The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 46 47 46
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -1
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.775% 2.033% 0.619%
As % of the Application Development category 3.636% 8.374% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 2
Average daily rate £350 £390 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +4.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £325 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £405 £375
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
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
110 203 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.32% 24.28% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 139 40
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £405 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
South West

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Bristol region.

Bristol Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 15 (93.75%) Java
2 10 (62.50%) Hibernate
2 10 (62.50%) J2EE
3 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (43.75%) Oracle
5 6 (37.50%) Web Services
6 5 (31.25%) Scrum
6 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
6 5 (31.25%) Apache Flex
7 4 (25.00%) RESTful
7 4 (25.00%) Software Architecture
7 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 4 (25.00%) UML
7 4 (25.00%) OOD
7 4 (25.00%) Spring Roo
7 4 (25.00%) Validation
8 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
8 3 (18.75%) Grails
9 2 (12.50%) jQuery
9 2 (12.50%) Java EE
9 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (12.50%) JBoss Seam
9 2 (12.50%) JSON
9 2 (12.50%) Apache Axis
9 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
9 2 (12.50%) MVC
9 2 (12.50%) Apache
9 2 (12.50%) JUnit
9 2 (12.50%) MySQL
9 2 (12.50%) PHP

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (62.50%) Hibernate
1 10 (62.50%) J2EE
2 6 (37.50%) Web Services
3 5 (31.25%) Apache Flex
4 4 (25.00%) RESTful
5 3 (18.75%) Grails
6 2 (12.50%) jQuery
6 2 (12.50%) Java EE
6 2 (12.50%) JBoss Seam
6 2 (12.50%) JSON
6 2 (12.50%) Apache Axis
6 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
7 1 (6.250%) .NET
7 1 (6.250%) ASP
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
7 1 (6.250%) CSS
7 1 (6.250%) JSP
7 1 (6.250%) XML
7 1 (6.250%) XSL
7 1 (6.250%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.250%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (6.250%) Mule
2 1 (6.250%) Magento
2 1 (6.250%) Apache Solr
2 1 (6.250%) Shopify
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (6.250%) MarkLogic
2 1 (6.250%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
2 4 (25.00%) Spring Roo
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (6.250%) Ant
4 1 (6.250%) Maven
4 1 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 13 (81.25%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.250%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) UML
3 4 (25.00%) OOD
3 4 (25.00%) Validation
4 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) MVC
6 1 (6.250%) OO
6 1 (6.250%) Web Development
6 1 (6.250%) System Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (6.250%) SQL
3 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) hybris
2 1 (6.250%) Zend
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