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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 126 104
Rank change year-on-year -78 -22 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring 421 1,034 1,892
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 2.07% 2.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.65% 8.96% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 803 1,381
10th Percentile £375 £463 £438
25th Percentile £450 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £630 £725 £688
90th Percentile £733 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.92% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 25
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.50
25th Percentile £41.47 £59.92 £56.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +0.06%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £79.11
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +19.16%

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 7,457 11,542 19,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.23% 23.08% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 8,546 14,396
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 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 138 213
10th Percentile £22.50 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +31.31% +8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

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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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 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
London -74 257 £550 -15.38% 85
North of England +3 60 £525 -8.70% 23
North West +28 38 £525 +8.30% 13
South East -32 35 £463 -11.90% 22
South West -15 31 £556 +1.14% 17
Yorkshire +13 21 £550 -8.33% 7
East of England +3 13 £375 -46.43% 11
West Midlands +17 10 £450 -35.71% 7
Midlands +15 10 £450 -25.00% 10
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 (4.75%) Confluence
2 7 (1.66%) Anypoint
2 7 (1.66%) JBoss
2 7 (1.66%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 5 (1.19%) SAS
4 4 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.95%) Tomcat
4 4 (0.95%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.71%) Camunda
5 3 (0.71%) nginx
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Shopify
2 4 (0.95%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.24%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 165 (39.19%) AWS
2 55 (13.06%) Azure
3 36 (8.55%) GCP
4 25 (5.94%) Amazon S3
5 22 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
5 22 (5.23%) Serverless
6 15 (3.56%) GitHub
7 14 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.09%) OpenShift
9 11 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
11 9 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (2.14%) Apigee
12 8 (1.90%) Kong
13 6 (1.43%) Datadog
13 6 (1.43%) SaaS
14 5 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.19%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.19%) SSH
2 4 (0.95%) HTTP
3 3 (0.71%) SSL
4 1 (0.24%) FTP
4 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (17.10%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (12.83%) Relational Database
3 42 (9.98%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.94%) MySQL
5 22 (5.23%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.38%) Redis
9 10 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.14%) Couchbase
10 9 (2.14%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.66%) KDB
12 5 (1.19%) DB2
12 5 (1.19%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.95%) OLAP
13 4 (0.95%) OLTP
13 4 (0.95%) Oracle OLAP
13 4 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 85 (20.19%) Git
2 76 (18.05%) Jenkins
3 68 (16.15%) JUnit
4 35 (8.31%) JIRA
5 28 (6.65%) Maven
6 26 (6.18%) Mockito
7 22 (5.23%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.51%) Selenium
9 17 (4.04%) GitLab
10 13 (3.09%) Gradle
11 10 (2.38%) Bitbucket
12 9 (2.14%) Liquibase
13 8 (1.90%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.90%) TestNG
14 7 (1.66%) JMeter
15 5 (1.19%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.19%) Postman
15 5 (1.19%) SonarQube
15 5 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.95%) ScalaTest
General
1 88 (20.90%) Finance
2 63 (14.96%) Social Skills
3 61 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 52 (12.35%) Banking
5 22 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.75%) Front Office
7 16 (3.80%) Retail
8 12 (2.85%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.19%) Law
9 5 (1.19%) Marketing
10 3 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.48%) Back Office
11 2 (0.48%) Electronics
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 296 (70.31%) Developer
2 206 (48.93%) Java Developer
3 57 (13.54%) Senior
4 42 (9.98%) Full Stack Developer
5 36 (8.55%) Lead
6 35 (8.31%) Software Engineer
7 33 (7.84%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.65%) Java Engineer
9 25 (5.94%) Senior Java Developer
10 24 (5.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 16 (3.80%) Architect
12 15 (3.56%) Lead Developer
13 12 (2.85%) Backend Developer
13 12 (2.85%) Java Pricing Developer
13 12 (2.85%) Pricing Developer
13 12 (2.85%) Senior Java Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) AWS Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 11 (2.61%) Java Software Engineer
14 11 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (67.93%) Spring Boot
2 145 (34.44%) REST
3 82 (19.48%) React
4 80 (19.00%) Hibernate
5 72 (17.10%) JPA
6 60 (14.25%) Kafka
7 51 (12.11%) AngularJS
8 48 (11.40%) RESTful
9 46 (10.93%) Web Services
10 40 (9.50%) Node.js
11 32 (7.60%) SOAP
12 29 (6.89%) CSS
13 27 (6.41%) HTML
14 26 (6.18%) J2EE
15 25 (5.94%) Spring Security
16 23 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (5.23%) JAX-RS
17 22 (5.23%) JSON
18 21 (4.99%) Spring MVC
19 19 (4.51%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.75%) Algorithms
1 20 (4.75%) Data Structures
2 19 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.33%) Derivative
4 13 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (2.85%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 12 (2.85%) Public Cloud
5 12 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.90%) Credit Derivative
6 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.19%) Insider Threat
8 4 (0.95%) DataPower
8 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.95%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.71%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.79%) Linux
2 33 (7.84%) Unix
3 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.19%) 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
1 182 (43.23%) Agile
2 173 (41.09%) Microservices
3 119 (28.27%) CI/CD
4 109 (25.89%) TDD
5 90 (21.38%) DevOps
6 71 (16.86%) Software Engineering
7 70 (16.63%) Scrum
8 58 (13.78%) Full Stack Development
9 57 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (13.30%) Unit Testing
11 54 (12.83%) Front End Development
12 43 (10.21%) BDD
12 43 (10.21%) Mentoring
13 39 (9.26%) High Availability
13 39 (9.26%) Test Automation
14 38 (9.03%) SDLC
15 37 (8.79%) OO
16 32 (7.60%) Continuous Integration
17 31 (7.36%) OOP
18 29 (6.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 412 (97.86%) Java
2 80 (19.00%) SQL
3 71 (16.86%) JavaScript
4 43 (10.21%) Python
5 41 (9.74%) TypeScript
6 20 (4.75%) C
7 13 (3.09%) Shell Script
8 12 (2.85%) Perl
9 10 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.14%) Scala
11 6 (1.43%) C++
12 5 (1.19%) C#
12 5 (1.19%) PHP
12 5 (1.19%) Swift
13 3 (0.71%) Bash
13 3 (0.71%) Go
13 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.24%) Groovy
14 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 142 (33.73%) Security Cleared
2 120 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.26%) DV Cleared
4 31 (7.36%) Degree
5 26 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.43%) 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 32 (7.60%) QA
2 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.95%) SLA
3 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) GRC
4 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 107 (25.42%) Docker
2 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (24.70%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.99%) Ansible
3 20 (4.75%) Terraform
4 18 (4.28%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (4.04%) Grafana
6 13 (3.09%) Kibana
7 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.95%) Packer
9 3 (0.71%) Istio
9 3 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.71%) logstash
10 1 (0.24%) Anchore
10 1 (0.24%) Argo
10 1 (0.24%) Control-M
10 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.24%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (13.06%) Oracle
2 31 (7.36%) Google
3 26 (6.18%) Microsoft
4 16 (3.80%) IBM
5 14 (3.33%) SAP
6 13 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.14%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.90%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.66%) Adobe
9 7 (1.66%) ION Trading
10 6 (1.43%) WSO2
11 5 (1.19%) New Relic
11 5 (1.19%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.19%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.95%) TSYS
13 3 (0.71%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.71%) Dell
13 3 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.71%) Intel
13 3 (0.71%) Splunk