The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 61 54 38
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 13 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.759% 1.496% 2.516%
As % of the Application Development category 5.263% 5.652% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
Average daily rate £250 £315 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.63% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £270 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £350 £324
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
247 230 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.42% 26.47% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 153 81
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £232 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -58.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
West Yorkshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 23 (95.83%) J2EE
3 19 (79.17%) TDD
4 15 (62.50%) Maven
4 15 (62.50%) jQuery
4 15 (62.50%) JavaScript
4 15 (62.50%) Oracle
4 15 (62.50%) Web Services
5 13 (54.17%) SOAP
6 12 (50.00%) Client/Server
6 12 (50.00%) MySQL
6 12 (50.00%) Security Testing
6 12 (50.00%) Git (software)
6 12 (50.00%) Scrum
6 12 (50.00%) Adobe
6 12 (50.00%) Internet
6 12 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (50.00%) SOA
6 12 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (50.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
6 12 (50.00%) HTML5
6 12 (50.00%) hybris
6 12 (50.00%) BDD
6 12 (50.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (50.00%) REST
6 12 (50.00%) Redis
6 12 (50.00%) Percona
6 12 (50.00%) Adobe CQ

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 23 (95.83%) J2EE
3 15 (62.50%) jQuery
3 15 (62.50%) Web Services
4 13 (54.17%) SOAP
5 12 (50.00%) HTML5
5 12 (50.00%) REST
6 11 (45.83%) Struts
7 8 (33.33%) CSS
7 8 (33.33%) Java EE
8 7 (29.17%) CSS3
8 7 (29.17%) Node.js
9 4 (16.67%) Ajax
10 3 (12.50%) Struts2
11 2 (8.333%) JSP
11 2 (8.333%) HTML
11 2 (8.333%) XML
12 1 (4.167%) XSLT
12 1 (4.167%) Servlets
12 1 (4.167%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
1 12 (50.00%) Adobe CQ
1 12 (50.00%) Route 53
2 8 (33.33%) Apache
2 8 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 7 (29.17%) nginx
3 7 (29.17%) Apache Solr
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (4.167%) Magento
Business Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Internet
2 7 (29.17%) HTTP
2 7 (29.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) MySQL
1 12 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 12 (50.00%) Redis
1 12 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) Maven
2 12 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Subversion
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (12.50%) JUnit
3 3 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
1 24 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.167%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.167%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) TDD
2 12 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 12 (50.00%) Scrum
2 12 (50.00%) SOA
2 12 (50.00%) BDD
3 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
3 7 (29.17%) Kanban
3 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.167%) Web Design
4 1 (4.167%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (29.17%) Ruby
3 7 (29.17%) C++
3 7 (29.17%) Perl
3 7 (29.17%) PHP
3 7 (29.17%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) Bash shell
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Oracle
2 12 (50.00%) Adobe
2 12 (50.00%) hybris
2 12 (50.00%) Percona
3 1 (4.167%) JBoss
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