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 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 198 127 91
Rank change year-on-year -71 -36 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring 153 484 1,256
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.97% 2.85%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.21% 7.82% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 363 918
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £487 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +9.45%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £663
90th Percentile £711 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 25 21
10th Percentile £38.45 £54.25 £50.00
25th Percentile £43.63 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £72.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.21% +16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £64.63 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £70.55 - £68.00
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
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 3,634 6,192 13,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.57% 25.16% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,620 9,615
10th Percentile £342 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £648
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 122
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.10
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.30% +10.83%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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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 17 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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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spring over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Spring hourly rate histogram 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 (5.23%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.61%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.96%) Apache
3 3 (1.96%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.31%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (1.31%) JBoss
4 2 (1.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.65%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.31%) Shopify
3 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (49.02%) AWS
2 22 (14.38%) Azure
2 22 (14.38%) GCP
3 13 (8.50%) OpenShift
4 10 (6.54%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (4.58%) GitHub
6 7 (4.58%) Serverless
7 6 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (3.27%) Apigee
8 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.61%) Kong
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (1.96%) Datadog
10 3 (1.96%) npm
10 3 (1.96%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.31%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (1.31%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.11%) MySQL
3 15 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 11 (7.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.58%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.61%) OLAP
8 4 (2.61%) OLTP
8 4 (2.61%) Oracle OLAP
9 3 (1.96%) Big Data
9 3 (1.96%) Redis
9 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.31%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.31%) KDB
10 2 (1.31%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.65%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.76%) Git
2 18 (11.76%) Maven
3 13 (8.50%) JUnit
4 11 (7.19%) Selenium
5 10 (6.54%) JIRA
6 8 (5.23%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.58%) Cypress.io
7 7 (4.58%) SonarQube
8 5 (3.27%) GitLab
8 5 (3.27%) Gradle
8 5 (3.27%) JMeter
8 5 (3.27%) Mockito
9 4 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (2.61%) TestNG
10 3 (1.96%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.96%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (1.96%) Postman
10 3 (1.96%) SoapUI
General
1 27 (17.65%) Finance
1 27 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.69%) Banking
3 15 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.92%) Front Office
5 6 (3.92%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.96%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (67.97%) Developer
2 82 (53.59%) Java Developer
3 23 (15.03%) Senior
4 16 (10.46%) Java Engineer
4 16 (10.46%) Senior Developer
5 15 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.50%) Lead
7 12 (7.84%) Full Stack Developer
7 12 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (5.88%) Architect
8 9 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 8 (5.23%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Software Developer
10 7 (4.58%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 6 (3.92%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.27%) AWS Architect
12 5 (3.27%) Backend Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Core Java Developer
12 5 (3.27%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (76.47%) Spring Boot
2 62 (40.52%) REST
3 29 (18.95%) Web Services
4 28 (18.30%) Kafka
5 19 (12.42%) RESTful
6 18 (11.76%) Node.js
7 17 (11.11%) Hibernate
7 17 (11.11%) SOAP
8 16 (10.46%) AngularJS
8 16 (10.46%) React
9 15 (9.80%) JPA
10 14 (9.15%) JAX-RS
10 14 (9.15%) Spring Security
11 13 (8.50%) CSS
12 12 (7.84%) jQuery
12 12 (7.84%) JSON
12 12 (7.84%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (7.84%) SAML
13 11 (7.19%) GWT
13 11 (7.19%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.23%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.58%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.27%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.61%) DataPower
7 3 (1.96%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.96%) Derivative
7 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.31%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.15%) Linux
2 8 (5.23%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) Agile
2 61 (39.87%) Microservices
3 51 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 32 (20.92%) TDD
5 28 (18.30%) Software Engineering
6 26 (16.99%) DevOps
6 26 (16.99%) SDLC
7 23 (15.03%) Test Automation
8 18 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
9 14 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (9.15%) Unit Testing
10 12 (7.84%) MVC
10 12 (7.84%) OO
10 12 (7.84%) Scrum
11 11 (7.19%) Data Modelling
11 11 (7.19%) Event-Driven
12 10 (6.54%) BDD
12 10 (6.54%) Design Patterns
12 10 (6.54%) Front End Development
12 10 (6.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 151 (98.69%) Java
2 36 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 28 (18.30%) SQL
4 11 (7.19%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.54%) Python
6 6 (3.92%) C
6 6 (3.92%) Kotlin
7 5 (3.27%) Scala
8 4 (2.61%) PHP
8 4 (2.61%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.96%) Perl
10 2 (1.31%) C#
11 1 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.31%) QA
2 2 (1.31%) SLA
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (29.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (16.34%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.50%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (7.19%) Grafana
4 7 (4.58%) Kibana
5 6 (3.92%) Ansible
6 5 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.27%) Terraform
7 3 (1.96%) Zipkin
8 2 (1.31%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.65%) Argo
9 1 (0.65%) Istio
9 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.65%) logstash
9 1 (0.65%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.65%) Rancher
Vendors
1 26 (16.99%) Oracle
2 16 (10.46%) Google
3 10 (6.54%) IBM
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.27%) SAP
6 4 (2.61%) TSYS
7 3 (1.96%) Adobe
7 3 (1.96%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.31%) Dell
8 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.31%) Intel
8 2 (1.31%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.31%) New Relic
8 2 (1.31%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.31%) Splunk
9 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.65%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.65%) WSO2