The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 36 40 58
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +18
Contract jobs citing Spring 109 73 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.288% 2.767% 1.968%
As % of the Application Development category 14.51% 16.74% 9.291%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 35 33
Average daily rate £375 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £380 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.20% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
751 436 592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 29.54% 16.53% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 179 333
Average daily rate £350 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 6
Average hourly rate £31.00 £31.00 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £32.50 £32.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
UK

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Scotland Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Scotland region.

Scotland Spring Hourly 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -5 69 £419 +30.85% 13
Edinburgh +4 12 £413 - 3
Moray - - - -
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UK

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 210 (98.59%) Java
2 116 (54.46%) SQL
3 96 (45.07%) XML
4 90 (42.25%) Hibernate
5 88 (41.31%) Sybase
6 76 (35.68%) UNIX
7 74 (34.74%) JMS
8 73 (34.27%) Oracle
9 65 (30.52%) Agile Software Development
10 63 (29.58%) Tomcat
11 56 (26.29%) J2EE
12 53 (24.88%) JUnit
13 45 (21.13%) Eclipse
14 44 (20.66%) Linux
15 42 (19.72%) Finance
15 42 (19.72%) Banking
16 40 (18.78%) OO
17 38 (17.84%) JavaScript
18 37 (17.37%) CSS
18 37 (17.37%) Maven
19 36 (16.90%) JSP
20 33 (15.49%) JDBC
20 33 (15.49%) Web Services
20 33 (15.49%) Unit Testing
21 32 (15.02%) Multithreading
21 32 (15.02%) MVC
22 31 (14.55%) RDBMS
22 31 (14.55%) HTML
22 31 (14.55%) Scrum
23 30 (14.08%) Perl

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 96 (45.07%) XML
2 90 (42.25%) Hibernate
3 74 (34.74%) JMS
4 56 (26.29%) J2EE
5 37 (17.37%) CSS
6 36 (16.90%) JSP
7 33 (15.49%) JDBC
7 33 (15.49%) Web Services
8 31 (14.55%) HTML
9 30 (14.08%) XSLT
9 30 (14.08%) J2SE
10 29 (13.62%) SOAP
10 29 (13.62%) Struts
11 26 (12.21%) WebSphere
12 25 (11.74%) jQuery
12 25 (11.74%) Spring MVC
12 25 (11.74%) RESTful
13 23 (10.80%) Ajax
14 22 (10.33%) JSF
15 20 (9.390%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 63 (29.58%) Tomcat
2 22 (10.33%) Apache
3 8 (3.756%) Mule
4 6 (2.817%) Oracle Coherence
4 6 (2.817%) ESB
5 4 (1.878%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (1.408%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (1.408%) GlassFish
6 3 (1.408%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.469%) SAS
7 1 (0.469%) IIS
7 1 (0.469%) CMS
7 1 (0.469%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.469%) GemFire
7 1 (0.469%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 6 (2.817%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.408%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.469%) Advent Geneva
1 1 (0.469%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (0.469%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.939%) FTP
2 1 (0.469%) NAS
2 1 (0.469%) SMS
2 1 (0.469%) HTTP
2 1 (0.469%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.55%) RDBMS
2 28 (13.15%) DB2
3 25 (11.74%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.347%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.878%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.878%) Oracle 10g
5 4 (1.878%) MySQL
6 3 (1.408%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.408%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.469%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.469%) KDB
7 1 (0.469%) TOAD
7 1 (0.469%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 53 (24.88%) JUnit
2 45 (21.13%) Eclipse
3 37 (17.37%) Maven
4 24 (11.27%) Selenium
5 21 (9.859%) Subversion
6 17 (7.981%) CruiseControl
7 14 (6.573%) JIRA
8 12 (5.634%) Jenkins
9 9 (4.225%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.286%) JDeveloper
11 6 (2.817%) Ant
11 6 (2.817%) ClearCase
11 6 (2.817%) FitNesse
12 5 (2.347%) Hudson
13 4 (1.878%) Rational Application Developer
14 3 (1.408%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (1.408%) WATIR
14 3 (1.408%) Firebug
14 3 (1.408%) Oracle Forms
14 3 (1.408%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 42 (19.72%) Finance
1 42 (19.72%) Banking
2 17 (7.981%) Investment Banking
3 13 (6.103%) Front Office
4 5 (2.347%) Retail
4 5 (2.347%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.408%) Retail Banking
5 3 (1.408%) Games
Job Titles
1 189 (88.73%) Developer
2 173 (81.22%) Java Developer
3 16 (7.512%) Senior Developer
3 16 (7.512%) Senior Java Developer
4 10 (4.695%) C++ Developer
5 9 (4.225%) Analyst
6 8 (3.756%) C++/Java Developer
7 7 (3.286%) Java Analyst Programmer
7 7 (3.286%) Java Programmer
7 7 (3.286%) ScrumMaster
7 7 (3.286%) Analyst Programmer
7 7 (3.286%) Programmer
8 5 (2.347%) Developer Analyst
9 3 (1.408%) WebSphere Developer
9 3 (1.408%) Java Applications Developer
9 3 (1.408%) WebSphere Portal Developer
9 3 (1.408%) Portal Developer
9 3 (1.408%) Applications Developer
9 3 (1.408%) Build Engineer
9 3 (1.408%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.74%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.042%) N-Tier
2 15 (7.042%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (3.756%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (3.756%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.817%) Open Source
4 6 (2.817%) Mathematics
4 6 (2.817%) Computer Science
4 6 (2.817%) Derivative
5 5 (2.347%) Clustering
5 5 (2.347%) Equities
6 3 (1.408%) Web 2.0
6 3 (1.408%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.939%) W3C
7 2 (0.939%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.469%) Ergonomics
8 1 (0.469%) RIA
8 1 (0.469%) Data Integration
8 1 (0.469%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 76 (35.68%) UNIX
2 44 (20.66%) Linux
3 7 (3.286%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (30.52%) Agile Software Development
2 40 (18.78%) OO
3 33 (15.49%) Unit Testing
4 32 (15.02%) Multithreading
4 32 (15.02%) MVC
5 31 (14.55%) Scrum
6 28 (13.15%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (11.74%) TDD
8 16 (7.512%) SOA
9 15 (7.042%) Electronic Trading
10 14 (6.573%) Web Application Development
11 12 (5.634%) Data Modelling
12 10 (4.695%) UML
12 10 (4.695%) Extreme Programming
13 9 (4.225%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (3.756%) Test Automation
14 8 (3.756%) Software Engineering
14 8 (3.756%) Pair Programming
15 7 (3.286%) BDD
16 6 (2.817%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 210 (98.59%) Java
2 116 (54.46%) SQL
3 38 (17.84%) JavaScript
4 30 (14.08%) Perl
5 29 (13.62%) PL/SQL
6 18 (8.451%) Shell Script
7 17 (7.981%) Scala
8 15 (7.042%) C#
9 13 (6.103%) C++
10 10 (4.695%) Python
11 9 (4.225%) Ruby
12 7 (3.286%) VB
13 5 (2.347%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.408%) Korn
14 3 (1.408%) Jython
15 2 (0.939%) Bash shell
15 2 (0.939%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.939%) VBA
15 2 (0.939%) VBScript
16 1 (0.469%) VB6
Qualifications
1 18 (8.451%) Degree
2 6 (2.817%) Sun Certification
3 3 (1.408%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.408%) QA
2 2 (0.939%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.408%) MetaFrame
2 1 (0.469%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.408%) Puppet
2 1 (0.469%) Control-M
2 1 (0.469%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 88 (41.31%) Sybase
2 73 (34.27%) Oracle
3 10 (4.695%) Informatica
4 8 (3.756%) Sun
4 8 (3.756%) IBM
4 8 (3.756%) JBoss
5 4 (1.878%) Perforce
5 4 (1.878%) Murex
6 3 (1.408%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.408%) Citrix
6 3 (1.408%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.939%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.939%) HP
7 2 (0.939%) Intel
8 1 (0.469%) Google
8 1 (0.469%) Alterian
8 1 (0.469%) VMware
8 1 (0.469%) Advent
8 1 (0.469%) Adobe
8 1 (0.469%) BEA
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