The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank - 106 114
Contract jobs citing Maven 0 28 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.922% 0.364%
As % of the Development Applications category - 10.57% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 6
Average daily rate - £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £330 £400
% change year-on-year
+6.59% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £45.00
All Development Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
261 265 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.93% 8.723% 8.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 137
Average daily rate £325 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.20% +6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 9
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -28.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £17.23 £21.82
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £35.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
Maven
England

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Maven Daily Rate Trend

Maven
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Manchester - - - - 3
Cheshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - - 1
Maven
England

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Ant
3 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) Scala
3 3 (37.50%) BC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (25.00%) Haskell
4 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) J2EE
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) OO
5 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (12.50%) JMS
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) HTTP
5 1 (12.50%) Code Coverage
5 1 (12.50%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) JUnit
5 1 (12.50%) Objective-C

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (37.50%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Security
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (12.50%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
2 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) AppScan
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) Hudson
3 1 (12.50%) FindBugs
3 1 (12.50%) Checkstyle
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Build Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Scala Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Java Analyst Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Code Coverage
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Haskell
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
4 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
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