The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 22 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 East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 91 90 69
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -21
Contract jobs citing Spring 25 41 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.148% 1.375% 2.374%
As % of the Application Development category 4.112% 4.864% 8.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 32
Average daily rate £390 £400 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -15.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £348 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
608 843 760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 27.93% 28.28% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 438 353
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 59 59
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.90 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hertfordshire -9 13 £325 -25.71%
Cambridgeshire +22 10 £400 -
Bedfordshire +3 1 - -
Spring
England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 71 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (61.97%) Hibernate
3 38 (53.52%) J2EE
3 38 (53.52%) Web Services
4 31 (43.66%) SQL
5 30 (42.25%) Oracle
6 22 (30.99%) Agile Software Development
7 19 (26.76%) XML
7 19 (26.76%) UML
7 19 (26.76%) Apache
8 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
9 17 (23.94%) CSS
9 17 (23.94%) Struts
9 17 (23.94%) Scrum
10 16 (22.54%) Maven
10 16 (22.54%) SOAP
10 16 (22.54%) JSP
10 16 (22.54%) Linux
10 16 (22.54%) MySQL
10 16 (22.54%) Unit Testing
10 16 (22.54%) RESTful
11 14 (19.72%) TDD
11 14 (19.72%) Finance
11 14 (19.72%) MVC
12 13 (18.31%) Tomcat
12 13 (18.31%) SOA
12 13 (18.31%) JSON
13 12 (16.90%) JUnit
13 12 (16.90%) Subversion
14 10 (14.08%) JSF

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 44 (61.97%) Hibernate
2 38 (53.52%) J2EE
2 38 (53.52%) Web Services
3 19 (26.76%) XML
4 17 (23.94%) CSS
4 17 (23.94%) Struts
5 16 (22.54%) SOAP
5 16 (22.54%) JSP
5 16 (22.54%) RESTful
6 13 (18.31%) JSON
7 10 (14.08%) JSF
7 10 (14.08%) Swing
8 9 (12.68%) HTML
8 9 (12.68%) GWT
9 8 (11.27%) REST
10 7 (9.859%) DHTML
10 7 (9.859%) Ajax
10 7 (9.859%) JPA
10 7 (9.859%) Apache Flex
11 6 (8.451%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 19 (26.76%) Apache
2 13 (18.31%) Tomcat
3 8 (11.27%) Liferay
4 6 (8.451%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (7.042%) CMS
6 4 (5.634%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.634%) ESB
6 4 (5.634%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (4.225%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (4.225%) Confluence
7 3 (4.225%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (2.817%) Apache Pig
8 2 (2.817%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (4.225%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.408%) Internet
1 1 (1.408%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) MySQL
2 10 (14.08%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.859%) JasperReports
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle OWB
4 4 (5.634%) GIS
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.817%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.817%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.817%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.817%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.817%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.817%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.817%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.408%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (22.54%) Maven
2 12 (16.90%) JUnit
2 12 (16.90%) Subversion
3 7 (9.859%) Eclipse
4 5 (7.042%) Ant
5 4 (5.634%) Git (software)
6 3 (4.225%) JIRA
6 3 (4.225%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (4.225%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.817%) ClearCase
8 1 (1.408%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.408%) Checkstyle
8 1 (1.408%) Gradle
8 1 (1.408%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.408%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.408%) JProfiler
8 1 (1.408%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.408%) FitNesse
General
1 14 (19.72%) Finance
2 6 (8.451%) Banking
3 5 (7.042%) Retail Banking
3 5 (7.042%) Retail
4 3 (4.225%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.408%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.408%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (78.87%) Developer
2 45 (63.38%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.68%) Senior Developer
3 9 (12.68%) J2EE Developer
4 7 (9.859%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.451%) Java Programmer
5 6 (8.451%) Programmer
6 5 (7.042%) Development Manager
6 5 (7.042%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 4 (5.634%) Portal Developer
8 2 (2.817%) J2EE Team Leader
8 2 (2.817%) Architect
8 2 (2.817%) Consultant
8 2 (2.817%) Java Consultant
8 2 (2.817%) Database Developer
8 2 (2.817%) Team Leader
9 1 (1.408%) Informatica Developer
9 1 (1.408%) Server Engineer
9 1 (1.408%) Java Analyst Programmer
9 1 (1.408%) J2EE Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.451%) Open Source
2 5 (7.042%) Computer Science
3 4 (5.634%) Informatics
4 2 (2.817%) Biology
4 2 (2.817%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.817%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.54%) Linux
2 7 (9.859%) UNIX
3 6 (8.451%) Windows
4 3 (4.225%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.225%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (26.76%) UML
3 17 (23.94%) Scrum
4 16 (22.54%) Unit Testing
5 14 (19.72%) TDD
5 14 (19.72%) MVC
6 13 (18.31%) SOA
7 10 (14.08%) OO
8 8 (11.27%) E-Commerce
9 7 (9.859%) BDD
9 7 (9.859%) User Stories
10 6 (8.451%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.451%) Requirements Analysis
10 6 (8.451%) RUP
11 5 (7.042%) Multithreading
11 5 (7.042%) Kanban
12 4 (5.634%) Data Migration
12 4 (5.634%) Waterfall
12 4 (5.634%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (5.634%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 31 (43.66%) SQL
3 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.27%) PL/SQL
4 8 (11.27%) C#
5 4 (5.634%) Ruby
5 4 (5.634%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.634%) C
5 4 (5.634%) Perl
5 4 (5.634%) Python
5 4 (5.634%) Lisp
6 3 (4.225%) Groovy
7 2 (2.817%) C++
7 2 (2.817%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.408%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.634%) CTC Cleared
3 4 (5.634%) PhD
4 2 (2.817%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (5.634%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 30 (42.25%) Oracle
2 10 (14.08%) JBoss
3 4 (5.634%) VMware
4 3 (4.225%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.408%) Informatica
5 1 (1.408%) Google
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