The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 47 63 73
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +10
Contract jobs citing Maven 9 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.096% 0.184% 0.076%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.43% 2.941% 1.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £335
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
67 68 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.161% 6.256% 5.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 29 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
Scotland

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Maven Daily Rate Histogram

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Maven across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Maven Hourly Rate Trend

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 9 (90.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (60.00%) Subversion
4 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (50.00%) J2EE
4 5 (50.00%) Ant
4 5 (50.00%) JUnit
5 4 (40.00%) SOA
5 4 (40.00%) Eclipse
5 4 (40.00%) Spring
5 4 (40.00%) Java EE
5 4 (40.00%) JAX-WS
5 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 4 (40.00%) soapUI
5 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) .NET
7 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (20.00%) HTML
7 2 (20.00%) CSS
7 2 (20.00%) Struts
7 2 (20.00%) Web Services
7 2 (20.00%) UML
7 2 (20.00%) JBoss
7 2 (20.00%) Apache
7 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
7 2 (20.00%) MVC
7 2 (20.00%) TortoiseSVN
7 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (50.00%) J2EE
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) Java EE
2 4 (40.00%) JAX-WS
2 4 (40.00%) soapUI
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (20.00%) Struts
3 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) JSF
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) Struts2
4 1 (10.00%) RichFaces
4 1 (10.00%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) SAS
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) Subversion
3 5 (50.00%) Ant
3 5 (50.00%) JUnit
4 4 (40.00%) Eclipse
4 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 2 (20.00%) TortoiseSVN
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (10.00%) Selenium
6 1 (10.00%) CruiseControl
6 1 (10.00%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Architect
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Build Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (20.00%) UML
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle