Spring Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Spring 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 over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 50 59 63
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs citing Spring 11 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.524% 0.990% 1.005%
As % of the Application Development category 6.667% 3.361% 3.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £280 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £680
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 165 238 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.85% 29.46% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 127 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £306
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 3 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
North West

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Spring Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Chester -2 3 £375 +7.14%
Spring
North West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (92.31%) Java
2 10 (76.92%) J2EE
3 9 (69.23%) Hibernate
4 8 (61.54%) TDD
4 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
4 8 (61.54%) Oracle
4 8 (61.54%) JUnit
4 8 (61.54%) SOAP
5 7 (53.85%) Web Services
5 7 (53.85%) Eclipse
5 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (46.15%) CSS
6 6 (46.15%) HTML
6 6 (46.15%) SQL
6 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (38.46%) jQuery
7 5 (38.46%) JIRA
7 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
7 5 (38.46%) JSP
7 5 (38.46%) WSDL
7 5 (38.46%) Ajax
7 5 (38.46%) Scrum
8 4 (30.77%) MVC
8 4 (30.77%) Finance
8 4 (30.77%) JAX-RPC
8 4 (30.77%) JSF
8 4 (30.77%) DOM
8 4 (30.77%) XSLT
8 4 (30.77%) Apache
8 4 (30.77%) XHTML

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (76.92%) J2EE
2 9 (69.23%) Hibernate
3 8 (61.54%) SOAP
4 7 (53.85%) Web Services
5 6 (46.15%) CSS
5 6 (46.15%) HTML
6 5 (38.46%) JSP
6 5 (38.46%) WSDL
6 5 (38.46%) Ajax
6 5 (38.46%) jQuery
7 4 (30.77%) JSF
7 4 (30.77%) Apache Axis
7 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
7 4 (30.77%) JAX-RPC
7 4 (30.77%) DOM
7 4 (30.77%) XSLT
7 4 (30.77%) Servlets
7 4 (30.77%) XHTML
8 3 (23.08%) Flash
8 3 (23.08%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 2 (15.38%) ESB
2 2 (15.38%) Mule
3 1 (7.692%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SNMP
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (23.08%) TELNET
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.692%) Couchbase
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JUnit
2 7 (53.85%) Eclipse
3 5 (38.46%) JIRA
4 3 (23.08%) Selenium
4 3 (23.08%) TestNG
4 3 (23.08%) Subversion
5 2 (15.38%) MyEclipse
5 2 (15.38%) Mercurial
5 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (7.692%) Ant
6 1 (7.692%) Gradle
6 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (7.692%) Maven
6 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Games
2 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 10 (76.92%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Web 2.0
2 3 (23.08%) Client/Server
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.692%) E-Learning
4 1 (7.692%) RIA
4 1 (7.692%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Android
1 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) TDD
2 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
5 4 (30.77%) MVC
5 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) BDD
7 2 (15.38%) Change Management
8 1 (7.692%) OO
8 1 (7.692%) SOA
8 1 (7.692%) Extreme Programming
8 1 (7.692%) Pair Programming
8 1 (7.692%) ATDD
8 1 (7.692%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Java
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
5 4 (30.77%) XPath
6 1 (7.692%) C#
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Adobe
2 3 (23.08%) Perforce
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