The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 30 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 9 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.744% 0.474% 0.766%
As % of the Application Development category 12.16% 1.258% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 2
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 159 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.56% 37.68% 38.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 80 53
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Cambridgeshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 17 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (52.94%) Hibernate
3 8 (47.06%) TDD
4 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
4 7 (41.18%) J2EE
4 7 (41.18%) Oracle
4 7 (41.18%) Web Services
5 6 (35.29%) SQL
6 5 (29.41%) MVC
6 5 (29.41%) JSON
6 5 (29.41%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) VMware
7 4 (23.53%) Subversion
7 4 (23.53%) Information Management
7 4 (23.53%) Maven
7 4 (23.53%) Ruby
7 4 (23.53%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Informatics
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (23.53%) Git (software)
7 4 (23.53%) RESTful
7 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (23.53%) Lisp
7 4 (23.53%) Linux
7 4 (23.53%) Apache
7 4 (23.53%) Swing
7 4 (23.53%) Tomcat

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (52.94%) Hibernate
2 7 (41.18%) J2EE
2 7 (41.18%) Web Services
3 5 (29.41%) JSON
4 4 (23.53%) Ruby on Rails
4 4 (23.53%) RESTful
4 4 (23.53%) Swing
5 3 (17.65%) HTML
5 3 (17.65%) XML
5 3 (17.65%) JSP
5 3 (17.65%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) SOAP
6 1 (5.882%) Spring MVC
6 1 (5.882%) JPA
6 1 (5.882%) REST
6 1 (5.882%) Middleware
6 1 (5.882%) JDBC
6 1 (5.882%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (23.53%) Apache
1 4 (23.53%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
1 4 (23.53%) Maven
1 4 (23.53%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.882%) JUnit
General
1 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
1 17 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Informatics
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.76%) LIMS
2 2 (11.76%) Biology
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) TDD
2 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
3 5 (29.41%) MVC
3 5 (29.41%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) Information Management
4 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Pair Programming
5 1 (5.882%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.882%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Ruby
3 4 (23.53%) Lisp
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) VMware