Spring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 151 131
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 -32
Contract jobs citing Spring 243 413 623
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.73% 2.02%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.47% 9.44% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 297 451
10th Percentile £363 £438 £416
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.92% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 16
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £46.13
25th Percentile £41.47 £58.59 £51.88
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +16.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £56.25 - £76.13
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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 3,251 4,374 6,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.31% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 3,275 4,420
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 90 144
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.47 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.35 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +28.43% +9.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Scotland +12 89 £450 -6.10% 23
North of England +4 60 £525 -8.70% 26
North West +36 38 £525 +8.30% 14
South East -31 35 £463 -11.90% 27
South West -13 31 £556 +1.14% 16
Yorkshire +10 21 £550 -8.33% 10
East of England +10 13 £375 -46.43% 11
Midlands +15 10 £450 -25.00% 9
West Midlands +15 10 £450 -35.71% 7
Northern Ireland +2 4 - - 7
Wales +13 1 £450 -7.69% 3
North East -11 1 £550 -21.43% 4
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (7.00%) Confluence
2 8 (3.29%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.47%) Apache
3 6 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.65%) JBoss
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.82%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.82%) WildFly
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.41%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 111 (45.68%) AWS
2 28 (11.52%) Azure
3 20 (8.23%) Amazon S3
4 19 (7.82%) GCP
5 18 (7.41%) Serverless
6 16 (6.58%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (2.88%) GitHub
11 4 (1.65%) Apigee
11 4 (1.65%) Kong
12 3 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.82%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.82%) npm
13 2 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) 5G
1 3 (1.23%) HTTP
1 3 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.87%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (13.17%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.23%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.53%) Oracle Database
5 10 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.29%) Couchbase
7 6 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.06%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.65%) DB2
9 4 (1.65%) OLAP
9 4 (1.65%) OLTP
9 4 (1.65%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (1.23%) Big Data
10 3 (1.23%) CockroachDB
10 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.82%) MySQL
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 55 (22.63%) Jenkins
2 53 (21.81%) Git
3 47 (19.34%) JUnit
4 26 (10.70%) JIRA
5 15 (6.17%) Cucumber
5 15 (6.17%) Maven
6 11 (4.53%) Mockito
7 9 (3.70%) Postman
8 7 (2.88%) GitLab
9 6 (2.47%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.47%) IntelliJ
10 5 (2.06%) Subversion
11 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (1.23%) JMeter
13 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
13 2 (0.82%) Gradle
13 2 (0.82%) Selenium
13 2 (0.82%) TestNG
14 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
General
1 42 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.40%) Public Sector
3 34 (13.99%) Finance
4 15 (6.17%) Banking
4 15 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.41%) Legal
7 1 (0.41%) Retail
7 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 198 (81.48%) Developer
2 148 (60.91%) Java Developer
3 42 (17.28%) Full Stack Developer
4 29 (11.93%) Senior
5 26 (10.70%) Senior Developer
6 25 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 17 (7.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 16 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.17%) Java Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Full Stack Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (3.70%) Lead
12 7 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.88%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.88%) Lead Java Developer
13 5 (2.06%) Architect
13 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 5 (2.06%) Java Software Engineer
14 4 (1.65%) Angular Developer
14 4 (1.65%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (68.72%) Spring Boot
2 99 (40.74%) REST
3 66 (27.16%) React
4 54 (22.22%) Kafka
5 49 (20.16%) AngularJS
6 40 (16.46%) JPA
7 39 (16.05%) RESTful
8 31 (12.76%) CSS
8 31 (12.76%) Hibernate
9 29 (11.93%) HTML
10 24 (9.88%) Node.js
11 22 (9.05%) J2EE
12 20 (8.23%) Spring Security
12 20 (8.23%) Web Services
13 16 (6.58%) Apache Camel
13 16 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (6.17%) Spring MVC
15 13 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (4.94%) OAuth
17 10 (4.12%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.53%) Public Cloud
4 10 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.65%) DataPower
8 4 (1.65%) Insider Threat
9 2 (0.82%) Derivative
9 2 (0.82%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.41%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Unix
2 10 (4.12%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) AIX
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (59.67%) Agile
2 116 (47.74%) Microservices
3 71 (29.22%) CI/CD
4 64 (26.34%) TDD
5 61 (25.10%) DevOps
6 59 (24.28%) Full Stack Development
7 45 (18.52%) Software Engineering
8 39 (16.05%) Scrum
8 39 (16.05%) SDLC
9 34 (13.99%) Unit Testing
10 33 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (11.52%) OO
12 24 (9.88%) Front End Development
13 23 (9.47%) OOP
14 22 (9.05%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.82%) Mentoring
15 19 (7.82%) MVC
16 18 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
16 18 (7.41%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 240 (98.77%) Java
2 73 (30.04%) SQL
3 56 (23.05%) JavaScript
4 42 (17.28%) TypeScript
5 30 (12.35%) Python
6 19 (7.82%) C
7 9 (3.70%) Scala
8 8 (3.29%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.88%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.47%) PHP
11 5 (2.06%) Perl
12 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.82%) C#
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.52%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.76%) Degree
5 10 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.76%) QA
2 12 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) NCSC
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (25.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.53%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.12%) Grafana
3 10 (4.12%) Kibana
4 6 (2.47%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.47%) Zipkin
5 5 (2.06%) Ansible
5 5 (2.06%) Terraform
6 1 (0.41%) Anchore
6 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 31 (12.76%) Oracle
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.53%) Google
4 8 (3.29%) IBM
5 4 (1.65%) TSYS
6 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.82%) Greenplum
6 2 (0.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.41%) Adobe
7 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.41%) Solace
7 1 (0.41%) Sybase
7 1 (0.41%) VMware