Pivotal Spring Framework
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 122 93
Rank change year-on-year -67 -29 -17
Contract jobs citing Spring 568 1,270 2,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.31% 2.14% 2.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.36% 9.23% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 974 1,743
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £680
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 34 29
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £49.25
25th Percentile £41.47 £59.26 £56.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.69% +19.09%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £75.84
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.70 £77.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +16.67% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,932 13,763 24,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.23% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,201 10,039 17,650
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 239
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.40
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Spring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Spring in the UK

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spring over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England -76 425 £540 -12.20% 172
London -83 259 £550 -15.38% 83
UK excluding London -33 245 £483 -8.00% 102
Work from Home -76 162 £506 -12.00% 96
Scotland +13 89 £450 -6.05% 11
North of England +6 62 £525 -8.70% 22
North West +26 38 £525 +8.30% 12
South East -36 35 £463 -11.90% 23
South West -21 31 £556 +1.14% 18
Yorkshire +15 23 £550 -8.33% 7
East of England +9 13 £375 -46.43% 11
West Midlands +17 10 £450 -35.71% 6
Midlands +15 10 £450 -25.00% 8
Northern Ireland +4 4 - - 7
Wales +18 1 £450 -7.69% 2
North East -9 1 £550 -21.43% 5

Spring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (5.63%) Confluence
2 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.58%) JBoss
3 8 (1.41%) Anypoint
3 8 (1.41%) OpenStack
4 7 (1.23%) Apache
4 7 (1.23%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (0.88%) SAS
5 5 (0.88%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.53%) Camunda
7 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.53%) nginx
7 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.35%) WildFly
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.18%) CoreMedia CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Shopify
2 4 (0.70%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.35%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 248 (43.66%) AWS
2 69 (12.15%) Azure
3 49 (8.63%) GCP
4 41 (7.22%) Amazon S3
5 35 (6.16%) Serverless
6 29 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
6 29 (5.11%) OpenShift
7 26 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (3.17%) GitHub
9 11 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.76%) Amazon MSK
10 10 (1.76%) Apigee
11 9 (1.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.41%) Kong
13 7 (1.23%) SaaS
14 6 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.88%) SSH
2 4 (0.70%) HTTP
3 3 (0.53%) 5G
3 3 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) FTP
4 1 (0.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (16.02%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (11.97%) Relational Database
3 48 (8.45%) NoSQL
4 31 (5.46%) MySQL
5 25 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.35%) Oracle Database
7 17 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 12 (2.11%) Redis
9 12 (2.11%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.58%) Couchbase
10 9 (1.58%) DB2
11 7 (1.23%) KDB
12 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.70%) Big Data
13 4 (0.70%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.70%) OLAP
13 4 (0.70%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 115 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.07%) Git
3 88 (15.49%) JUnit
4 53 (9.33%) JIRA
5 46 (8.10%) Maven
6 35 (6.16%) Cucumber
7 26 (4.58%) Mockito
8 22 (3.87%) Selenium
9 21 (3.70%) GitLab
10 15 (2.64%) Gradle
11 14 (2.46%) Postman
12 13 (2.29%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.76%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.76%) TestNG
14 9 (1.58%) JMeter
14 9 (1.58%) Liquibase
14 9 (1.58%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (1.58%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 108 (19.01%) Finance
2 97 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 78 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.62%) Banking
5 28 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.52%) Front Office
7 17 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.82%) Retail
9 13 (2.29%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.23%) Law
11 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.88%) Marketing
12 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.35%) Back Office
13 2 (0.35%) Electronics
13 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.35%) Publishing
13 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 413 (72.71%) Developer
2 297 (52.29%) Java Developer
3 82 (14.44%) Senior
4 65 (11.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 54 (9.51%) Senior Developer
6 45 (7.92%) Senior Java Developer
7 43 (7.57%) Java Engineer
7 43 (7.57%) Software Engineer
8 42 (7.39%) Lead
9 30 (5.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 23 (4.05%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 18 (3.17%) Architect
11 18 (3.17%) Lead Developer
12 17 (2.99%) Backend Developer
13 16 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 13 (2.29%) AWS Developer
14 13 (2.29%) Lead Java Developer
14 13 (2.29%) Senior Java Engineer
15 12 (2.11%) Java Pricing Developer
15 12 (2.11%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (69.37%) Spring Boot
2 220 (38.73%) REST
3 109 (19.19%) React
4 94 (16.55%) Hibernate
5 92 (16.20%) Kafka
6 90 (15.85%) JPA
7 77 (13.56%) AngularJS
8 67 (11.80%) RESTful
9 65 (11.44%) Web Services
10 59 (10.39%) CSS
11 55 (9.68%) Node.js
12 52 (9.15%) HTML
13 43 (7.57%) Spring Security
14 42 (7.39%) SOAP
15 40 (7.04%) J2EE
16 30 (5.28%) JAX-RS
17 29 (5.11%) JSON
17 29 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (5.11%) Spring MVC
18 25 (4.40%) GWT
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.93%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 23 (4.05%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.46%) Derivative
5 14 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.11%) Fixed Income
7 12 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
9 8 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.23%) Insider Threat
11 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.70%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.57%) Linux
2 42 (7.39%) Unix
3 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.18%) AIX
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (46.48%) Agile
2 244 (42.96%) Microservices
3 173 (30.46%) CI/CD
4 136 (23.94%) TDD
5 111 (19.54%) DevOps
6 94 (16.55%) Full Stack Development
7 93 (16.37%) Software Engineering
8 84 (14.79%) Scrum
9 72 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (11.80%) SDLC
11 66 (11.62%) Unit Testing
12 60 (10.56%) Test Automation
13 59 (10.39%) Front End Development
14 50 (8.80%) Continuous Integration
15 48 (8.45%) Mentoring
16 46 (8.10%) BDD
17 43 (7.57%) OO
18 40 (7.04%) MVC
19 39 (6.87%) High Availability
19 39 (6.87%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 557 (98.06%) Java
2 145 (25.53%) SQL
3 98 (17.25%) JavaScript
4 61 (10.74%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.39%) Python
6 26 (4.58%) C
7 17 (2.99%) Kotlin
8 16 (2.82%) Scala
8 16 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 15 (2.64%) Perl
10 9 (1.58%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.06%) C++
11 6 (1.06%) PHP
12 5 (0.88%) C#
12 5 (0.88%) Swift
13 3 (0.53%) Bash
13 3 (0.53%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Clojure
14 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 164 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 137 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.75%) DV Cleared
4 37 (6.51%) Degree
5 28 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.18%) CISSP
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.63%) QA
2 14 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (0.70%) SLA
5 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) GRC
6 1 (0.18%) MiFID
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (25.88%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 117 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 28 (4.93%) Grafana
3 23 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
4 22 (3.87%) Ansible
4 22 (3.87%) Kibana
5 21 (3.70%) Terraform
6 11 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.06%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.70%) Packer
9 3 (0.53%) Istio
9 3 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 3 (0.53%) logstash
10 1 (0.18%) Anchore
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) Control-M
10 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.18%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (14.61%) Oracle
2 39 (6.87%) Google
3 33 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 20 (3.52%) IBM
5 19 (3.35%) SAP
6 17 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.41%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 7 (1.23%) ION Trading
9 7 (1.23%) WSO2
10 5 (0.88%) New Relic
10 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.70%) TSYS
12 3 (0.53%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.53%) Dell
12 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus
12 3 (0.53%) Splunk