Spring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 194 125 91
Rank change year-on-year -69 -34 0
Contract jobs citing Spring 158 510 1,260
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 2.03% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.36% 8.05% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 380 926
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £487 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £584
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.78% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 25 20
10th Percentile £38.45 £54.25 £49.63
25th Percentile £43.63 £61.25 £54.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 £72.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.21% +18.37% +22.50%
75th Percentile £64.63 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.55 - £66.24
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,628 6,337 13,079
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.03% 25.22% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 4,711 9,657
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 116
10th Percentile £24.68 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spring trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Spring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Spring hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.90%) Apache
3 3 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.90%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.90%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.27%) JBoss
4 2 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.63%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.27%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.37%) AWS
2 21 (13.29%) GCP
3 19 (12.03%) Azure
4 13 (8.23%) OpenShift
5 11 (6.96%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (4.43%) Serverless
8 6 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.80%) GitHub
9 5 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (2.53%) Apigee
10 4 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.90%) Datadog
11 3 (1.90%) Kong
11 3 (1.90%) WhatsApp
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.27%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 2 (1.27%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.76%) MySQL
3 15 (9.49%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.43%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.53%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.90%) DB2
9 3 (1.90%) OLAP
9 3 (1.90%) OLTP
9 3 (1.90%) Oracle OLAP
9 3 (1.90%) Redis
10 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 2 (1.27%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.27%) KDB
10 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (19.62%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.03%) Git
3 18 (11.39%) Maven
4 13 (8.23%) JUnit
5 11 (6.96%) JIRA
5 11 (6.96%) Selenium
6 8 (5.06%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.43%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.80%) Cypress.io
9 5 (3.16%) GitLab
9 5 (3.16%) Gradle
9 5 (3.16%) JMeter
9 5 (3.16%) Mockito
10 4 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.53%) TestNG
11 3 (1.90%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.90%) HP UFT
11 3 (1.90%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.90%) Subversion
General
1 29 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.09%) Finance
3 24 (15.19%) Banking
4 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Front Office
6 6 (3.80%) Retail
7 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.27%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (69.62%) Developer
2 87 (55.06%) Java Developer
3 24 (15.19%) Senior
4 17 (10.76%) Senior Developer
5 16 (10.13%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.86%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) Lead
7 13 (8.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (6.96%) Full Stack Developer
8 11 (6.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 8 (5.06%) Architect
9 8 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.80%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.80%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.16%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Core Java Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (2.53%) Angular Developer
13 4 (2.53%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (76.58%) Spring Boot
2 67 (42.41%) REST
3 27 (17.09%) Kafka
3 27 (17.09%) Web Services
4 24 (15.19%) Hibernate
5 21 (13.29%) JPA
6 20 (12.66%) Spring Security
7 19 (12.03%) RESTful
8 18 (11.39%) Node.js
9 16 (10.13%) AngularJS
9 16 (10.13%) SOAP
10 15 (9.49%) React
11 14 (8.86%) JAX-RS
12 13 (8.23%) CSS
13 12 (7.59%) HTML
13 12 (7.59%) jQuery
13 12 (7.59%) JSON
13 12 (7.59%) SAML
14 11 (6.96%) GWT
14 11 (6.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.80%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.90%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (1.90%) DataPower
6 3 (1.90%) Derivative
6 3 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.63%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.86%) Linux
2 8 (5.06%) Unix
3 2 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.94%) Agile
2 61 (38.61%) Microservices
3 54 (34.18%) CI/CD
4 34 (21.52%) TDD
5 26 (16.46%) Software Engineering
6 25 (15.82%) DevOps
6 25 (15.82%) SDLC
7 23 (14.56%) Test Automation
8 18 (11.39%) Full Stack Development
9 16 (10.13%) Observability
10 15 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.86%) Front End Development
11 14 (8.86%) Unit Testing
12 13 (8.23%) Scrum
13 12 (7.59%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.59%) MVC
14 11 (6.96%) BDD
14 11 (6.96%) OO
15 10 (6.33%) Event-Driven
15 10 (6.33%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 155 (98.10%) Java
2 36 (22.78%) JavaScript
3 29 (18.35%) SQL
4 12 (7.59%) TypeScript
5 9 (5.70%) Python
6 6 (3.80%) C
6 6 (3.80%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.80%) Scala
7 4 (2.53%) PHP
7 4 (2.53%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.90%) Perl
9 2 (1.27%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.06%) Degree
4 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.27%) QA
2 2 (1.27%) SLA
3 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (27.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.59%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (6.96%) Grafana
4 7 (4.43%) Kibana
5 6 (3.80%) Ansible
6 5 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.16%) Terraform
7 3 (1.90%) Zipkin
8 2 (1.27%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.27%) Packer
9 1 (0.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (15.82%) Oracle
2 16 (10.13%) Google
3 10 (6.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.70%) IBM
5 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.16%) SAP
7 3 (1.90%) Adobe
7 3 (1.90%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.90%) TSYS
8 2 (1.27%) Dell
8 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.27%) Intel
8 2 (1.27%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.27%) New Relic
8 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.27%) Splunk
9 1 (0.63%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.63%) Ping Identity