The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 44 76 56
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -20
Contract jobs citing Spring 35 21 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 3.025% 1.276% 2.523%
As % of the Application Development category 10.70% 4.393% 8.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 25
Average daily rate £400 £318 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.98% -22.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £221 £377
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £355 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £41.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.68% +27.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
327 478 534
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.26% 29.04% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 275 294
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £248 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 15
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.75 £19.00 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
South East

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Camberley - 13 £348 -
Staines +4 4 - -
Guildford - 4 £375 -
Reigate - 2 £425 -
Epsom - 2 £345 -
Egham +2 1 - -
Spring
South East

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 60 (90.91%) Java
2 45 (68.18%) Hibernate
3 25 (37.88%) Agile Software Development
3 25 (37.88%) Maven
4 22 (33.33%) Oracle
5 21 (31.82%) TDD
6 19 (28.79%) GWT
7 17 (25.76%) Scrum
8 14 (21.21%) E-Commerce
9 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (19.70%) TestNG
10 12 (18.18%) SQL
11 11 (16.67%) .NET
11 11 (16.67%) C#
11 11 (16.67%) NHibernate
11 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
12 10 (15.15%) DbUnit
12 10 (15.15%) Mockito
12 10 (15.15%) Guice
12 10 (15.15%) Groovy
12 10 (15.15%) MVC
13 9 (13.64%) Finance
13 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
13 9 (13.64%) J2EE
13 9 (13.64%) UML
14 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
14 8 (12.12%) Spring Security
14 8 (12.12%) OO
14 8 (12.12%) Apache
14 8 (12.12%) CSS

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 45 (68.18%) Hibernate
2 19 (28.79%) GWT
3 11 (16.67%) .NET
3 11 (16.67%) NHibernate
4 10 (15.15%) Guice
5 9 (13.64%) J2EE
6 8 (12.12%) Spring Security
6 8 (12.12%) CSS
6 8 (12.12%) Spring Batch
7 7 (10.61%) WebSphere
8 6 (9.091%) EJB
8 6 (9.091%) Web Services
9 5 (7.576%) XML
9 5 (7.576%) JDBC
9 5 (7.576%) JMS
9 5 (7.576%) Middleware
9 5 (7.576%) JSF
10 4 (6.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (6.061%) Castle Windsor
10 4 (6.061%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) Apache
2 7 (10.61%) Tomcat
2 7 (10.61%) WebLogic
2 7 (10.61%) ESB
3 5 (7.576%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (6.061%) Adobe CQ
4 4 (6.061%) CMS
5 1 (1.515%) Commerce Server
5 1 (1.515%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.515%) Liferay
5 1 (1.515%) Mule
5 1 (1.515%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.515%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Apache OFBiz
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) Internet
2 2 (3.030%) Intranet
2 2 (3.030%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.061%) MySQL
3 3 (4.545%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.030%) TOAD
5 1 (1.515%) Adabas
5 1 (1.515%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (37.88%) Maven
2 13 (19.70%) TestNG
3 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (15.15%) DbUnit
4 10 (15.15%) Mockito
5 6 (9.091%) JUnit
6 5 (7.576%) Eclipse
7 4 (6.061%) Subversion
8 3 (4.545%) Git (software)
8 3 (4.545%) Hudson
9 2 (3.030%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (3.030%) jMock
9 2 (3.030%) EasyMock
9 2 (3.030%) Ant
10 1 (1.515%) ClearCase
10 1 (1.515%) RequisitePro
General
1 9 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (3.030%) Retail
3 1 (1.515%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.515%) Billing
Job Titles
1 58 (87.88%) Developer
2 31 (46.97%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 9 (13.64%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.61%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Agile .NET Developer
6 5 (7.576%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Android Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.061%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Team Leader
7 4 (6.061%) Web Applications Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (6.061%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Web Developer
8 3 (4.545%) C# Application Developer
8 3 (4.545%) C# Web Developer
8 3 (4.545%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.030%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.515%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.515%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.091%) Linux
2 4 (6.061%) Android
2 4 (6.061%) CentOS
3 2 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.88%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (31.82%) TDD
3 17 (25.76%) Scrum
4 14 (21.21%) E-Commerce
5 13 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (15.15%) MVC
7 9 (13.64%) UML
8 8 (12.12%) OO
9 7 (10.61%) Web Application Development
9 7 (10.61%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (10.61%) Project Management
10 6 (9.091%) SOA
11 4 (6.061%) Content Management
11 4 (6.061%) Data Modelling
11 4 (6.061%) OOD
12 3 (4.545%) Technical Architecture
13 2 (3.030%) Multithreading
13 2 (3.030%) CRM
14 1 (1.515%) Release Management
14 1 (1.515%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (90.91%) Java
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 11 (16.67%) C#
4 10 (15.15%) Groovy
5 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.091%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.545%) Scala
8 2 (3.030%) Ruby
9 1 (1.515%) VB
9 1 (1.515%) XQuery
9 1 (1.515%) NATURAL
9 1 (1.515%) VB6
9 1 (1.515%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.061%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.515%) ISEB
3 1 (1.515%) Sun Certification
3 1 (1.515%) SCJP
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (33.33%) Oracle
2 7 (10.61%) Google
3 6 (9.091%) IBM
4 4 (6.061%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.061%) Adobe
5 3 (4.545%) JBoss
6 2 (3.030%) hybris
7 1 (1.515%) SAP
7 1 (1.515%) Sun
7 1 (1.515%) Elastic Path
Guildford, South East
The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
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Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
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Agile development experience - Scrum/TDD/Extreme programming - Strong understanding of object-oriented programming concepts... § Highly experienced in § Core java and J2EE § UML and Design Patterns § Spring Framework § JSP,...
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Posted: 10 May 2013