The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Oxford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 30 38 22
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -16
Contract jobs citing Spring 4 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.709% 0.301% 2.994%
As % of the Application Development category 11.11% 1.111% 7.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
Average daily rate £320 £450 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.88% +38.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 90 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.38% 27.11% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 49
Average daily rate £325 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £220 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Oxfordshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (75.00%) HOOD
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) New Media
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Grails

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) HOOD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java