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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 32 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Spring 5 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.717% - 3.429%
As % of the Application Development category 8.065% - 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
Average salary £45,000 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +2.35%
All Application Development
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
62 67 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.70% 50.38% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 47 56 44
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
Hertfordshire

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 22 (100.00%) Java
1 22 (100.00%) MVC
2 16 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (72.73%) Spring MVC
2 16 (72.73%) NoSQL
2 16 (72.73%) REST
3 13 (59.09%) J2EE
3 13 (59.09%) Degree
3 13 (59.09%) Computer Science
4 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 9 (40.91%) Online Games
4 9 (40.91%) Online Betting
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (40.91%) TDD
4 9 (40.91%) Maven
4 9 (40.91%) Web Services
4 9 (40.91%) OO
4 9 (40.91%) Internet
4 9 (40.91%) Telecoms
4 9 (40.91%) Finance
4 9 (40.91%) Games
4 9 (40.91%) Big Data
4 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (40.91%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
5 7 (31.82%) OOD
5 7 (31.82%) JDBC
6 6 (27.27%) JSP
6 6 (27.27%) JUnit
6 6 (27.27%) SOA

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 16 (72.73%) Spring MVC
1 16 (72.73%) REST
2 13 (59.09%) J2EE
3 9 (40.91%) Web Services
4 7 (31.82%) JDBC
5 6 (27.27%) JSP
5 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (40.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (72.73%) NoSQL
2 9 (40.91%) Big Data
2 9 (40.91%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (27.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Maven
1 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) JUnit
General
1 9 (40.91%) Telecoms
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
1 9 (40.91%) Games
1 9 (40.91%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Java Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Agile Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Lead Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Computer Science
2 9 (40.91%) Online Games
3 6 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) MVC
2 16 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (40.91%) TDD
3 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (40.91%) OO
3 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) OOD
4 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
5 6 (27.27%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (4.545%) Twitter