Cheshire Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	12	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.429 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£299	-
Average daily rate	£325	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£351	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£334
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.75	£41.14
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	350	236
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.449 %	0.265 %
Daily rates quoted	78	44
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£246
Average daily rate	£367	£253
% change on same period last year	+45.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.08	£29.09
Average hourly rate	£36.74	£30.71
% change on same period last year	+19.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.39	£32.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Spring
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Spring
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Cheshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Warrington	-	4	£300	-
2	Chester	-	2	£345	-
2	Northwich	-	2	£320	-

Spring North West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring.

1 21 (95.45 %) Java 2 20 (90.91 %) JSP 2 20 (90.91 %) Hibernate 3 17 (77.27 %) Oracle 4 15 (68.18 %) J2EE 4 15 (68.18 %) CSS 5 14 (63.64 %) XML 6 13 (59.09 %) Finance 7 11 (50.00 %) HTML 8 10 (45.45 %) AJAX 9 9 (40.91 %) WebServices 10 8 (36.36 %) Swing 10 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 10g 10 8 (36.36 %) C++ 10 8 (36.36 %) SOAP

10 8 (36.36 %) WebSphere 11 7 (31.82 %) Servlets 12 6 (27.27 %) JAX-RPC 12 6 (27.27 %) WSDL 12 6 (27.27 %) Middleware 13 5 (22.73 %) Agile Software Development 14 4 (18.18 %) Banking 14 4 (18.18 %) Struts 14 4 (18.18 %) ASP 14 4 (18.18 %) VB 15 3 (13.64 %) .NET 15 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 15 3 (13.64 %) COBOL 15 3 (13.64 %) C# 15 3 (13.64 %) SQL

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (90.91 %) JSP 1 20 (90.91 %) Hibernate 2 15 (68.18 %) CSS 2 15 (68.18 %) J2EE 3 14 (63.64 %) XML 4 11 (50.00 %) HTML 5 10 (45.45 %) AJAX 6 9 (40.91 %) WebServices 7 8 (36.36 %) WebSphere 7 8 (36.36 %) SOAP 7 8 (36.36 %) Swing 8 7 (31.82 %) Servlets 9 6 (27.27 %) WSDL 9 6 (27.27 %) JAX-RPC 9 6 (27.27 %) Middleware 10 4 (18.18 %) Struts 10 4 (18.18 %) ASP 11 3 (13.64 %) .NET 12 2 (9.091 %) EJB 12 2 (9.091 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.64 %) Tomcat 2 2 (9.091 %) Tuxedo 2 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic 3 1 (4.545 %) Apache 3 1 (4.545 %) iPlanet
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.545 %) HTTP 1 1 (4.545 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (36.36 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 3 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (9.091 %) RDBMS 4 1 (4.545 %) MySQL 4 1 (4.545 %) DTS 4 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) JIRA 2 1 (4.545 %) Ant	General 1 13 (59.09 %) Finance 2 4 (18.18 %) Banking 3 3 (13.64 %) Online Banking 4 1 (4.545 %) International Banking
Job Titles 1 17 (77.27 %) Developer 2 14 (63.64 %) Java Developer 3 6 (27.27 %) J2EE Developer 3 6 (27.27 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 5 (22.73 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (9.091 %) Web Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) DBA 6 1 (4.545 %) Web Designer 6 1 (4.545 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) SQL DBA	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.545 %) Client/Server 1 1 (4.545 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.545 %) Unix 1 1 (4.545 %) Windows 1 1 (4.545 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (22.73 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (9.091 %) UML 2 2 (9.091 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (9.091 %) RUP 3 1 (4.545 %) Extreme Programming 3 1 (4.545 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.545 %) OO 3 1 (4.545 %) TDD 3 1 (4.545 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 21 (95.45 %) Java 2 8 (36.36 %) C++ 3 4 (18.18 %) VB 4 3 (13.64 %) VB6 4 3 (13.64 %) SQL 4 3 (13.64 %) COBOL 4 3 (13.64 %) C# 5 2 (9.091 %) JavaScript 5 2 (9.091 %) XPath 6 1 (4.545 %) VBScript 6 1 (4.545 %) PHP	Vendors 1 17 (77.27 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.545 %) Quark