Midlands Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Midlands 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	54	69
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	22	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.707 %	1.948 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£369	-
Average daily rate	£397	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£425	-
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 Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	328	308
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.421 %	0.346 %
Daily rates quoted	46	24
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£390
Average daily rate	£376	£420
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£449
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.19	£31.05
Average hourly rate	£32.94	£34.07
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.70	£37.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Midlands 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 28 (84.85 %) J2EE 2 27 (81.82 %) Java 3 22 (66.67 %) Oracle 3 22 (66.67 %) Hibernate 4 17 (51.52 %) XML 5 11 (33.33 %) Eclipse 5 11 (33.33 %) Struts 5 11 (33.33 %) WebServices 6 9 (27.27 %) EJB 6 9 (27.27 %) Tomcat 6 9 (27.27 %) Apache 7 8 (24.24 %) Ant 7 8 (24.24 %) MVC 8 7 (21.21 %) WebSphere 8 7 (21.21 %) SQL

8 7 (21.21 %) Servlets 9 6 (18.18 %) WebLogic 9 6 (18.18 %) Linux 9 6 (18.18 %) OO 9 6 (18.18 %) Finance 10 5 (15.15 %) JSP 10 5 (15.15 %) Spring MVC 11 4 (12.12 %) JUnit 11 4 (12.12 %) UML 11 4 (12.12 %) Windows 11 4 (12.12 %) Log4j 12 3 (9.091 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 3 (9.091 %) HTML 12 3 (9.091 %) Degree 13 2 (6.061 %) iBATIS

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Midlands 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 28 (84.85 %) J2EE 2 22 (66.67 %) Hibernate 3 17 (51.52 %) XML 4 11 (33.33 %) Struts 4 11 (33.33 %) WebServices 5 9 (27.27 %) EJB 6 7 (21.21 %) WebSphere 6 7 (21.21 %) Servlets 7 5 (15.15 %) Spring MVC 7 5 (15.15 %) JSP 8 3 (9.091 %) HTML 9 2 (6.061 %) Java EE 9 2 (6.061 %) iBATIS 9 2 (6.061 %) Apache Axis 9 2 (6.061 %) Spring Web Flow 10 1 (3.030 %) JSF 10 1 (3.030 %) AJAX 10 1 (3.030 %) JDBC 10 1 (3.030 %) XSLT 10 1 (3.030 %) Swing	Application Platforms 1 9 (27.27 %) Apache 1 9 (27.27 %) Tomcat 2 6 (18.18 %) WebLogic 3 3 (9.091 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) Intranet 1 1 (3.030 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (6.061 %) RDBMS 1 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (3.030 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 11 (33.33 %) Eclipse 2 8 (24.24 %) Ant 3 4 (12.12 %) JUnit 3 4 (12.12 %) Log4j 4 2 (6.061 %) Subversion 4 2 (6.061 %) ClearCase	General 1 6 (18.18 %) Finance 2 2 (6.061 %) Banking 2 2 (6.061 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.030 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 28 (84.85 %) Developer 2 20 (60.61 %) Java Developer 2 20 (60.61 %) J2EE Developer 3 15 (45.45 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 11 (33.33 %) Senior Developer 5 8 (24.24 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 6 (18.18 %) Senior Java Developer 7 5 (15.15 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Senior Applications Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) WebSphere Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) J2EE Applications Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Senior J2EE Applications Developer 8 2 (6.061 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (3.030 %) Architect 9 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 9 1 (3.030 %) Technical Architect 9 1 (3.030 %) Analyst Programmer 9 1 (3.030 %) Programmer 9 1 (3.030 %) Technical Designer 9 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Portal Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 6 (18.18 %) Linux 2 4 (12.12 %) Windows 3 2 (6.061 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (24.24 %) MVC 2 6 (18.18 %) OO 3 4 (12.12 %) UML 4 2 (6.061 %) Logistics 4 2 (6.061 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 27 (81.82 %) Java 2 7 (21.21 %) SQL 3 2 (6.061 %) Perl 4 1 (3.030 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 3 (9.091 %) Degree
Vendors 1 22 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.030 %) Sybase 2 1 (3.030 %) Sun 2 1 (3.030 %) BEA 2 1 (3.030 %) ESRI