Manchester Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	66
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	11	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.764 %	0.347 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£356	-
Average daily rate	£381	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£406	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£334
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.75	£41.14
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	398	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.511 %	0.324 %
Daily rates quoted	74	46
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£243
Average daily rate	£357	£264
% change on same period last year	+35.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.95	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£29.31	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.67	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Spring
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the Manchester region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Spring
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Bury	-	2	£345	-

Spring North West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring.

1 27 (93.10 %) Java 2 25 (86.21 %) Hibernate 3 16 (55.17 %) Oracle 4 15 (51.72 %) J2EE 5 10 (34.48 %) Linux 6 9 (31.03 %) Unix 6 9 (31.03 %) Oracle Application Server 6 9 (31.03 %) Red Hat 7 8 (27.59 %) EJB 8 7 (24.14 %) JUnit 8 7 (24.14 %) JSP 8 7 (24.14 %) Banking 9 6 (20.69 %) XML 9 6 (20.69 %) OOD 9 6 (20.69 %) UML

9 6 (20.69 %) OO 10 5 (17.24 %) Ant 10 5 (17.24 %) Criminal Justice 11 4 (13.79 %) Finance 11 4 (13.79 %) HTML 11 4 (13.79 %) Eclipse 12 3 (10.34 %) Struts 12 3 (10.34 %) SQL 12 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 10g 12 3 (10.34 %) Insurance 13 2 (6.897 %) Wealth Management 13 2 (6.897 %) Retail Banking 13 2 (6.897 %) Corporate Banking 13 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 13 2 (6.897 %) Internet

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 25 (86.21 %) Hibernate 2 15 (51.72 %) J2EE 3 8 (27.59 %) EJB 4 7 (24.14 %) JSP 5 6 (20.69 %) XML 6 4 (13.79 %) HTML 7 3 (10.34 %) Struts 8 2 (6.897 %) WebServices 8 2 (6.897 %) CSS 8 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 9 1 (3.448 %) GWT 9 1 (3.448 %) jQuery 9 1 (3.448 %) XSLT 9 1 (3.448 %) AJAX 9 1 (3.448 %) Ruby on Rails 9 1 (3.448 %) NHibernate 9 1 (3.448 %) .NET 9 1 (3.448 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (31.03 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (6.897 %) JBoss 3 1 (3.448 %) Apache 3 1 (3.448 %) Tomcat 3 1 (3.448 %) JRun 3 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic 3 1 (3.448 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (3.448 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 7 (24.14 %) JUnit 2 5 (17.24 %) Ant 3 4 (13.79 %) Eclipse	General 1 7 (24.14 %) Banking 2 5 (17.24 %) Criminal Justice 3 4 (13.79 %) Finance 4 3 (10.34 %) Insurance 5 2 (6.897 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (6.897 %) Corporate Banking 5 2 (6.897 %) Retail 5 2 (6.897 %) Telecoms 6 1 (3.448 %) Government
Job Titles 1 24 (82.76 %) Developer 2 22 (75.86 %) Java Developer 3 12 (41.38 %) J2EE Developer 4 11 (37.93 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 2 (6.897 %) Senior J2EE Developer 5 2 (6.897 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) Asset Management 2 1 (3.448 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (3.448 %) Social Network
Operating Systems 1 10 (34.48 %) Linux 2 9 (31.03 %) Unix 3 2 (6.897 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.69 %) UML 1 6 (20.69 %) OO 1 6 (20.69 %) OOD 2 2 (6.897 %) Wealth Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.448 %) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages 1 27 (93.10 %) Java 2 3 (10.34 %) SQL 3 2 (6.897 %) JavaScript 4 1 (3.448 %) Perl 4 1 (3.448 %) Ruby 4 1 (3.448 %) C#	Qualifications 1 1 (3.448 %) Degree
Vendors 1 16 (55.17 %) Oracle 2 9 (31.03 %) Red Hat