The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 22 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 Northern Ireland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 35 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Maven 1 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 0.407% - 3.889%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.846% - 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
26 22 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 10.57% 11.00% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
UK

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Maven
UK

Maven
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSL
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Java EE
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft