Spinnaker Contracts

Spinnaker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spinnaker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spinnaker over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 676 788
Rank change year-on-year +97 +112 -114
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 8 39 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.064% 0.080%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 31 54
10th Percentile £578 £525 £525
25th Percentile £581 £569 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +2.94%
75th Percentile £694 £775 £725
90th Percentile £713 - £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Spinnaker is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,099 9,308 16,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.66% 15.31% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,471 6,534 11,430
10th Percentile £356 £388 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 256 218
10th Percentile £31.71 £43.70 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +19.42% +14.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £63.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.63% +11.82% +22.22%

Spinnaker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spinnaker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spinnaker.

Daily rate trend for Spinnaker in the UK

Spinnaker
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spinnaker within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +99 8 £625 - 4
UK excluding London +52 6 £600 - 2
South West - 5 - -
London +81 2 £650 +4.00% 1
Work from Home +114 1 - - 1
South East +23 1 £600 -

Spinnaker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Blockchain Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) http4s
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
1 5 (62.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
1 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Istio
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) New Relic