Standard Template Library (STL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for STL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited STL over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 663 750
Rank change year-on-year +79 +87 -115
Contract jobs citing STL 2 59 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.098% 0.091%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.022% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 38 64
10th Percentile - £500 £613
25th Percentile - £735 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £788 £725
Median % change year-on-year - +8.62% +15.45%
75th Percentile - £825 £763
90th Percentile - - £825
UK excluding London median daily rate - £520 £475
% change year-on-year - +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

STL 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 8,955 14,016 24,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 23.35% 27.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,226 10,231 17,684
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 156 243
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.38 £21.20
25th Percentile £39.92 £45.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +29.08% +8.89%

STL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for STL in the UK

STL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for STL in the UK

STL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for STL in the UK

STL
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing STL within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +66 2 - - 16
Scotland +26 2 - -
Work from Home +104 1 - - 13

STL
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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) JSTL
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) OpenJDK
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware