The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 25 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.174% 0.889% 2.066%
As % of the Application Development category 17.39% 3.846% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £300 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
23 52 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 12.50% 23.11% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 20
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
South Wales

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
4 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Subversion
4 3 (33.33%) JSF
4 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (33.33%) MySQL
4 3 (33.33%) FileNet
4 3 (33.33%) J2SE
4 3 (33.33%) IBM
4 3 (33.33%) Adobe
4 3 (33.33%) ILOG
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Time Management
6 1 (11.11%) Mockito
6 1 (11.11%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) Ajax
6 1 (11.11%) Web Development
6 1 (11.11%) Java EE

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (88.89%) Hibernate
2 4 (44.44%) J2EE
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) JSF
3 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 3 (33.33%) J2SE
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
4 1 (11.11%) Servlets
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (33.33%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) Mockito
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Development Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Software Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) J2EE Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) UML
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
1 3 (33.33%) Adobe
1 3 (33.33%) ILOG
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle