Spring Contracts in Scotland

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -27
Contract jobs citing Spring 86 116 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.00% 4.29% 4.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 19.59% 18.21% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 89 110
10th Percentile £373 £424 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £479 £465
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +3.12% +9.29%
75th Percentile £500 £545 £530
90th Percentile £538 £628 £568
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £584
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.78% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.00
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.55% +17.50%
75th Percentile - - £48.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +16.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland 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 439 637 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.41% 23.57% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 477 505
10th Percentile £325 £400 £366
25th Percentile £401 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £545
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £36.10 £23.53 £31.95
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.09 £42.04
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.38 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.57% +14.63%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.77 £48.75
90th Percentile - £66.71 £62.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Glasgow +30 59 £435 -22.67% 12
Edinburgh -9 13 £464 -3.08% 5
West Lothian +7 10 £525 -16.00%
Spring
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (10.47%) Confluence
2 8 (9.30%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.81%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (2.33%) GeoServer
4 2 (2.33%) JBoss
4 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.33%) WildFly
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 58 (67.44%) AWS
2 14 (16.28%) Azure
3 10 (11.63%) Amazon S3
3 10 (11.63%) GCP
4 9 (10.47%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.98%) Serverless
7 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.49%) npm
9 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) Relational Database
2 10 (11.63%) Oracle Database
3 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.98%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.49%) Big Data
6 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.33%) DB2
7 2 (2.33%) GIS
7 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.44%) JIRA
3 14 (16.28%) Git
4 12 (13.95%) JUnit
5 7 (8.14%) Cucumber
5 7 (8.14%) Maven
6 6 (6.98%) Postman
7 4 (4.65%) IntelliJ
7 4 (4.65%) Subversion
8 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.33%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.33%) GitLab
10 1 (1.16%) Mockito
General
1 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.47%) Banking
5 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (83.72%) Developer
2 61 (70.93%) Java Developer
3 20 (23.26%) Senior
4 17 (19.77%) Senior Developer
5 16 (18.60%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Full Stack Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.49%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) UI Developer
12 2 (2.33%) AWS Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Designer
12 2 (2.33%) HTML Developer
12 2 (2.33%) Senior Designer
12 2 (2.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (72.09%) Spring Boot
2 39 (45.35%) REST
3 31 (36.05%) Kafka
4 21 (24.42%) CSS
4 21 (24.42%) React
5 19 (22.09%) AngularJS
6 18 (20.93%) RESTful
7 16 (18.60%) HTML
8 13 (15.12%) JPA
9 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (9.30%) J2EE
9 8 (9.30%) OpenTracing
9 8 (9.30%) Spring Security
10 7 (8.14%) Apache Camel
11 6 (6.98%) AWS CDK
11 6 (6.98%) OAuth
11 6 (6.98%) OAuth2
12 5 (5.81%) Node.js
12 5 (5.81%) Spring Batch
12 5 (5.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Data Structures
2 11 (12.79%) Public Cloud
3 9 (10.47%) Cloud Native
3 9 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.16%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Unix
2 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (68.60%) Agile
2 53 (61.63%) Microservices
3 37 (43.02%) CI/CD
4 25 (29.07%) SDLC
5 22 (25.58%) Full Stack Development
6 18 (20.93%) End-to-End Testing
7 17 (19.77%) Software Engineering
7 17 (19.77%) TDD
8 15 (17.44%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (17.44%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (17.44%) Machine Learning
9 13 (15.12%) DevOps
9 13 (15.12%) Operational Stability
9 13 (15.12%) Scrum
10 12 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (13.95%) Decision-Making
10 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
11 10 (11.63%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (10.47%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (48.84%) SQL
3 15 (17.44%) TypeScript
4 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.30%) Kotlin
5 8 (9.30%) Scala
6 7 (8.14%) Python
7 4 (4.65%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.49%) Perl
8 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.65%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.16%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (29.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.47%) Grafana
3 8 (9.30%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.30%) Zipkin
4 6 (6.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Oracle
2 3 (3.49%) IBM
3 2 (2.33%) Greenplum
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.16%) Google
4 1 (1.16%) Solace
4 1 (1.16%) VMware