The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 19 June 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 York 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 19 - 9
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Spring 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 3.191% - 4.545%
As % of the Application Development category 6.383% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £354 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.20% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £46.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.81 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-14.42% -23.52%
All Application Development
York
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
47 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 50.00% 14.29% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 3
Average daily rate £354 £313 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% +2.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £46.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Spring
North Yorkshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (83.33%) Tapestry
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) Spring MVC
2 5 (83.33%) Jetty
2 5 (83.33%) Hudson
3 4 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (66.67%) JUnit
4 3 (50.00%) Log4j
4 3 (50.00%) SiteMesh
4 3 (50.00%) JasperReports
4 3 (50.00%) AOP
4 3 (50.00%) Content Management
4 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) JBoss
4 3 (50.00%) Apache
4 3 (50.00%) JDBC
4 3 (50.00%) MySQL
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Apache Axis

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
2 5 (83.33%) Tapestry
2 5 (83.33%) JMS
2 5 (83.33%) Spring MVC
3 3 (50.00%) SiteMesh
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) JDBC
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Axis
3 3 (50.00%) Ehcache
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) FreeMarker
4 2 (33.33%) JSP
4 2 (33.33%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (83.33%) Jetty
3 3 (50.00%) Apache
4 1 (16.67%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) JasperReports
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) Hudson
3 4 (66.67%) JUnit
4 3 (50.00%) Log4j
4 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (50.00%) TestNG
4 3 (50.00%) EasyMock
4 3 (50.00%) Subclipse
4 3 (50.00%) jMock
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) AOP
2 3 (50.00%) Content Management
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JBoss
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Vignette