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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 55 25 26
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +1
Permanent jobs citing Spring 3 33 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.577% 6.522% 7.832%
As % of the Application Development category 2.479% 23.40% 19.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 33 37
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
121 141 293
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 23.27% 27.87% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 96 129 212
Average salary £42,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
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 Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) MVC
3 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (50.00%) HTTP
3 5 (50.00%) Maven
4 4 (40.00%) Lucene
4 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
4 4 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 3 (30.00%) SCOM
5 3 (30.00%) jQuery
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) HTML5
5 3 (30.00%) Hudson
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) SOAP
5 3 (30.00%) UNIX
5 3 (30.00%) JDBC
5 3 (30.00%) JUnit
5 3 (30.00%) Web Services
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 6 (60.00%) XML
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (40.00%) Lucene
3 4 (40.00%) Spring MVC
4 3 (30.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) HTML5
4 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 3 (30.00%) JDBC
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) Ajax
5 2 (20.00%) WSDL
5 2 (20.00%) XSD
5 2 (20.00%) JSON
5 2 (20.00%) GWT
5 2 (20.00%) Ehcache
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) JPA
6 1 (10.00%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) DVB
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Maven
2 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (30.00%) Hudson
3 3 (30.00%) JUnit
4 2 (20.00%) Ant
4 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
5 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (40.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Software Programmer
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Programmer
4 3 (30.00%) Java Software Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Java Programmer
5 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (10.00%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (10.00%) J2EE Team Leader
6 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (10.00%) Physics
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (10.00%) Open Source
1 1 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (10.00%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) MVC
2 4 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (30.00%) OO
4 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) OOD
4 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Kanban
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) UML
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) XPath
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat