The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 41 62 50
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 11 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.037% 0.291% 0.372%
As % of the Application Development category 8.661% 0.803% 1.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
127 249 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.52% 36.24% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 124 82
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 £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
East of England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cambridge +17 9 £400 -
Spring
East of England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 22 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (54.55%) Hibernate
3 10 (45.45%) TDD
3 10 (45.45%) SQL
4 9 (40.91%) J2EE
5 8 (36.36%) Oracle
6 7 (31.82%) Web Services
6 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
6 7 (31.82%) Scrum
7 6 (27.27%) Subversion
7 6 (27.27%) C#
7 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (22.73%) MySQL
8 5 (22.73%) MVC
8 5 (22.73%) JSON
9 4 (18.18%) Informatics
9 4 (18.18%) Ruby
9 4 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (18.18%) Degree
9 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
9 4 (18.18%) Information Management
9 4 (18.18%) Maven
9 4 (18.18%) VMware
9 4 (18.18%) Perl
9 4 (18.18%) Lisp
9 4 (18.18%) JSP
9 4 (18.18%) Linux
9 4 (18.18%) Apache
9 4 (18.18%) Swing
9 4 (18.18%) Tomcat

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 12 (54.55%) Hibernate
2 9 (40.91%) J2EE
3 7 (31.82%) Web Services
4 5 (22.73%) JSON
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (18.18%) JSP
5 4 (18.18%) Swing
5 4 (18.18%) RESTful
6 3 (13.64%) SOAP
6 3 (13.64%) XML
6 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 3 (13.64%) CSS
7 2 (9.091%) Apache Flex
7 2 (9.091%) GWT
7 2 (9.091%) .NET
8 1 (4.545%) REST
8 1 (4.545%) JDBC
8 1 (4.545%) Middleware
8 1 (4.545%) Struts
8 1 (4.545%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (9.091%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Subversion
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
2 4 (18.18%) Git (software)
3 2 (9.091%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (9.091%) JIRA
3 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.545%) JUnit
General
1 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
1 19 (86.36%) Java Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Development Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) Java Programmer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Informatics
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (9.091%) LIMS
2 2 (9.091%) Biology
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) TDD
2 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
2 7 (31.82%) Scrum
3 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (22.73%) MVC
5 4 (18.18%) Information Management
6 2 (9.091%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.091%) Waterfall
6 2 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.545%) Software Architecture
7 1 (4.545%) SOA
7 1 (4.545%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) Ruby
4 4 (18.18%) Perl
4 4 (18.18%) Lisp
4 4 (18.18%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.091%) T-SQL
6 2 (9.091%) C
6 2 (9.091%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft