The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 46 59 47
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -12
Contract jobs citing Spring 24 25 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.469% 2.054% 2.047%
As % of the Application Development category 8.219% 7.022% 7.343%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 8
Average daily rate £323 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £279 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £334 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.20% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
292 356 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.04% 29.25% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 194 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 19
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Manchester region.

Manchester Spring Hourly 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 Manchester 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Salford - 4 £323 - 1
Stockport - 4 £350 - 5
Bolton - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Spring
North West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 46 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (63.04%) JavaScript
3 24 (52.17%) J2EE
3 24 (52.17%) Hibernate
4 22 (47.83%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (43.48%) jQuery
6 19 (41.30%) TDD
6 19 (41.30%) Pair Programming
6 19 (41.30%) Web Services
7 18 (39.13%) MVC
8 17 (36.96%) CSS
9 16 (34.78%) Ajax
10 15 (32.61%) JSON
10 15 (32.61%) SQL
10 15 (32.61%) OO
11 14 (30.43%) REST
12 13 (28.26%) JSP
12 13 (28.26%) XML
13 12 (26.09%) XSLT
13 12 (26.09%) Servlets
13 12 (26.09%) HTML
14 11 (23.91%) XPath
15 10 (21.74%) RESTful
15 10 (21.74%) BDD
15 10 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (21.74%) Eclipse
15 10 (21.74%) RDF
15 10 (21.74%) XQuery
16 9 (19.57%) JSR 286
16 9 (19.57%) JAX-RS

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (52.17%) J2EE
1 24 (52.17%) Hibernate
2 20 (43.48%) jQuery
3 19 (41.30%) Web Services
4 17 (36.96%) CSS
5 16 (34.78%) Ajax
6 15 (32.61%) JSON
7 14 (30.43%) REST
8 13 (28.26%) JSP
8 13 (28.26%) XML
9 12 (26.09%) XSLT
9 12 (26.09%) Servlets
9 12 (26.09%) HTML
10 10 (21.74%) RESTful
11 9 (19.57%) JSR 286
11 9 (19.57%) JAX-RS
11 9 (19.57%) JSTL
11 9 (19.57%) JSR 168
12 8 (17.39%) Spring MVC
12 8 (17.39%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) ESB
2 2 (4.348%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) RDBMS
1 3 (6.522%) MySQL
1 3 (6.522%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.348%) MarkLogic
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.174%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.174%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Eclipse
2 6 (13.04%) NetBeans
2 6 (13.04%) Subversion
3 5 (10.87%) Gradle
4 4 (8.696%) JIRA
4 4 (8.696%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.348%) Hudson
5 2 (4.348%) TestNG
5 2 (4.348%) JUnit
5 2 (4.348%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.174%) Maven
6 1 (2.174%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (6.522%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.348%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (93.48%) Developer
2 42 (91.30%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Web Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Java Web Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Applications Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Agile Java Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Web Applications Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Java Applications Developer
7 3 (6.522%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.522%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.174%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Statistics
1 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.348%) Interactive TV
2 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.348%) Semantic Web
2 2 (4.348%) Streaming Video
3 1 (2.174%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (2.174%) W3C
3 1 (2.174%) E-Learning
3 1 (2.174%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (2.174%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (41.30%) TDD
2 19 (41.30%) Pair Programming
3 18 (39.13%) MVC
4 15 (32.61%) OO
5 10 (21.74%) BDD
5 10 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (21.74%) RDF
6 9 (19.57%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.39%) Benchmarking
8 6 (13.04%) Scrum
8 6 (13.04%) Web Design
9 5 (10.87%) SOA
10 4 (8.696%) Web Application Development
10 4 (8.696%) ITIL
10 4 (8.696%) E-Commerce
11 3 (6.522%) Release Management
11 3 (6.522%) Web Development
12 2 (4.348%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (63.04%) JavaScript
3 15 (32.61%) SQL
4 11 (23.91%) XPath
5 10 (21.74%) XQuery
6 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 5 (10.87%) Ruby
7 4 (8.696%) SPARQL
8 3 (6.522%) Scala
9 2 (4.348%) Groovy
10 1 (2.174%) Python
10 1 (2.174%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) QA
2 1 (2.174%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) JBoss
3 2 (4.348%) Facebook
3 2 (4.348%) Twitter
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
Greater Manchester, North West
Experience of Spring and Hibernate. * Knowledge of agile methodologies including TDD, SCRUM and Pair Programming. * Working knowledge of database systems, SQL, stored procedures, data modelling. * Experience in applying...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
Stockport, North West
My client has an urgent project requirement for a 3 month contract, which is likely to extend, for a Java developer with Spring MVC, Hibernate and Agile methodology...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013