Warwickshire Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Ascot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	45
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.136 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£337
% change on same period last year	+8.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.07	£46.30
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Application Development Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	93	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.089 %
Daily rates quoted	19	7
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£251
Average daily rate	£311	£283
% change on same period last year	+9.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£31.19
Average hourly rate	£22.62	£33.73
% change on same period last year	-32.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.40	£36.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
Spring West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Spring
Demand Trend

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

Spring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Spring
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 3 (100.00 %) Java 1 3 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) XSLT 2 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 2 (66.67 %) Apache 2 2 (66.67 %) Swing 2 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing

3 1 (33.33 %) AOP 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 3 1 (33.33 %) B2B 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 3 (100.00 %) XML 1 3 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML 2 2 (66.67 %) XSLT 2 2 (66.67 %) Swing 2 2 (66.67 %) CSS 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTP	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) JUnit
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Lead	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) B2B 2 1 (33.33 %) AOP 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architecture 2 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat