East Midlands Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the East Midlands 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	55	72
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	45	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	8.443 %	2.632 %
Daily rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£330
Average daily rate	£305	£333
% change on same period last year	-8.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£335
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 East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	533	456
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.684 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	88	79
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£285
Average daily rate	£326	£297
% change on same period last year	+10.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.08	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£32.59	£25.83
% change on same period last year	+26.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.10	£27.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 East Midlands 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	Derbyshire	+13	13	£333	-5.61 %
2	Leicestershire	-	10	£298	-
3	Nottinghamshire	+5	6	-	-
4	Northamptonshire	-	1	-	-

Spring England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 64 (91.43 %) Java 2 54 (77.14 %) J2EE 3 47 (67.14 %) Hibernate 4 34 (48.57 %) WebServices 5 33 (47.14 %) WebLogic 6 31 (44.29 %) Oracle 7 26 (37.14 %) JUnit 8 23 (32.86 %) Struts 9 22 (31.43 %) Apache 10 21 (30.00 %) JSP 10 21 (30.00 %) JavaScript 11 20 (28.57 %) CSS 12 19 (27.14 %) Tomcat 12 19 (27.14 %) WebSphere 13 17 (24.29 %) UML

14 16 (22.86 %) XML 14 16 (22.86 %) WebLogic Portal 15 15 (21.43 %) SQL 15 15 (21.43 %) HTML 15 15 (21.43 %) Spring MVC 16 13 (18.57 %) MVC 17 12 (17.14 %) iBATIS 17 12 (17.14 %) Servlets 18 11 (15.71 %) WebLogic Workshop 19 10 (14.29 %) BEA 19 10 (14.29 %) EJB 19 10 (14.29 %) JAX-WS 19 10 (14.29 %) Banking 20 9 (12.86 %) AJAX 20 9 (12.86 %) ESB

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 54 (77.14 %) J2EE 2 47 (67.14 %) Hibernate 3 34 (48.57 %) WebServices 4 23 (32.86 %) Struts 5 21 (30.00 %) JSP 6 20 (28.57 %) CSS 7 19 (27.14 %) WebSphere 8 16 (22.86 %) XML 9 15 (21.43 %) HTML 9 15 (21.43 %) Spring MVC 10 12 (17.14 %) iBATIS 10 12 (17.14 %) Servlets 11 10 (14.29 %) EJB 11 10 (14.29 %) JAX-WS 12 9 (12.86 %) AJAX 12 9 (12.86 %) JDBC 12 9 (12.86 %) WSDL 13 6 (8.571 %) XSD 13 6 (8.571 %) JSR 168 13 6 (8.571 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 33 (47.14 %) WebLogic 2 22 (31.43 %) Apache 3 19 (27.14 %) Tomcat 4 16 (22.86 %) WebLogic Portal 5 9 (12.86 %) ESB 6 5 (7.143 %) IIS 7 4 (5.714 %) CMS 8 2 (2.857 %) JBoss 8 2 (2.857 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.429 %) HTTP 1 1 (1.429 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (12.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 7 (10.00 %) Oracle 10g 3 5 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (5.714 %) MySQL 5 3 (4.286 %) DB2 6 2 (2.857 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 26 (37.14 %) JUnit 2 11 (15.71 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 8 (11.43 %) Ant 4 6 (8.571 %) Eclipse 5 5 (7.143 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 1 (1.429 %) Rational Rose	General 1 10 (14.29 %) Banking 2 3 (4.286 %) Finance 3 2 (2.857 %) Government 3 2 (2.857 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.429 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.429 %) Health 4 1 (1.429 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.429 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.429 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.429 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.429 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.429 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.429 %) Education
Job Titles 1 57 (81.43 %) Developer 2 42 (60.00 %) Java Developer 3 32 (45.71 %) J2EE Developer 4 26 (37.14 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) Administrator 5 5 (7.143 %) Senior Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) Systems Administrator 6 4 (5.714 %) WebLogic Developer 6 4 (5.714 %) Senior Java Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Java Applications Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Applications Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Lead Developer 8 2 (2.857 %) Analyst Programmer 8 2 (2.857 %) Programmer 8 2 (2.857 %) Oracle DBA 8 2 (2.857 %) Consultant 8 2 (2.857 %) DBA 8 2 (2.857 %) Analyst 8 2 (2.857 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.429 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (2.857 %) AIX 2 1 (1.429 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (24.29 %) UML 2 13 (18.57 %) MVC 3 6 (8.571 %) SOA 4 5 (7.143 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (2.857 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (2.857 %) TDD 5 2 (2.857 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (2.857 %) OO 6 1 (1.429 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (1.429 %) OOD 6 1 (1.429 %) AOP 6 1 (1.429 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.429 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 64 (91.43 %) Java 2 21 (30.00 %) JavaScript 3 15 (21.43 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (4.286 %) Sun Certification 2 1 (1.429 %) SCJD 2 1 (1.429 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.286 %) WAI	Vendors 1 31 (44.29 %) Oracle 2 10 (14.29 %) BEA 3 5 (7.143 %) IBM 4 3 (4.286 %) Sun 4 3 (4.286 %) IONA 5 2 (2.857 %) Google 6 1 (1.429 %) Vignette 6 1 (1.429 %) Chordiant