Spring Contracts in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Spring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 118 89 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.26% 4.01% 4.89%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 30.57% 19.06% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 106
10th Percentile £290 £377 £418
25th Percentile £382 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% +5.33%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £544
90th Percentile £575 £544 £631
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.95% -12.50% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £82.50 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +79.82% -36.72% +11.54%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

Spring falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 386 467 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.75% 21.06% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 302 527
10th Percentile £348 £328 £406
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £549
90th Percentile £600 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £33.58 £49.99
25th Percentile - £44.94 £53.38
Median hourly rate - £53.75 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year - -8.94% +24.93%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.52
90th Percentile - - £67.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +16 99 £450 +4.65% 36
Edinburgh +5 17 £440 -5.43% 6
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 2 (1.69%) Camunda
1 2 (1.69%) Confluence
1 2 (1.69%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.98%) AWS
2 8 (6.78%) Azure
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.93%) Serverless
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.39%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.54%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (2.54%) GitHub
6 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.69%) Apigee
7 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.69%) GCP
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.85%) FTP
1 1 (0.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (30.51%) MongoDB
1 36 (30.51%) Relational Database
2 33 (27.97%) DB2
3 12 (10.17%) RDBMS
4 8 (6.78%) MySQL
5 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.39%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.54%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.69%) GIS
9 1 (0.85%) Metadata
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (35.59%) JUnit
2 6 (5.08%) Git
3 4 (3.39%) JIRA
3 4 (3.39%) Mockito
4 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.54%) GitLab
5 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.69%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.69%) Subversion
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Toad
General
1 51 (43.22%) Finance
2 30 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
4 25 (21.19%) Banking
5 21 (17.80%) Front Office
6 15 (12.71%) Investment Banking
7 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
8 9 (7.63%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 98 (83.05%) Developer
2 86 (72.88%) Java Developer
3 15 (12.71%) SQL Developer
4 11 (9.32%) Lead
5 8 (6.78%) Lead Developer
5 8 (6.78%) Linux Developer
6 7 (5.93%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 7 (5.93%) Sybase Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.08%) Java Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.24%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Junior
9 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 3 (2.54%) Architect
10 3 (2.54%) React Developer
10 3 (2.54%) Software Developer
10 3 (2.54%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (56.78%) Spring Boot
2 35 (29.66%) Kafka
3 25 (21.19%) JMS
4 15 (12.71%) React
5 11 (9.32%) REST
6 9 (7.63%) RESTful
7 5 (4.24%) CSS
7 5 (4.24%) Hibernate
7 5 (4.24%) Node.js
8 4 (3.39%) AWS CDK
8 4 (3.39%) SOAP
9 3 (2.54%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.54%) Middleware
9 3 (2.54%) Spring Batch
9 3 (2.54%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (2.54%) Spring Security
9 3 (2.54%) Web Services
10 2 (1.69%) GraphQL
10 2 (1.69%) PostGIS
10 2 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.58%) Data Structures
2 21 (17.80%) Equities
3 9 (7.63%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.78%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.08%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (4.24%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.54%) Derivative
8 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (43.22%) Linux
2 9 (7.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (50.85%) Agile
2 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (27.97%) CI/CD
4 31 (26.27%) Multithreading
4 31 (26.27%) Software Engineering
5 30 (25.42%) Microservices
5 30 (25.42%) SDLC
6 24 (20.34%) Open Source
7 19 (16.10%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (15.25%) Database Tuning
8 18 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.41%) Process Improvement
10 15 (12.71%) Project Delivery
11 14 (11.86%) DevOps
12 13 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.02%) TDD
13 12 (10.17%) Test Automation
14 11 (9.32%) Code Quality
15 9 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (7.63%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 115 (97.46%) Java
2 51 (43.22%) SQL
3 38 (32.20%) Python
4 28 (23.73%) Shell Script
5 17 (14.41%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) C#
7 1 (0.85%) Perl
7 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Degree
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (18.64%) Terraform
2 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.24%) Grafana
4 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (27.12%) Sybase
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle
3 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.54%) Google
3 3 (2.54%) IBM
3 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.54%) Splunk
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) Okta
5 1 (0.85%) Talend