The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 82 69 59
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -10
Permanent jobs citing Spring 39 40 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.167% 2.420% 2.612%
As % of the Application Development category 5.991% 6.908% 8.392%
Number of salaries quoted 37 35 35
Average salary £45,000 £65,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.76% +66.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £37,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £105,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +2.35%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
651 579 429
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 36.17% 35.03% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 584 534 396
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Spring
West Midlands

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Spring across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Spring Salary Histogram

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 65 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (89.23%) Hibernate
3 44 (67.69%) Agile Software Development
4 38 (58.46%) Maven
5 37 (56.92%) Subversion
6 36 (55.38%) Eclipse
7 34 (52.31%) Tomcat
7 34 (52.31%) Oracle
8 33 (50.77%) SQL Server
8 33 (50.77%) SQL Server 2005
9 32 (49.23%) JMS
10 31 (47.69%) SQL Server 2008
11 30 (46.15%) J2EE
12 29 (44.62%) Java EE
13 28 (43.08%) JasperReports
14 27 (41.54%) MVC
14 27 (41.54%) Selenium
15 26 (40.00%) FitNesse
15 26 (40.00%) Spring MVC
15 26 (40.00%) TeamCity
15 26 (40.00%) Apache Continuum
15 26 (40.00%) JMX
15 26 (40.00%) Ajax
15 26 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
15 26 (40.00%) SOAP
15 26 (40.00%) JBoss
16 23 (35.38%) TDD
17 20 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
17 20 (30.77%) OO
17 20 (30.77%) Unit Testing

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 58 (89.23%) Hibernate
2 32 (49.23%) JMS
3 30 (46.15%) J2EE
4 29 (44.62%) Java EE
5 26 (40.00%) Spring MVC
5 26 (40.00%) JMX
5 26 (40.00%) Ajax
5 26 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
5 26 (40.00%) SOAP
6 7 (10.77%) HTML
7 6 (9.231%) CSS
8 4 (6.154%) XML
8 4 (6.154%) Apache CXF
9 3 (4.615%) .NET
10 2 (3.077%) EJB
10 2 (3.077%) Struts
10 2 (3.077%) JPA
10 2 (3.077%) OSGi
10 2 (3.077%) PostGIS
11 1 (1.538%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 34 (52.31%) Tomcat
2 10 (15.38%) Alfresco
3 6 (9.231%) Apache
4 3 (4.615%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.077%) MQSeries
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (50.77%) SQL Server
1 33 (50.77%) SQL Server 2005
2 31 (47.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (43.08%) JasperReports
4 20 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (23.08%) MongoDB
6 11 (16.92%) MySQL
7 10 (15.38%) CouchDB
7 10 (15.38%) Jackrabbit
7 10 (15.38%) NoSQL
8 6 (9.231%) Oracle 8/8i
9 4 (6.154%) DB2
10 2 (3.077%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.077%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.538%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 38 (58.46%) Maven
2 37 (56.92%) Subversion
3 36 (55.38%) Eclipse
4 27 (41.54%) Selenium
5 26 (40.00%) FitNesse
5 26 (40.00%) TeamCity
5 26 (40.00%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (3.077%) Ant
6 2 (3.077%) JUnit
6 2 (3.077%) Hudson
7 1 (1.538%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.538%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (7.692%) Finance
2 4 (6.154%) Banking
2 4 (6.154%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.077%) Advertising
4 1 (1.538%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.538%) Games
Job Titles
1 56 (86.15%) Developer
2 48 (73.85%) Java Developer
3 18 (27.69%) Senior Java Developer
3 18 (27.69%) Senior Developer
4 13 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 8 (12.31%) QA Tester
5 8 (12.31%) Tester
6 7 (10.77%) Team Leader
7 6 (9.231%) Java Team Leader
8 2 (3.077%) Architect
8 2 (3.077%) Software Architect
8 2 (3.077%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (1.538%) Programmer
9 1 (1.538%) Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Firmware
2 10 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 10 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (15.38%) Social Media
3 3 (4.615%) Open Source
4 1 (1.538%) Derivative
4 1 (1.538%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.538%) Ergonomics
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.154%) UNIX
1 4 (6.154%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (67.69%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (41.54%) MVC
3 23 (35.38%) TDD
4 20 (30.77%) OO
4 20 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 20 (30.77%) Multithreading
5 14 (21.54%) Automated Testing
6 8 (12.31%) Manual Testing
7 2 (3.077%) UML
7 2 (3.077%) RUP
8 1 (1.538%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (1.538%) BDD
8 1 (1.538%) Web Application Development
8 1 (1.538%) Scrum
8 1 (1.538%) Pair Programming
8 1 (1.538%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (20.00%) Scala
3 12 (18.46%) SQL
4 10 (15.38%) Ruby
4 10 (15.38%) Clojure
4 10 (15.38%) Erlang
5 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.154%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) QA
Vendors
1 34 (52.31%) Oracle
2 26 (40.00%) JBoss
3 5 (7.692%) Sybase
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