The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven 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 Development Applications category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank - 74 77
Contract jobs citing Maven 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.099% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category - 1.471% 1.389%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -15.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+8.43% -7.77%
All Development Applications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
59 68 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 7.384% 6.739% 6.831%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 32
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
South East

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Maven across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Buckinghamshire Maven Jobs Demand Trend

Maven
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Maven across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Maven Daily Rate Trend

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Maven 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Maven.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JMS
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Maven also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Maven. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) JMS
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Dojo
2 2 (66.67%) DHTML
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JDBC
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) Struts
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Hudson
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft