The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 25 22 30
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +8
Contract jobs citing Spring 67 40 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.453% 4.914% 4.545%
As % of the Application Development category 17.22% 19.61% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 23
Average daily rate £413 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.90% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £258 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £350 £429
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.20% -4.28%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
389 204 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.27% 25.06% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 90 174
Average daily rate £350 £311 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
Scotland

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 157 (98.74%) Java
2 87 (54.72%) SQL
3 68 (42.77%) Sybase
4 64 (40.25%) UNIX
5 63 (39.62%) XML
5 63 (39.62%) Hibernate
6 58 (36.48%) Oracle
7 56 (35.22%) JMS
8 54 (33.96%) Agile Software Development
9 49 (30.82%) Tomcat
10 40 (25.16%) JUnit
11 36 (22.64%) J2EE
11 36 (22.64%) Linux
11 36 (22.64%) Banking
12 35 (22.01%) OO
13 34 (21.38%) Eclipse
13 34 (21.38%) Finance
14 32 (20.13%) JavaScript
14 32 (20.13%) Unit Testing
15 31 (19.50%) Web Services
16 30 (18.87%) Maven
17 29 (18.24%) CSS
17 29 (18.24%) RDBMS
18 27 (16.98%) MVC
18 27 (16.98%) Scrum
18 27 (16.98%) JSP
18 27 (16.98%) J2SE
19 26 (16.35%) Perl
20 25 (15.72%) DB2
21 24 (15.09%) Struts

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 63 (39.62%) XML
1 63 (39.62%) Hibernate
2 56 (35.22%) JMS
3 36 (22.64%) J2EE
4 31 (19.50%) Web Services
5 29 (18.24%) CSS
6 27 (16.98%) JSP
6 27 (16.98%) J2SE
7 24 (15.09%) Struts
8 22 (13.84%) HTML
9 21 (13.21%) JDBC
10 20 (12.58%) XSLT
10 20 (12.58%) Spring MVC
11 19 (11.95%) SOAP
12 18 (11.32%) Ajax
13 17 (10.69%) JSF
14 15 (9.434%) WebSphere
15 14 (8.805%) iBATIS
15 14 (8.805%) Spring Web Flow
15 14 (8.805%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 49 (30.82%) Tomcat
2 19 (11.95%) Apache
3 8 (5.031%) Mule
4 6 (3.774%) Oracle Coherence
4 6 (3.774%) ESB
5 2 (1.258%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.629%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.629%) GemFire
6 1 (0.629%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (0.629%) GlassFish
Business Applications
1 1 (0.629%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.258%) FTP
2 1 (0.629%) HTTP
2 1 (0.629%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.24%) RDBMS
2 25 (15.72%) DB2
3 23 (14.47%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.145%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.887%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.258%) MySQL
7 1 (0.629%) KDB
7 1 (0.629%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.629%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.629%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (25.16%) JUnit
2 34 (21.38%) Eclipse
3 30 (18.87%) Maven
4 22 (13.84%) Selenium
5 17 (10.69%) Subversion
6 15 (9.434%) CruiseControl
7 10 (6.289%) JIRA
8 7 (4.403%) Jenkins
8 7 (4.403%) Cucumber
8 7 (4.403%) JDeveloper
9 5 (3.145%) Ant
10 4 (2.516%) ClearCase
11 3 (1.887%) Eclipse RCP
11 3 (1.887%) Hudson
12 2 (1.258%) PVCS
13 1 (0.629%) Aptana Studio
13 1 (0.629%) RSpec
13 1 (0.629%) Spring Roo
13 1 (0.629%) WATIR
13 1 (0.629%) JMeter
General
1 36 (22.64%) Banking
2 34 (21.38%) Finance
3 13 (8.176%) Investment Banking
4 9 (5.660%) Front Office
5 5 (3.145%) Retail
5 5 (3.145%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.887%) Retail Banking
6 3 (1.887%) Games
Job Titles
1 141 (88.68%) Developer
2 132 (83.02%) Java Developer
3 12 (7.547%) Senior Developer
3 12 (7.547%) Senior Java Developer
4 10 (6.289%) C++ Developer
5 8 (5.031%) Analyst
5 8 (5.031%) C++/Java Developer
6 7 (4.403%) ScrumMaster
6 7 (4.403%) Analyst Programmer
6 7 (4.403%) Programmer
6 7 (4.403%) Java Programmer
6 7 (4.403%) Java Analyst Programmer
7 5 (3.145%) Developer Analyst
8 3 (1.887%) Scala Developer
8 3 (1.887%) Java Applications Developer
8 3 (1.887%) Applications Developer
9 2 (1.258%) Consultant
9 2 (1.258%) Agile Java Developer
10 1 (0.629%) Designer
10 1 (0.629%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (8.805%) N-Tier
3 8 (5.031%) Fixed Income
4 6 (3.774%) Equity Derivative
4 6 (3.774%) Mathematics
4 6 (3.774%) Computer Science
5 5 (3.145%) Clustering
6 4 (2.516%) Equities
6 4 (2.516%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.516%) Derivative
7 3 (1.887%) Open Source
8 2 (1.258%) W3C
8 2 (1.258%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.629%) Data Integration
9 1 (0.629%) Ergonomics
9 1 (0.629%) RIA
9 1 (0.629%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 64 (40.25%) UNIX
2 36 (22.64%) Linux
3 4 (2.516%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.96%) Agile Software Development
2 35 (22.01%) OO
3 32 (20.13%) Unit Testing
4 27 (16.98%) MVC
4 27 (16.98%) Scrum
5 20 (12.58%) Multithreading
6 19 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (10.69%) TDD
8 14 (8.805%) Web Application Development
9 13 (8.176%) SOA
10 11 (6.918%) Data Modelling
11 9 (5.660%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (5.031%) Extreme Programming
12 8 (5.031%) UML
12 8 (5.031%) Test Automation
13 7 (4.403%) BDD
14 6 (3.774%) Software Engineering
14 6 (3.774%) Kanban
15 5 (3.145%) Electronic Trading
16 4 (2.516%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 157 (98.74%) Java
2 87 (54.72%) SQL
3 32 (20.13%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.35%) Perl
5 23 (14.47%) PL/SQL
6 16 (10.06%) Scala
7 15 (9.434%) C#
7 15 (9.434%) Shell Script
8 13 (8.176%) C++
9 10 (6.289%) Python
10 7 (4.403%) Ruby
10 7 (4.403%) VB
11 5 (3.145%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.887%) Jython
13 2 (1.258%) VBScript
13 2 (1.258%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.258%) VBA
13 2 (1.258%) Korn
13 2 (1.258%) Bash shell
14 1 (0.629%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (5.031%) Degree
2 6 (3.774%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.258%) WCAG
2 1 (0.629%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.629%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.629%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.629%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (42.77%) Sybase
2 58 (36.48%) Oracle
3 10 (6.289%) Informatica
4 6 (3.774%) Sun
5 4 (2.516%) JBoss
5 4 (2.516%) Perforce
6 3 (1.887%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.258%) IBM
8 1 (0.629%) Sencha
8 1 (0.629%) Google
8 1 (0.629%) Alterian
8 1 (0.629%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.629%) BEA
8 1 (0.629%) Adobe
8 1 (0.629%) HP
8 1 (0.629%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.629%) VMware
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