Spring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Pivotal Spring Framework
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 109 128
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 15 39 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.57% 1.37% 0.90%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.37% 7.88% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 23
10th Percentile £408 £451 £476
25th Percentile £463 £453 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +29.23%
75th Percentile £550 £534 £563
90th Percentile £613 £568 £678
South East median daily rate £463 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -11.90% -8.70% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.40
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year -50.00% +13.59% -5.92%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley 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 343 495 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.98% 17.42% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 356 436
10th Percentile £325 £363 £353
25th Percentile £425 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £588
90th Percentile £669 £691 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 8 4
10th Percentile £56.58 £52.90 £29.75
25th Percentile £56.65 £75.06 £33.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £78.75 £51.58
Median % change year-on-year -21.78% +52.67% +37.55%
75th Percentile - £80.25 £71.29
90th Percentile £61.80 £80.48 £76.75
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £64.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year -4.50% +64.51% -12.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 9 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
Berkshire -22 9 £475 -2.56% 1
Buckinghamshire +24 4 £575 +9.52% 1
Oxfordshire 0 2 £350 -41.67%
Spring
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (26.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon EKS
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) JUnit
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
5 1 (6.67%) Appium
5 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (6.67%) Mockito
5 1 (6.67%) Selenium
5 1 (6.67%) TestNG
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 12 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (60.00%) Kafka
3 8 (53.33%) REST
4 7 (46.67%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (33.33%) Web Services
6 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (26.67%) Node.js
6 4 (26.67%) Symfony
7 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
7 2 (13.33%) GWT
7 2 (13.33%) Mustache
7 2 (13.33%) React
7 2 (13.33%) RESTful
7 2 (13.33%) Restlet
7 2 (13.33%) SOAP
8 1 (6.67%) HTML
8 1 (6.67%) J2EE
8 1 (6.67%) SAML
8 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Microservices
1 11 (73.33%) TDD
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Event-Driven
3 4 (26.67%) SOLID
4 3 (20.00%) BDD
4 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
6 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) SDLC
6 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Kibana
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk