Spring Contracts in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 48 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring 89 141 127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.03% 4.94% 3.61%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.18% 20.41% 17.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 107 87
10th Percentile £373 £418 £413
25th Percentile £409 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £479 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +5.27% +7.06%
75th Percentile £500 £543 £538
90th Percentile £544 £630 £581
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.00
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.55% +17.50%
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 464 691 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.02% 24.21% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 527 488
10th Percentile £325 £406 £360
25th Percentile £410 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +15 54 £430 -23.56% 9
Edinburgh -4 17 £465 -2.87% 5
West Lothian +10 13 £523 +6.63%
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 12 (13.48%) Confluence
2 5 (5.62%) Apache
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.25%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (2.25%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.25%) JBoss
3 2 (2.25%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.25%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 55 (61.80%) AWS
2 14 (15.73%) OpenShift
3 11 (12.36%) Amazon S3
4 10 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.11%) Serverless
6 8 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (8.99%) Azure
7 5 (5.62%) GCP
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.25%) npm
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (11.24%) Oracle Database
3 8 (8.99%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.62%) DB2
4 5 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.25%) Big Data
6 2 (2.25%) GIS
6 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.22%) Git
3 16 (17.98%) JIRA
4 14 (15.73%) JUnit
5 10 (11.24%) Cucumber
6 9 (10.11%) Postman
7 7 (7.87%) Maven
8 6 (6.74%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.62%) IntelliJ
10 4 (4.49%) Subversion
11 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.25%) GitLab
General
1 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Finance
3 12 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.74%) Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (82.02%) Developer
2 56 (62.92%) Java Developer
3 21 (23.60%) Senior
4 18 (20.22%) Senior Developer
5 17 (19.10%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (14.61%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 8 (8.99%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Backend Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) UI Developer
11 2 (2.25%) Designer
11 2 (2.25%) HTML Developer
11 2 (2.25%) Lead
11 2 (2.25%) Senior Designer
11 2 (2.25%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (71.91%) Spring Boot
2 46 (51.69%) REST
3 28 (31.46%) Kafka
4 24 (26.97%) CSS
5 22 (24.72%) React
6 21 (23.60%) HTML
7 18 (20.22%) AngularJS
8 15 (16.85%) RESTful
9 13 (14.61%) JPA
10 12 (13.48%) Spring Security
11 11 (12.36%) J2EE
12 10 (11.24%) Apache Camel
12 10 (11.24%) AWS CDK
13 9 (10.11%) OAuth
13 9 (10.11%) OAuth2
14 8 (8.99%) Spring MVC
14 8 (8.99%) Spring Web Flow
15 7 (7.87%) Thymeleaf
16 5 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
16 5 (5.62%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Public Cloud
2 9 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.87%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.74%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Unix
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (75.28%) Agile
2 49 (55.06%) Microservices
3 38 (42.70%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.09%) Full Stack Development
5 24 (26.97%) TDD
6 23 (25.84%) SDLC
7 19 (21.35%) DevOps
8 17 (19.10%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (17.98%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (16.85%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.73%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (15.73%) Machine Learning
12 13 (14.61%) Test Automation
13 12 (13.48%) MVC
13 12 (13.48%) Operational Stability
14 11 (12.36%) Decision-Making
14 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.36%) Scrum
15 10 (11.24%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 87 (97.75%) Java
2 47 (52.81%) SQL
3 20 (22.47%) TypeScript
4 17 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.24%) Python
6 7 (7.87%) Scala
7 6 (6.74%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.62%) Kotlin
9 3 (3.37%) Perl
9 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.49%) Degree
2 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (29.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Grafana
2 7 (7.87%) Kibana
2 7 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.62%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 19 (21.35%) Oracle
2 3 (3.37%) IBM
3 2 (2.25%) Greenplum
3 2 (2.25%) Sybase
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.12%) Solace
4 1 (1.12%) VMware