Spring Contracts in England

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 133 102
Rank change year-on-year -59 -31 -25
Contract jobs citing Spring 435 963 1,872
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.19% 2.00% 2.66%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.79% 8.74% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 752 1,373
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £450 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 25
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.50
25th Percentile £42.94 £59.92 £57.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +0.06%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £75.39
90th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.27
% change year-on-year -36.72% +11.08% +15.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 advertised in England 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 7,516 11,017 18,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.62% 22.89% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,339 8,180 14,181
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 129 213
10th Percentile £22.42 £25.75 £23.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.95 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in England.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
London -74 260 £550 -15.38% 86
North of England +9 66 £550 -4.35% 21
North West +31 44 £525 +12.33% 14
South West -26 34 £550 - 14
South East -30 32 £463 -15.45% 30
Yorkshire +4 21 £550 -8.33% 5
East of England +3 14 £375 -46.43% 8
Midlands +17 10 £450 -30.77% 8
West Midlands +17 10 £450 -35.71% 6
North East -7 1 £550 -21.43% 3
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (4.14%) Confluence
2 7 (1.61%) Anypoint
2 7 (1.61%) JBoss
3 6 (1.38%) SAS
4 5 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.92%) Camunda
5 4 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.92%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.69%) Apache
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.69%) nginx
6 3 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.38%) Temenos T24
2 5 (1.15%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 169 (38.85%) AWS
2 61 (14.02%) Azure
3 39 (8.97%) GCP
4 23 (5.29%) Amazon S3
5 21 (4.83%) Amazon SQS
5 21 (4.83%) Serverless
6 16 (3.68%) GitHub
7 14 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (2.99%) OpenShift
9 12 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.53%) Apigee
11 10 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (2.30%) Kong
12 9 (2.07%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.38%) Datadog
14 6 (1.38%) SaaS
15 5 (1.15%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) SSH
2 4 (0.92%) HTTP
3 3 (0.69%) SSL
4 1 (0.23%) FTP
4 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (15.86%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (12.41%) Relational Database
3 45 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.52%) MongoDB
5 22 (5.06%) MySQL
6 15 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.30%) Couchbase
9 10 (2.30%) KDB
9 10 (2.30%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.07%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.61%) Redis
12 6 (1.38%) DB2
12 6 (1.38%) OLAP
12 6 (1.38%) OLTP
13 5 (1.15%) Oracle OLAP
13 5 (1.15%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 82 (18.85%) Git
2 67 (15.40%) Jenkins
3 63 (14.48%) JUnit
4 36 (8.28%) JIRA
5 29 (6.67%) Maven
6 26 (5.98%) Mockito
7 21 (4.83%) Cucumber
8 19 (4.37%) Selenium
9 17 (3.91%) GitLab
10 13 (2.99%) Gradle
11 9 (2.07%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.84%) Liquibase
12 8 (1.84%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.84%) TestNG
13 7 (1.61%) JMeter
14 5 (1.15%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.15%) Postman
14 5 (1.15%) SonarQube
14 5 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.92%) ScalaTest
General
1 101 (23.22%) Finance
2 67 (15.40%) Social Skills
3 59 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 55 (12.64%) Banking
5 23 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.60%) Front Office
7 18 (4.14%) Retail
8 13 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.15%) Law
9 5 (1.15%) Marketing
10 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.46%) Back Office
11 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.23%) Automotive
12 1 (0.23%) Electronics
12 1 (0.23%) Legal
12 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 297 (68.28%) Developer
2 209 (48.05%) Java Developer
3 56 (12.87%) Senior
4 40 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 39 (8.97%) Full Stack Developer
6 36 (8.28%) Lead
7 32 (7.36%) Senior Developer
8 30 (6.90%) Java Engineer
9 26 (5.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 23 (5.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 20 (4.60%) Architect
12 15 (3.45%) Lead Developer
13 13 (2.99%) AWS Architect
14 12 (2.76%) Backend Developer
14 12 (2.76%) Java Pricing Developer
14 12 (2.76%) Pricing Developer
14 12 (2.76%) Senior Java Engineer
15 11 (2.53%) AWS Developer
15 11 (2.53%) Java Software Engineer
15 11 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (65.98%) Spring Boot
2 138 (31.72%) REST
3 87 (20.00%) React
4 79 (18.16%) Hibernate
5 69 (15.86%) JPA
6 59 (13.56%) Kafka
7 49 (11.26%) AngularJS
8 48 (11.03%) RESTful
9 47 (10.80%) Web Services
10 43 (9.89%) Node.js
11 32 (7.36%) CSS
11 32 (7.36%) SOAP
12 30 (6.90%) HTML
13 27 (6.21%) J2EE
14 25 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
15 23 (5.29%) JAX-RS
15 23 (5.29%) JSON
16 21 (4.83%) Spring MVC
17 20 (4.60%) GWT
17 20 (4.60%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.52%) Algorithms
2 22 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (3.45%) Derivative
5 13 (2.99%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.84%) Credit Derivative
10 6 (1.38%) DataPower
11 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.15%) Insider Threat
12 4 (0.92%) Cloud Native
12 4 (0.92%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (9.89%) Linux
2 37 (8.51%) Unix
3 6 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.15%) Windows
5 1 (0.23%) Android
5 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (41.84%) Agile
2 168 (38.62%) Microservices
3 124 (28.51%) CI/CD
4 115 (26.44%) TDD
5 89 (20.46%) DevOps
6 78 (17.93%) Software Engineering
7 67 (15.40%) Scrum
8 60 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (12.87%) Unit Testing
10 55 (12.64%) Full Stack Development
11 51 (11.72%) Front End Development
12 47 (10.80%) Test Automation
13 44 (10.11%) Mentoring
14 41 (9.43%) BDD
15 38 (8.74%) OO
15 38 (8.74%) SDLC
16 37 (8.51%) High Availability
17 36 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
18 34 (7.82%) Computer Science
19 32 (7.36%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 425 (97.70%) Java
2 86 (19.77%) SQL
3 69 (15.86%) JavaScript
4 47 (10.80%) Python
5 45 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 19 (4.37%) C
7 15 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 11 (2.53%) Kotlin
8 11 (2.53%) Perl
9 9 (2.07%) Scala
10 6 (1.38%) C++
11 5 (1.15%) PHP
11 5 (1.15%) Swift
12 3 (0.69%) Bash
12 3 (0.69%) C#
12 3 (0.69%) Go
12 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Groovy
13 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (31.72%) Security Cleared
2 114 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.89%) DV Cleared
4 34 (7.82%) Degree
5 29 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.67%) QA
2 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.92%) SLA
3 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.23%) GRC
4 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (24.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 104 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (4.60%) Terraform
4 18 (4.14%) Ansible
5 16 (3.68%) Grafana
6 13 (2.99%) Kibana
7 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.92%) Packer
9 3 (0.69%) Istio
9 3 (0.69%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.69%) logstash
10 1 (0.23%) Anchore
10 1 (0.23%) Argo
10 1 (0.23%) Control-M
10 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.23%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.23%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 59 (13.56%) Oracle
2 32 (7.36%) Google
3 27 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 18 (4.14%) IBM
5 15 (3.45%) SAP
6 14 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.30%) ION Trading
7 10 (2.30%) SEEBURGER
8 9 (2.07%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.61%) Adobe
10 6 (1.38%) TSYS
10 6 (1.38%) WSO2
11 5 (1.15%) New Relic
11 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.15%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.69%) Dell
12 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.69%) Intel
12 3 (0.69%) Micro Focus
12 3 (0.69%) Splunk