The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 67 80 75
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -5
Contract jobs citing Maven 3 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.361% 0.094% 0.473%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.941% 1.250% 4.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £363 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £335 £394
% change year-on-year
+4.47% -14.92%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
102 80 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.29% 7.519% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 33
Average daily rate £350 £315 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £373 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £11.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
Berkshire

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Maven Hourly Rate Trend

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 16 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (93.75%) Spring
3 14 (87.50%) Hibernate
4 13 (81.25%) Finance
4 13 (81.25%) JUnit
4 13 (81.25%) Eclipse
5 12 (75.00%) Apache
5 12 (75.00%) Tomcat
5 12 (75.00%) Apache CXF
6 9 (56.25%) System Testing
7 8 (50.00%) jQuery
8 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
8 7 (43.75%) Struts
8 7 (43.75%) Subversion
9 6 (37.50%) SOA
9 6 (37.50%) Struts2
10 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (25.00%) TDD
10 4 (25.00%) Selenium
10 4 (25.00%) BDD
11 3 (18.75%) Automation Testing
11 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
11 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
11 3 (18.75%) QA
11 3 (18.75%) WATIR
11 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
11 3 (18.75%) Ant
12 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
13 1 (6.250%) IntelliJ
13 1 (6.250%) Linux

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (93.75%) Spring
2 14 (87.50%) Hibernate
3 12 (75.00%) Apache CXF
4 8 (50.00%) jQuery
5 7 (43.75%) Struts
6 6 (37.50%) Struts2
7 1 (6.250%) HTML5
7 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 12 (75.00%) Apache
1 12 (75.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) JUnit
1 13 (81.25%) Eclipse
2 7 (43.75%) Subversion
2 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
4 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
4 3 (18.75%) Ant
4 3 (18.75%) WATIR
5 1 (6.250%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Analyst Programmer
2 6 (37.50%) Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Analyst Programmer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Programmer
4 4 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 1 (6.250%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (6.250%) SOA Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) System Testing
2 6 (37.50%) SOA
3 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (25.00%) TDD
3 4 (25.00%) BDD
4 3 (18.75%) Automation Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
5 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA