The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 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 for the Wales region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 33 44 50
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +6
Contract jobs citing Spring 11 10 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 2.582% 1.754% 1.667%
As % of the Application Development category 12.94% 7.042% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
Average daily rate £322 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.91% +44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £250 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £552 £339
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 142 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 19.95% 24.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 65
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £470 £511
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
UK

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Spring Jobs Demand Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wales Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales Spring Hourly Rate Trend

Spring
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
South Wales +7 7 £313 +13.63%
West Wales +6 2 £314 -43.17%
Spring
UK

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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.

1 29 (96.67%) Java
2 24 (80.00%) SQL
3 21 (70.00%) Hibernate
4 20 (66.67%) JSF
4 20 (66.67%) J2EE
5 18 (60.00%) Oracle
6 17 (56.67%) XML
7 16 (53.33%) XSLT
7 16 (53.33%) PL/SQL
7 16 (53.33%) WebLogic
8 15 (50.00%) ClearCase
8 15 (50.00%) Eclipse
8 15 (50.00%) ClearQuest
8 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
9 13 (43.33%) SAX
9 13 (43.33%) Agile Software Development
9 13 (43.33%) XPath
9 13 (43.33%) XSD
9 13 (43.33%) DOM
9 13 (43.33%) UML
10 12 (40.00%) Web Services
10 12 (40.00%) JAXP
11 11 (36.67%) CSS
11 11 (36.67%) Liferay
12 10 (33.33%) WebLogic Portal
13 8 (26.67%) Scrum
14 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
14 6 (20.00%) J2SE
15 5 (16.67%) IBM
15 5 (16.67%) Adobe

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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.

Application Development
1 21 (70.00%) Hibernate
2 20 (66.67%) JSF
2 20 (66.67%) J2EE
3 17 (56.67%) XML
4 16 (53.33%) XSLT
5 13 (43.33%) SAX
5 13 (43.33%) XSD
5 13 (43.33%) DOM
6 12 (40.00%) Web Services
6 12 (40.00%) JAXP
7 11 (36.67%) CSS
8 6 (20.00%) J2SE
9 5 (16.67%) WebSphere
10 4 (13.33%) Java EE
10 4 (13.33%) RESTful
11 3 (10.00%) EJB
11 3 (10.00%) JPA
11 3 (10.00%) Spring Batch
12 2 (6.667%) HTML
12 2 (6.667%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 16 (53.33%) WebLogic
2 11 (36.67%) Liferay
3 10 (33.33%) WebLogic Portal
4 5 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (16.67%) FileNet
5 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 15 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 15 (50.00%) ClearQuest
2 5 (16.67%) Maven
2 5 (16.67%) Subversion
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.667%) JUnit
4 1 (3.333%) Ant
4 1 (3.333%) Mockito
4 1 (3.333%) TestNG
General
1 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (80.00%) Developer
2 23 (76.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Team Leader
4 4 (13.33%) Team Leader
4 4 (13.33%) Development Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (6.667%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Java Team Leader
7 1 (3.333%) J2EE Team Leader
7 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.333%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Designer
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) UNIX
2 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (43.33%) UML
2 8 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (13.33%) Time Management
3 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) TDD
4 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (3.333%) OO
5 1 (3.333%) SOA
5 1 (3.333%) Web Development
5 1 (3.333%) MVC
5 1 (3.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Java
2 24 (80.00%) SQL
3 16 (53.33%) PL/SQL
4 13 (43.33%) XPath
5 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.333%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) IBM
2 5 (16.67%) Adobe
2 5 (16.67%) ILOG