STL Contracts in the UK excluding London

Standard Template Library (STL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for STL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited STL over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 449 505
Rank change year-on-year +53 +56 -81
Contract jobs citing STL 2 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.025% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.061% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £251
25th Percentile - £500 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile - £555 £768
90th Percentile - £582 £1,060
UK median daily rate - £788 £725
% change year-on-year - +8.62% +15.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

STL 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 3,297 4,453 6,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.37% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,167 3,339 4,459
10th Percentile £320 £356 £360
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.61%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 93 150
10th Percentile £21.25 £22.28 £20.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £64.65
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.95 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

STL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for STL in the UK excluding London

STL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for STL in the UK excluding London

STL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for STL in the UK excluding London

STL
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 STL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +36 2 - -
STL
UK

STL
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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Java EE
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) JSTL
1 2 (100.00%) Servlets
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) OpenJDK
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Case Management
1 2 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) VMware