The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 21 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 Gloucestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 34 - 43
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Maven 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.095% - 0.466%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.250% - 2.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
48 67 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 17.52% 10.01% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 44 30
Average daily rate £400 £363 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 28
Average hourly rate £42.50 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.05% +2.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
South West

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Maven Daily Rate Trend

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 34 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (97.06%) JBoss
3 32 (94.12%) C
4 26 (76.47%) JPA
4 26 (76.47%) Java
5 19 (55.88%) J2EE
6 15 (44.12%) Oracle
6 15 (44.12%) EJB
6 15 (44.12%) JavaScript
6 15 (44.12%) Linux
6 15 (44.12%) UML
6 15 (44.12%) OOA/OOD
6 15 (44.12%) OO
6 15 (44.12%) JMS
6 15 (44.12%) RDBMS
6 15 (44.12%) Internet
6 15 (44.12%) Configuration Management
6 15 (44.12%) EJB 3.0
6 15 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (44.12%) RIA
6 15 (44.12%) GWT
6 15 (44.12%) jQuery
6 15 (44.12%) Customer Engagement
7 11 (32.35%) RESTful
7 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
7 11 (32.35%) Hibernate
7 11 (32.35%) HTML
7 11 (32.35%) Web Services
8 8 (23.53%) UNIX

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 26 (76.47%) JPA
2 19 (55.88%) J2EE
3 15 (44.12%) EJB
3 15 (44.12%) JMS
3 15 (44.12%) EJB 3.0
3 15 (44.12%) GWT
3 15 (44.12%) jQuery
4 11 (32.35%) RESTful
4 11 (32.35%) Hibernate
4 11 (32.35%) HTML
4 11 (32.35%) Web Services
5 7 (20.59%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Ant
1 8 (23.53%) Git (software)
1 8 (23.53%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 30 (88.24%) Developer
2 20 (58.82%) Java Developer
3 11 (32.35%) HTML Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.941%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 15 (44.12%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) UML
1 15 (44.12%) OOA/OOD
1 15 (44.12%) OO
1 15 (44.12%) Configuration Management
1 15 (44.12%) Agile Software Development
1 15 (44.12%) Customer Engagement
2 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
3 4 (11.76%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (94.12%) C
2 26 (76.47%) Java
3 15 (44.12%) JavaScript
4 8 (23.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 33 (97.06%) JBoss
2 15 (44.12%) Oracle