Derbyshire Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Derbyshire 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	13	26
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	13	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	23.21 %	6.742 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£350
Average daily rate	£333	£353
% change on same period last year	-5.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£357
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 Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	56	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.100 %
Daily rates quoted	10	25
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£300
Average daily rate	£350	£314
% change on same period last year	+11.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.84	£25.24
Average hourly rate	£26.11	£26.78
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.37	£28.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring East Midlands

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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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	Derby	+9	13	£333	-4.71 %

Spring East Midlands

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 19 (90.48 %) Java 2 16 (76.19 %) J2EE 3 13 (61.90 %) SQL 4 12 (57.14 %) JUnit 4 12 (57.14 %) WebLogic 4 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 4 12 (57.14 %) WebServices 4 12 (57.14 %) JSP 5 10 (47.62 %) Apache 5 10 (47.62 %) Hibernate 6 9 (42.86 %) XML 7 8 (38.10 %) CSS 7 8 (38.10 %) JDBC 7 8 (38.10 %) HTML 7 8 (38.10 %) JavaScript

8 7 (33.33 %) UML 8 7 (33.33 %) Servlets 8 7 (33.33 %) Tomcat 8 7 (33.33 %) BEA 8 7 (33.33 %) MVC 8 7 (33.33 %) EJB 9 6 (28.57 %) WebLogic Workshop 9 6 (28.57 %) Spring MVC 10 5 (23.81 %) Unit Testing 10 5 (23.81 %) IIS 10 5 (23.81 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 5 (23.81 %) WebSphere 11 4 (19.05 %) iBATIS 11 4 (19.05 %) WebLogic Portal 11 4 (19.05 %) Oracle 10g

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 16 (76.19 %) J2EE 2 12 (57.14 %) JSP 2 12 (57.14 %) WebServices 3 10 (47.62 %) Hibernate 4 9 (42.86 %) XML 5 8 (38.10 %) CSS 5 8 (38.10 %) JDBC 5 8 (38.10 %) HTML 6 7 (33.33 %) EJB 6 7 (33.33 %) Servlets 7 6 (28.57 %) Spring MVC 8 5 (23.81 %) WebSphere 9 4 (19.05 %) iBATIS 9 4 (19.05 %) JAX-WS 10 3 (14.29 %) Apache Beehive 10 3 (14.29 %) Java EE 10 3 (14.29 %) AJAX 10 3 (14.29 %) WSDL 10 3 (14.29 %) XML Schema 11 2 (9.524 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 12 (57.14 %) WebLogic 2 10 (47.62 %) Apache 3 7 (33.33 %) Tomcat 4 5 (23.81 %) IIS 5 4 (19.05 %) WebLogic Portal 6 2 (9.524 %) ESB 7 1 (4.762 %) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (19.05 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (9.524 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 12 (57.14 %) JUnit 2 6 (28.57 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 5 (23.81 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 4 (19.05 %) Eclipse 5 3 (14.29 %) Ant
General 1 2 (9.524 %) Government 2 1 (4.762 %) Education	Job Titles 1 21 (100.00 %) Developer 2 18 (85.71 %) Java Developer 3 9 (42.86 %) J2EE Developer 3 9 (42.86 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 3 (14.29 %) Applications Developer 4 3 (14.29 %) Lead Developer 4 3 (14.29 %) Java Applications Developer 5 2 (9.524 %) Senior Java Developer 5 2 (9.524 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Software Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Applications Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Lead Java Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Java Software Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java Software Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) J2EE Applications Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (33.33 %) UML 1 7 (33.33 %) MVC 2 5 (23.81 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (9.524 %) TDD 4 1 (4.762 %) Use Case 4 1 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 19 (90.48 %) Java 2 13 (61.90 %) SQL 3 8 (38.10 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) SCJD 2 1 (4.762 %) Degree	Vendors 1 12 (57.14 %) Oracle 2 7 (33.33 %) BEA 3 2 (9.524 %) Google 3 2 (9.524 %) Sun