The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 68 73 34
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -39
Permanent jobs citing Spring 59 65 110
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 3.307% 3.247% 6.563%
As % of the Application Development category 7.266% 6.144% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 51 61 103
Average salary £35,000 £38,750 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.67% -1.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,400
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
812 1058 861
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 45.52% 52.85% 51.37%
Number of salaries quoted 667 949 786
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
North West

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Chester -14 18 £42,500 +6.25%
Crewe +5 6 £47,500 +26.66%
Warrington 0 2 £35,000 -
Knutsford - 2 £30,000 -
Macclesfield - 1 £37,500 -
Northwich - 1 £35,000 -
Spring
North West

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 106 (98.15%) Java
2 64 (59.26%) Hibernate
3 62 (57.41%) SQL
4 56 (51.85%) Web Services
5 53 (49.07%) JavaScript
6 51 (47.22%) HTML
6 51 (47.22%) Oracle
7 49 (45.37%) CSS
7 49 (45.37%) Agile Software Development
8 48 (44.44%) XML
8 48 (44.44%) J2EE
9 42 (38.89%) TDD
10 40 (37.04%) Ajax
10 40 (37.04%) Java EE
10 40 (37.04%) JSP
11 38 (35.19%) Struts
11 38 (35.19%) PL/SQL
11 38 (35.19%) Apache
12 37 (34.26%) Tomcat
13 36 (33.33%) Servlets
14 35 (32.41%) jQuery
15 34 (31.48%) JUnit
16 32 (29.63%) SOAP
16 32 (29.63%) JDBC
16 32 (29.63%) Scrum
17 31 (28.70%) Finance
18 29 (26.85%) Unit Testing
19 27 (25.00%) Apache Axis
19 27 (25.00%) Ant
20 26 (24.07%) Linux

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 64 (59.26%) Hibernate
2 56 (51.85%) Web Services
3 51 (47.22%) HTML
4 49 (45.37%) CSS
5 48 (44.44%) XML
5 48 (44.44%) J2EE
6 40 (37.04%) Ajax
6 40 (37.04%) Java EE
6 40 (37.04%) JSP
7 38 (35.19%) Struts
8 36 (33.33%) Servlets
9 35 (32.41%) jQuery
10 32 (29.63%) SOAP
10 32 (29.63%) JDBC
11 27 (25.00%) Apache Axis
12 24 (22.22%) JSF
13 21 (19.44%) WebSphere
13 21 (19.44%) WSDL
13 21 (19.44%) JAX-RPC
14 16 (14.81%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 38 (35.19%) Apache
2 37 (34.26%) Tomcat
3 6 (5.556%) Jetty
4 5 (4.630%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (4.630%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.926%) CMS
5 1 (0.926%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.259%) MySQL
2 9 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
3 5 (4.630%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.704%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (1.852%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.926%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (31.48%) JUnit
2 27 (25.00%) Ant
3 24 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 20 (18.52%) Subversion
5 14 (12.96%) Maven
5 14 (12.96%) JIRA
6 8 (7.407%) Git (software)
7 6 (5.556%) Log4j
8 4 (3.704%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 4 (3.704%) NetBeans
8 4 (3.704%) TortoiseSVN
8 4 (3.704%) Mockito
8 4 (3.704%) NetBeans IDE
9 1 (0.926%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (0.926%) NUnit
9 1 (0.926%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (28.70%) Finance
2 21 (19.44%) Legal
3 4 (3.704%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (3.704%) Banking
4 3 (2.778%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.852%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.926%) Retail
6 1 (0.926%) Games
Job Titles
1 94 (87.04%) Developer
2 83 (76.85%) Java Developer
3 26 (24.07%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 22 (20.37%) J2EE Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.407%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (6.481%) Team Leader
8 5 (4.630%) Senior J2EE Developer
9 4 (3.704%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.704%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.704%) Support Specialist
9 4 (3.704%) Applications Support
9 4 (3.704%) Lead Developer
9 4 (3.704%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (3.704%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (3.704%) Applications Support Specialist
9 4 (3.704%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (3.704%) .NET Developer
10 3 (2.778%) Agile .NET Developer
10 3 (2.778%) J2EE Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Web 2.0
2 9 (8.333%) Open Source
3 5 (4.630%) Life Science
3 5 (4.630%) LIMS
4 1 (0.926%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.07%) Linux
2 23 (21.30%) UNIX
3 6 (5.556%) Solaris
4 1 (0.926%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (38.89%) TDD
3 32 (29.63%) Scrum
4 29 (26.85%) Unit Testing
5 25 (23.15%) MVC
6 21 (19.44%) System Testing
7 20 (18.52%) Pair Programming
8 19 (17.59%) Data Management
9 14 (12.96%) E-Commerce
10 11 (10.19%) Software Engineering
11 9 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
12 7 (6.481%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (6.481%) Multithreading
12 7 (6.481%) Extreme Programming
12 7 (6.481%) Requirements Management
13 6 (5.556%) RAD
13 6 (5.556%) Project Management
13 6 (5.556%) High Availability
14 5 (4.630%) User Acceptance Testing
14 5 (4.630%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (98.15%) Java
2 62 (57.41%) SQL
3 53 (49.07%) JavaScript
4 38 (35.19%) PL/SQL
5 10 (9.259%) XPath
5 10 (9.259%) PHP
6 7 (6.481%) C#
6 7 (6.481%) T-SQL
7 6 (5.556%) Ruby
8 2 (1.852%) Groovy
9 1 (0.926%) C++
9 1 (0.926%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (3.704%) Degree
2 2 (1.852%) PhD
2 2 (1.852%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 51 (47.22%) Oracle
2 12 (11.11%) IBM
3 7 (6.481%) JBoss
4 5 (4.630%) Zend
5 3 (2.778%) ATG
6 2 (1.852%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.926%) hybris
Chester, Cheshire
Junior Java Developer - Wirral - Java J2EE -£30k- URGENT. Java - SQL - J2EE - Wirral - £30k - Urgent - Java J2EE Spring Hibernate A junior java developer is required by a leading software...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £30000 per annum + Package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Due to continual massive success the company are looking to continue to grow the team and take on strong java developers who will be training and support where...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Chester, North West
Due to continual massive success the company are looking to continue to grow the team and take on strong java developers who will be training and support where...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Java J2EE Developer (Spring MVC,JSP, HTML)... Deploying the company’s software products onto clients systems and ongoing support & maintenance of software products implemented at clients The key...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,00 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chester, North West
Key Skills: - Java / J2EE- Spring- Agile- Javascript / JQuery- Web Service Desirable Skills: - GIT and JIRA- Struts- Hibernate- Oracle- Eclipse- Tomcat The role itself: * Design and development of new...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £46000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
Senior Java Developer -Chester- £40,000 - £45,000 - fantastic benefits package and pension scheme A strong java J2EE developer is required to join a market leader within the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: * Java (Java EE preferred) * Experience in web service development using JAXRPC, WSDL, SOAP, Apache AXIS, Websphere * Experience of...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheshire
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: * Java (Java EE) and JSF * Experience in web service development using JAXRPC, WSDL, SOAP, Apache AXIS, Websphere * Experience...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 21 May 2013
Crewe, Cheshire
Essential Skills: - JAVA 1.6+ with a thorough knowledge of Spring and JUnit - An interest in the development of complex and high performing trading and settlement systems. - Knowledge...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40,000 - 45,000 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013