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 21 May 2012 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.

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.

SpringSource Spring Framework
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank886360
Rank change year-on-year
Down-25Down-3
Matching contract IT job ads120016611487
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.053 %2.761 %2.694 %
As % of the Application Development category8.000 %10.04 %9.632 %
Number of daily rates quoted8031034986
Average daily rate£413£475£520
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.15 %-8.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£325£313
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£375£325
% change year-on-year
-13.33 %+15.38 %
Number of hourly rates quoted18666
Average hourly rate£32.50£42.50£19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.52 %+123.68 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.00£35.00£12.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£47.50£48.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.50£42.50£19.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52 %+123.68 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
150001653615438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.66 %27.49 %27.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted880896388217
Average daily rate£350£393£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.82 %+7.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted387569438
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Spring
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 21 May 2012.

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
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 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandDown-291117£425-12.37 %
LondonDown-13728£500-
City of LondonDown-38153£550+2.32 %
South EastDown-63110£334-16.56 %
ScotlandUp+159£283-22.06 %
South WestUp+1552£363-2.68 %
North WestUp+345£325-7.14 %
East MidlandsUp+1041£250-37.50 %
HampshireDown-1041£375+3.44 %
East of EnglandDown-2539£400-15.78 %
West MidlandsDown-2438£288-39.47 %
GlasgowDown-134£284-21.72 %
YorkshireDown-2433£338+8.00 %
HertfordshireUp+1432£444-11.25 %
MidlandsUp+2330£350+7.69 %
ManchesterDown-230£325-13.33 %
NorthamptonshireNew entry-30£250-
Canary WharfUp+1925£538-10.41 %
SurreyDown-2120£318-23.03 %
BristolUp+318£390+4.69 %
West YorkshireDown-3116£325+4.00 %
LeedsDown-1115£333+6.40 %
South YorkshireUp+714£375+13.63 %
WiltshireUp+514£335-
BirminghamDown-214£295+7.27 %
BuckinghamshireUp+912£231-45.58 %
SheffieldUp+812£346+6.53 %
BerkshireDown-6112£404+9.49 %
BasingstokeUp+1411£375+15.38 %
WarwickshireDown-111£275-42.10 %

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

12273 (97.39 %)Java
21270 (54.41 %)Hibernate
3992 (42.50 %)J2EE
4731 (31.32 %)Oracle
5729 (31.23 %)SQL
6616 (26.39 %)JavaScript
7601 (25.75 %)TDD
8580 (24.85 %)Web Services
9556 (23.82 %)XML
10510 (21.85 %)Maven
11462 (19.79 %)CSS
12458 (19.62 %)HTML
13437 (18.72 %)Finance
14435 (18.64 %)Tomcat
15432 (18.51 %)Agile Software Development
16419 (17.95 %)MVC
17417 (17.87 %)JUnit
18413 (17.69 %)OO
19397 (17.01 %)JSP
20389 (16.67 %)Banking
21380 (16.28 %)JMS
22371 (15.90 %)Spring MVC
23353 (15.12 %)Ajax
24337 (14.44 %)Linux
25332 (14.22 %)Struts
25332 (14.22 %)Scrum
26321 (13.75 %)UNIX
27290 (12.43 %)jQuery
28284 (12.17 %)Subversion
29261 (11.18 %)E-Commerce

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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
11270 (54.41 %)Hibernate
2992 (42.50 %)J2EE
3580 (24.85 %)Web Services
4556 (23.82 %)XML
5462 (19.79 %)CSS
6458 (19.62 %)HTML
7397 (17.01 %)JSP
8380 (16.28 %)JMS
9371 (15.90 %)Spring MVC
10353 (15.12 %)Ajax
11332 (14.22 %)Struts
12290 (12.43 %)jQuery
13232 (9.940 %)SOAP
14231 (9.897 %)WebSphere
15199 (8.526 %)Java EE
16182 (7.798 %)Servlets
17151 (6.470 %)XSLT
18142 (6.084 %)JDBC
19141 (6.041 %)JSF
20137 (5.870 %)JPA
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1435 (18.64 %)Tomcat
2249 (10.67 %)Apache
3168 (7.198 %)WebLogic
4132 (5.656 %)ESB
588 (3.770 %)WebSphere MQ
680 (3.428 %)CMS
766 (2.828 %)WebSphere Application Server
863 (2.699 %)Mule
945 (1.928 %)Oracle Coherence
1040 (1.714 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1135 (1.500 %)Documentum
1135 (1.500 %)Apache Solr
1233 (1.414 %)ActiveMQ
1332 (1.371 %)Liferay
1332 (1.371 %)GlassFish
1426 (1.114 %)Jetty
1525 (1.071 %)Rendezvous
1619 (0.814 %)Alfresco
1718 (0.771 %)TIBCO EMS
1813 (0.557 %)WebLogic Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
136 (1.542 %)MS Excel
220 (0.857 %)MS Visio
38 (0.343 %)Mingle
45 (0.214 %)Spreadsheet
54 (0.171 %)MATLAB
63 (0.129 %)MS Project
72 (0.086 %)MS PowerPoint
72 (0.086 %)MS Office
81 (0.043 %)Simulink
81 (0.043 %)Photoshop
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
119 (0.814 %)Oracle BPM
214 (0.600 %)BusinessWorks
34 (0.171 %)ION MarketView
43 (0.129 %)RMDS
52 (0.086 %)Dynamics CRM
61 (0.043 %)Tridion
61 (0.043 %)SAP HR
61 (0.043 %)Oracle Financials
61 (0.043 %)Oracle Applications
61 (0.043 %)Global One
61 (0.043 %)TIBCO iProcess
61 (0.043 %)SAP GRC
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
176 (3.256 %)Internet
273 (3.128 %)HTTP
334 (1.457 %)TCP/IP
433 (1.414 %)Intranet
521 (0.900 %)DAB
521 (0.900 %)LDAP
610 (0.428 %)Firewall
79 (0.386 %)AMQP
85 (0.214 %)DNS
94 (0.171 %)Kerberos
94 (0.171 %)SSL
94 (0.171 %)SAN
103 (0.129 %)Extranet
103 (0.129 %)SNMP
103 (0.129 %)SMTP
103 (0.129 %)VoIP
103 (0.129 %)BIG-IP
103 (0.129 %)SSH
103 (0.129 %)VLAN
112 (0.086 %)NFC
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1230 (9.854 %)MySQL
2158 (6.769 %)SQL Server
3113 (4.841 %)RDBMS
460 (2.571 %)Oracle 10g
557 (2.442 %)DB2
637 (1.585 %)MongoDB
735 (1.500 %)NoSQL
831 (1.328 %)Hadoop
925 (1.071 %)Oracle 11g
925 (1.071 %)Apache Cassandra
1022 (0.943 %)PostgreSQL
1115 (0.643 %)OLAP
1214 (0.600 %)HBase
1214 (0.600 %)Oracle 8/8i
1313 (0.557 %)Data Warehouse
1411 (0.471 %)SQL Server 2008
1510 (0.428 %)Sybase ASE
169 (0.386 %)Oracle OLAP
177 (0.300 %)SQL Server 2005
177 (0.300 %)CouchDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1510 (21.85 %)Maven
2417 (17.87 %)JUnit
3284 (12.17 %)Subversion
4237 (10.15 %)Eclipse
5219 (9.383 %)Ant
6162 (6.941 %)Hudson
775 (3.213 %)Selenium
775 (3.213 %)jMock
867 (2.871 %)Jasmine
962 (2.656 %)JIRA
1043 (1.842 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1141 (1.757 %)Atlassian Bamboo
1240 (1.714 %)TeamCity
1240 (1.714 %)Git (software)
1334 (1.457 %)Cucumber
1432 (1.371 %)CruiseControl
1529 (1.243 %)Mockito
1624 (1.028 %)QUnit
1721 (0.900 %)EasyMock
1820 (0.857 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1437 (18.72 %)Finance
2389 (16.67 %)Banking
3208 (8.912 %)Investment Banking
4163 (6.984 %)Front Office
573 (3.128 %)Games
662 (2.656 %)Telecoms
750 (2.142 %)Retail
824 (1.028 %)Billing
923 (0.985 %)Financial Institution
1022 (0.943 %)Publishing
1117 (0.728 %)Marketing
1214 (0.600 %)Back Office
1312 (0.514 %)Legal
147 (0.300 %)Retail Banking
155 (0.214 %)Automotive
162 (0.086 %)Music
162 (0.086 %)Law
162 (0.086 %)Manufacturing
162 (0.086 %)Advertising
171 (0.043 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12011 (86.16 %)Developer
21675 (71.77 %)Java Developer
3409 (17.52 %)Senior Developer
4340 (14.57 %)Senior Java Developer
5239 (10.24 %)Java/J2EE Developer
6175 (7.498 %)Architect
7161 (6.898 %)J2EE Developer
896 (4.113 %)Web Developer
982 (3.513 %)Agile Java Developer
1052 (2.228 %)Technical Architect
1148 (2.057 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1148 (2.057 %)Solutions Architect
1148 (2.057 %)Java Architect
1247 (2.014 %)Software Developer
1344 (1.885 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
1443 (1.842 %)Lead Developer
1539 (1.671 %)Analyst
1539 (1.671 %)Front-End Developer
1637 (1.585 %)Programmer
1736 (1.542 %)Flex Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1164 (7.027 %)Open Source
2160 (6.855 %)Derivative
396 (4.113 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
472 (3.085 %)Fixed Income
558 (2.485 %)Equities
652 (2.228 %)Computer Science
751 (2.185 %)Equity Derivative
837 (1.585 %)Credit Risk
929 (1.243 %)Hedge funds
1028 (1.200 %)Mathematics
1127 (1.157 %)Digital Media
1224 (1.028 %)N-Tier
1320 (0.857 %)Online Games
1320 (0.857 %)Client/Server
1419 (0.814 %)Big Data
1518 (0.771 %)Market Risk
1616 (0.686 %)RIA
1714 (0.600 %)Inversion of Control
1714 (0.600 %)Credit Derivative
1813 (0.557 %)Grid Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1337 (14.44 %)Linux
2321 (13.75 %)UNIX
376 (3.256 %)Windows
442 (1.799 %)Solaris
523 (0.985 %)Android
618 (0.771 %)Apple iOS
715 (0.643 %)CentOS
812 (0.514 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
812 (0.514 %)AIX
96 (0.257 %)VMS
96 (0.257 %)OpenVMS
103 (0.129 %)Oracle Linux
112 (0.086 %)Windows 7
112 (0.086 %)Windows Mobile
112 (0.086 %)Windows Server 2008
112 (0.086 %)Windows XP
112 (0.086 %)Mac OS X
121 (0.043 %)Windows Server 2003
121 (0.043 %)OS/2
121 (0.043 %)Windows NT
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1601 (25.75 %)TDD
2432 (18.51 %)Agile Software Development
3419 (17.95 %)MVC
4413 (17.69 %)OO
5332 (14.22 %)Scrum
6261 (11.18 %)E-Commerce
7244 (10.45 %)Multithreading
8243 (10.41 %)Continuous Integration
9198 (8.483 %)SOA
10187 (8.012 %)Unit Testing
11156 (6.684 %)UML
12112 (4.799 %)Pair Programming
1391 (3.899 %)OOD
1481 (3.470 %)Web Development
1578 (3.342 %)BDD
1668 (2.913 %)OOP
1760 (2.571 %)Risk Management
1856 (2.399 %)Software Architecture
1955 (2.356 %)Performance Testing
2052 (2.228 %)Web Application Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12273 (97.39 %)Java
2729 (31.23 %)SQL
3616 (26.39 %)JavaScript
4195 (8.355 %)PL/SQL
593 (3.985 %)C#
686 (3.685 %)Groovy
776 (3.256 %)Scala
873 (3.128 %)Perl
972 (3.085 %)Python
1065 (2.785 %)Ruby
1164 (2.742 %)C++
1241 (1.757 %)Shell Script
1339 (1.671 %)PHP
1339 (1.671 %)XPath
1431 (1.328 %)Bash shell
1529 (1.243 %)C
1628 (1.200 %)XQuery
1723 (0.985 %)ActionScript
1818 (0.771 %)T-SQL
1916 (0.686 %)SPARQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1120 (5.141 %)Degree
259 (2.528 %)Security Cleared
340 (1.714 %)SC Cleared
48 (0.343 %)DV Cleared
56 (0.257 %)Sun Certification
65 (0.214 %)ITIL Certification
73 (0.129 %)PhD
73 (0.129 %)SCWCD
73 (0.129 %)MBCS
73 (0.129 %)CITP
82 (0.086 %)Brainbench
82 (0.086 %)MCITP
82 (0.086 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
82 (0.086 %)ISEB
82 (0.086 %)CCA
82 (0.086 %)CISSP
91 (0.043 %)Postgraduate
91 (0.043 %)CEH
91 (0.043 %)CISM
91 (0.043 %)BC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
140 (1.714 %)QA
219 (0.814 %)WCAG
39 (0.386 %)SLA
47 (0.300 %)PCI DSS
53 (0.129 %)Basel II
53 (0.129 %)Basel III
62 (0.086 %)Data Quality
71 (0.043 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
71 (0.043 %)ISO 9001
71 (0.043 %)HIPAA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (0.386 %)Active Directory
23 (0.129 %)FreeRADIUS
23 (0.129 %)OpenSSO
23 (0.129 %)Varnish
32 (0.086 %)vSphere
32 (0.086 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (0.043 %)RACF
41 (0.043 %)VMware ESX
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
112 (0.514 %)Tivoli
24 (0.171 %)Puppet
33 (0.129 %)Nagios
33 (0.129 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
33 (0.129 %)SCOM
42 (0.086 %)HP Quality Center
42 (0.086 %)EMC NetWorker
42 (0.086 %)Windows Storage Server
42 (0.086 %)BladeLogic
42 (0.086 %)Cacti
42 (0.086 %)Control-M
51 (0.043 %)MOM
51 (0.043 %)SCCM
51 (0.043 %)Sun Identity Manager
51 (0.043 %)Oracle Identity Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1731 (31.32 %)Oracle
2228 (9.769 %)JBoss
3132 (5.656 %)Sybase
491 (3.899 %)IBM
579 (3.385 %)TIBCO
640 (1.714 %)hybris
738 (1.628 %)Microsoft
834 (1.457 %)Red Hat
932 (1.371 %)Google
1031 (1.328 %)BEA
1130 (1.285 %)Adobe
1226 (1.114 %)Endeca
1321 (0.900 %)Perforce
1419 (0.814 %)FatWire
1419 (0.814 %)VMware
1419 (0.814 %)29West
1516 (0.686 %)ATG
1615 (0.643 %)Atlassian
1615 (0.643 %)DataSynapse
1714 (0.600 %)Actuate