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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 50 - 88
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Spring 41 0 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 3.578% - 1.023%
As % of the Application Development category 9.234% - 1.989%
Number of salaries quoted 36 0 11
Average salary £40,500 - £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 - £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 309 553
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.74% 43.46% 51.44%
Number of salaries quoted 379 278 519
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
South East

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

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

Kent 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 Kent 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
Folkestone - 3 £35,000 -
Rochester - 3 £50,000 -
West Malling - 2 £36,750 -
Dartford - 1 £50,000 -
Spring
South East

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 55 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 33 (60.00%) Finance
4 28 (50.91%) OOD
4 28 (50.91%) OO
5 23 (41.82%) Legal
5 23 (41.82%) Hibernate
6 22 (40.00%) Intranet
6 22 (40.00%) Internet
7 21 (38.18%) Management Information System
7 21 (38.18%) Multimedia
8 18 (32.73%) Risk Management
9 16 (29.09%) J2EE
9 16 (29.09%) Oracle
10 13 (23.64%) Dojo
10 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
11 11 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
11 11 (20.00%) JBoss
11 11 (20.00%) Tomcat
12 10 (18.18%) PL/SQL
13 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
13 9 (16.36%) Web Services
13 9 (16.36%) Java EE
14 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
14 8 (14.55%) Banking
14 8 (14.55%) UNIX
14 8 (14.55%) Swing
14 8 (14.55%) SOAP
15 7 (12.73%) Apache
15 7 (12.73%) XML

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 23 (41.82%) Hibernate
2 16 (29.09%) J2EE
3 13 (23.64%) Dojo
4 9 (16.36%) Web Services
4 9 (16.36%) Java EE
5 8 (14.55%) Swing
5 8 (14.55%) SOAP
6 7 (12.73%) XML
6 7 (12.73%) HTML
7 6 (10.91%) WebSphere
8 5 (9.091%) CSS
9 4 (7.273%) PowerMock
9 4 (7.273%) JPA
9 4 (7.273%) JSP
9 4 (7.273%) Servlets
9 4 (7.273%) Struts
9 4 (7.273%) SiteMesh
9 4 (7.273%) JSF
9 4 (7.273%) JSTL
9 4 (7.273%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 11 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 7 (12.73%) Apache
3 4 (7.273%) WebLogic
3 4 (7.273%) Jetty
4 3 (5.455%) GlassFish
4 3 (5.455%) CICS
4 3 (5.455%) SAS
5 2 (3.636%) CMS
5 2 (3.636%) Alfresco
6 1 (1.818%) ColdFusion
Communications & Networking
1 22 (40.00%) Intranet
1 22 (40.00%) Internet
2 4 (7.273%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.636%) HTTP
4 1 (1.818%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.73%) MySQL
3 4 (7.273%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.273%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (7.273%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (7.273%) JasperReports
4 3 (5.455%) DB2
5 2 (3.636%) MarkLogic
5 2 (3.636%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) Maven
3 5 (9.091%) Ant
3 5 (9.091%) JUnit
4 4 (7.273%) CruiseControl
4 4 (7.273%) EasyMock
4 4 (7.273%) DbUnit
4 4 (7.273%) Mockito
5 3 (5.455%) JProfiler
5 3 (5.455%) JIRA
5 3 (5.455%) Subversion
5 3 (5.455%) Eclipse
General
1 33 (60.00%) Finance
2 23 (41.82%) Legal
3 21 (38.18%) Multimedia
4 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
4 8 (14.55%) Banking
5 4 (7.273%) Publishing
5 4 (7.273%) Music
6 1 (1.818%) Marketing
6 1 (1.818%) Retail
6 1 (1.818%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 48 (87.27%) Developer
2 46 (83.64%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Software Engineer
4 5 (9.091%) Graduate Java Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Lead Java Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Lead Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Graduate
5 4 (7.273%) Junior
5 4 (7.273%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.273%) J2EE Developer
5 4 (7.273%) J2EE Software Engineer
5 4 (7.273%) Junior Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Junior Java Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Senior J2EE Software Engineer
6 3 (5.455%) Front-End Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (5.455%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.455%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.636%) Equities
5 1 (1.818%) Spread Betting
5 1 (1.818%) Derivative
5 1 (1.818%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) UNIX
2 1 (1.818%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) OOD
1 28 (50.91%) OO
2 18 (32.73%) Risk Management
3 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
4 11 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (10.91%) Data Management
5 6 (10.91%) System Testing
6 5 (9.091%) Multithreading
7 4 (7.273%) UML
7 4 (7.273%) MVC
7 4 (7.273%) Software Engineering
7 4 (7.273%) Waterfall
8 3 (5.455%) AOP
8 3 (5.455%) ETL
8 3 (5.455%) Validation
8 3 (5.455%) Migration
8 3 (5.455%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.636%) TDD
9 2 (3.636%) Content Management
9 2 (3.636%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 10 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 7 (12.73%) SQL
5 5 (9.091%) PHP
6 4 (7.273%) C#
7 3 (5.455%) PL/1
7 3 (5.455%) COBOL
7 3 (5.455%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.818%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (7.273%) Sun Certification
1 4 (7.273%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (5.455%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Oracle
2 11 (20.00%) JBoss
3 4 (7.273%) Sybase
4 3 (5.455%) BMC
4 3 (5.455%) Pega
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