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 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 192 120 93
Rank change year-on-year -72 -27 -2
Contract jobs citing Spring 161 526 1,268
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 2.06% 2.84%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.45% 8.14% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 393 932
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £488 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £554
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +3.84% +10.75%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £663
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £600 £580
% change year-on-year -12.92% +3.45% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 25 19
10th Percentile - £54.25 £49.25
25th Percentile - £61.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - £66.93
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
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 3,622 6,458 13,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.90% 25.29% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,803 9,764
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.55% +13.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

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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 5 May 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 (4.97%) Confluence
2 4 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.48%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
3 3 (1.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.86%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.86%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.24%) JBoss
4 2 (1.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.62%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.62%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.24%) Shopify
3 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.69%) AWS
2 19 (11.80%) GCP
3 18 (11.18%) Azure
4 17 (10.56%) OpenShift
5 15 (9.32%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.83%) Serverless
7 10 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
8 9 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.73%) GitHub
11 4 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (2.48%) Apigee
12 3 (1.86%) Datadog
12 3 (1.86%) Kong
12 3 (1.86%) WhatsApp
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 2 (1.24%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (11.80%) MySQL
3 15 (9.32%) Relational Database
4 12 (7.45%) NoSQL
5 11 (6.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.35%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (3.11%) Redis
9 4 (2.48%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.86%) DB2
10 3 (1.86%) OLAP
10 3 (1.86%) OLTP
10 3 (1.86%) Oracle OLAP
11 2 (1.24%) Big Data
11 2 (1.24%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.24%) KDB
11 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.80%) Git
3 17 (10.56%) Maven
4 15 (9.32%) JUnit
5 11 (6.83%) JIRA
5 11 (6.83%) Selenium
6 10 (6.21%) Cucumber
6 10 (6.21%) Cypress.io
7 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.11%) GitLab
8 5 (3.11%) Gradle
8 5 (3.11%) JMeter
8 5 (3.11%) Mockito
9 4 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.48%) TestNG
10 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.86%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.86%) Postman
10 3 (1.86%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.77%) Finance
3 26 (16.15%) Banking
4 19 (11.80%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.73%) Front Office
6 6 (3.73%) Retail
7 5 (3.11%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.86%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (70.81%) Developer
2 87 (54.04%) Java Developer
3 24 (14.91%) Senior
4 17 (10.56%) Senior Developer
5 16 (9.94%) Java Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (8.07%) Lead
7 13 (8.07%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (8.07%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 8 (4.97%) Architect
9 8 (4.97%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.11%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Core Java Developer
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (2.48%) Angular Developer
13 4 (2.48%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (77.64%) Spring Boot
2 72 (44.72%) REST
3 29 (18.01%) Kafka
4 27 (16.77%) Web Services
5 24 (14.91%) Hibernate
5 24 (14.91%) Spring Security
6 21 (13.04%) JPA
7 19 (11.80%) RESTful
8 18 (11.18%) React
9 17 (10.56%) CSS
9 17 (10.56%) Node.js
10 16 (9.94%) AngularJS
10 16 (9.94%) HTML
10 16 (9.94%) SOAP
11 13 (8.07%) JAX-RS
12 12 (7.45%) jQuery
12 12 (7.45%) JSON
13 11 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (6.83%) SAML
13 11 (6.83%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.97%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.86%) Credit Derivative
6 3 (1.86%) DataPower
6 3 (1.86%) Derivative
6 3 (1.86%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.24%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.24%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.62%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.70%) Linux
2 8 (4.97%) Unix
3 2 (1.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (45.34%) Agile
2 66 (40.99%) Microservices
3 57 (35.40%) CI/CD
4 35 (21.74%) TDD
5 29 (18.01%) DevOps
6 25 (15.53%) SDLC
6 25 (15.53%) Test Automation
7 24 (14.91%) Software Engineering
8 22 (13.66%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (11.18%) Observability
10 17 (10.56%) Unit Testing
11 16 (9.94%) MVC
12 15 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (8.70%) Data Modelling
13 14 (8.70%) Front End Development
14 12 (7.45%) Event-Driven
14 12 (7.45%) Scrum
15 11 (6.83%) BDD
15 11 (6.83%) OO
16 10 (6.21%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 158 (98.14%) Java
2 39 (24.22%) JavaScript
3 32 (19.88%) SQL
4 15 (9.32%) TypeScript
5 13 (8.07%) Python
6 6 (3.73%) C
6 6 (3.73%) Kotlin
6 6 (3.73%) Scala
7 4 (2.48%) PHP
7 4 (2.48%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.86%) Perl
9 2 (1.24%) C#
10 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 38 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.97%) Degree
4 5 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.48%) QA
3 3 (1.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.24%) SLA
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (29.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.70%) Grafana
3 11 (6.83%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.35%) Kibana
5 6 (3.73%) Ansible
6 5 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.11%) Terraform
7 3 (1.86%) Zipkin
8 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) Argo
9 1 (0.62%) Istio
9 1 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.62%) logstash
9 1 (0.62%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 25 (15.53%) Oracle
2 15 (9.32%) Google
3 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.59%) IBM
5 6 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.11%) SAP
7 3 (1.86%) Adobe
7 3 (1.86%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.86%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.86%) TSYS
8 2 (1.24%) Dell
8 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.24%) Intel
8 2 (1.24%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.24%) New Relic
8 2 (1.24%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.24%) Splunk
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.62%) WSO2