 149 (25.13%) SQL
3 95 (16.02%) JavaScript
4 63 (10.62%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.46%) Python
6 26 (4.38%) Kotlin
7 25 (4.22%) C
8 21 (3.54%) Scala
9 18 (3.04%) Perl
9 18 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.52%) C++
11 6 (1.01%) PHP
12 5 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.84%) Swift
13 4 (0.67%) C#
14 3 (0.51%) Bash
14 3 (0.51%) Go
15 2 (0.34%) Rust
16 1 (0.17%) Clojure
16 1 (0.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 154 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 124 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 44 (7.42%) Degree
5 33 (5.56%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.17%) CISSP
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.23%) QA
2 11 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.67%) 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
1 146 (24.62%) Docker
2 8 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.17%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 121 (20.40%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.38%) Grafana
2 26 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (3.37%) Ansible
3 20 (3.37%) Terraform
4 18 (3.04%) Kibana
5 12 (2.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.35%) Zipkin
7 3 (0.51%) logstash
8 2 (0.34%) Control-M
8 2 (0.34%) Istio
8 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.17%) Anchore
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.17%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (14.00%) Oracle
2 43 (7.25%) Google
3 39 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.71%) IBM
5 20 (3.37%) SAP
6 19 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.19%) ION Trading
8 12 (2.02%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.69%) SEEBURGER
10 8 (1.35%) WSO2
11 7 (1.18%) Adobe
12 6 (1.01%) TSYS
13 5 (0.84%) New Relic
13 5 (0.84%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.84%) 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