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The table below looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Thames Valley 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSpring Framework
Location
3 months to
13 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank3435
Rank change on same period last yearUp+1
Matching contract IT job ads215
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.015 %
As % of the category below1.724 %8.523 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£346
% change on same period last year+3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.12£36.88
% change on same period last year+8.78 %
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads116176
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.164 %0.178 %
Daily rates quoted1722
Average minimum daily rate£245£374
Average daily rate£261£388
% change on same period last year-32.61 %
Average maximum daily rate£277£401
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£333
% change on same period last year-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted514
Average minimum hourly rate£36.43£29.74
Average hourly rate£37.86£33.67
% change on same period last year+12.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate£39.29£37.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.93£31.98
% change on same period last year-3.29 %
Spring South EastSpring
South East

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 Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Thames Valley Spring Demand Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spring across the Thames Valley region.

Thames Valley Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Thames Valley Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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.

14 (100.00 %)J2EE
14 (100.00 %)Hibernate
23 (75.00 %)Java
23 (75.00 %)JavaScript
23 (75.00 %)Oracle
23 (75.00 %)XML
23 (75.00 %)E-Commerce
32 (50.00 %)Struts
32 (50.00 %)JSP
41 (25.00 %)Subversion
41 (25.00 %)Web Development
41 (25.00 %)QA
41 (25.00 %)Spring MVC
41 (25.00 %)Acegi Security
41 (25.00 %)Grails
41 (25.00 %)Spring Web Flow
41 (25.00 %)Taglibs
41 (25.00 %)Unit Testing
41 (25.00 %)Groovy
41 (25.00 %)HTML
41 (25.00 %)SiteMesh
41 (25.00 %)Servlets
41 (25.00 %)JUnit
41 (25.00 %)CSS
41 (25.00 %)SQL
41 (25.00 %)MySQL
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
41 (25.00 %)Eclipse
41 (25.00 %)XSL
41 (25.00 %)Linux

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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.

Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (100.00 %)J2EE
14 (100.00 %)Hibernate
23 (75.00 %)XML
32 (50.00 %)Struts
32 (50.00 %)JSP
41 (25.00 %)Servlets
41 (25.00 %)CSS
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
41 (25.00 %)XSL
41 (25.00 %)SiteMesh
41 (25.00 %)Spring MVC
41 (25.00 %)Acegi Security
41 (25.00 %)Grails
41 (25.00 %)Spring Web Flow
41 (25.00 %)Taglibs
41 (25.00 %)HTML
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)Apache
11 (25.00 %)Tomcat
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (25.00 %)MySQL
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (25.00 %)JUnit
11 (25.00 %)Eclipse
11 (25.00 %)Subversion
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
14 (100.00 %)Developer
23 (75.00 %)Java Developer
32 (50.00 %)Senior Java Developer
32 (50.00 %)Senior Developer
41 (25.00 %)JSP Developer
41 (25.00 %)Java Web Developer
41 (25.00 %)J2EE Developer
41 (25.00 %)Web Developer
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11 (25.00 %)Linux
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (75.00 %)E-Commerce
21 (25.00 %)Web Development
21 (25.00 %)Unit Testing
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (75.00 %)Java
13 (75.00 %)JavaScript
21 (25.00 %)SQL
21 (25.00 %)Groovy
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (25.00 %)QA
Thames Valley IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (75.00 %)Oracle