Southampton Spring Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Southampton 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 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Feltham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	28
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.077 %	7.692 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£350
Average daily rate	£350	£390
% change on same period last year	-10.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£350
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
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	£39.67	£37.09
% change on same period last year	+6.93 %
Application Development Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	65	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.081 %
Daily rates quoted	16	36
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£266
Average daily rate	£329	£290
% change on same period last year	+13.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.33	£31.07
Average hourly rate	£36.45	£34.55
% change on same period last year	+5.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.57	£38.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
Spring Hampshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spring across the Southampton 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 IT contract jobs citing Spring across the Southampton region.

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

Spring
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) Hibernate 1 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) MySQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) Struts 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development

3 1 (33.33 %) Test-First Development 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) Pensions 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) OO 3 1 (33.33 %) Swing 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (100.00 %) XML 1 3 (100.00 %) Hibernate 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) Struts 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) Swing 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) Java Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Java Swing Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Test-First Development
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle