The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 23 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 Exeter 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 25 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 43.27% 43.86% 56.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 21
Average daily rate £325 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.43% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
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
Devon

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) JAXB
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) XSD
3 2 (50.00%) JAX-WS
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Security
4 1 (25.00%) QMS
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) NetBeans
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) HPUX
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) NHS

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 2 (50.00%) JAXB
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) XSD
2 2 (50.00%) JAX-WS
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) NetBeans
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) HPUX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) QMS
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle