Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Spring 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 over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkSpring Framework
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank6113782
Rank change year-on-year
Up+76Down-55
Matching contract IT job ads12574501512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.586 %1.134 %1.844 %
As % of the Application Development category9.688 %5.108 %7.628 %
Daily rates quoted762165653
Average daily rate£500£400£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£289£315
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£565£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£350
% change year-on-year
--7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted1975
Average hourly rate£25.00£33.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.24 %+1.530 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.60£12.00£25.70
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.60£34.00£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£33.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-25.75 %-5.710 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12975880919822
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.70 %22.20 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted663330866471
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4234961249
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

Spring
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spring within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 within the UK.

Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring within the UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Spring Hourly Rate Histogram

Spring
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+781175£513+28.12 %
LondonUp+38933£533+18.33 %
City of LondonUp+46286£526+26.80 %
ScotlandUp+2375£338+35.00 %
South EastUp+1764£325-13.33 %
South WestUp+4049£350+7.69 %
GlasgowUp+1638£341+36.50 %
Canary WharfDown-732£575+9.52 %
North WestUp+1528£290-27.50 %
West MidlandsUp+2527£450+63.63 %
East of EnglandUp+2427£275-8.33 %
YorkshireUp+1623£295-1.66 %
BristolUp+1221£250-
East MidlandsUp+1219£363-
EdinburghDown-618£295-34.44 %
HampshireUp+1617£320-11.72 %
ManchesterUp+916£301-33.05 %
UxbridgeUp+611£400-
CambridgeshireUp+611£253-15.83 %
WarwickshireNew entry-11£408-
LeedsUp+1210£350+7.69 %
West YorkshireDown-310£350+7.69 %
MiddlesexUp+29£425-7.60 %
Docklands, LondonUp+19£600+20.00 %
BerkshireNo change08£263-34.37 %
BuckinghamshireDown-48£375-16.66 %
West SussexDown-48£260-30.66 %
CheshireDown-98£280-20.00 %
SurreyDown-158£369+22.91 %
South YorkshireUp+137£283-5.83 %

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11990 (88.76 %)Java
21303 (58.12 %)Hibernate
3741 (33.05 %)J2EE
4737 (32.87 %)Banking
5731 (32.60 %)XML
6683 (30.46 %)SQL
7636 (28.37 %)Oracle
8458 (20.43 %)Agile Software Development
9436 (19.45 %)Derivative
10418 (18.64 %)UNIX
11416 (18.55 %)Investment Banking
12415 (18.51 %)JavaScript
13399 (17.80 %)JUnit
14336 (14.99 %)HTML
15317 (14.14 %)Struts
16313 (13.96 %)Front Office
16313 (13.96 %)Finance
17312 (13.92 %)C#
18310 (13.83 %)Web Services
19306 (13.65 %)Maven
20298 (13.29 %)Linux
21290 (12.93 %)TDD
22288 (12.85 %)JSP
23286 (12.76 %)Sybase
24264 (11.78 %)Tomcat
25262 (11.69 %)AJAX
26261 (11.64 %)OO
27249 (11.11 %)CSS
28246 (10.97 %)MVC
29226 (10.08 %).NET

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11303 (58.12 %)Hibernate
2741 (33.05 %)J2EE
3731 (32.60 %)XML
4336 (14.99 %)HTML
5317 (14.14 %)Struts
6310 (13.83 %)Web Services
7288 (12.85 %)JSP
8262 (11.69 %)AJAX
9249 (11.11 %)CSS
10226 (10.08 %).NET
11207 (9.233 %)JMS
12181 (8.073 %)JDBC
13180 (8.029 %)WebSphere
14148 (6.601 %)Swing
15147 (6.557 %)SOAP
16146 (6.512 %)XSLT
17129 (5.754 %)Servlets
18118 (5.263 %)Spring MVC
1999 (4.416 %)Middleware
2091 (4.059 %)EJB
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1264 (11.78 %)Tomcat
2158 (7.047 %)Apache
3154 (6.869 %)WebLogic
445 (2.007 %)MQSeries
533 (1.472 %)ESB
632 (1.427 %)WebSphere Application Server
731 (1.383 %)SharePoint
830 (1.338 %)CMS
927 (1.204 %)Rendezvous
1026 (1.160 %)WebLogic Portal
1123 (1.026 %)Jetty
1221 (0.937 %)AquaLogic
1320 (0.892 %)WebSphere MQ
1320 (0.892 %)WebSphere Portal
1419 (0.847 %)Oracle Service Bus
1515 (0.669 %)BizTalk Server
1614 (0.624 %)TIBCO EMS
1614 (0.624 %)GlassFish
1713 (0.580 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1811 (0.491 %)Oracle Application Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
142 (1.873 %)MS Excel
210 (0.446 %)Photoshop
210 (0.446 %)MS PowerPoint
39 (0.401 %)MS Office
39 (0.401 %)MS Visio
44 (0.178 %)Fireworks
44 (0.178 %)Spreadsheet
52 (0.089 %)Adobe Illustrator
52 (0.089 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
119 (0.847 %)Oracle BPM
216 (0.714 %)BusinessWorks
314 (0.624 %)ION MarketView
48 (0.357 %)Oracle 11i
57 (0.312 %)Summit
65 (0.223 %)Bloomberg TOMS
74 (0.178 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
83 (0.134 %)AquaLogic BPM
83 (0.134 %)TIBCO iProcess
83 (0.134 %)RMDS
92 (0.089 %)Dynamics CRM
101 (0.045 %)Google Analytics
101 (0.045 %)SAP Retail
101 (0.045 %)Oracle EBS
101 (0.045 %)Endur
101 (0.045 %)Adaptiv
101 (0.045 %)SAP R/3
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
184 (3.747 %)Internet
277 (3.434 %)HTTP
325 (1.115 %)Intranet
415 (0.669 %)LDAP
512 (0.535 %)DNS
66 (0.268 %)Broadband
66 (0.268 %)FTP
74 (0.178 %)TCP/IP
74 (0.178 %)GPRS
74 (0.178 %)Wi-Fi
83 (0.134 %)DAB
83 (0.134 %)SAN
83 (0.134 %)ISDN
83 (0.134 %)PSTN
83 (0.134 %)SMTP
83 (0.134 %)HTTPS
92 (0.089 %)SNMP
92 (0.089 %)SMS
92 (0.089 %)VoIP
92 (0.089 %)LAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1167 (7.449 %)SQL Server
2158 (7.047 %)RDBMS
384 (3.747 %)MySQL
480 (3.568 %)Oracle 10g
557 (2.542 %)Oracle 8/8i
640 (1.784 %)SQL Server 2005
721 (0.937 %)DB2
820 (0.892 %)Reference Data
919 (0.847 %)Datawarehouse
1017 (0.758 %)Crystal Reports
1116 (0.714 %)SQL Server 2000
1116 (0.714 %)BusinessObjects
1116 (0.714 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1116 (0.714 %)PostgreSQL
1212 (0.535 %)ETL
1311 (0.491 %)SQL Server 2008
1410 (0.446 %)Oracle 9i
159 (0.401 %)Informix
168 (0.357 %)Oracle Reports
168 (0.357 %)GIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1399 (17.80 %)JUnit
2306 (13.65 %)Maven
3204 (9.099 %)Subversion
4202 (9.010 %)Eclipse
5198 (8.831 %)Ant
682 (3.657 %)Selenium
765 (2.899 %)ClearCase
841 (1.829 %)CruiseControl
940 (1.784 %)jMock
1035 (1.561 %)FitNesse
1129 (1.293 %)NUnit
1225 (1.115 %)IntelliJ
1324 (1.070 %)EasyMock
1419 (0.847 %)TestNG
1515 (0.669 %)JIRA
1613 (0.580 %)TeamCity
1613 (0.580 %)ReSharper
1613 (0.580 %)Visual Studio
1712 (0.535 %)Oracle Forms
1712 (0.535 %)MbUnit
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1737 (32.87 %)Banking
2416 (18.55 %)Investment Banking
3313 (13.96 %)Front Office
3313 (13.96 %)Finance
480 (3.568 %)Back Office
538 (1.695 %)Government
635 (1.561 %)Retail
726 (1.160 %)Telecoms
825 (1.115 %)Health
825 (1.115 %)Games
920 (0.892 %)Insurance
1019 (0.847 %)Home Office
1117 (0.758 %)Marketing
1213 (0.580 %)Publishing
1311 (0.491 %)Financial Institution
149 (0.401 %)Retail Banking
157 (0.312 %)Electronics
166 (0.268 %)Education
166 (0.268 %)Pensions
166 (0.268 %)Online Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11849 (82.47 %)Developer
21478 (65.92 %)Java Developer
3268 (11.95 %)Senior Developer
4229 (10.21 %)Senior Java Developer
5170 (7.583 %)J2EE Developer
6160 (7.136 %)Java/J2EE Developer
778 (3.479 %)Analyst
870 (3.122 %)Web Developer
965 (2.899 %)Architect
1055 (2.453 %)Agile Java Developer
1055 (2.453 %)C# Developer
1153 (2.364 %)Java Swing Developer
1238 (1.695 %).NET Developer
1336 (1.606 %)Team Leader
1435 (1.561 %)Designer
1533 (1.472 %)Software Developer
1533 (1.472 %)Programmer
1626 (1.160 %)Oracle Developer
1626 (1.160 %)Consultant
1626 (1.160 %)Java Web Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1436 (19.45 %)Derivative
2189 (8.430 %)Fixed Income
3170 (7.583 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4130 (5.798 %)Multithreading
5113 (5.040 %)Open Source
6102 (4.550 %)Credit Derivative
760 (2.676 %)Equities
857 (2.542 %)Equity Derivative
945 (2.007 %)Market Risk
1039 (1.740 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1128 (1.249 %)Credit Risk
1221 (0.937 %)N-Tier
1317 (0.758 %)Social Network
1415 (0.669 %)Grid Computing
1514 (0.624 %)Client/Server
1514 (0.624 %)Mathematics
1612 (0.535 %)Computer Science
1711 (0.491 %)Web 2.0
189 (0.401 %)W3C
198 (0.357 %)E-Learning
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1418 (18.64 %)UNIX
2298 (13.29 %)Linux
399 (4.416 %)Windows
446 (2.052 %)Solaris
525 (1.115 %)Red Hat Linux
613 (0.580 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
78 (0.357 %)Windows XP
78 (0.357 %)AIX
78 (0.357 %)Windows Server 2003
85 (0.223 %)Android
94 (0.178 %)CentOS
103 (0.134 %)Windows Server 2008
103 (0.134 %)HPUX
112 (0.089 %)zOS
121 (0.045 %)Windows 2000 Server
121 (0.045 %)Debian
121 (0.045 %)MVS
121 (0.045 %)Windows 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1458 (20.43 %)Agile Software Development
2290 (12.93 %)TDD
3261 (11.64 %)OO
4246 (10.97 %)MVC
5215 (9.590 %)Scrum
6165 (7.360 %)Unit Testing
7156 (6.958 %)E-Commerce
8142 (6.334 %)UML
9130 (5.798 %)Continuous Integration
10127 (5.665 %)Web Development
11114 (5.085 %)OOD
12106 (4.728 %)SOA
1384 (3.747 %)Electronic Trading
1474 (3.301 %)OOA/OOD
1560 (2.676 %)Pair Programming
1654 (2.409 %)Risk Management
1740 (1.784 %)Extreme Programming
1834 (1.517 %)Refactoring
1933 (1.472 %)User Acceptance Testing
2032 (1.427 %)AOP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11990 (88.76 %)Java
2683 (30.46 %)SQL
3415 (18.51 %)JavaScript
4312 (13.92 %)C#
5112 (4.996 %)PL/SQL
692 (4.103 %)C++
781 (3.613 %)Shell Script
866 (2.944 %)C
866 (2.944 %)Perl
952 (2.319 %)PHP
1047 (2.096 %)Groovy
1142 (1.873 %)T-SQL
1241 (1.829 %)VB
1326 (1.160 %)Python
1424 (1.070 %)VB.NET
1522 (0.981 %)VBA
1522 (0.981 %)Ruby
1620 (0.892 %)VB6
1719 (0.847 %)XPath
1814 (0.624 %)XQuery
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1108 (4.817 %)Security Cleared
282 (3.657 %)SC Cleared
343 (1.918 %)Degree
422 (0.981 %)DV Cleared
512 (0.535 %)BC Cleared
610 (0.446 %)Sun Certification
75 (0.223 %)CTC Cleared
84 (0.178 %)Microsoft Certification
93 (0.134 %)MCSE
102 (0.089 %)SCDJWS
102 (0.089 %)SCJP
102 (0.089 %)SCJD
102 (0.089 %)SCJA
102 (0.089 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
111 (0.045 %)MCTS
111 (0.045 %)ISEB
111 (0.045 %)Cisco Certification
111 (0.045 %)OCP
111 (0.045 %)Oracle Certification
111 (0.045 %)SAP Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
134 (1.517 %)QA
27 (0.312 %)WCAG
32 (0.089 %)SLA
41 (0.045 %)MiFID
41 (0.045 %)WAI
41 (0.045 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (0.223 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (0.089 %)Active Directory
22 (0.089 %)Oracle RAC
31 (0.045 %)OpenLDAP
31 (0.045 %)Hadoop
31 (0.045 %)OpenSSO
31 (0.045 %)Xen
31 (0.045 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
31 (0.045 %)NFS
31 (0.045 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
18 (0.357 %)CONTROL-M
26 (0.268 %)OpenView
26 (0.268 %)MOM
35 (0.223 %)OVSD
43 (0.134 %)Tivoli
52 (0.089 %)Data Guard
61 (0.045 %)Sun Identity Manager
61 (0.045 %)Zenoss
61 (0.045 %)HP Quality Center
61 (0.045 %)ServiceCenter
61 (0.045 %)Oracle Statspack
61 (0.045 %)NetBackup
61 (0.045 %)Unicenter
61 (0.045 %)Tivoli Monitoring
61 (0.045 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
61 (0.045 %)Netcool
61 (0.045 %)AutoSys
61 (0.045 %)TIBCO Hawk
61 (0.045 %)Nagios
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1636 (28.37 %)Oracle
2286 (12.76 %)Sybase
3100 (4.460 %)JBoss
493 (4.148 %)TIBCO
558 (2.587 %)Microsoft
650 (2.230 %)DataSynapse
741 (1.829 %)IBM
833 (1.472 %)Bloomberg
930 (1.338 %)Sun
1026 (1.160 %)ILOG
1120 (0.892 %)VMware
1219 (0.847 %)Reuters
1318 (0.803 %)Murex
1318 (0.803 %)Adobe
1417 (0.758 %)Tangosol
1417 (0.758 %)Mercator
1516 (0.714 %)Business Objects
1516 (0.714 %)Terracotta
1614 (0.624 %)ION Trading
1713 (0.580 %)Red Hat