The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 22 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 Wolverhampton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 9.677% - -
As % of the Application Development category 30.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
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
Wolverhampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 32.26% 20.00% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £263 £215 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.09% +43.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Spring
West Midlands

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wolverhampton Spring Jobs Demand Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
4 3 (50.00%) Facebook
4 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) CMS
4 3 (50.00%) OOD
5 2 (33.33%) .NET
5 2 (33.33%) Alterian
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 1 (16.67%) Subversion
6 1 (16.67%) Maven
6 1 (16.67%) Web Development
6 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 1 (16.67%) JSTL
6 1 (16.67%) HTML5
6 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
6 1 (16.67%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (16.67%) REST
6 1 (16.67%) J2EE
6 1 (16.67%) Ant
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) JSP
6 1 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (16.67%) XSLT
6 1 (16.67%) UNIX

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wolverhampton 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%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) JSTL
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) JSP
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Web Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) OO
3 3 (50.00%) OOD
4 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Facebook
2 2 (33.33%) Alterian
3 1 (16.67%) Adobe