The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 45 40 40
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing Spring 2 14 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.415% 2.174% 0.969%
As % of the Application Development category 1.980% 9.032% 3.378%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 1
Average daily rate - £295 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.20% -4.28%
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 155 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.95% 24.07% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 100 83
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £27.75 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -30.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
West Midlands

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (77.78%) J2EE
3 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 6 (66.67%) Retail
4 2 (22.22%) Grails
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
5 1 (11.11%) MooTools
5 1 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
5 1 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (11.11%) New Media
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (11.11%) Dojo
5 1 (11.11%) Publishing
5 1 (11.11%) HTML
5 1 (11.11%) Maven
5 1 (11.11%) Ajax
5 1 (11.11%) Java SE
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Adobe
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) CSS
5 1 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (11.11%) DOM
5 1 (11.11%) OO

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (77.78%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) Grails
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) MooTools
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Dojo
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) Java SE
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe CQ
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
General
1 6 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) J2EE Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Groovy
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe