The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 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 Stirling 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 17 10 19
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +9
Contract jobs citing Spring 8 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 7.143% 10.26% 2.410%
As % of the Application Development category 13.79% 44.44% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
Average daily rate £413 £250 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.10% -52.38%
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
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 9 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 51.79% 23.08% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 16
Average daily rate £401 £250 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.20% -44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £250 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £618
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Scotland

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) XML
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Oracle
3 6 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (50.00%) Java EE
4 4 (50.00%) Banking
4 4 (50.00%) Sybase
4 4 (50.00%) UNIX
5 3 (37.50%) XSLT
5 3 (37.50%) JMS
5 3 (37.50%) JDBC
5 3 (37.50%) J2EE
5 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) CSS
6 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Ajax
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) JSP
6 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
6 2 (25.00%) Linux
7 1 (12.50%) OO
7 1 (12.50%) JBoss
7 1 (12.50%) RAD
7 1 (12.50%) Windows
7 1 (12.50%) TOAD
7 1 (12.50%) RDBMS

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 7 (87.50%) XML
2 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (50.00%) Java EE
4 3 (37.50%) XSLT
4 3 (37.50%) JMS
4 3 (37.50%) JDBC
4 3 (37.50%) J2EE
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) Ajax
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) JSP
6 1 (12.50%) JAXB
6 1 (12.50%) Servlets
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) JSTL
6 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
6 1 (12.50%) jQuery
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (12.50%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
1 1 (12.50%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) TOAD
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
2 1 (12.50%) Firebug
2 1 (12.50%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) OO
1 1 (12.50%) RAD
1 1 (12.50%) MVC
1 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
1 1 (12.50%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Sybase
3 1 (12.50%) JBoss
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Murex
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) MKS
3 1 (12.50%) TIBCO