The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 32 69 43
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -26
Contract jobs citing Spring 5 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.838% 0.152% 1.357%
As % of the Application Development category 7.246% 0.585% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
69 171 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 25.37% 26.03% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 97 58
Average daily rate £400 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.90 £25.00
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 Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Spring Daily 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheltenham - 5 £325 -
Spring
South West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) PL/SQL
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) CSS
3 5 (62.50%) XML
3 5 (62.50%) XSL
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (62.50%) Web Development
3 5 (62.50%) System Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Kanban
4 4 (50.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) QA
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) IIS
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) Apache
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) PHP
5 2 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (25.00%) Delphi
5 2 (25.00%) PowerShell

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (62.50%) CSS
2 5 (62.50%) XML
2 5 (62.50%) XSL
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ScrumMaster
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) Web Development
1 5 (62.50%) System Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Kanban
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (62.50%) PL/SQL
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Delphi
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft