The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales 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 Wales 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 42 - 58
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Maven 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.248% - 0.154%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.128% - 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £200
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
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
47 47 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 11.63% 8.468% 8.796%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 22
Average daily rate £325 £390 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
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 Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales 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
South Wales - 1 - -
Maven
UK

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 13 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (92.31%) Oracle
3 11 (84.62%) WebLogic
3 11 (84.62%) ClearCase
3 11 (84.62%) ClearQuest
4 9 (69.23%) Ant
5 8 (61.54%) IBM
5 8 (61.54%) Oracle 11g
6 7 (53.85%) Release Management
6 7 (53.85%) Liferay
6 7 (53.85%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
7 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
7 6 (46.15%) SQL
8 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
8 5 (38.46%) SAS
8 5 (38.46%) Spring
8 5 (38.46%) JSF
8 5 (38.46%) Java EE
8 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
9 4 (30.77%) Scrum
9 4 (30.77%) JPA
9 4 (30.77%) Eclipse
9 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
9 4 (30.77%) XML
9 4 (30.77%) XSLT
10 3 (23.08%) Spring Batch
10 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
11 2 (15.38%) J2SE

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 5 (38.46%) Hibernate
1 5 (38.46%) Spring
1 5 (38.46%) JSF
1 5 (38.46%) Java EE
2 4 (30.77%) JPA
2 4 (30.77%) XSLT
2 4 (30.77%) XML
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Batch
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) J2EE
4 2 (15.38%) JDBC
4 2 (15.38%) J2SE
5 1 (7.692%) JAXP
5 1 (7.692%) SAX
5 1 (7.692%) WebSphere
5 1 (7.692%) JSP
5 1 (7.692%) Servlets
5 1 (7.692%) Struts
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 11 (84.62%) WebLogic
2 7 (53.85%) Liferay
3 5 (38.46%) SAS
4 1 (7.692%) FileNet
4 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
4 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (30.77%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) ClearCase
1 11 (84.62%) ClearQuest
2 9 (69.23%) Ant
3 4 (30.77%) Eclipse
4 1 (7.692%) JUnit
4 1 (7.692%) Subversion
4 1 (7.692%) TestNG
4 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Release Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Development Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Java Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) J2EE Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Designer
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
1 7 (53.85%) Release Management
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.692%) Use Case
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) UML
4 1 (7.692%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (7.692%) OOD
4 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.692%) XPath
5 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Oracle
2 8 (61.54%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) Adobe
3 1 (7.692%) ILOG