The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 20 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 Lancashire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 31 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.435% 0.240% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.351% 0.775% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
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
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 129 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.17% 30.94% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 70 30
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £288 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £550 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
North West

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Preston - 1 £413 - 4
Spring
North West

Spring
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Scala