The first table below looks at the demand for Spring Integration skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring Integration over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spring Integration
Rank 518 549 554
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +5
Contract jobs citing Spring Integration 12 29 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.050% 0.055%
As % of the Application Development category 0.094% 0.195% 0.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 23
Average daily rate £425 £575 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.08% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £355 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £553 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.76% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Average hourly rate - £31.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -27.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -27.05%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Spring Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Spring Integration Jobs Demand Trend

Spring Integration
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spring Integration within the UK.

Spring Integration Daily Rate Trend

Spring Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring Integration within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Spring Integration Daily Rate Histogram

Spring Integration
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spring Integration within the UK.

Spring Integration Hourly Rate Trend

Spring Integration
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring Integration within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +35 11 £425 -26.08%
London +10 10 £475 -19.14%
South West +23 1 £360 +17.07%
Scotland -19 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £360 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Bournemouth - 1 £360 -

Spring Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Spring Integration 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 Integration.

1 38 (100.00%) Java
1 38 (100.00%) Spring
2 26 (68.42%) TDD
3 19 (50.00%) J2EE
4 18 (47.37%) Web Services
4 18 (47.37%) XML
5 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
6 16 (42.11%) RDBMS
7 15 (39.47%) Maven
7 15 (39.47%) Kanban
8 14 (36.84%) Oracle
8 14 (36.84%) SQL
8 14 (36.84%) Spring Batch
9 13 (34.21%) BDD
10 12 (31.58%) Finance
11 11 (28.95%) Hibernate
11 11 (28.95%) Scrum
11 11 (28.95%) JUnit
11 11 (28.95%) Groovy
11 11 (28.95%) Grails
12 10 (26.32%) Ruby
12 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (26.32%) Android
12 10 (26.32%) iPhone
12 10 (26.32%) Domain-Driven Design
12 10 (26.32%) Scala
12 10 (26.32%) Hadoop
12 10 (26.32%) Video on Demand
12 10 (26.32%) JMS
12 10 (26.32%) KnockoutJS

Spring Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Spring Integration 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 Integration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (100.00%) Spring
2 19 (50.00%) J2EE
3 18 (47.37%) Web Services
3 18 (47.37%) XML
4 14 (36.84%) Spring Batch
5 11 (28.95%) Hibernate
5 11 (28.95%) Grails
6 10 (26.32%) JMS
6 10 (26.32%) KnockoutJS
7 9 (23.68%) HTML
8 8 (21.05%) XSLT
9 7 (18.42%) Spring MVC
10 5 (13.16%) Java EE
10 5 (13.16%) jQuery
10 5 (13.16%) JPA
10 5 (13.16%) HTML5
11 4 (10.53%) Guice
11 4 (10.53%) GWT
11 4 (10.53%) XSD
11 4 (10.53%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) WebLogic
1 5 (13.16%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.263%) Apache
2 2 (5.263%) Confluence
3 1 (2.632%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.632%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.632%) HTTP
1 1 (2.632%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) RDBMS
2 10 (26.32%) Hadoop
3 5 (13.16%) OLAP
4 4 (10.53%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (39.47%) Maven
2 11 (28.95%) JUnit
3 8 (21.05%) Eclipse
4 7 (18.42%) Subversion
5 6 (15.79%) TeamCity
6 5 (13.16%) jMock
6 5 (13.16%) Mockito
7 4 (10.53%) EasyMock
7 4 (10.53%) JIRA
8 3 (7.895%) Hudson
8 3 (7.895%) Spring Roo
8 3 (7.895%) Jenkins
9 1 (2.632%) Gradle
9 1 (2.632%) Git (software)
9 1 (2.632%) Ant
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Front Office
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
4 3 (7.895%) Retail
4 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.895%) Back Office
5 1 (2.632%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (100.00%) Developer
2 35 (92.11%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) J2EE Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.632%) Lead Developer
5 1 (2.632%) Consultant
5 1 (2.632%) ETL Developer
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (2.632%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (2.632%) Designer
5 1 (2.632%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) iPhone
1 10 (26.32%) Video on Demand
2 5 (13.16%) Derivative
3 3 (7.895%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (5.263%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.263%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.263%) Streaming Video
5 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.632%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.632%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Android
2 8 (21.05%) UNIX
3 4 (10.53%) Linux
4 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) TDD
2 15 (39.47%) Kanban
3 13 (34.21%) BDD
4 11 (28.95%) Scrum
5 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (26.32%) Domain-Driven Design
6 9 (23.68%) MVC
7 7 (18.42%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (7.895%) Software Engineering
10 2 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (5.263%) OO
10 2 (5.263%) Time Management
10 2 (5.263%) SOA
11 1 (2.632%) ETL
11 1 (2.632%) Risk Management
11 1 (2.632%) Workflow
11 1 (2.632%) Pair Programming
11 1 (2.632%) Multithreading
11 1 (2.632%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (44.74%) JavaScript
3 14 (36.84%) SQL
4 11 (28.95%) Groovy
5 10 (26.32%) Scala
5 10 (26.32%) Ruby
6 6 (15.79%) PL/SQL
7 5 (13.16%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.632%) PHP
8 1 (2.632%) C
8 1 (2.632%) C#
8 1 (2.632%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.895%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Oracle
2 3 (7.895%) VMware
3 2 (5.263%) Actuate
3 2 (5.263%) JBoss
4 1 (2.632%) Adobe
4 1 (2.632%) Murex
4 1 (2.632%) Sybase
4 1 (2.632%) Reuters
4 1 (2.632%) Bloomberg