The first table below looks at the demand for Spring skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Spring over the 3 months to 22 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 Stirling region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SpringSource Spring Framework
Rank 10 6 12
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Spring 2 29 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stirling 6.061% 25.66% 7.407%
As % of the Application Development category 66.67% 52.73% 13.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2 29 3
Average salary £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £48,250 £42,500 £45,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,250 £60,000 £49,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,931 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-3.60% +2.35%
All Application Development
Stirling
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3 55 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stirling 9.091% 48.67% 53.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3 47 27
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £35,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Spring
Scotland

Spring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Spring Salary Trend

Spring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stirling 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 20 (100.00%) Java
1 20 (100.00%) XML
2 17 (85.00%) XSLT
3 16 (80.00%) SQL
4 14 (70.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (65.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (55.00%) Finance
7 10 (50.00%) WebLogic
8 8 (40.00%) J2EE
8 8 (40.00%) Java EE
9 7 (35.00%) Java SE
10 6 (30.00%) WebSphere
10 6 (30.00%) Oracle
10 6 (30.00%) HTML
10 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
10 6 (30.00%) Struts
10 6 (30.00%) JMS
11 5 (25.00%) UNIX
11 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
12 4 (20.00%) Struts2
12 4 (20.00%) Ajax
12 4 (20.00%) jQuery
12 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
12 4 (20.00%) OO
12 4 (20.00%) Subversion
12 4 (20.00%) SOA
12 4 (20.00%) Eclipse
12 4 (20.00%) WSDL
12 4 (20.00%) JSP
12 4 (20.00%) Sybase

Spring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stirling 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 20 (100.00%) XML
2 17 (85.00%) XSLT
3 14 (70.00%) Hibernate
4 8 (40.00%) J2EE
4 8 (40.00%) Java EE
5 7 (35.00%) Java SE
6 6 (30.00%) WebSphere
6 6 (30.00%) HTML
6 6 (30.00%) Struts
6 6 (30.00%) JMS
7 4 (20.00%) Struts2
7 4 (20.00%) Ajax
7 4 (20.00%) jQuery
7 4 (20.00%) WSDL
7 4 (20.00%) JSP
7 4 (20.00%) SOAP
8 3 (15.00%) Spring Integration
9 2 (10.00%) Murex Flex
9 2 (10.00%) JNI
9 2 (10.00%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 10 (50.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Murex MxG2000
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQLPlus
1 2 (10.00%) TOAD
1 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Subversion
1 4 (20.00%) Eclipse
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
2 15 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Development Specialist
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (20.00%) OO
2 4 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (10.00%) V-Model
3 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (10.00%) Information Security
3 2 (10.00%) UML
3 2 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (5.000%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (80.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Sybase
3 2 (10.00%) Reuters
3 2 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
3 2 (10.00%) Adobe
3 2 (10.00%) Murex