The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 23 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 Watford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank - 20 -
Contract jobs citing Spring 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 1.923% -
As % of the Application Development category - 6.452% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 22.86% 29.81% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 9
Average daily rate £325 £350 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Hertfordshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
2 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Grails
3 3 (50.00%) MVC
3 3 (50.00%) Groovy
3 3 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
4 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Checkstyle
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
4 1 (16.67%) Apache

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (100.00%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) JSON
2 5 (83.33%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) Grails
3 3 (50.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Checkstyle
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (83.33%) E-Commerce
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript