The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 20 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 Salford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 11 10 8
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Spring 1 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 2.500% 11.54% 13.04%
As % of the Application Development category 6.667% 27.27% 20.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 6
Average salary £45,000 £35,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.76% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +2.35%
All Application Development
Salford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
15 22 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Salford 37.50% 42.31% 63.04%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 29
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +10.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £30,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £53,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
Manchester

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Salford 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) Interactive TV
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
3 2 (50.00%) BBC
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) ActionScript
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (25.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) Ant
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) JSP
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) OOD
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Salford 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Java SE
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Ant
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Junior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) BBC
1 2 (50.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) ActionScript
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (25.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Salford, Lancashire
Object Oriented design. - Java SE and Java EE... - ideally some of the following: DBMS, jboss, maven, ant, spring framework, hibernate, Unix/Linux environment, Agile Development, .NET, Python, Ruby,...
EXCELerate
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum Corporate Benefits Package
Posted: 17 May 2013