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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Spring 112 86 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.80% 4.05% 4.38%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 29.02% 19.72% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 89
10th Percentile £278 £374 £417
25th Percentile £359 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £479
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.14% -1.24%
75th Percentile £530 £500 £545
90th Percentile £568 £538 £628
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% -12.50% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -36.72% +10.62%

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 386 436 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.42% 20.56% 23.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 288 457
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -0.51%
75th Percentile £530 £546 £545
90th Percentile £599 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £36.10 £23.53
25th Percentile - £51.25 £39.09
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.38
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £61.77
90th Percentile - - £66.71
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

Spring
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 30 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 30 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 +8 92 £450 +3.45% 29
Edinburgh +9 18 £450 -1.96% 14
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 (1.79%) Camunda
1 2 (1.79%) Confluence
1 2 (1.79%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.89%) Apache
2 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.04%) AWS
2 10 (8.93%) Azure
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 7 (6.25%) Serverless
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.46%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (4.46%) GCP
6 3 (2.68%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.68%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.68%) GitHub
6 3 (2.68%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.79%) Apigee
7 2 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.89%) IaaS
8 1 (0.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) FTP
1 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (38.39%) MongoDB
2 37 (33.04%) Relational Database
3 36 (32.14%) DB2
4 11 (9.82%) RDBMS
5 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (3.57%) MySQL
9 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.79%) GIS
10 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.89%) Metadata
11 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (42.86%) JUnit
2 9 (8.04%) Git
3 7 (6.25%) Mockito
4 5 (4.46%) GitLab
4 5 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.68%) Maven
6 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.79%) Gradle
6 2 (1.79%) JIRA
6 2 (1.79%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.79%) Subversion
7 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.89%) Selenium
7 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.89%) Toad
General
1 48 (42.86%) Finance
2 32 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (27.68%) Social Skills
4 25 (22.32%) Banking
5 23 (20.54%) Front Office
6 14 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.36%) Financial Institution
8 6 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 95 (84.82%) Developer
2 88 (78.57%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.07%) SQL Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
4 9 (8.04%) Linux Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Sybase Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (5.36%) Lead Developer
6 6 (5.36%) Senior
6 6 (5.36%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Junior
8 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.68%) Architect
9 3 (2.68%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (2.68%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 37 (33.04%) Kafka
3 27 (24.11%) JMS
4 20 (17.86%) React
5 13 (11.61%) RESTful
6 11 (9.82%) REST
7 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.25%) CSS
8 7 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 6 (5.36%) Node.js
10 4 (3.57%) AWS CDK
11 3 (2.68%) JPA
11 3 (2.68%) Spring Batch
11 3 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (2.68%) Spring Security
11 3 (2.68%) Web Services
12 2 (1.79%) HTML
12 2 (1.79%) J2EE
12 2 (1.79%) JDBC
12 2 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.68%) Data Structures
2 24 (21.43%) Equities
3 9 (8.04%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (5.36%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 4 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 46 (41.07%) Linux
2 6 (5.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (59.82%) Agile
2 41 (36.61%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 34 (30.36%) SDLC
5 31 (27.68%) Multithreading
6 29 (25.89%) Microservices
6 29 (25.89%) Software Engineering
7 26 (23.21%) Open Source
8 21 (18.75%) Database Tuning
8 21 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (15.18%) DevOps
11 13 (11.61%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.71%) Process Improvement
13 11 (9.82%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (9.82%) Project Delivery
14 10 (8.93%) Unit Testing
15 8 (7.14%) Data Protection
15 8 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 109 (97.32%) Java
2 56 (50.00%) SQL
3 40 (35.71%) Python
4 27 (24.11%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) Perl
7 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.79%) Degree
2 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) Terraform
2 10 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.14%) Grafana
4 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (31.25%) Sybase
2 8 (7.14%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.46%) Splunk
4 3 (2.68%) Google
4 3 (2.68%) IBM
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.89%) Okta
6 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.89%) Talend