The first table below looks at the demand for Spring MVC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring MVC 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 Cheshire 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
Spring MVC
Rank 61 62 71
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring MVC 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.276% 0.125% 0.103%
As % of the Application Development category 1.235% 0.435% 0.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £250 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £308 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.82% -12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.88%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
162 230 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.38% 28.79% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 123 176
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £270 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring MVC
North West

Spring MVC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Spring MVC Jobs Demand Trend

Spring MVC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spring MVC across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Spring MVC Daily Rate Trend

Spring MVC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring MVC across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Spring MVC Daily Rate Histogram

Spring MVC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Spring MVC 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 MVC.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (33.33%) E-Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration

Spring MVC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Spring MVC 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 MVC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript