The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 100 114 118
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +4
Contract jobs citing Maven 8 22 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.397% 0.680% 0.141%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.980% 6.509% 1.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 1
Average daily rate £450 £390 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +5.40%
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
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
201 338 322
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 9.965% 10.45% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 209 147
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £288 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 48
Average hourly rate £41.25 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.88 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.75 £40.50
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South 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 South West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West Maven Hourly 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £450 -
Dorset - 2 £290 -
Bristol 0 1 £475 +21.79%
Devon - 1 £265 -
Maven
England

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 35 (79.55%) Java
2 32 (72.73%) DV Cleared
2 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
3 31 (70.45%) JBoss
4 30 (68.18%) C
5 24 (54.55%) JPA
6 21 (47.73%) Agile Software Development
6 21 (47.73%) J2EE
7 19 (43.18%) Linux
8 18 (40.91%) Oracle
9 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
9 16 (36.36%) OO
9 16 (36.36%) jQuery
10 15 (34.09%) EJB 3.0
10 15 (34.09%) RIA
10 15 (34.09%) GWT
10 15 (34.09%) Customer Engagement
10 15 (34.09%) JMS
10 15 (34.09%) RDBMS
10 15 (34.09%) UML
10 15 (34.09%) OOA/OOD
10 15 (34.09%) EJB
10 15 (34.09%) Internet
10 15 (34.09%) Configuration Management
10 15 (34.09%) Hibernate
11 12 (27.27%) Apache
11 12 (27.27%) Git (software)
12 11 (25.00%) RESTful
12 11 (25.00%) Web Services
13 10 (22.73%) HTML

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 24 (54.55%) JPA
2 21 (47.73%) J2EE
3 16 (36.36%) jQuery
4 15 (34.09%) EJB 3.0
4 15 (34.09%) GWT
4 15 (34.09%) JMS
4 15 (34.09%) EJB
4 15 (34.09%) Hibernate
5 11 (25.00%) RESTful
5 11 (25.00%) Web Services
6 10 (22.73%) HTML
7 9 (20.45%) Spring
8 8 (18.18%) Swing
9 3 (6.818%) Spring Web Flow
9 3 (6.818%) Apache Flex
10 2 (4.545%) Spring MVC
10 2 (4.545%) BlazeDS
10 2 (4.545%) Parsley
10 2 (4.545%) Cairngorm
10 2 (4.545%) PureMVC
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.545%) LiveCycle
3 1 (2.273%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.545%) MySQL
3 1 (2.273%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) Git (software)
2 10 (22.73%) Hudson
3 8 (18.18%) Ant
4 7 (15.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.818%) Selenium
6 2 (4.545%) WATIR
6 2 (4.545%) Subversion
6 2 (4.545%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.545%) JUnit
6 2 (4.545%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.545%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.545%) Gradle
6 2 (4.545%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.273%) jMock
7 1 (2.273%) Mockito
7 1 (2.273%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (2.273%) Finance
Job Titles
1 37 (84.09%) Developer
2 25 (56.82%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) HTML Developer
4 4 (9.091%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.818%) Flex Developer
6 2 (4.545%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.273%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.273%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.273%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.273%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) RIA
2 3 (6.818%) Informatics
3 1 (2.273%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (36.36%) OO
3 15 (34.09%) Customer Engagement
3 15 (34.09%) UML
3 15 (34.09%) OOA/OOD
3 15 (34.09%) Configuration Management
4 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 5 (11.36%) MVC
7 4 (9.091%) TDD
7 4 (9.091%) Content Management
8 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
9 2 (4.545%) RUP
9 2 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.545%) Kanban
9 2 (4.545%) Agile Testing
9 2 (4.545%) BDD
9 2 (4.545%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 35 (79.55%) Java
2 30 (68.18%) C
3 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.545%) Ruby
5 2 (4.545%) PHP
6 1 (2.273%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.273%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.273%) SQL
6 1 (2.273%) Perl
6 1 (2.273%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) DV Cleared
1 32 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) QA
2 1 (2.273%) TickIT
Vendors
1 31 (70.45%) JBoss
2 18 (40.91%) Oracle
3 2 (4.545%) Adobe
4 1 (2.273%) IBM
4 1 (2.273%) Sun
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