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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 134 66 52
Rank change year-on-year
-68 -14
Permanent jobs citing Spring 83 199 223
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 1.582% 3.595% 3.696%
As % of the Application Development category 3.371% 7.847% 9.154%
Number of salaries quoted 74 159 189
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,400 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,861 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.76% +2.35%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2462 2536 2436
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.93% 45.82% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2233 2273 2175
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South 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 South West region.

South West Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Salary Histogram

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

South 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 South 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
Bristol -33 29 £35,000 -6.66%
Somerset +10 19 £40,000 -3.03%
Wiltshire -23 19 £37,500 -16.66%
Dorset -3 13 £50,000 +21.21%
Spring
England

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 208 (98.11%) Java
2 117 (55.19%) SQL
3 109 (51.42%) Hibernate
4 107 (50.47%) XML
5 95 (44.81%) Oracle
6 90 (42.45%) JavaScript
7 88 (41.51%) JUnit
8 84 (39.62%) HTML
9 63 (29.72%) Unit Testing
10 62 (29.25%) Eclipse
11 60 (28.30%) CSS
11 60 (28.30%) Subversion
12 59 (27.83%) Web Services
13 54 (25.47%) Agile Software Development
14 47 (22.17%) jQuery
15 45 (21.23%) Degree
15 45 (21.23%) Tomcat
16 42 (19.81%) RDBMS
17 41 (19.34%) J2EE
18 40 (18.87%) MySQL
18 40 (18.87%) Computer Science
19 33 (15.57%) Maven
19 33 (15.57%) JSP
20 32 (15.09%) Apache
21 29 (13.68%) UNIX
21 29 (13.68%) QA
22 28 (13.21%) SQL Server
23 27 (12.74%) SOAP
23 27 (12.74%) Problem Management
24 26 (12.26%) TDD

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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
1 109 (51.42%) Hibernate
2 107 (50.47%) XML
3 84 (39.62%) HTML
4 60 (28.30%) CSS
5 59 (27.83%) Web Services
6 47 (22.17%) jQuery
7 41 (19.34%) J2EE
8 33 (15.57%) JSP
9 27 (12.74%) SOAP
10 24 (11.32%) Struts
11 23 (10.85%) Java EE
11 23 (10.85%) Ajax
12 20 (9.434%) JMS
13 19 (8.962%) REST
14 18 (8.491%) Spring MVC
15 16 (7.547%) iBATIS
15 16 (7.547%) WebSphere
15 16 (7.547%) Drools
16 12 (5.660%) JSON
16 12 (5.660%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 45 (21.23%) Tomcat
2 32 (15.09%) Apache
3 17 (8.019%) WebLogic
4 14 (6.604%) GlassFish
5 10 (4.717%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (2.358%) Mule
7 4 (1.887%) Apache Solr
8 3 (1.415%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (1.415%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (1.415%) CMS
9 2 (0.943%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.943%) WebLogic Portal
9 2 (0.943%) MS Exchange
9 2 (0.943%) IIS
10 1 (0.472%) ESB
10 1 (0.472%) Magento
10 1 (0.472%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.472%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.472%) Shopify
Applications
1 2 (0.943%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.472%) Summit
1 1 (0.472%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.358%) HTTP
2 4 (1.887%) Internet
3 1 (0.472%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.81%) RDBMS
2 40 (18.87%) MySQL
3 28 (13.21%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.189%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.830%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (2.358%) Big Data
7 4 (1.887%) MarkLogic
7 4 (1.887%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.415%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (0.943%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.943%) JasperReports
10 1 (0.472%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.472%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.472%) Adabas
10 1 (0.472%) GIS
10 1 (0.472%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.472%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 88 (41.51%) JUnit
2 62 (29.25%) Eclipse
3 60 (28.30%) Subversion
4 33 (15.57%) Maven
5 20 (9.434%) Ant
6 15 (7.075%) Git (software)
6 15 (7.075%) jMock
6 15 (7.075%) Hudson
7 13 (6.132%) Eclipse RCP
8 7 (3.302%) JIRA
9 6 (2.830%) Selenium
10 5 (2.358%) Jenkins
11 4 (1.887%) JMeter
11 4 (1.887%) FitNesse
12 3 (1.415%) Mockito
13 2 (0.943%) NetBeans
13 2 (0.943%) EasyMock
14 1 (0.472%) ANTLR
14 1 (0.472%) Mercurial
14 1 (0.472%) WebLogic Workshop
General
1 19 (8.962%) Finance
2 12 (5.660%) Telecoms
3 6 (2.830%) Games
3 6 (2.830%) Banking
4 3 (1.415%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.943%) Financial Institution
5 2 (0.943%) Retail
5 2 (0.943%) Billing
6 1 (0.472%) Marketing
6 1 (0.472%) Advertising
6 1 (0.472%) Publishing
6 1 (0.472%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 155 (73.11%) Developer
2 127 (59.91%) Java Developer
3 31 (14.62%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.74%) Java Software Engineer
5 25 (11.79%) Senior Developer
6 24 (11.32%) Senior Java Developer
7 20 (9.434%) Software Developer
8 19 (8.962%) Java Web Developer
8 19 (8.962%) Web Developer
9 13 (6.132%) Trainee Software Engineer
9 13 (6.132%) Trainee
9 13 (6.132%) Junior Developer
9 13 (6.132%) Junior
10 12 (5.660%) Applications Developer
11 11 (5.189%) Junior Java Developer
12 9 (4.245%) Designer
12 9 (4.245%) Web Applications Developer
12 9 (4.245%) Java Applications Developer
12 9 (4.245%) Team Leader
13 8 (3.774%) Java Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.87%) Computer Science
2 22 (10.38%) Open Source
3 13 (6.132%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.660%) Digital Media
4 12 (5.660%) iPhone
5 10 (4.717%) iPad
6 8 (3.774%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.943%) Inversion of Control
8 1 (0.472%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.472%) Blog
8 1 (0.472%) SaaS
8 1 (0.472%) Social Media
8 1 (0.472%) SWIFT
8 1 (0.472%) Visualisation
8 1 (0.472%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.472%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.472%) Smartcard
8 1 (0.472%) Chip and PIN
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.68%) UNIX
2 19 (8.962%) Android
2 19 (8.962%) Linux
3 13 (6.132%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.943%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (29.72%) Unit Testing
2 54 (25.47%) Agile Software Development
3 27 (12.74%) Problem Management
4 26 (12.26%) TDD
4 26 (12.26%) OO
5 23 (10.85%) OOD
6 21 (9.906%) MVC
7 20 (9.434%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (8.019%) Scrum
9 15 (7.075%) OOA/OOD
10 11 (5.189%) Web Development
10 11 (5.189%) Data Modelling
11 10 (4.717%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (4.245%) SOA
13 8 (3.774%) Business Analysis
14 7 (3.302%) Workflow
14 7 (3.302%) Software Engineering
14 7 (3.302%) Integration Testing
15 6 (2.830%) Identity Management
15 6 (2.830%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 208 (98.11%) Java
2 117 (55.19%) SQL
3 90 (42.45%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.434%) Shell Script
5 10 (4.717%) C++
6 6 (2.830%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.887%) C
8 3 (1.415%) Clojure
8 3 (1.415%) Scala
8 3 (1.415%) C#
8 3 (1.415%) Perl
8 3 (1.415%) PHP
8 3 (1.415%) R
9 2 (0.943%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.943%) Delphi
10 1 (0.472%) xBase
10 1 (0.472%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.472%) Groovy
10 1 (0.472%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.472%) NATURAL
Qualifications
1 45 (21.23%) Degree
2 6 (2.830%) DV Cleared
2 6 (2.830%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.415%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.943%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.68%) QA
2 1 (0.472%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.472%) SLA
2 1 (0.472%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 10 (4.717%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.943%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.472%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 95 (44.81%) Oracle
2 22 (10.38%) JBoss
3 19 (8.962%) Google
4 10 (4.717%) BEA
4 10 (4.717%) VMware
5 8 (3.774%) Trapeze
6 5 (2.358%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.415%) GigaSpaces
7 3 (1.415%) Zend
8 2 (0.943%) Facebook
8 2 (0.943%) Sun
8 2 (0.943%) Sybase
9 1 (0.472%) ESRI
9 1 (0.472%) CA
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