The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 28 27 46
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +19
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 1.905% 0.641% 0.893%
As % of the Application Development category 3.810% 2.041% 2.727%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 49 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 50.00% 31.41% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 14 28
Average daily rate £325 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
County Antrim

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast Spring Jobs Demand Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spring across the Belfast region.

Belfast Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Spring also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Spring.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) J2EE
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
4 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) Java EE
4 1 (12.50%) HttpUnit
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase
4 1 (12.50%) Ant
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) XML
4 1 (12.50%) XSL
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (12.50%) LDAP
4 1 (12.50%) N-Tier

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Spring also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (12.50%) JDBC
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSL
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) HttpUnit
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase
1 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft