The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven 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 Development Applications category for the City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 148 144 137
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -7
Contract jobs citing Maven 55 74 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.862% 0.941% 1.133%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.006% 11.35% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 52 100
Average daily rate £475 £563 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.55% -2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £402 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £335 £400
% change year-on-year
+4.47% -16.25%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
London

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Maven Daily Rate Trend

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Maven across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Maven Daily Rate Histogram

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 95 (86.36%) Java
2 45 (40.91%) Subversion
3 44 (40.00%) Ant
4 42 (38.18%) JUnit
5 41 (37.27%) Banking
6 39 (35.45%) Oracle
7 37 (33.64%) SQL
7 37 (33.64%) Finance
8 34 (30.91%) Agile Software Development
9 32 (29.09%) Spring
10 31 (28.18%) Linux
11 30 (27.27%) TDD
11 30 (27.27%) Hibernate
12 28 (25.45%) Scrum
12 28 (25.45%) Continuous Integration
13 27 (24.55%) Git (software)
14 26 (23.64%) HTML
14 26 (23.64%) Eclipse
15 25 (22.73%) Web Services
15 25 (22.73%) Jenkins
16 24 (21.82%) OO
16 24 (21.82%) JavaScript
16 24 (21.82%) Multithreading
17 23 (20.91%) E-Commerce
17 23 (20.91%) MVC
18 21 (19.09%) Tomcat
18 21 (19.09%) CSS
18 21 (19.09%) Investment Banking
19 20 (18.18%) Selenium
19 20 (18.18%) JIRA

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 32 (29.09%) Spring
2 30 (27.27%) Hibernate
3 26 (23.64%) HTML
4 25 (22.73%) Web Services
5 21 (19.09%) CSS
6 20 (18.18%) J2EE
6 20 (18.18%) JSP
7 18 (16.36%) XML
8 17 (15.45%) Ajax
9 16 (14.55%) .NET
10 15 (13.64%) REST
11 12 (10.91%) Servlets
11 12 (10.91%) SOAP
11 12 (10.91%) RESTful
12 11 (10.00%) HTML5
12 11 (10.00%) JMS
12 11 (10.00%) Java EE
12 11 (10.00%) Spring MVC
13 10 (9.091%) jQuery
13 10 (9.091%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 21 (19.09%) Tomcat
2 18 (16.36%) Apache
3 15 (13.64%) WebLogic
4 6 (5.455%) Confluence
4 6 (5.455%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (5.455%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (3.636%) CMS
6 3 (2.727%) Liferay
6 3 (2.727%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.818%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (1.818%) Alfresco
7 2 (1.818%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.818%) Drupal
7 2 (1.818%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.818%) Documentum
8 1 (0.909%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.909%) WebLogic Integration
8 1 (0.909%) IIS
8 1 (0.909%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.909%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.636%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.909%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.364%) HTTP
2 5 (4.545%) AMQP
3 4 (3.636%) LDAP
4 3 (2.727%) NFC
5 2 (1.818%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.909%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.091%) SQLite
1 10 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.273%) RDBMS
2 8 (7.273%) MySQL
3 3 (2.727%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (2.727%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.818%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.818%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.818%) DB2
5 1 (0.909%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.909%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.909%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.909%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.909%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.909%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.909%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.909%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.909%) Big Data
5 1 (0.909%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 45 (40.91%) Subversion
2 44 (40.00%) Ant
3 42 (38.18%) JUnit
4 27 (24.55%) Git (software)
5 26 (23.64%) Eclipse
6 25 (22.73%) Jenkins
7 20 (18.18%) Selenium
7 20 (18.18%) JIRA
8 12 (10.91%) Cucumber
8 12 (10.91%) TeamCity
9 11 (10.00%) Mercurial
10 8 (7.273%) Hudson
11 7 (6.364%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (4.545%) ClearCase
12 5 (4.545%) Mockito
13 4 (3.636%) FishEye
13 4 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (3.636%) WebDriver
13 4 (3.636%) CruiseControl
13 4 (3.636%) FitNesse
General
1 41 (37.27%) Banking
2 37 (33.64%) Finance
3 21 (19.09%) Investment Banking
4 14 (12.73%) Front Office
5 6 (5.455%) Retail
6 2 (1.818%) Publishing
7 1 (0.909%) Electronics
7 1 (0.909%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.909%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.909%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.909%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.909%) Marketing
7 1 (0.909%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (59.09%) Developer
2 38 (34.55%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 11 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (8.182%) Architect
6 7 (6.364%) Blackberry Developer
7 6 (5.455%) Build Manager
7 6 (5.455%) Deployment Engineer
7 6 (5.455%) Analyst
7 6 (5.455%) Test Analyst
7 6 (5.455%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.545%) Java Swing Developer
8 5 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
9 4 (3.636%) Java Architect
10 3 (2.727%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.727%) Technical Architect
10 3 (2.727%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.727%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.727%) Agile Test Analyst
10 3 (2.727%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (10.91%) Open Source
3 11 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 11 (10.00%) Blackberry
4 5 (4.545%) Derivative
4 5 (4.545%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.545%) iPhone
5 4 (3.636%) Mobile Banking
5 4 (3.636%) W3C
6 3 (2.727%) Computer Science
6 3 (2.727%) Flash Lite
6 3 (2.727%) Java Card
6 3 (2.727%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.818%) Interactive TV
7 2 (1.818%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.909%) EMV
8 1 (0.909%) NHS
8 1 (0.909%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.909%) DTV
8 1 (0.909%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 31 (28.18%) Linux
2 20 (18.18%) Windows
3 15 (13.64%) UNIX
4 5 (4.545%) Windows Mobile
5 4 (3.636%) Android
6 3 (2.727%) Debian
7 1 (0.909%) AIX
7 1 (0.909%) Solaris
7 1 (0.909%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (27.27%) TDD
3 28 (25.45%) Scrum
3 28 (25.45%) Continuous Integration
4 24 (21.82%) OO
4 24 (21.82%) Multithreading
5 23 (20.91%) E-Commerce
5 23 (20.91%) MVC
6 16 (14.55%) BDD
7 11 (10.00%) OOP
8 9 (8.182%) Unit Testing
8 9 (8.182%) Test Automation
9 7 (6.364%) UML
9 7 (6.364%) Data Modelling
9 7 (6.364%) Web Development
10 6 (5.455%) Pair Programming
10 6 (5.455%) SOA
11 5 (4.545%) Risk Management
11 5 (4.545%) Asset Management
12 4 (3.636%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 95 (86.36%) Java
2 37 (33.64%) SQL
3 24 (21.82%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.73%) C#
5 11 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.182%) Bash shell
7 6 (5.455%) Ruby
8 5 (4.545%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.545%) Perl
8 5 (4.545%) Groovy
9 4 (3.636%) Scala
9 4 (3.636%) PHP
9 4 (3.636%) C++
9 4 (3.636%) Python
10 2 (1.818%) C-shell
10 2 (1.818%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.909%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.909%) XQuery
11 1 (0.909%) XAML
11 1 (0.909%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (5.455%) Degree
2 3 (2.727%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (3.636%) WAI
3 3 (2.727%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.909%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.909%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 1 (0.909%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 5 (4.545%) vCloud
2 3 (2.727%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.818%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.909%) Xen
4 1 (0.909%) ClearTrust
4 1 (0.909%) OpenSSO
4 1 (0.909%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 9 (8.182%) Puppet
2 5 (4.545%) BladeLogic
3 3 (2.727%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.818%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (35.45%) Oracle
2 15 (13.64%) JBoss
3 8 (7.273%) Atlassian
4 7 (6.364%) Sybase
5 6 (5.455%) VMware
6 4 (3.636%) IBM
7 3 (2.727%) HP
7 3 (2.727%) BMC
8 2 (1.818%) 29West
8 2 (1.818%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.818%) hybris
8 2 (1.818%) Perforce
8 2 (1.818%) ATG
8 2 (1.818%) Google
9 1 (0.909%) Apple
9 1 (0.909%) Informatica
9 1 (0.909%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.909%) Adobe
9 1 (0.909%) SAP
9 1 (0.909%) DataSynapse
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading Investment Bank requires a number of Java Developers...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading financial institution requires a number of Java Developer /...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per month
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading financial institution requires a number of Java Developer /...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Support the creation scripts to be run under Continuous Integration using Hudson, Maven and Subversion... -Familiar of testing frameworks using Java and Groovy. -Competent in TESTNG. -Good SQL...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £320 - £365 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
DevOps - Engineer - Puppet - Chef - Big Data - Cloud - MongoDB - Jenknins - Maven - Cloud - Agile... Cassandra, MongoDB, NoSQL and other relevant Big Data/Cloud technologies. CloudStack, OpenStack API. CI tools - Jenkins,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013