The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 Liverpool 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 19 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Spring 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.775% 0.559% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.125% 1.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
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
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 60 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 24.81% 33.52% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 21
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £260 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £369 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +166.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
Merseyside

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) JAX-WS
2 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 (100.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JAX-WS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Analyst Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Programmer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Analyst Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle