The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 South East 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 154 206 175
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -31
Contract jobs citing Maven 69 41 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.883% 0.404% 0.737%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.175% 4.437% 7.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 21 21
Average daily rate £350 £300 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £265 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £373 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £335 £394
% change year-on-year
+4.47% -14.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
Average hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.43% -7.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+8.43% -7.77%
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
844 924 1085
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.80% 9.096% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 484 439
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 115
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Maven
England

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Maven Hourly Rate Trend

Maven
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Maven across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Maven Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hampshire +26 43 £350 -
Surrey +31 11 - -
Berkshire +18 11 £458 +66.36%
Oxfordshire +8 3 £320 +4.48%
Maven
England

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 116 (92.80%) Java
2 96 (76.80%) Spring
3 94 (75.20%) Hibernate
4 62 (49.60%) JUnit
5 60 (48.00%) jQuery
6 59 (47.20%) Git (software)
7 57 (45.60%) Web Services
8 55 (44.00%) SOAP
9 54 (43.20%) SQL
10 53 (42.40%) JavaScript
11 52 (41.60%) SQL Server
12 50 (40.00%) CSS
12 50 (40.00%) JPA
13 49 (39.20%) JMS
14 48 (38.40%) HTML
15 47 (37.60%) MVC
15 47 (37.60%) Mockito
16 46 (36.80%) Java EE
17 45 (36.00%) Spring Security
17 45 (36.00%) REST
17 45 (36.00%) EJB
18 44 (35.20%) Spring MVC
18 44 (35.20%) JSON
19 43 (34.40%) BDD
20 41 (32.80%) Agile Software Development
21 39 (31.20%) UML
22 38 (30.40%) JBoss
22 38 (30.40%) Software Architecture
22 38 (30.40%) Apache CXF
23 37 (29.60%) Web Development

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 96 (76.80%) Spring
2 94 (75.20%) Hibernate
3 60 (48.00%) jQuery
4 57 (45.60%) Web Services
5 55 (44.00%) SOAP
6 50 (40.00%) CSS
6 50 (40.00%) JPA
7 49 (39.20%) JMS
8 48 (38.40%) HTML
9 46 (36.80%) Java EE
10 45 (36.00%) EJB
10 45 (36.00%) Spring Security
10 45 (36.00%) REST
11 44 (35.20%) JSON
11 44 (35.20%) Spring MVC
12 38 (30.40%) Apache CXF
13 37 (29.60%) Spring Web Flow
13 37 (29.60%) JSP
14 36 (28.80%) JAXB
14 36 (28.80%) JTA
Application Platforms
1 29 (23.20%) Apache
2 25 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 25 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
3 11 (8.800%) ESB
4 9 (7.200%) IIS
5 8 (6.400%) Adobe CQ
6 5 (4.000%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (4.000%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.600%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.800%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.800%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.800%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.800%) Apache OFBiz
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.200%) HTTP
2 8 (6.400%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.000%) Internet
3 5 (4.000%) DVB
4 2 (1.600%) Extranet
4 2 (1.600%) Intranet
5 1 (0.800%) SMTP
5 1 (0.800%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (41.60%) SQL Server
2 36 (28.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 36 (28.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 16 (12.80%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.200%) MySQL
4 4 (3.200%) TOAD
5 2 (1.600%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 62 (49.60%) JUnit
2 59 (47.20%) Git (software)
3 47 (37.60%) Mockito
4 33 (26.40%) Jenkins
5 31 (24.80%) Eclipse
6 24 (19.20%) Selenium
7 21 (16.80%) Subversion
8 13 (10.40%) JBehave
9 12 (9.600%) TestNG
10 10 (8.000%) DbUnit
11 9 (7.200%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.200%) MSBuild
11 9 (7.200%) TeamCity
11 9 (7.200%) Ant
12 4 (3.200%) FitNesse
12 4 (3.200%) jMock
12 4 (3.200%) EasyMock
12 4 (3.200%) Hudson
13 3 (2.400%) WATIR
14 2 (1.600%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (16.80%) Finance
2 7 (5.600%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.600%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.800%) Games
4 1 (0.800%) Retail
4 1 (0.800%) Marketing
4 1 (0.800%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 95 (76.00%) Developer
2 72 (57.60%) Java Developer
3 16 (12.80%) Programmer
4 13 (10.40%) Technical Leader
5 9 (7.200%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 8 (6.400%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (6.400%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.600%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.600%) Build Manager
7 7 (5.600%) Release Manager
8 6 (4.800%) Senior Programmer
8 6 (4.800%) Analyst Programmer
8 6 (4.800%) Analyst
8 6 (4.800%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.000%) Senior Analyst Programmer
10 4 (3.200%) J2EE Developer
10 4 (3.200%) Front-End Developer
11 3 (2.400%) Technical Developer
11 3 (2.400%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.800%) DTV
2 5 (4.000%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.400%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.600%) SaaS
5 1 (0.800%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.800%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.00%) Linux
2 13 (10.40%) Windows
3 9 (7.200%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (6.400%) UNIX
5 4 (3.200%) CentOS
6 2 (1.600%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.800%) AIX
7 1 (0.800%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.60%) MVC
2 43 (34.40%) BDD
3 41 (32.80%) Agile Software Development
4 39 (31.20%) UML
5 38 (30.40%) Software Architecture
6 37 (29.60%) Web Development
7 36 (28.80%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (24.80%) OOD
8 31 (24.80%) Pair Programming
9 24 (19.20%) TDD
10 16 (12.80%) Dependency Injection
11 12 (9.600%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.800%) SOA
13 9 (7.200%) Test Scripting
13 9 (7.200%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.200%) System Testing
14 8 (6.400%) Release Management
14 8 (6.400%) OO
14 8 (6.400%) Scrum
14 8 (6.400%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (92.80%) Java
2 54 (43.20%) SQL
3 53 (42.40%) JavaScript
4 11 (8.800%) Groovy
5 10 (8.000%) C#
6 9 (7.200%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.800%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.000%) XPath
9 3 (2.400%) Scala
10 2 (1.600%) Ruby
11 1 (0.800%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.800%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.800%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 8 (6.400%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.000%) Degree
3 4 (3.200%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.200%) QA
Vendors
1 38 (30.40%) JBoss
2 24 (19.20%) Oracle
3 13 (10.40%) Twitter
4 9 (7.200%) Adobe
5 8 (6.400%) Omniture
6 6 (4.800%) IBM
7 4 (3.200%) Google
7 4 (3.200%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.400%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.800%) HP
9 1 (0.800%) Elastic Path
9 1 (0.800%) hybris
9 1 (0.800%) Microsoft
9 1 (0.800%) SAP