The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 17 5 12
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +7
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 1.786% 11.24% 1.333%
As % of the Application Development category 4.348% 31.25% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £375 £413 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +25.00%
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
23 32 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 41.07% 35.96% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 10
Average daily rate £400 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £150 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
London

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Grails
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 2 (66.67%) Mockito
2 2 (66.67%) CSS3
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Apache

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 2 (66.67%) Grails
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
1 2 (66.67%) CSS3
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) FFmpeg
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
2 1 (33.33%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA