The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 78 72 92
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +20
Permanent jobs citing Spring 66 81 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.689% 3.235% 2.344%
As % of the Application Development category 8.029% 7.493% 6.796%
Number of salaries quoted 54 76 76
Average salary £50,000 £50,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.99% +6.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £38,750 £36,250
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £63,500 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-1.50% -
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
822 1081 1133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.50% 43.17% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 689 894 959
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £58,500 £65,000
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Spring across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hertford +7 16 £50,000 +11.11%
St Albans - 5 £45,000 -
Tring - 5 £42,500 -
Watford +16 4 £53,750 -
Stevenage +1 2 £35,000 -2.77%
Hitchin - 2 - -
Borehamwood -10 1 £52,500 +2.94%
Rickmansworth -13 1 £45,000 -10.00%
Spring
East of England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 161 (100.00%) Java
2 115 (71.43%) Hibernate
3 112 (69.57%) J2EE
4 87 (54.04%) JavaScript
5 83 (51.55%) SQL
6 79 (49.07%) Web Services
7 73 (45.34%) JSP
8 70 (43.48%) XML
9 68 (42.24%) Oracle
10 64 (39.75%) Tomcat
11 62 (38.51%) JBoss
12 58 (36.02%) Struts
13 56 (34.78%) Degree
14 55 (34.16%) JDBC
15 54 (33.54%) SQL Server
16 48 (29.81%) XSLT
17 44 (27.33%) Maven
17 44 (27.33%) REST
18 39 (24.22%) MVC
18 39 (24.22%) Finance
19 38 (23.60%) TDD
20 37 (22.98%) Servlets
20 37 (22.98%) WebLogic
21 34 (21.12%) JUnit
21 34 (21.12%) SOA
21 34 (21.12%) Eclipse
22 33 (20.50%) Agile Software Development
22 33 (20.50%) Multithreading
23 30 (18.63%) MySQL
24 29 (18.01%) Scrum

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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
1 115 (71.43%) Hibernate
2 112 (69.57%) J2EE
3 79 (49.07%) Web Services
4 73 (45.34%) JSP
5 70 (43.48%) XML
6 58 (36.02%) Struts
7 55 (34.16%) JDBC
8 48 (29.81%) XSLT
9 44 (27.33%) REST
10 37 (22.98%) Servlets
11 26 (16.15%) WebSphere
11 26 (16.15%) jQuery
12 25 (15.53%) XML Schema
12 25 (15.53%) CSS
12 25 (15.53%) HTML
12 25 (15.53%) Ajax
13 22 (13.66%) SOAP
14 18 (11.18%) XHTML
14 18 (11.18%) JSON
14 18 (11.18%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 64 (39.75%) Tomcat
2 37 (22.98%) WebLogic
3 17 (10.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 8 (4.969%) ESB
5 5 (3.106%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.242%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.242%) Magento
6 2 (1.242%) Liferay
6 2 (1.242%) Apache
6 2 (1.242%) SAS
7 1 (0.621%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.621%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (6.832%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.242%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.621%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.590%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.54%) SQL Server
2 30 (18.63%) MySQL
3 20 (12.42%) NoSQL
4 12 (7.453%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.590%) Apache Cassandra
5 9 (5.590%) Big Data
6 8 (4.969%) DB2
7 7 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (3.106%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.242%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (1.242%) Informix
9 2 (1.242%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.621%) TOAD
10 1 (0.621%) OLTP
10 1 (0.621%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 44 (27.33%) Maven
2 34 (21.12%) JUnit
2 34 (21.12%) Eclipse
3 27 (16.77%) Subversion
4 23 (14.29%) Ant
5 11 (6.832%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.348%) JIRA
7 5 (3.106%) Rhino Mocks
7 5 (3.106%) ClearQuest
8 3 (1.863%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (1.242%) Hudson
9 2 (1.242%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.242%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.621%) TortoiseSVN
10 1 (0.621%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.621%) NetBeans
General
1 39 (24.22%) Finance
2 26 (16.15%) Retail
3 11 (6.832%) Games
4 9 (5.590%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.590%) Online Betting
5 6 (3.727%) Advertising
5 6 (3.727%) Banking
6 1 (0.621%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.621%) Marketing
6 1 (0.621%) Electronics
6 1 (0.621%) Legal
6 1 (0.621%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 129 (80.12%) Developer
2 117 (72.67%) Java Developer
3 44 (27.33%) Senior Developer
4 42 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 31 (19.25%) Software Engineer
6 23 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 21 (13.04%) Java Software Engineer
8 17 (10.56%) Java Software Developer
9 11 (6.832%) Architect
10 10 (6.211%) Analyst
10 10 (6.211%) Analyst Programmer
10 10 (6.211%) Programmer
10 10 (6.211%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 9 (5.590%) Java Analyst Programmer
11 9 (5.590%) Java Programmer
12 8 (4.969%) Developer Analyst
12 8 (4.969%) Agile Java Developer
13 7 (4.348%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.348%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.106%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.56%) Computer Science
1 17 (10.56%) Mobile App
2 10 (6.211%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.590%) Online Games
4 7 (4.348%) Mathematics
5 6 (3.727%) PKI
6 4 (2.484%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.863%) Data Integration
7 3 (1.863%) SaaS
8 1 (0.621%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.621%) Robotics
8 1 (0.621%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.15%) UNIX
2 25 (15.53%) Linux
3 14 (8.696%) Android
3 14 (8.696%) Apple iOS
4 6 (3.727%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.22%) MVC
2 38 (23.60%) TDD
3 34 (21.12%) SOA
4 33 (20.50%) Multithreading
4 33 (20.50%) Agile Software Development
5 29 (18.01%) Scrum
6 25 (15.53%) OO
7 23 (14.29%) Web Development
8 17 (10.56%) CRM
8 17 (10.56%) E-Commerce
8 17 (10.56%) ERP
8 17 (10.56%) Workflow
9 15 (9.317%) Web Application Development
10 14 (8.696%) UML
10 14 (8.696%) Unit Testing
11 13 (8.075%) Mobile Application Development
11 13 (8.075%) BDD
12 11 (6.832%) OOD
13 9 (5.590%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (5.590%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 161 (100.00%) Java
2 87 (54.04%) JavaScript
3 83 (51.55%) SQL
4 18 (11.18%) PL/SQL
5 15 (9.317%) Groovy
6 11 (6.832%) Scala
7 5 (3.106%) Apex Code
7 5 (3.106%) C
8 4 (2.484%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.242%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.621%) Python
10 1 (0.621%) C#
Qualifications
1 56 (34.78%) Degree
2 2 (1.242%) SC Cleared
2 2 (1.242%) CTC Cleared
2 2 (1.242%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.621%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.075%) QA
2 1 (0.621%) SLA
2 1 (0.621%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 5 (3.106%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 68 (42.24%) Oracle
2 62 (38.51%) JBoss
3 6 (3.727%) Sun
4 5 (3.106%) BEA
4 5 (3.106%) Salesforce.com
5 4 (2.484%) Demandware
6 3 (1.863%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.242%) ATG
7 2 (1.242%) Perforce
7 2 (1.242%) hybris
8 1 (0.621%) Twitter
8 1 (0.621%) Thunderhead
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