The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 89 83 61
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -22
Contract jobs citing Spring 21 29 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.130% 1.298% 2.023%
As % of the Application Development category 3.933% 5.620% 7.822%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 23
Average daily rate £293 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £268 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £425 £334
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
534 516 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.74% 23.10% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 315 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
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
England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Spring Daily Rate Trend

Spring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spring across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire Spring Daily Rate Histogram

Spring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 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
West Yorkshire +2 13 £250 -21.87%
North Yorkshire - 6 £352 -
South Yorkshire -10 1 £293 -22.00%
Spring
England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 45 (97.83%) Java
2 44 (95.65%) Hibernate
3 37 (80.43%) J2EE
4 29 (63.04%) Maven
5 23 (50.00%) Tomcat
6 21 (45.65%) TDD
7 19 (41.30%) Struts
7 19 (41.30%) MySQL
8 18 (39.13%) Oracle
8 18 (39.13%) Web Services
9 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
10 16 (34.78%) jQuery
11 15 (32.61%) SOAP
11 15 (32.61%) Jenkins
12 14 (30.43%) Hudson
12 14 (30.43%) Apache
13 13 (28.26%) Internet
13 13 (28.26%) Scrum
14 12 (26.09%) Adobe
14 12 (26.09%) Oracle EBS
14 12 (26.09%) SOA
14 12 (26.09%) Client/Server
14 12 (26.09%) Security Testing
14 12 (26.09%) Subversion
14 12 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
14 12 (26.09%) Git (software)
14 12 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
14 12 (26.09%) Amazon AWS
14 12 (26.09%) HTML5

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 44 (95.65%) Hibernate
2 37 (80.43%) J2EE
3 19 (41.30%) Struts
4 18 (39.13%) Web Services
5 16 (34.78%) jQuery
6 15 (32.61%) SOAP
7 12 (26.09%) HTML5
7 12 (26.09%) REST
8 11 (23.91%) JMS
9 10 (21.74%) CSS
9 10 (21.74%) JSP
10 9 (19.57%) Java EE
11 7 (15.22%) Spring MVC
11 7 (15.22%) CSS3
11 7 (15.22%) Node.js
12 6 (13.04%) Struts2
12 6 (13.04%) HTML
12 6 (13.04%) JDBC
13 5 (10.87%) Tapestry
13 5 (10.87%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 23 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 14 (30.43%) Apache
3 12 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
3 12 (26.09%) Amazon AWS
3 12 (26.09%) Adobe CQ
3 12 (26.09%) Route 53
4 11 (23.91%) WebLogic
5 7 (15.22%) nginx
5 7 (15.22%) Apache Solr
6 5 (10.87%) Jetty
7 3 (6.522%) Liferay
7 3 (6.522%) Alfresco
7 3 (6.522%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (4.348%) ESB
8 2 (4.348%) Mule
9 1 (2.174%) CMS
9 1 (2.174%) Magento
Business Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.26%) Internet
2 8 (17.39%) HTTP
3 7 (15.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) MySQL
2 12 (26.09%) MongoDB
2 12 (26.09%) Redis
2 12 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.522%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.522%) JasperReports
4 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 29 (63.04%) Maven
2 15 (32.61%) Jenkins
3 14 (30.43%) Hudson
4 12 (26.09%) Subversion
4 12 (26.09%) Git (software)
5 11 (23.91%) JUnit
6 8 (17.39%) Eclipse
7 4 (8.696%) Selenium
8 3 (6.522%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (6.522%) Log4j
8 3 (6.522%) Subclipse
8 3 (6.522%) TestNG
8 3 (6.522%) EasyMock
8 3 (6.522%) FitNesse
8 3 (6.522%) jMock
9 1 (2.174%) JMeter
General
1 8 (17.39%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.348%) Finance
3 1 (2.174%) Legal
3 1 (2.174%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (93.48%) Developer
2 42 (91.30%) Java Developer
3 3 (6.522%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (4.348%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (2.174%) Team Leader
5 1 (2.174%) Java Team Leader
5 1 (2.174%) .NET Designer
5 1 (2.174%) .NET Architect
5 1 (2.174%) Architect
5 1 (2.174%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Software Architect
5 1 (2.174%) Designer
5 1 (2.174%) Software Designer
5 1 (2.174%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Client/Server
2 4 (8.696%) Open Source
3 3 (6.522%) N-Tier
3 3 (6.522%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.174%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 1 (2.174%) UNIX
2 1 (2.174%) Windows
2 1 (2.174%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) TDD
2 13 (28.26%) Scrum
3 12 (26.09%) SOA
3 12 (26.09%) Security Testing
3 12 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (26.09%) BDD
4 7 (15.22%) MVC
4 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
4 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
4 7 (15.22%) Kanban
5 5 (10.87%) Web Design
6 4 (8.696%) Project Management
7 3 (6.522%) Unit Testing
7 3 (6.522%) AOP
7 3 (6.522%) Content Management
8 2 (4.348%) CRM
8 2 (4.348%) OO
9 1 (2.174%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.174%) ERP
9 1 (2.174%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (97.83%) Java
2 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
3 8 (17.39%) Python
4 7 (15.22%) Perl
4 7 (15.22%) PHP
4 7 (15.22%) C++
4 7 (15.22%) SQL
4 7 (15.22%) Ruby
4 7 (15.22%) Bash shell
5 3 (6.522%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 3 (6.522%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Oracle
2 12 (26.09%) Adobe
2 12 (26.09%) hybris
2 12 (26.09%) Percona
3 6 (13.04%) JBoss
4 1 (2.174%) Vignette
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