Spring Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 113 97
Rank change year-on-year -92 -16 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring 156 565 1,226
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 2.17% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.25% 8.61% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 426 897
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £486 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £663
90th Percentile £708 £750 £727
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 23 18
10th Percentile - £55.72 £48.88
25th Percentile - £61.63 £53.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% +20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £67.63
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,670 6,563 13,189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.86% 25.23% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,552 4,891 9,760
10th Percentile £333 £394 £390
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £775 £756 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 81 121
10th Percentile £24.90 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £38.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spring trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Spring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spring.

Spring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.13%) Confluence
2 4 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.92%) Apache
3 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.92%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.92%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.28%) JBoss
4 2 (1.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.64%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.64%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.64%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.28%) Shopify
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (50.00%) AWS
2 17 (10.90%) OpenShift
3 16 (10.26%) Azure
4 15 (9.62%) Amazon S3
4 15 (9.62%) GCP
5 11 (7.05%) Serverless
6 10 (6.41%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.21%) GitHub
11 4 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.56%) Apigee
12 3 (1.92%) Kong
12 3 (1.92%) WhatsApp
13 2 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.28%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (1.28%) BigCommerce
13 2 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.54%) MySQL
3 13 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.49%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (3.21%) Redis
9 4 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.92%) DB2
10 3 (1.92%) OLAP
10 3 (1.92%) OLTP
10 3 (1.92%) Oracle OLAP
11 2 (1.28%) Big Data
11 2 (1.28%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.28%) KDB
11 2 (1.28%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.18%) Git
3 15 (9.62%) Maven
4 14 (8.97%) JUnit
5 11 (7.05%) JIRA
5 11 (7.05%) Selenium
6 10 (6.41%) Cucumber
6 10 (6.41%) Cypress.io
7 7 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.21%) GitLab
8 5 (3.21%) Gradle
8 5 (3.21%) JMeter
9 4 (2.56%) Mockito
9 4 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.56%) TestNG
10 3 (1.92%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.92%) HP UFT
10 3 (1.92%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 29 (18.59%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.95%) Finance
3 27 (17.31%) Banking
4 19 (12.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.85%) Front Office
6 6 (3.85%) Retail
7 5 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.92%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (69.23%) Developer
2 82 (52.56%) Java Developer
3 22 (14.10%) Senior
4 16 (10.26%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.62%) Full Stack Developer
5 15 (9.62%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.33%) Lead
8 12 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (5.13%) Architect
10 8 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Technical Leader
12 6 (3.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
12 6 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.21%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.21%) Core Java Developer
14 4 (2.56%) Angular Developer
14 4 (2.56%) AWS Architect
14 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (76.92%) Spring Boot
2 67 (42.95%) REST
3 28 (17.95%) Kafka
3 28 (17.95%) Web Services
4 24 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 23 (14.74%) Spring Security
6 21 (13.46%) JPA
7 18 (11.54%) React
7 18 (11.54%) RESTful
8 17 (10.90%) CSS
8 17 (10.90%) SOAP
9 16 (10.26%) AngularJS
9 16 (10.26%) HTML
9 16 (10.26%) Node.js
10 12 (7.69%) jQuery
10 12 (7.69%) JSON
11 11 (7.05%) JAX-RS
11 11 (7.05%) RabbitMQ
11 11 (7.05%) Spring MVC
12 9 (5.77%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.92%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.92%) DataPower
4 3 (1.92%) Derivative
4 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.28%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.64%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (4.49%) Unix
3 2 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.87%) Agile
2 65 (41.67%) Microservices
3 53 (33.97%) CI/CD
4 30 (19.23%) TDD
5 29 (18.59%) DevOps
6 24 (15.38%) SDLC
6 24 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 22 (14.10%) Full Stack Development
7 22 (14.10%) Test Automation
8 18 (11.54%) Observability
9 16 (10.26%) MVC
9 16 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.62%) Unit Testing
11 14 (8.97%) Data Modelling
11 14 (8.97%) Front End Development
12 12 (7.69%) Event-Driven
13 11 (7.05%) BDD
13 11 (7.05%) Scrum
14 10 (6.41%) Analytics
14 10 (6.41%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 153 (98.08%) Java
2 38 (24.36%) JavaScript
3 32 (20.51%) SQL
4 14 (8.97%) Python
4 14 (8.97%) TypeScript
5 6 (3.85%) C
6 5 (3.21%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.21%) Scala
7 4 (2.56%) PHP
7 4 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.28%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) C#
9 1 (0.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 38 (24.36%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.49%) Degree
4 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.56%) QA
3 3 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.28%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (28.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (16.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.33%) Grafana
3 9 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.85%) Ansible
4 6 (3.85%) Kibana
5 4 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.56%) Terraform
6 2 (1.28%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.28%) Packer
6 2 (1.28%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.64%) Argo
7 1 (0.64%) Istio
7 1 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.64%) logstash
7 1 (0.64%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (16.03%) Oracle
2 13 (8.33%) Google
3 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.77%) IBM
5 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.21%) SAP
6 3 (1.92%) Adobe
6 3 (1.92%) Micro Focus
6 3 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.92%) TSYS
7 2 (1.28%) Dell
7 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.28%) Intel
7 2 (1.28%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.28%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.28%) Splunk
8 1 (0.64%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.64%) New Relic
8 1 (0.64%) WSO2