The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 90 66 62
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spring 3 16 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.279% 1.679% 1.342%
As % of the Application Development category 1.000% 4.010% 3.540%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 12
Average salary £26,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.82% +6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
300 399 339
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 27.93% 41.87% 37.92%
Number of salaries quoted 273 339 329
Average salary £41,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
East of England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Spring Jobs Demand Trend

Spring
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Spring across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Spring across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Spring Salary Histogram

Spring
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spring within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable -15 2 £26,000 -23.52%
Luton -12 1 £65,000 +40.54%
Spring
East of England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Spring.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) Struts
4 3 (50.00%) JUnit
4 3 (50.00%) UML
4 3 (50.00%) BEA
4 3 (50.00%) JSF
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle OWB
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (33.33%) Korn
5 2 (33.33%) Java EE
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) J2EE
5 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
5 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
5 2 (33.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) OO
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Spring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) Struts
3 3 (50.00%) JSF
4 2 (33.33%) Java EE
4 2 (33.33%) J2EE
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) JSP
4 2 (33.33%) XSL
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) EJB
5 1 (16.67%) JDBC
5 1 (16.67%) .NET
5 1 (16.67%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle OWB
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Trainee Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Trainee
2 2 (33.33%) Trainee Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) BEA
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian