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 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 180 124 95
Rank change year-on-year -56 -29 -19
Contract jobs citing Spring 567 1,169 2,415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 2.05% 2.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.37% 8.84% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 905 1,748
10th Percentile £375 £450 £425
25th Percentile £436 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £584
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.78% +11.19%
75th Percentile £625 £713 £680
90th Percentile £706 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.43% - +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 34
10th Percentile £35.00 £53.75 £50.38
25th Percentile £42.94 £59.26 £60.00
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +10.62% +16.00%
75th Percentile £52.34 £75.00 £75.39
90th Percentile £56.25 £75.70 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £70.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.46% +10.67% +9.05%

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 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
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 £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 16 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 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spring in the UK

Spring
Top 15 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 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
England -72 430 £540 -12.20% 171
London -70 256 £550 -15.38% 85
UK excluding London -24 246 £486 -7.43% 115
Work from Home -72 153 £525 -8.70% 116
Scotland +14 86 £445 -7.10% 18
North of England +10 66 £550 -4.35% 19
North West +35 44 £525 +12.33% 12
South West -21 33 £550 - 15
South East -37 32 £463 -11.90% 28
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% 9
Northern Ireland +4 5 £588 +30.56% 15
North East -11 1 £550 -21.43% 3

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 27 (4.76%) Confluence
2 11 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.59%) JBoss
4 8 (1.41%) Anypoint
4 8 (1.41%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) SAS
5 6 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.88%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.71%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.53%) nginx
8 3 (0.53%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.35%) WildFly
10 1 (0.18%) CMS
10 1 (0.18%) CoreMedia CMS
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.06%) Temenos T24
2 5 (0.88%) Shopify
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.18%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 246 (43.39%) AWS
2 77 (13.58%) Azure
3 55 (9.70%) GCP
4 37 (6.53%) Amazon S3
5 30 (5.29%) Serverless
6 29 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
7 24 (4.23%) OpenShift
8 23 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (3.53%) GitHub
11 16 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.12%) Apigee
13 10 (1.76%) Kong
14 9 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
15 8 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.23%) SaaS
17 6 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.23%) SSH
2 4 (0.71%) HTTP
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 83 (14.64%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (11.99%) Relational Database
3 49 (8.64%) NoSQL
4 28 (4.94%) MySQL
5 26 (4.59%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.35%) Oracle Database
7 16 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 10 (1.76%) Couchbase
9 10 (1.76%) KDB
9 10 (1.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (1.59%) Redis
11 8 (1.41%) DB2
12 6 (1.06%) OLAP
12 6 (1.06%) OLTP
13 5 (0.88%) Big Data
13 5 (0.88%) Oracle OLAP
13 5 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 105 (18.52%) Git
2 94 (16.58%) Jenkins
3 80 (14.11%) JUnit
4 53 (9.35%) JIRA
5 47 (8.29%) Maven
6 32 (5.64%) Cucumber
7 27 (4.76%) Mockito
8 23 (4.06%) Selenium
9 21 (3.70%) GitLab
10 15 (2.65%) Gradle
11 11 (1.94%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.94%) Postman
12 10 (1.76%) TestNG
13 9 (1.59%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.59%) JMeter
13 9 (1.59%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.59%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.41%) Liquibase
15 7 (1.23%) CircleCI
General
1 118 (20.81%) Finance
2 96 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 71 (12.52%) Banking
3 71 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 28 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (3.53%) Front Office
6 18 (3.17%) Retail
7 17 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.23%) Law
10 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
11 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.35%) Back Office
12 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.35%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.18%) Electronics
13 1 (0.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 400 (70.55%) Developer
2 291 (51.32%) Java Developer
3 80 (14.11%) Senior
4 55 (9.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 52 (9.17%) Senior Developer
6 48 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 46 (8.11%) Java Engineer
8 45 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
9 42 (7.41%) Lead
10 27 (4.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 21 (3.70%) Architect
12 20 (3.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
13 18 (3.17%) Lead Developer
14 17 (3.00%) Backend Developer
14 17 (3.00%) Java Software Engineer
15 16 (2.82%) Software Developer
16 13 (2.29%) AWS Architect
16 13 (2.29%) AWS Developer
16 13 (2.29%) Full Stack Engineer
16 13 (2.29%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (67.37%) Spring Boot
2 201 (35.45%) REST
3 110 (19.40%) React
4 93 (16.40%) Kafka
5 87 (15.34%) Hibernate
6 83 (14.64%) JPA
7 72 (12.70%) AngularJS
8 66 (11.64%) RESTful
9 65 (11.46%) Web Services
10 56 (9.88%) CSS
10 56 (9.88%) Node.js
11 47 (8.29%) HTML
12 40 (7.05%) SOAP
13 36 (6.35%) J2EE
14 31 (5.47%) JAX-RS
15 30 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
15 30 (5.29%) Spring Security
16 29 (5.11%) JSON
17 26 (4.59%) GWT
18 25 (4.41%) Restlet
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.82%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 27 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.41%) Public Cloud
4 17 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.65%) Derivative
6 14 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.29%) Cloud Native
7 13 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 13 (2.29%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.41%) Credit Derivative
13 7 (1.23%) Insider Threat
14 6 (1.06%) DataPower
15 5 (0.88%) Product Ownership
15 5 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (8.64%) Linux
2 46 (8.11%) 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
1 250 (44.09%) Agile
2 241 (42.50%) Microservices
3 170 (29.98%) CI/CD
4 133 (23.46%) TDD
5 104 (18.34%) DevOps
6 100 (17.64%) Software Engineering
7 83 (14.64%) Full Stack Development
8 82 (14.46%) Scrum
9 72 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
10 68 (11.99%) SDLC
11 65 (11.46%) Test Automation
11 65 (11.46%) Unit Testing
12 53 (9.35%) Front End Development
13 52 (9.17%) Continuous Integration
14 49 (8.64%) Mentoring
15 44 (7.76%) OO
16 43 (7.58%) BDD
17 38 (6.70%) OOP
18 37 (6.53%) High Availability
19 36 (6.35%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 556 (98.06%) Java
2 142 (25.04%) SQL
3 88 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 60 (10.58%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.41%) Python
6 24 (4.23%) C
7 20 (3.53%) Kotlin
8 18 (3.17%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.00%) Scala
10 14 (2.47%) Perl
11 7 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.06%) C++
12 6 (1.06%) PHP
13 5 (0.88%) Swift
14 3 (0.53%) Bash
14 3 (0.53%) C#
14 3 (0.53%) Go
15 1 (0.18%) Clojure
15 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 156 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 128 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 38 (6.70%) Degree
5 29 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.53%) 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 29 (5.11%) QA
2 10 (1.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (0.71%) SLA
4 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.18%) GDPR
5 1 (0.18%) GRC
5 1 (0.18%) MiFID
5 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 142 (25.04%) Docker
2 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 120 (21.16%) Kubernetes
2 27 (4.76%) Grafana
3 26 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (3.70%) Kibana
4 21 (3.70%) Terraform
5 19 (3.35%) Ansible
6 13 (2.29%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.41%) Zipkin
8 4 (0.71%) 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%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.18%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (14.81%) Oracle
2 40 (7.05%) Google
3 34 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 22 (3.88%) IBM
5 19 (3.35%) SAP
6 18 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.76%) ION Trading
8 10 (1.76%) SEEBURGER
9 7 (1.23%) Adobe
9 7 (1.23%) WSO2
10 6 (1.06%) TSYS
11 5 (0.88%) New Relic
11 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.88%) Sitecore
11 5 (0.88%) Splunk
12 3 (0.53%) Dell
12 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.53%) Intel
12 3 (0.53%) Micro Focus