The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 24 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 90 61 59
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Spring 184 287 263
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 2.561% 4.043% 3.830%
As % of the Application Development category 5.204% 8.221% 8.680%
Number of salaries quoted 163 248 247
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,600 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3536 3491 3030
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 49.21% 49.18% 44.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3150 3162 2776
Average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
England

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Spring across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -18 117 £38,500 +8.45%
Cheshire 0 60 £35,000 -10.25%
Merseyside -30 4 £44,500 +11.25%
Lancashire -12 3 £34,000 +7.93%
Spring
England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 425 (99.30%) Java
2 292 (68.22%) Hibernate
3 208 (48.60%) SQL
4 194 (45.33%) J2EE
5 164 (38.32%) Linux
6 150 (35.05%) JavaScript
7 142 (33.18%) JSP
8 138 (32.24%) Struts
9 137 (32.01%) Agile Software Development
10 134 (31.31%) Oracle
11 122 (28.50%) E-Commerce
12 121 (28.27%) TDD
13 115 (26.87%) HTML
14 105 (24.53%) CSS
15 98 (22.90%) Web Services
16 91 (21.26%) Ajax
16 91 (21.26%) Tomcat
17 88 (20.56%) MySQL
18 84 (19.63%) jQuery
19 81 (18.93%) Scrum
20 74 (17.29%) MVC
20 74 (17.29%) Finance
21 73 (17.06%) XML
22 69 (16.12%) JUnit
22 69 (16.12%) Apache
23 67 (15.65%) UNIX
24 66 (15.42%) Java EE
24 66 (15.42%) Degree
25 65 (15.19%) Servlets
26 63 (14.72%) OO

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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
1 292 (68.22%) Hibernate
2 194 (45.33%) J2EE
3 142 (33.18%) JSP
4 138 (32.24%) Struts
5 115 (26.87%) HTML
6 105 (24.53%) CSS
7 98 (22.90%) Web Services
8 91 (21.26%) Ajax
9 84 (19.63%) jQuery
10 73 (17.06%) XML
11 66 (15.42%) Java EE
12 65 (15.19%) Servlets
13 60 (14.02%) JDBC
14 57 (13.32%) SOAP
15 40 (9.346%) Spring MVC
15 40 (9.346%) Swing
16 38 (8.879%) JSF
17 33 (7.710%) .NET
18 29 (6.776%) Apache Axis
19 28 (6.542%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 91 (21.26%) Tomcat
2 69 (16.12%) Apache
3 18 (4.206%) Apache Solr
4 16 (3.738%) ESB
5 11 (2.570%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.402%) Jetty
6 6 (1.402%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (0.935%) WebSphere Application Server
8 3 (0.701%) CMS
9 1 (0.234%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (0.467%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.374%) HTTP
2 4 (0.935%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (20.56%) MySQL
2 40 (9.346%) SQL Server
3 18 (4.206%) Oracle 10g
4 17 (3.972%) RDBMS
5 10 (2.336%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (1.168%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.935%) Oracle 9i
7 4 (0.935%) DB2
8 1 (0.234%) Redis
8 1 (0.234%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.234%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (16.12%) JUnit
2 52 (12.15%) Eclipse
3 43 (10.05%) Subversion
4 42 (9.813%) Ant
5 41 (9.579%) Maven
6 23 (5.374%) JIRA
7 11 (2.570%) NetBeans
8 10 (2.336%) Gradle
9 9 (2.103%) Git (software)
10 6 (1.402%) Log4j
11 4 (0.935%) JBuilder
11 4 (0.935%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 4 (0.935%) Mockito
11 4 (0.935%) NetBeans IDE
11 4 (0.935%) TortoiseSVN
12 2 (0.467%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.467%) PhoneGap
12 2 (0.467%) Redmine
13 1 (0.234%) MyEclipse
13 1 (0.234%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 74 (17.29%) Finance
2 23 (5.374%) Legal
3 22 (5.140%) Retail
4 11 (2.570%) Telecoms
4 11 (2.570%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (2.103%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.402%) Banking
7 3 (0.701%) Automotive
7 3 (0.701%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.467%) Back Office
8 2 (0.467%) Publishing
9 1 (0.234%) Games
9 1 (0.234%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 368 (85.98%) Developer
2 330 (77.10%) Java Developer
3 94 (21.96%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 87 (20.33%) Senior Developer
5 82 (19.16%) Senior Java Developer
6 50 (11.68%) Web Developer
7 43 (10.05%) J2EE Developer
8 41 (9.579%) Software Engineer
8 41 (9.579%) Java Web Developer
9 38 (8.879%) Software Developer
10 25 (5.841%) Java Software Engineer
11 22 (5.140%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 22 (5.140%) Java Software Developer
12 14 (3.271%) Front-End Developer
13 13 (3.037%) Senior J2EE Developer
14 12 (2.804%) Analyst
14 12 (2.804%) Programmer
15 11 (2.570%) Junior
15 11 (2.570%) Java Programmer
16 9 (2.103%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.477%) Open Source
2 26 (6.075%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (5.140%) Computer Science
4 12 (2.804%) Web 2.0
5 11 (2.570%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.636%) SCADA
7 5 (1.168%) LIMS
7 5 (1.168%) Life Science
8 4 (0.935%) Telematics
9 3 (0.701%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.701%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.701%) Smartcard
9 3 (0.701%) EPoS
9 3 (0.701%) PKI
9 3 (0.701%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (0.467%) Interactive TV
10 2 (0.467%) BBC
10 2 (0.467%) Digital Media
11 1 (0.234%) Cryptography
11 1 (0.234%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 164 (38.32%) Linux
2 67 (15.65%) UNIX
3 8 (1.869%) Solaris
3 8 (1.869%) Android
4 6 (1.402%) Windows
5 4 (0.935%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.701%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.467%) AIX
8 1 (0.234%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (32.01%) Agile Software Development
2 122 (28.50%) E-Commerce
3 121 (28.27%) TDD
4 81 (18.93%) Scrum
5 74 (17.29%) MVC
6 63 (14.72%) OO
7 60 (14.02%) Unit Testing
8 43 (10.05%) Web Application Development
9 41 (9.579%) Pair Programming
10 27 (6.308%) BDD
11 23 (5.374%) System Testing
12 21 (4.907%) Data Management
13 19 (4.439%) Web Development
14 18 (4.206%) Project Management
14 18 (4.206%) Dependency Injection
15 17 (3.972%) SOA
16 14 (3.271%) Multithreading
16 14 (3.271%) Software Engineering
17 13 (3.037%) Continuous Integration
18 10 (2.336%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 425 (99.30%) Java
2 208 (48.60%) SQL
3 150 (35.05%) JavaScript
4 41 (9.579%) PL/SQL
5 22 (5.140%) C#
6 21 (4.907%) Ruby
7 19 (4.439%) PHP
7 19 (4.439%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.972%) C++
9 15 (3.505%) Python
10 13 (3.037%) Groovy
11 12 (2.804%) C
12 11 (2.570%) XPath
13 8 (1.869%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.402%) Bash shell
15 3 (0.701%) Perl
16 2 (0.467%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.467%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.467%) Scala
17 1 (0.234%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 66 (15.42%) Degree
2 14 (3.271%) PhD
3 9 (2.103%) HND
3 9 (2.103%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.701%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.103%) QA
2 4 (0.935%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 134 (31.31%) Oracle
2 57 (13.32%) JBoss
3 35 (8.178%) Google
4 34 (7.944%) Apple
5 16 (3.738%) IBM
6 8 (1.869%) Twitter
7 5 (1.168%) Zend
8 4 (0.935%) ATG
8 4 (0.935%) Microsoft
9 2 (0.467%) Salesforce.com
9 2 (0.467%) HP
9 2 (0.467%) hybris
10 1 (0.234%) FatWire
10 1 (0.234%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.234%) Endeca
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