Spring Contracts in London

Pivotal Spring Framework
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 96 82
Rank change year-on-year -77 -14 -21
Contract jobs citing Spring 252 742 1,250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.42% 2.74% 3.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.69% 9.99% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 591 951
10th Percentile £400 £463 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £713
90th Percentile £831 £850 £775
England median daily rate £545 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.80% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £51.25 £73.70
25th Percentile - £58.75 £74.54
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £78.59
Median % change year-on-year - -7.75% +15.27%
75th Percentile - £74.88 £85.00
90th Percentile - £75.55 -
England median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% -2.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,425 7,424 12,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.99% 27.42% 31.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 5,530 9,406
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £821 £813 £788
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 40 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.68 £29.75
25th Percentile £23.80 £37.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.84 £66.00 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.18% +35.86% -0.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £68.80 £76.63 £79.65
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in London

Spring
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London -36 34 £513 -24.07% 7
South London +8 20 £488 - 1
East London -12 5 £540 +1.12% 3
West London +21 4 £330 -
Spring
England

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 15 (5.95%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 7 (2.78%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.38%) JBoss
4 5 (1.98%) SAS
4 5 (1.98%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.19%) Camunda
6 3 (1.19%) nginx
6 3 (1.19%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.79%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) Apache
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.40%) CoreMedia CMS
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Shopify
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 107 (42.46%) AWS
2 32 (12.70%) Azure
3 21 (8.33%) Serverless
4 20 (7.94%) Amazon SQS
5 19 (7.54%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.14%) GCP
7 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.37%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (4.37%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
10 8 (3.17%) GitHub
11 6 (2.38%) SaaS
12 5 (1.98%) Apigee
12 5 (1.98%) BigCommerce
12 5 (1.98%) Datadog
13 4 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.59%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) SSH
2 1 (0.40%) FTP
2 1 (0.40%) HTTP
2 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 25 (9.92%) NoSQL
4 19 (7.54%) MySQL
5 14 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (5.16%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.17%) Redis
9 7 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.78%) KDB
9 7 (2.78%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.98%) DB2
10 5 (1.98%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.40%) Big Data
13 1 (0.40%) Power BI
13 1 (0.40%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 55 (21.83%) Git
1 55 (21.83%) Jenkins
2 39 (15.48%) JUnit
3 25 (9.92%) JIRA
4 16 (6.35%) Maven
4 16 (6.35%) Selenium
5 14 (5.56%) Mockito
6 13 (5.16%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.97%) Gradle
8 9 (3.57%) GitLab
9 8 (3.17%) Liquibase
9 8 (3.17%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.38%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.38%) TestNG
11 5 (1.98%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.59%) Gatling
12 4 (1.59%) HP UFT
12 4 (1.59%) Postman
12 4 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (25.79%) Finance
2 43 (17.06%) Banking
3 40 (15.87%) Social Skills
4 37 (14.68%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.94%) Front Office
7 13 (5.16%) Retail
8 11 (4.37%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Law
9 5 (1.98%) Marketing
10 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Back Office
11 2 (0.79%) Electronics
11 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.79%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
12 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 169 (67.06%) Developer
2 120 (47.62%) Java Developer
3 46 (18.25%) Senior
4 26 (10.32%) Lead
5 24 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 18 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 16 (6.35%) Java Engineer
7 16 (6.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (4.76%) Java Pricing Developer
8 12 (4.76%) Pricing Developer
8 12 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 11 (4.37%) Backend Developer
10 10 (3.97%) Architect
10 10 (3.97%) AWS Developer
10 10 (3.97%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.78%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 7 (2.78%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (68.25%) Spring Boot
2 87 (34.52%) REST
3 56 (22.22%) Hibernate
4 45 (17.86%) JPA
5 40 (15.87%) Web Services
6 36 (14.29%) Kafka
7 30 (11.90%) React
8 28 (11.11%) SOAP
9 26 (10.32%) RESTful
10 24 (9.52%) Node.js
11 22 (8.73%) AngularJS
12 20 (7.94%) CSS
13 19 (7.54%) J2EE
14 18 (7.14%) HTML
14 18 (7.14%) JSON
15 16 (6.35%) Spring Security
16 15 (5.95%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (5.95%) XML
17 10 (3.97%) JAX-RS
17 10 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.95%) Algorithms
2 14 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.16%) Management Information System
4 12 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.76%) Derivative
4 12 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 12 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 11 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.17%) Credit Derivative
6 8 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.59%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.79%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.51%) Linux
2 27 (10.71%) Unix
3 5 (1.98%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (43.25%) Microservices
2 107 (42.46%) Agile
3 82 (32.54%) CI/CD
4 63 (25.00%) TDD
5 51 (20.24%) Scrum
6 50 (19.84%) DevOps
7 37 (14.68%) Software Engineering
8 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (12.30%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (11.51%) BDD
10 29 (11.51%) Front End Development
11 27 (10.71%) Unit Testing
12 26 (10.32%) Full Stack Development
12 26 (10.32%) Mentoring
13 24 (9.52%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.13%) SDLC
15 21 (8.33%) High Availability
16 20 (7.94%) Migration
17 19 (7.54%) Computer Science
17 19 (7.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 247 (98.02%) Java
2 51 (20.24%) SQL
3 33 (13.10%) JavaScript
4 26 (10.32%) Python
5 14 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.16%) Shell Script
7 9 (3.57%) Perl
8 7 (2.78%) Scala
9 6 (2.38%) C++
9 6 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.98%) Swift
11 2 (0.79%) Bash
11 2 (0.79%) C
11 2 (0.79%) C#
12 1 (0.40%) Clojure
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
12 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 82 (32.54%) Security Cleared
2 76 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.14%) Degree
4 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.75%) QA
2 4 (1.59%) SLA
3 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.40%) GRC
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
4 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (28.57%) Docker
2 6 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 70 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.94%) Ansible
3 14 (5.56%) Terraform
4 13 (5.16%) Grafana
5 9 (3.57%) Kibana
6 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.19%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.19%) logstash
7 3 (1.19%) Packer
8 2 (0.79%) Istio
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 40 (15.87%) Oracle
2 17 (6.75%) Google
3 15 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.56%) SAP
5 12 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.97%) IBM
7 9 (3.57%) MuleSoft
8 8 (3.17%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (2.78%) ION Trading
10 6 (2.38%) Adobe
10 6 (2.38%) WSO2
11 5 (1.98%) Sitecore
12 4 (1.59%) New Relic
12 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.19%) Dell
13 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.19%) Intel
13 3 (1.19%) Micro Focus
14 2 (0.79%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.79%) Splunk