The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 75 77 57
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -20
Contract jobs citing Spring 13 14 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.036% 0.895% 1.956%
As % of the Application Development category 3.714% 4.154% 8.871%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
Average daily rate £250 £320 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% +2.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £270 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £350 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
350 337 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 27.89% 21.53% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 207 134
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
Yorkshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -7 13 £250 -20.63%
Spring
Yorkshire

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 26 (96.30%) Java
1 26 (96.30%) Hibernate
2 24 (88.89%) J2EE
3 19 (70.37%) TDD
4 16 (59.26%) Maven
5 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (55.56%) Oracle
5 15 (55.56%) Web Services
5 15 (55.56%) jQuery
6 13 (48.15%) SOAP
6 13 (48.15%) Internet
7 12 (44.44%) SOA
7 12 (44.44%) Client/Server
7 12 (44.44%) Adobe
7 12 (44.44%) Scrum
7 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (44.44%) MySQL
7 12 (44.44%) Security Testing
7 12 (44.44%) Git (software)
7 12 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (44.44%) Amazon S3
7 12 (44.44%) Amazon AWS
7 12 (44.44%) HTML5
7 12 (44.44%) hybris
7 12 (44.44%) BDD
7 12 (44.44%) MongoDB
7 12 (44.44%) REST
7 12 (44.44%) Percona
7 12 (44.44%) Adobe CQ
7 12 (44.44%) Route 53

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 26 (96.30%) Hibernate
2 24 (88.89%) J2EE
3 15 (55.56%) Web Services
3 15 (55.56%) jQuery
4 13 (48.15%) SOAP
5 12 (44.44%) HTML5
5 12 (44.44%) REST
6 11 (40.74%) Struts
7 8 (29.63%) CSS
7 8 (29.63%) Java EE
8 7 (25.93%) Node.js
8 7 (25.93%) CSS3
9 4 (14.81%) Ajax
10 3 (11.11%) Struts2
11 2 (7.407%) JSP
11 2 (7.407%) HTML
11 2 (7.407%) XML
11 2 (7.407%) JMS
12 1 (3.704%) JavaBeans
12 1 (3.704%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon S3
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon AWS
1 12 (44.44%) Adobe CQ
1 12 (44.44%) Route 53
2 9 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 8 (29.63%) Apache
4 7 (25.93%) nginx
4 7 (25.93%) Apache Solr
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (11.11%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.704%) Magento
Business Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (48.15%) Internet
2 8 (29.63%) HTTP
3 7 (25.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) MySQL
1 12 (44.44%) MongoDB
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (44.44%) Redis
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Maven
2 12 (44.44%) Git (software)
2 12 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 5 (18.52%) Hudson
4 3 (11.11%) Subversion
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (11.11%) JUnit
5 1 (3.704%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (29.63%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.407%) Finance
3 1 (3.704%) Legal
3 1 (3.704%) Games
Job Titles
1 25 (92.59%) Java Developer
1 25 (92.59%) Developer
2 1 (3.704%) Project Manager
2 1 (3.704%) Team Leader
2 1 (3.704%) Java Team Leader
2 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (3.704%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.704%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 1 (3.704%) UNIX
2 1 (3.704%) Windows
2 1 (3.704%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (70.37%) TDD
2 12 (44.44%) SOA
2 12 (44.44%) Scrum
2 12 (44.44%) Security Testing
2 12 (44.44%) BDD
3 8 (29.63%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (25.93%) Kanban
4 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
4 7 (25.93%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.407%) CRM
6 1 (3.704%) ERP
6 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
6 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.704%) Project Management
6 1 (3.704%) Web Design
6 1 (3.704%) Requirements Management
6 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.704%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Java
2 15 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) Bash shell
3 7 (25.93%) Ruby
3 7 (25.93%) C++
3 7 (25.93%) Perl
3 7 (25.93%) PHP
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Oracle
2 12 (44.44%) Adobe
2 12 (44.44%) hybris
2 12 (44.44%) Percona
3 1 (3.704%) JBoss
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Contract Java Developer (Java,Struts,XML,Javascript,JUnit,Spring) needed for a major blue chip company in West Yorkshire... Java Developer must have experience of: Java 1.6...
Integrity IT Solutions
Rate: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013