Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 124 93
Rank change year-on-year -56 -31 -18
Contract jobs citing Spring 568 1,251 2,434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 2.12% 2.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.34% 9.11% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 961 1,761
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £680
90th Percentile £706 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 34 34
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.38
25th Percentile £41.47 £59.26 £58.13
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.65% +19.13%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £75.73
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.70 £77.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +16.67% +6.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,956 13,731 24,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.64% 23.25% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 10,014 17,633
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -77 425 £540 -13.11% 185
London -73 261 £550 -15.38% 92
UK excluding London -24 243 £480 -8.57% 119
Work from Home -66 161 £506 -12.00% 97
Scotland +9 89 £450 -6.10% 21
North of England -1 60 £525 -8.70% 22
North West +35 38 £525 +8.30% 13
South East -32 35 £463 -11.90% 26
South West -13 31 £556 +1.14% 18
Yorkshire +11 21 £550 -8.33% 7
East of England +2 13 £375 -46.43% 11
Midlands +17 10 £450 -25.00% 10
West Midlands +12 10 £450 -35.71% 8
Northern Ireland +2 4 - - 8
Wales +14 1 £450 -7.69% 3
North East -11 1 £550 -21.43% 4

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (5.63%) Confluence
2 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.58%) JBoss
3 8 (1.41%) Anypoint
3 8 (1.41%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.23%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 6 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.88%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.53%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.53%) nginx
8 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.35%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Shopify
2 4 (0.70%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 247 (43.49%) AWS
2 69 (12.15%) Azure
3 48 (8.45%) GCP
4 41 (7.22%) Amazon S3
5 35 (6.16%) Serverless
6 29 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
6 29 (5.11%) OpenShift
7 26 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.99%) GitHub
10 11 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (1.76%) Amazon MSK
11 10 (1.76%) Apigee
12 9 (1.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (1.41%) Kong
14 7 (1.23%) SaaS
15 6 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.88%) SSH
2 4 (0.70%) HTTP
3 3 (0.53%) 5G
3 3 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (12.15%) Relational Database
3 48 (8.45%) NoSQL
4 31 (5.46%) MySQL
5 24 (4.23%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.35%) Oracle Database
7 17 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 12 (2.11%) Redis
11 10 (1.76%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.58%) Couchbase
12 9 (1.58%) DB2
12 9 (1.58%) KDB
13 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.70%) OLAP
14 4 (0.70%) OLTP
14 4 (0.70%) Oracle OLAP
14 4 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 115 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.07%) Git
3 88 (15.49%) JUnit
4 53 (9.33%) JIRA
5 46 (8.10%) Maven
6 35 (6.16%) Cucumber
7 26 (4.58%) Mockito
8 22 (3.87%) Selenium
9 21 (3.70%) GitLab
10 15 (2.64%) Gradle
11 14 (2.46%) Postman
12 13 (2.29%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.76%) TestNG
14 9 (1.58%) JMeter
14 9 (1.58%) Liquibase
14 9 (1.58%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 112 (19.72%) Finance
2 99 (17.43%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 67 (11.80%) Banking
5 28 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (3.70%) Front Office
7 17 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.82%) Retail
9 13 (2.29%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.23%) Law
11 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.35%) Back Office
13 2 (0.35%) Electronics
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.18%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 412 (72.54%) Developer
2 297 (52.29%) Java Developer
3 83 (14.61%) Senior
4 63 (11.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 55 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 46 (8.10%) Senior Java Developer
7 44 (7.75%) Java Engineer
8 43 (7.57%) Software Engineer
9 42 (7.39%) Lead
10 30 (5.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 22 (3.87%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 18 (3.17%) Lead Developer
13 17 (2.99%) Architect
14 16 (2.82%) Backend Developer
14 16 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (2.29%) AWS Developer
15 13 (2.29%) Lead Java Developer
15 13 (2.29%) Senior Java Engineer
16 12 (2.11%) Senior Software Engineer
16 12 (2.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (69.01%) Spring Boot
2 218 (38.38%) REST
3 109 (19.19%) React
4 94 (16.55%) Hibernate
5 91 (16.02%) Kafka
6 90 (15.85%) JPA
7 76 (13.38%) AngularJS
8 66 (11.62%) RESTful
9 62 (10.92%) Web Services
10 58 (10.21%) CSS
11 53 (9.33%) Node.js
12 51 (8.98%) HTML
13 43 (7.57%) Spring Security
14 40 (7.04%) SOAP
15 38 (6.69%) J2EE
16 30 (5.28%) JAX-RS
17 29 (5.11%) Spring MVC
18 28 (4.93%) JSON
18 28 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
19 25 (4.40%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.11%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.40%) Algorithms
3 25 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 15 (2.64%) Derivative
5 14 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.29%) Fixed Income
6 13 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
9 8 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.23%) Insider Threat
11 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.92%) Linux
2 43 (7.57%) Unix
3 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) AIX
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (46.48%) Agile
2 243 (42.78%) Microservices
3 174 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 137 (24.12%) TDD
5 110 (19.37%) DevOps
6 94 (16.55%) Software Engineering
7 92 (16.20%) Full Stack Development
8 83 (14.61%) Scrum
9 73 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
10 66 (11.62%) SDLC
10 66 (11.62%) Unit Testing
11 61 (10.74%) Test Automation
12 60 (10.56%) Front End Development
13 51 (8.98%) Continuous Integration
14 49 (8.63%) Mentoring
15 46 (8.10%) BDD
16 44 (7.75%) OO
17 40 (7.04%) MVC
18 39 (6.87%) High Availability
18 39 (6.87%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 557 (98.06%) Java
2 146 (25.70%) SQL
3 96 (16.90%) JavaScript
4 61 (10.74%) TypeScript
5 60 (10.56%) Python
6 26 (4.58%) C
7 17 (2.99%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 16 (2.82%) Scala
9 15 (2.64%) Perl
10 9 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.06%) C++
11 6 (1.06%) PHP
12 5 (0.88%) C#
12 5 (0.88%) Swift
13 3 (0.53%) Bash
13 3 (0.53%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Clojure
14 1 (0.18%) Groovy
14 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 163 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 136 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 38 (6.69%) Degree
5 29 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.81%) QA
2 14 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.70%) SLA
5 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) MiFID
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 146 (25.70%) Docker
2 7 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 116 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.93%) Grafana
3 23 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (3.87%) Ansible
4 22 (3.87%) Kibana
5 21 (3.70%) Terraform
6 11 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.06%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.70%) Packer
9 3 (0.53%) Istio
9 3 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.53%) logstash
10 1 (0.18%) Anchore
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.18%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (14.61%) Oracle
2 39 (6.87%) Google
3 31 (5.46%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.52%) IBM
5 18 (3.17%) SAP
6 17 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.58%) ION Trading
8 9 (1.58%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 7 (1.23%) WSO2
10 5 (0.88%) New Relic
10 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.70%) TSYS
12 3 (0.53%) Dell
12 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.53%) Intel
12 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus
12 3 (0.53%) Splunk