The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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 66 63 74
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +11
Contract jobs citing Spring 2 12 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% 1.230% 0.375%
As % of the Application Development category 0.966% 6.557% 1.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £231 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -45.58%
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
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
207 183 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.56% 18.75% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 103
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
South East

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +4 2 - -
Spring
South East

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
2 5 (83.33%) Dojo
2 5 (83.33%) Use Case
2 5 (83.33%) HTTP
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 5 (83.33%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (83.33%) OO
2 5 (83.33%) DHTML
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) JDBC
2 5 (83.33%) JSP
2 5 (83.33%) Servlets
2 5 (83.33%) Struts
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) Software Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) JSON
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Maven
4 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (16.67%) JBoss
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
2 5 (83.33%) Dojo
2 5 (83.33%) DHTML
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) JDBC
2 5 (83.33%) JSP
2 5 (83.33%) Servlets
2 5 (83.33%) Struts
2 5 (83.33%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
1 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) Ant
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Use Case
1 5 (83.33%) OOA/OOD
1 5 (83.33%) OO
1 5 (83.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
The Java stack is based around J2EE, Spring and Hibernate. Key skills required are: Java J2EE Spring Hibernate JavaScript JSP My client is keen to secure the right...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013