Nottingham Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Nottingham 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 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Ascot Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stockport Street Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	27
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	4.444 %	4.444 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£342
% change on same period last year	+5.59 %
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	£40.89	£40.35
% change on same period last year	+1.34 %
Application Development Nottingham
Matching contract IT job ads	90	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	27	9
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£345
Average daily rate	£362	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£19.50
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+15.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Spring Nottinghamshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Nottingham 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 IT contract jobs citing Spring across the Nottingham region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 28 August 2008.

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (87.50 %) J2EE 2 6 (75.00 %) Java 3 5 (62.50 %) JDBC 4 4 (50.00 %) HTML 4 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 5 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 5 3 (37.50 %) Hibernate 5 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere 5 3 (37.50 %) SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) IIS 5 3 (37.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 3 (37.50 %) CSS 5 3 (37.50 %) JSP 5 3 (37.50 %) XML 5 3 (37.50 %) Apache

5 3 (37.50 %) Tomcat 6 2 (25.00 %) Finance 6 2 (25.00 %) Windows 6 2 (25.00 %) Servlets 6 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 6 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 7 1 (12.50 %) Ant 7 1 (12.50 %) Struts 7 1 (12.50 %) OO 7 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 7 1 (12.50 %) JSF 7 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 7 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 7 1 (12.50 %) Internet

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (87.50 %) J2EE 2 5 (62.50 %) JDBC 3 4 (50.00 %) HTML 4 3 (37.50 %) WebSphere 4 3 (37.50 %) Hibernate 4 3 (37.50 %) JSP 4 3 (37.50 %) CSS 4 3 (37.50 %) XML 5 2 (25.00 %) Servlets 6 1 (12.50 %) Struts 6 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 6 1 (12.50 %) JSF 6 1 (12.50 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) IIS 1 3 (37.50 %) Apache 1 3 (37.50 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Intranet 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (12.50 %) Ant	General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 6 (75.00 %) Java Developer 3 5 (62.50 %) J2EE Developer 4 4 (50.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Senior Software Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Senior J2EE Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Lead Java Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support 5 1 (12.50 %) Lead Developer	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineering	Programming Languages 1 6 (75.00 %) Java 2 4 (50.00 %) JavaScript 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Oracle