South Yorkshire Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the South Yorkshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	38
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	14	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	17.95 %	1.124 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£301	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£301	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£334
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
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	£33.75	£41.14
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Application Development South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	78	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.100 %
Daily rates quoted	19	14
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£313
Average daily rate	£297	£329
% change on same period last year	-9.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.55	£18.47
Average hourly rate	£38.06	£19.71
% change on same period last year	+93.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.56	£20.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring Yorkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the South Yorkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the South Yorkshire region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the South Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the South Yorkshire region.

Spring
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the South Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Sheffield	-	7	£301	-

Spring Yorkshire

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring.

1 20 (83.33 %) Java 2 19 (79.17 %) Hibernate 3 17 (70.83 %) J2EE 3 17 (70.83 %) Struts 4 9 (37.50 %) Oracle 5 8 (33.33 %) JBoss 6 7 (29.17 %) XML 6 7 (29.17 %) JUnit 7 6 (25.00 %) JSTL 8 4 (16.67 %) JSP 8 4 (16.67 %) UML 8 4 (16.67 %) RSS 8 4 (16.67 %) Identity Management 9 3 (12.50 %) Eclipse 9 3 (12.50 %) HTML

9 3 (12.50 %) CSS 9 3 (12.50 %) Ant 9 3 (12.50 %) MySQL 9 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 9 3 (12.50 %) Multimedia 10 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 10 2 (8.333 %) TDD 10 2 (8.333 %) E-Learning 10 2 (8.333 %) SiteMesh 10 2 (8.333 %) HttpUnit 10 2 (8.333 %) Degree 10 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 10 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g 10 2 (8.333 %) MVC 10 2 (8.333 %) Internet

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (79.17 %) Hibernate 2 17 (70.83 %) J2EE 2 17 (70.83 %) Struts 3 7 (29.17 %) XML 4 6 (25.00 %) JSTL 5 4 (16.67 %) RSS 5 4 (16.67 %) JSP 6 3 (12.50 %) HTML 6 3 (12.50 %) CSS 7 2 (8.333 %) XSLT 7 2 (8.333 %) SiteMesh 8 1 (4.167 %) Lucene 8 1 (4.167 %) AJAX 8 1 (4.167 %) Velocity 8 1 (4.167 %) JMX 8 1 (4.167 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 8 (33.33 %) JBoss 2 1 (4.167 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Internet 2 1 (4.167 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (12.50 %) MySQL 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (8.333 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 7 (29.17 %) JUnit 2 3 (12.50 %) Eclipse 2 3 (12.50 %) Ant 3 2 (8.333 %) HttpUnit 4 1 (4.167 %) JIRA 4 1 (4.167 %) TestDirector 4 1 (4.167 %) CheckStyle	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Multimedia 2 1 (4.167 %) Finance 2 1 (4.167 %) Education
Job Titles 1 15 (62.50 %) Developer 2 10 (41.67 %) J2EE Developer 3 7 (29.17 %) Java Developer 4 4 (16.67 %) Solutions Architect 4 4 (16.67 %) Architect 4 4 (16.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 3 (12.50 %) Web Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Java Web Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Designer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) UML 1 4 (16.67 %) Identity Management 2 2 (8.333 %) MVC 2 2 (8.333 %) TDD 2 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (4.167 %) Pair Programming 3 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (4.167 %) OO 3 1 (4.167 %) RUP 3 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 20 (83.33 %) Java 2 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 3 1 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (4.167 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree	Vendors 1 9 (37.50 %) Oracle