The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 21 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 Devon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 26 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 1.724% 0.549% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.225% 1.724% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
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
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 58 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 40.80% 31.87% 47.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 30
Average daily rate £325 £308 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -18.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £450 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
South West

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon Spring Hourly Rate Trend

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 Devon region over the 3 months to 21 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
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
Spring
South West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 10 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (70.00%) J2EE
4 4 (40.00%) Oracle
4 4 (40.00%) IBM
4 4 (40.00%) JPA
4 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (40.00%) Java EE
5 3 (30.00%) Maven
5 3 (30.00%) JAX-WS
5 3 (30.00%) GlassFish
5 3 (30.00%) JAXB
5 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
5 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (30.00%) XSD
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) OO
6 2 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (20.00%) JUnit
6 2 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (20.00%) OOD
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) jQuery
6 2 (20.00%) Mockito
6 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 9 (90.00%) Hibernate
2 7 (70.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) JPA
3 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (40.00%) Java EE
4 3 (30.00%) JAX-WS
4 3 (30.00%) JAXB
4 3 (30.00%) XSD
5 2 (20.00%) CSS
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) Spring Security
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) JDBC
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) GlassFish
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Maven
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Mockito
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) jMock
3 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (10.00%) NetBeans
3 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 3 (30.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (20.00%) OO
2 2 (20.00%) OOD
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) QMS
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss