Spring Contracts in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 128 104
Rank change year-on-year -84 -24 -29
Contract jobs citing Spring 412 1,046 1,856
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.11% 2.07% 2.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.53% 8.96% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 815 1,351
10th Percentile £375 £463 £438
25th Percentile £450 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £636 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 21
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.00
25th Percentile £41.47 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +14.62% +2.43%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £75.84
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.30 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -36.72% +14.62% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 7,453 11,673 19,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.16% 23.13% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,303 8,631 14,413
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 138 213
10th Percentile £21.73 £28.73 £22.10
25th Percentile £41.28 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Daily rate trend for Spring in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -79 252 £550 -15.38% 96
North of England +12 62 £525 -8.70% 20
North West +34 38 £525 +8.00% 10
South East -33 33 £475 -9.52% 24
South West -25 28 £625 +13.64% 16
Yorkshire +21 23 £550 -8.33% 7
East of England +2 14 £375 -43.61% 10
West Midlands +23 10 £450 -35.71% 6
Midlands +12 10 £450 -25.00% 8
North East -8 1 £550 -21.43% 5
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (4.85%) Confluence
2 7 (1.70%) Anypoint
2 7 (1.70%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.46%) JBoss
4 5 (1.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.21%) SAS
4 5 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.97%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.73%) Camunda
6 3 (0.73%) nginx
6 3 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.49%) Apache
7 2 (0.49%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Shopify
2 4 (0.97%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 162 (39.32%) AWS
2 52 (12.62%) Azure
3 30 (7.28%) GCP
4 25 (6.07%) Amazon S3
5 22 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (5.34%) Serverless
6 14 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (3.40%) GitHub
7 13 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (3.16%) OpenShift
8 11 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (2.43%) Amazon MSK
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (2.18%) Apigee
11 8 (1.94%) Kong
12 6 (1.46%) SaaS
13 5 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.21%) BigCommerce
13 5 (1.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.21%) SSH
2 4 (0.97%) HTTP
3 3 (0.73%) SSL
4 1 (0.24%) FTP
4 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (16.75%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (12.62%) Relational Database
3 42 (10.19%) NoSQL
4 25 (6.07%) MySQL
5 23 (5.58%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.91%) Apache Cassandra
9 11 (2.67%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.43%) Redis
11 9 (2.18%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.94%) Couchbase
13 7 (1.70%) KDB
14 5 (1.21%) DB2
14 5 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.97%) OLAP
15 4 (0.97%) OLTP
15 4 (0.97%) Oracle OLAP
15 4 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.73%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 85 (20.63%) Git
2 76 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.78%) JUnit
4 35 (8.50%) JIRA
5 25 (6.07%) Mockito
6 22 (5.34%) Maven
7 20 (4.85%) Cucumber
8 18 (4.37%) Selenium
9 17 (4.13%) GitLab
10 12 (2.91%) Gradle
11 10 (2.43%) Bitbucket
12 9 (2.18%) Liquibase
13 8 (1.94%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.94%) TestNG
14 6 (1.46%) JMeter
15 5 (1.21%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.21%) Postman
15 5 (1.21%) SonarQube
15 5 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.97%) ScalaTest
General
1 88 (21.36%) Finance
2 63 (15.29%) Public Sector
2 63 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 53 (12.86%) Banking
4 24 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (4.85%) Front Office
6 15 (3.64%) Retail
7 12 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.21%) Law
8 5 (1.21%) Marketing
9 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.49%) Back Office
10 2 (0.49%) Electronics
10 2 (0.49%) Publishing
11 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
11 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 288 (69.90%) Developer
2 197 (47.82%) Java Developer
3 56 (13.59%) Senior
4 43 (10.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 35 (8.50%) Lead
5 35 (8.50%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.01%) Senior Developer
7 24 (5.83%) Java Engineer
7 24 (5.83%) Senior Java Developer
8 23 (5.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 16 (3.88%) Architect
10 13 (3.16%) Backend Developer
10 13 (3.16%) Lead Developer
11 12 (2.91%) Java Pricing Developer
11 12 (2.91%) Pricing Developer
12 11 (2.67%) AWS Developer
12 11 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (2.43%) Full Stack Java Developer
13 10 (2.43%) Lead Java Developer
13 10 (2.43%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (66.75%) Spring Boot
2 134 (32.52%) REST
3 80 (19.42%) Hibernate
4 77 (18.69%) React
5 72 (17.48%) JPA
6 60 (14.56%) Kafka
7 52 (12.62%) Web Services
8 49 (11.89%) AngularJS
9 48 (11.65%) RESTful
10 42 (10.19%) Node.js
11 35 (8.50%) SOAP
12 29 (7.04%) CSS
13 28 (6.80%) J2EE
14 27 (6.55%) HTML
15 24 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (5.83%) Spring Security
16 23 (5.58%) JSON
17 21 (5.10%) Spring MVC
18 17 (4.13%) JAX-RS
18 17 (4.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.61%) Algorithms
1 19 (4.61%) Data Structures
2 17 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.40%) Derivative
4 13 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (3.16%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.91%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.94%) Credit Derivative
6 8 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.21%) Insider Threat
8 4 (0.97%) DataPower
8 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.97%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.73%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.74%) Linux
2 32 (7.77%) Unix
3 6 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.21%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (43.45%) Agile
2 170 (41.26%) Microservices
3 114 (27.67%) CI/CD
4 96 (23.30%) TDD
5 89 (21.60%) DevOps
6 72 (17.48%) Scrum
7 70 (16.99%) Software Engineering
8 60 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (14.32%) Full Stack Development
10 54 (13.11%) Front End Development
11 53 (12.86%) Unit Testing
12 43 (10.44%) Mentoring
13 41 (9.95%) BDD
14 38 (9.22%) High Availability
14 38 (9.22%) SDLC
15 36 (8.74%) OO
16 32 (7.77%) Test Automation
17 31 (7.52%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (7.52%) OOP
18 29 (7.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 402 (97.57%) Java
2 77 (18.69%) SQL
3 70 (16.99%) JavaScript
4 45 (10.92%) Python
5 39 (9.47%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.85%) C
7 13 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.67%) Perl
9 9 (2.18%) Scala
10 8 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.70%) C++
12 5 (1.21%) PHP
12 5 (1.21%) Swift
13 4 (0.97%) C#
14 3 (0.73%) Bash
14 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.49%) Go
16 1 (0.24%) Clojure
16 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (34.71%) Security Cleared
2 119 (28.88%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.95%) DV Cleared
4 28 (6.80%) Degree
5 23 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.28%) QA
2 4 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) GRC
3 1 (0.24%) MiFID
3 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (26.21%) Docker
2 6 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 106 (25.73%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.10%) Ansible
3 19 (4.61%) Terraform
4 15 (3.64%) Grafana
4 15 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (2.67%) Kibana
6 5 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.97%) Packer
8 3 (0.73%) Istio
8 3 (0.73%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.73%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) Anchore
9 1 (0.24%) Argo
9 1 (0.24%) Control-M
9 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.24%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (13.35%) Oracle
2 28 (6.80%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.31%) Google
4 16 (3.88%) IBM
5 15 (3.64%) SAP
6 12 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.18%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.94%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.70%) Adobe
9 7 (1.70%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.46%) WSO2
11 5 (1.21%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.97%) New Relic
12 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.97%) TSYS
13 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.73%) Dell
13 3 (0.73%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.73%) Intel
13 3 (0.73%) Micro Focus