The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 21 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 Peterborough 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Spring 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 20 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 22.58% 23.53% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 16
Average daily rate £350 £288 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -14.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £475 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Cambridgeshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle OWB
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 4 (100.00%) GWT
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (75.00%) Confluence
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 4 (100.00%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle OWB
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Development Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft