Spring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 152 127
Rank change year-on-year -18 -25 -31
Contract jobs citing Spring 246 405 623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.72% 2.03%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.57% 9.43% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 291 449
10th Percentile £363 £438 £416
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% - +14.13%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £584
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.78% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 27 16
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £46.13
25th Percentile £42.94 £58.59 £51.88
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +13.59% +9.07%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £56.25 - £76.13
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +18 90 £450 -6.05% 23
North of England +6 64 £538 -6.52% 24
North West +36 41 £525 +8.30% 17
South East -46 33 £463 -11.90% 22
South West -14 31 £550 - 15
Yorkshire +18 22 £550 -8.33% 6
East of England -2 13 £375 -46.43% 9
West Midlands +18 10 £450 -35.71% 7
Midlands +17 10 £450 -25.00% 9
Northern Ireland +2 4 - - 7
Wales +17 1 £450 -7.69% 3
North East -10 1 £550 -21.43% 3
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (6.91%) Confluence
2 10 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.44%) Apache
4 4 (1.63%) JBoss
4 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.81%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.81%) WildFly
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.41%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 113 (45.93%) AWS
2 32 (13.01%) Azure
3 25 (10.16%) GCP
4 17 (6.91%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 12 (4.88%) Serverless
6 10 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (2.85%) GitHub
9 5 (2.03%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.63%) Apigee
10 4 (1.63%) Kong
11 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.81%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.81%) npm
12 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) 5G
1 3 (1.22%) HTTP
1 3 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (13.01%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.47%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.25%) Couchbase
7 6 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.63%) DB2
9 4 (1.63%) OLAP
9 4 (1.63%) OLTP
9 4 (1.63%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (1.22%) Big Data
10 3 (1.22%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.81%) GIS
11 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 51 (20.73%) Git
2 49 (19.92%) Jenkins
3 45 (18.29%) JUnit
4 28 (11.38%) JIRA
5 16 (6.50%) Maven
6 15 (6.10%) Cucumber
7 12 (4.88%) Mockito
8 9 (3.66%) Postman
9 7 (2.85%) GitLab
10 6 (2.44%) IntelliJ
11 5 (2.03%) Subversion
12 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (1.22%) JMeter
14 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.81%) Gradle
14 2 (0.81%) Selenium
14 2 (0.81%) TestNG
15 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (17.48%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.23%) Finance
3 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.32%) Banking
5 15 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 2 (0.81%) Law
8 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.41%) Legal
8 1 (0.41%) Retail
8 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (80.49%) Developer
2 153 (62.20%) Java Developer
3 35 (14.23%) Full Stack Developer
4 29 (11.79%) Senior
5 26 (10.57%) Senior Developer
6 25 (10.16%) Senior Java Developer
7 19 (7.72%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.10%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 15 (6.10%) Java Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Full Stack Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 9 (3.66%) Lead
11 7 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.85%) Lead Developer
11 7 (2.85%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (2.03%) Architect
12 5 (2.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 5 (2.03%) Java Software Engineer
13 4 (1.63%) Angular Developer
13 4 (1.63%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (68.70%) Spring Boot
2 94 (38.21%) REST
3 65 (26.42%) React
4 59 (23.98%) Kafka
5 46 (18.70%) AngularJS
6 40 (16.26%) JPA
7 39 (15.85%) RESTful
8 31 (12.60%) Hibernate
9 28 (11.38%) CSS
10 25 (10.16%) HTML
10 25 (10.16%) Node.js
11 20 (8.13%) J2EE
12 19 (7.72%) Web Services
13 16 (6.50%) Apache Camel
13 16 (6.50%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (6.50%) Spring Security
14 13 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
15 11 (4.47%) Spring MVC
16 10 (4.07%) GWT
17 9 (3.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.72%) Data Structures
2 18 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.47%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
5 9 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.25%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.63%) DataPower
9 4 (1.63%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.81%) Derivative
10 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.41%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.69%) Unix
2 10 (4.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) AIX
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (58.13%) Agile
2 118 (47.97%) Microservices
3 71 (28.86%) CI/CD
4 61 (24.80%) TDD
5 54 (21.95%) DevOps
6 52 (21.14%) Full Stack Development
7 49 (19.92%) Software Engineering
8 40 (16.26%) Scrum
9 39 (15.85%) SDLC
10 33 (13.41%) Unit Testing
11 32 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (10.98%) OO
13 24 (9.76%) Front End Development
13 24 (9.76%) Test Automation
14 22 (8.94%) OOP
15 21 (8.54%) End-to-End Testing
16 19 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (7.72%) Mentoring
17 18 (7.32%) High Availability
18 16 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 243 (98.78%) Java
2 70 (28.46%) SQL
3 51 (20.73%) JavaScript
4 41 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.16%) Python
6 18 (7.32%) C
7 11 (4.47%) Scala
8 10 (4.07%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.85%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.44%) PHP
11 5 (2.03%) Perl
12 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.41%) C#
13 1 (0.41%) C++
13 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 56 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.10%) Degree
5 11 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.28%) QA
2 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) NCSC
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (24.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.07%) Grafana
3 10 (4.07%) Kibana
4 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.25%) Zipkin
5 5 (2.03%) Terraform
6 3 (1.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.41%) Anchore
7 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (12.60%) Oracle
2 14 (5.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.88%) Google
4 8 (3.25%) IBM
5 4 (1.63%) Splunk
5 4 (1.63%) TSYS
6 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.81%) Greenplum
6 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.41%) Solace
7 1 (0.41%) Sybase
7 1 (0.41%) VMware