Spring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pivotal Spring Framework
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 175 151 127
Rank change year-on-year -24 -24 -26
Contract jobs citing Spring 246 382 622
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 1.66% 2.05%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.56% 9.09% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 273 453
10th Percentile £363 £438 £419
25th Percentile £400 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% - +14.13%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £672 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £584
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.78% +11.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 27 17
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £46.15
25th Percentile £42.94 £58.59 £52.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +10.67% +9.05%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £56.25 - £75.95
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London 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 3,256 4,203 6,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.05% 18.27% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,129 3,144 4,310
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £586
90th Percentile £691 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 146
10th Percentile £21.96 £22.20 £20.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%
75th Percentile £65.94 £74.13 £65.51
90th Percentile £74.85 £79.19 £76.64
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Spring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK excluding London

Spring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +14 86 £445 -7.10% 17
North of England +10 66 £550 -4.35% 20
North West +35 44 £525 +12.33% 13
South West -21 33 £550 - 14
South East -37 32 £463 -11.90% 29
Yorkshire +5 21 £550 -8.33% 5
East of England +3 14 £375 -46.43% 8
West Midlands +18 10 £450 -35.71% 6
Midlands +14 10 £450 -30.77% 8
Northern Ireland +4 5 £588 +30.56% 17
North East -11 1 £550 -21.43% 3
Spring
UK

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (6.50%) Confluence
2 10 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.44%) Apache
4 5 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (1.63%) JBoss
6 3 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.81%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.81%) WildFly
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.41%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 116 (47.15%) AWS
2 37 (15.04%) Azure
3 26 (10.57%) GCP
4 18 (7.32%) Amazon S3
5 11 (4.47%) OpenShift
5 11 (4.47%) Serverless
6 10 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (3.66%) GitHub
8 8 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.44%) Apigee
10 6 (2.44%) Kong
11 5 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.22%) npm
14 2 (0.81%) Amazon MSK
14 2 (0.81%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.22%) HTTP
1 3 (1.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.60%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.88%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.47%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.66%) Couchbase
7 7 (2.85%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.44%) OLAP
8 6 (2.44%) OLTP
9 5 (2.03%) Oracle OLAP
10 4 (1.63%) Big Data
10 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.22%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.81%) DB2
12 2 (0.81%) GIS
12 2 (0.81%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 46 (18.70%) Git
2 44 (17.89%) Jenkins
3 41 (16.67%) JUnit
4 27 (10.98%) JIRA
5 16 (6.50%) Maven
6 12 (4.88%) Cucumber
6 12 (4.88%) Mockito
7 7 (2.85%) GitLab
8 6 (2.44%) Postman
9 5 (2.03%) IntelliJ
9 5 (2.03%) Subversion
10 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.22%) JMeter
12 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.81%) Gradle
12 2 (0.81%) Selenium
12 2 (0.81%) TestNG
13 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.63%) Finance
3 29 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.72%) Banking
5 15 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (0.81%) Law
7 2 (0.81%) Retail
8 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Legal
8 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 194 (78.86%) Developer
2 150 (60.98%) Java Developer
3 34 (13.82%) Full Stack Developer
4 28 (11.38%) Senior
5 25 (10.16%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
7 21 (8.54%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.50%) Java Engineer
9 15 (6.10%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 11 (4.47%) Full Stack Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Lead
12 7 (2.85%) Architect
12 7 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) Lead Developer
12 7 (2.85%) Lead Java Developer
13 6 (2.44%) AWS Architect
13 6 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 6 (2.44%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (68.29%) Spring Boot
2 92 (37.40%) REST
3 65 (26.42%) React
4 60 (24.39%) Kafka
5 44 (17.89%) AngularJS
6 40 (16.26%) JPA
7 38 (15.45%) RESTful
8 30 (12.20%) Hibernate
9 28 (11.38%) CSS
10 24 (9.76%) HTML
10 24 (9.76%) Node.js
11 22 (8.94%) Web Services
12 18 (7.32%) J2EE
12 18 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (6.50%) Spring Security
14 15 (6.10%) Apache Camel
15 12 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (4.47%) Spring MVC
17 10 (4.07%) GWT
18 9 (3.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.72%) Data Structures
2 17 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.47%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.44%) DataPower
6 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.63%) Insider Threat
8 2 (0.81%) Derivative
8 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.41%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.41%) FMCG
9 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.41%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.69%) Unix
2 10 (4.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) AIX
3 1 (0.41%) Android
3 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (55.69%) Agile
2 119 (48.37%) Microservices
3 72 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.58%) TDD
5 55 (22.36%) DevOps
6 52 (21.14%) Software Engineering
7 50 (20.33%) Full Stack Development
8 40 (16.26%) SDLC
9 39 (15.85%) Scrum
10 32 (13.01%) Unit Testing
11 30 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.38%) OO
13 26 (10.57%) Test Automation
14 24 (9.76%) Front End Development
15 20 (8.13%) Mentoring
15 20 (8.13%) OOP
16 18 (7.32%) End-to-End Testing
16 18 (7.32%) High Availability
17 17 (6.91%) Operational Stability
18 16 (6.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 244 (99.19%) Java
2 65 (26.42%) SQL
3 48 (19.51%) JavaScript
4 40 (16.26%) TypeScript
5 27 (10.98%) Python
6 17 (6.91%) C
7 10 (4.07%) Kotlin
7 10 (4.07%) Scala
8 6 (2.44%) PHP
9 5 (2.03%) Perl
9 5 (2.03%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) C#
11 1 (0.41%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 59 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.26%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.01%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.10%) Degree
5 11 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.88%) QA
2 8 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.41%) NCSC
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (24.39%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (19.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.69%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.07%) Grafana
4 9 (3.66%) Kibana
5 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.25%) Zipkin
6 5 (2.03%) Terraform
7 2 (0.81%) Ansible
8 1 (0.41%) Anchore
8 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (12.20%) Oracle
2 14 (5.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.88%) Google
4 10 (4.07%) IBM
5 6 (2.44%) TSYS
6 4 (1.63%) Splunk
7 2 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.81%) Greenplum
7 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.41%) Solace
8 1 (0.41%) VMware