Spring Security Contracts

Spring Security (Acegi)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spring Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spring Security over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 557 657
Rank change year-on-year +69 +100 +121
Contract jobs citing Spring Security 31 43 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.099% 0.094%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.48% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 37 50
10th Percentile £323 £409 £436
25th Percentile £538 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +4.38% -4.20%
75th Percentile £813 £538 £525
90th Percentile £833 £568 £546
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £479
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.38% +6.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Spring Security 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Spring Security
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring Security in the UK

Spring Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spring Security in the UK

Spring Security
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring Security over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Spring Security in the UK

Spring Security
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Security within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +62 24 £800 +52.38% 2
UK excluding London +49 15 £600 +20.00% 3
London +31 13 £800 +52.38% 2
North of England +31 11 £780 +48.57%
Work from Home +35 9 £550 +14.70% 6
Yorkshire - 9 £780 -
Scotland +1 4 £380 -20.67% 3
North West +5 2 - -

Spring Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (54.84%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Slack
2 14 (45.16%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (12.90%) Apigee
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Azure
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (83.87%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (80.65%) MongoDB
2 25 (80.65%) MySQL
3 21 (67.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (9.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (70.97%) Git
2 19 (61.29%) JUnit
3 18 (58.06%) Cucumber
3 18 (58.06%) Jasmine
3 18 (58.06%) JIRA
4 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (9.68%) GitLab
6 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 11 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (74.19%) Developer
2 19 (61.29%) Java Developer
3 14 (45.16%) Lead
3 14 (45.16%) Senior
4 13 (41.94%) Senior Developer
5 11 (35.48%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (25.81%) Lead Developer
7 7 (22.58%) Java Engineer
8 6 (19.35%) Lead Java Developer
8 6 (19.35%) Lead Java Engineer
9 3 (9.68%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
10 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
11 1 (3.23%) Angular Developer
11 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (3.23%) Integration Developer
11 1 (3.23%) JIRA Developer
11 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (96.77%) Spring
2 29 (93.55%) Spring Boot
3 23 (74.19%) RESTful
4 21 (67.74%) Swagger
5 20 (64.52%) OpenAPI
5 20 (64.52%) Spring Batch
6 3 (9.68%) GWT
6 3 (9.68%) JWT
6 3 (9.68%) OAuth
6 3 (9.68%) REST
6 3 (9.68%) Servlets
7 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (3.23%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 21 (67.74%) Linux
1 21 (67.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) Containerisation
2 24 (77.42%) CI/CD
3 23 (74.19%) API Design
4 22 (70.97%) Microservices
5 21 (67.74%) BDD
5 21 (67.74%) TDD
6 20 (64.52%) OWASP
7 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
8 17 (54.84%) Continuous Delivery
8 17 (54.84%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (51.61%) Kernel Tuning
9 16 (51.61%) Software Engineering
10 12 (38.71%) Integration Testing
10 12 (38.71%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (35.48%) Cloud Security
12 9 (29.03%) High Availability
12 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
13 7 (22.58%) Coaching
13 7 (22.58%) Operational Stability
14 4 (12.90%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (87.10%) Java
2 22 (70.97%) SQL
3 21 (67.74%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) SC Cleared
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (87.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat