The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 19 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 Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 6 6 26
Rank change year-on-year
0 +20
Contract jobs citing Spring 20 30 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 10.99% 11.67% 2.821%
As % of the Application Development category 33.90% 42.86% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £350 £350
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
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
59 70 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 32.42% 27.24% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 20
Average daily rate £450 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £540 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 21
Average hourly rate - - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 29 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (68.97%) Hibernate
3 18 (62.07%) JPA
4 13 (44.83%) Drools
4 13 (44.83%) JBoss
4 13 (44.83%) J2EE
5 9 (31.03%) DWR
6 7 (24.14%) Web Services
6 7 (24.14%) RESTful
6 7 (24.14%) AOP
6 7 (24.14%) Business Development
6 7 (24.14%) TDD
7 4 (13.79%) Maven
7 4 (13.79%) Java EE
7 4 (13.79%) Spring Security
7 4 (13.79%) LDAP
8 3 (10.34%) UML
8 3 (10.34%) OO
8 3 (10.34%) SQL
8 3 (10.34%) Oracle
8 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
8 3 (10.34%) JUnit
8 3 (10.34%) Scrum
9 2 (6.897%) Servlets
9 2 (6.897%) XML
10 1 (3.448%) BDD

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 20 (68.97%) Hibernate
2 18 (62.07%) JPA
3 13 (44.83%) Drools
3 13 (44.83%) J2EE
4 9 (31.03%) DWR
5 7 (24.14%) Web Services
5 7 (24.14%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) Java EE
6 4 (13.79%) Spring Security
7 2 (6.897%) Servlets
7 2 (6.897%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Maven
2 3 (10.34%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Developer
1 22 (75.86%) Java Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Technical Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Lead Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.448%) Senior Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) AOP
1 7 (24.14%) Business Development
1 7 (24.14%) TDD
2 3 (10.34%) UML
2 3 (10.34%) OO
2 3 (10.34%) Scrum
3 1 (3.448%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) JBoss
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
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