West Midlands Spring Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Spring Framework skills within the West Midlands 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spring Framework
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	98
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	18	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	2.719 %	4.024 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£310
Average daily rate	£288	£343
% change on same period last year	-15.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£297	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£334
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£23.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.75	£41.14
% change on same period last year	-17.95 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	662	497
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.558 %
Daily rates quoted	122	84
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£306
Average daily rate	£315	£327
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£26.97
Average hourly rate	£27.95	£29.72
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.86	£32.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Spring England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the West Midlands 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the West Midlands region.

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Spring across the West Midlands region.

Spring
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Coventry	-8	5	£175	-
2	Warwickshire	-	2	£290	-
2	Birmingham	-2	2	-	-

Spring England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring.

1 57 (93.44 %) Java 2 52 (85.25 %) J2EE 3 42 (68.85 %) Hibernate 4 34 (55.74 %) SQL 5 30 (49.18 %) Struts 6 21 (34.43 %) Oracle 7 20 (32.79 %) XML 8 19 (31.15 %) HTML 9 18 (29.51 %) UML 10 17 (27.87 %) EJB 10 17 (27.87 %) JSP 10 17 (27.87 %) JMS 11 13 (21.31 %) JavaScript 12 12 (19.67 %) Apache 12 12 (19.67 %) iBATIS

13 11 (18.03 %) Tomcat 13 11 (18.03 %) CSS 13 11 (18.03 %) WebSphere 14 10 (16.39 %) MySQL 15 8 (13.11 %) PL/SQL 15 8 (13.11 %) SQL Server 15 8 (13.11 %) Servlets 15 8 (13.11 %) Linux 15 8 (13.11 %) JDeveloper 15 8 (13.11 %) AJAX 16 7 (11.48 %) JSF 16 7 (11.48 %) Middleware 17 6 (9.836 %) Swing 17 6 (9.836 %) Eclipse 17 6 (9.836 %) SOAP

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Spring also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 52 (85.25 %) J2EE 2 42 (68.85 %) Hibernate 3 30 (49.18 %) Struts 4 20 (32.79 %) XML 5 19 (31.15 %) HTML 6 17 (27.87 %) EJB 6 17 (27.87 %) JSP 6 17 (27.87 %) JMS 7 12 (19.67 %) iBATIS 8 11 (18.03 %) WebSphere 8 11 (18.03 %) CSS 9 8 (13.11 %) Servlets 9 8 (13.11 %) AJAX 10 7 (11.48 %) JSF 10 7 (11.48 %) Middleware 11 6 (9.836 %) Swing 11 6 (9.836 %) SOAP 11 6 (9.836 %) WebServices 12 4 (6.557 %) Oracle ADF 13 3 (4.918 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 12 (19.67 %) Apache 2 11 (18.03 %) Tomcat 3 6 (9.836 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 3 (4.918 %) JBoss 4 3 (4.918 %) Oracle Spatial 5 2 (3.279 %) WebLogic 5 2 (3.279 %) IIS 5 2 (3.279 %) Oracle HTTP Server 6 1 (1.639 %) TeamSite
Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.557 %) HTTP 2 2 (3.279 %) HTTPS 2 2 (3.279 %) SSL 2 2 (3.279 %) FTP 3 1 (1.639 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.639 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (16.39 %) MySQL 2 8 (13.11 %) SQL Server 3 5 (8.197 %) GIS 4 4 (6.557 %) RDBMS 5 2 (3.279 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.279 %) SQLPlus 5 2 (3.279 %) Oracle 11g 6 1 (1.639 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 8 (13.11 %) JDeveloper 2 6 (9.836 %) Eclipse 3 4 (6.557 %) JUnit 4 3 (4.918 %) Ant 4 3 (4.918 %) Subversion 5 2 (3.279 %) XMLSpy 5 2 (3.279 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (1.639 %) PVCS 6 1 (1.639 %) Flash 6 1 (1.639 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 1 (1.639 %) Finance 1 1 (1.639 %) Construction 1 1 (1.639 %) Government 1 1 (1.639 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 42 (68.85 %) Developer 2 40 (65.57 %) Java Developer 3 12 (19.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 10 (16.39 %) J2EE Developer 5 6 (9.836 %) Senior Analyst 5 6 (9.836 %) Software Engineer 5 6 (9.836 %) Analyst Programmer 5 6 (9.836 %) Programmer 5 6 (9.836 %) Analyst 5 6 (9.836 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 5 6 (9.836 %) Senior Programmer 6 5 (8.197 %) J2EE Consultant 6 5 (8.197 %) Consultant 7 4 (6.557 %) Senior Java Analyst Programmer 7 4 (6.557 %) J2EE Analyst Programmer 7 4 (6.557 %) Java Analyst Programmer 7 4 (6.557 %) Java Programmer 7 4 (6.557 %) Senior Java Programmer 8 3 (4.918 %) Senior Java Developer 8 3 (4.918 %) J2EE Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.639 %) W3C 1 1 (1.639 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 8 (13.11 %) Linux 2 2 (3.279 %) Unix 3 1 (1.639 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (29.51 %) UML 2 6 (9.836 %) Unit Testing 3 5 (8.197 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (6.557 %) MVC 4 4 (6.557 %) Web Design 5 3 (4.918 %) E-business 5 3 (4.918 %) RUP 5 3 (4.918 %) ERP 6 2 (3.279 %) B2B 6 2 (3.279 %) Identity Management 6 2 (3.279 %) Change Management 6 2 (3.279 %) Web Development 6 2 (3.279 %) Data Management 6 2 (3.279 %) AOP 7 1 (1.639 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (1.639 %) Technical Architecture 7 1 (1.639 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.639 %) TDD 7 1 (1.639 %) e-GIF 7 1 (1.639 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 57 (93.44 %) Java 2 34 (55.74 %) SQL 3 13 (21.31 %) JavaScript 4 8 (13.11 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.639 %) PHP 5 1 (1.639 %) XQuery 5 1 (1.639 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 4 (6.557 %) Degree 2 2 (3.279 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.557 %) QA 2 3 (4.918 %) WAI	System Software 1 1 (1.639 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 21 (34.43 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.197 %) ESRI 3 3 (4.918 %) Red Hat 4 2 (3.279 %) SAP 4 2 (3.279 %) Sun