The first table below looks at the demand for Spring.NET 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.NET over the 3 months to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spring.NET
Rank 528 568 569
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +1
Contract jobs citing Spring.NET 13 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.019% 0.034%
As % of the Application Development category 0.096% 0.075% 0.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 14
Average daily rate £500 £450 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13589 14731 17307
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.77% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8537 8800 10282
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 351 379 533
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Spring.NET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Spring.NET Jobs Demand Trend

Spring.NET
Daily Rate Trend

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

Spring.NET Daily Rate Trend

Spring.NET
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring.NET within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Spring.NET Daily Rate Histogram

Spring.NET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Spring.NET Hourly Rate Trend

Spring.NET
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.NET within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +33 13 £500 +11.11% 41
London +26 10 £500 +11.11% 8
City of London +3 6 £500 -6.97% 1
South East - 2 £380 - 13
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £380 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Kent - 1 - - 3
Lancashire - - - -
Leicestershire - - - - 1
Norfolk - - - -
Northamptonshire - - - - 2
Nottinghamshire - - - - 6
South Yorkshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Wiltshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - - 2
East Midlands - - - - 9
North East - - - - 2
North West - - - - 3
South West - - - -
Tyne and Wear - - - - 2
Wales - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - - 2
Scotland - - - - 1
West Wales - - - - 1
East of England - - - - 3
Maidstone - - - -
Manchester - - - - 1
Milton Keynes - - - - 1

Spring.NET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Spring.NET 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.NET.

1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (89.29%) C#
3 23 (82.14%) MVC
4 22 (78.57%) Unity DI Container
5 21 (75.00%) NHibernate
6 20 (71.43%) Rhino Mocks
7 19 (67.86%) Inversion of Control
7 19 (67.86%) SQL Server
8 18 (64.29%) SQL
8 18 (64.29%) WCF
9 17 (60.71%) Open Source
9 17 (60.71%) MSMQ
9 17 (60.71%) Scrum
10 16 (57.14%) Front Office
10 16 (57.14%) WPF
11 15 (53.57%) MS Excel
12 14 (50.00%) MySQL
12 14 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
12 14 (50.00%) OO
12 14 (50.00%) Banking
12 14 (50.00%) Lucene
12 14 (50.00%) WebSphere
12 14 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
12 14 (50.00%) Memory Management
12 14 (50.00%) Multithreading
13 12 (42.86%) TDD
13 12 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
14 9 (32.14%) Ninject
14 9 (32.14%) NUnit
15 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development

Spring.NET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (78.57%) Unity DI Container
3 21 (75.00%) NHibernate
4 18 (64.29%) WCF
5 17 (60.71%) MSMQ
6 16 (57.14%) WPF
7 14 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
7 14 (50.00%) Lucene
7 14 (50.00%) WebSphere
7 14 (50.00%) .NET Remoting
8 12 (42.86%) Castle Windsor
9 9 (32.14%) Ninject
10 6 (21.43%) StructureMap
11 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
11 4 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (14.29%) REST
12 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 3 (10.71%) Autofac
12 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
12 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) CMS
2 3 (10.71%) Sitefinity
2 3 (10.71%) Joomla!
2 3 (10.71%) Umbraco
2 3 (10.71%) Drupal
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Azure
3 1 (3.571%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (53.57%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) SQL Server
2 14 (50.00%) MySQL
3 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (14.29%) MarkLogic
4 3 (10.71%) CouchDB
5 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (71.43%) Rhino Mocks
2 9 (32.14%) NUnit
3 6 (21.43%) Moq
4 5 (17.86%) MSTest
5 3 (10.71%) SpecFlow
5 3 (10.71%) MbUnit
General
1 16 (57.14%) Front Office
2 14 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
4 2 (7.143%) Back Office
5 1 (3.571%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (82.14%) Developer
2 19 (67.86%) .NET Developer
3 7 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Head of Development
5 2 (7.143%) Development Manager
6 1 (3.571%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.571%) Lead C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (67.86%) Inversion of Control
2 17 (60.71%) Open Source
3 2 (7.143%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) MVC
2 17 (60.71%) Scrum
3 14 (50.00%) OO
3 14 (50.00%) Memory Management
3 14 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 12 (42.86%) TDD
5 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (28.57%) Dependency Injection
6 7 (25.00%) BDD
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Kanban
9 2 (7.143%) Data Mapping
9 2 (7.143%) Web Application Development
10 1 (3.571%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (89.29%) C#
2 18 (64.29%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) Java
4 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) MCTS
1 2 (7.143%) MCP
1 2 (7.143%) MCAD
1 2 (7.143%) MCSD
1 2 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Sitecore
3 3 (10.71%) TIBCO
4 2 (7.143%) Oracle
Halifax, Yorkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £300 - £350 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
West Malling, South East
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £350 - £400 per day + £350 - £400 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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