The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 49 44 39
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -5
Contract jobs citing Spring 2 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.418% 1.239% 2.881%
As % of the Application Development category 1.905% 4.094% 6.731%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
Average daily rate £320 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +23.07%
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 171 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.97% 30.27% 42.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 86 134
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
South East

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford -1 1 £320 -39.90%
Wallingford - - - - 1
Spring
South East

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
3 7 (63.64%) Git (software)
4 6 (54.55%) Ajax
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) Linux
4 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 6 (54.55%) Oracle
4 6 (54.55%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) CSS
4 6 (54.55%) JPA
5 5 (45.45%) JSP
5 5 (45.45%) Struts
5 5 (45.45%) XML
5 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
5 5 (45.45%) J2EE
5 5 (45.45%) MVC
5 5 (45.45%) jQuery
6 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (36.36%) Maven
6 4 (36.36%) Apache
6 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
6 4 (36.36%) Eclipse
7 3 (27.27%) JUnit
7 3 (27.27%) Servlets
7 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 3 (27.27%) Subversion
7 3 (27.27%) JBoss
7 3 (27.27%) HOOD

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (72.73%) Hibernate
2 6 (54.55%) Ajax
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
2 6 (54.55%) JPA
3 5 (45.45%) JSP
3 5 (45.45%) Struts
3 5 (45.45%) XML
3 5 (45.45%) J2EE
3 5 (45.45%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) Servlets
4 3 (27.27%) Spring MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Java EE
5 2 (18.18%) Struts2
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 2 (18.18%) EJB
5 2 (18.18%) JAXB
6 1 (9.091%) GWT
6 1 (9.091%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache
1 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (18.18%) WebLogic
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git (software)
2 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (36.36%) Eclipse
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
3 3 (27.27%) Subversion
4 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
1 11 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) New Media
1 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) HOOD
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (18.18%) E-business
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) Web Development
5 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
5 1 (9.091%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
1 2 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) JBoss
2 3 (27.27%) Jaspersoft