Maven Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 89 75 97
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +22
Contract jobs citing Maven 6 28 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.367% 1.249% 0.264%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.545% 13.66% 4.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 1
Average daily rate £260 £330 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% +13.79%
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 132 205 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 8.083% 9.144% 6.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 106 70
Average daily rate £325 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 7
Average hourly rate £37.80 £37.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.80% +29.31%
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +9 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Maven
England

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) J2EE
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) Subversion
3 6 (75.00%) JSTL
3 6 (75.00%) JSP
3 6 (75.00%) Ant
3 6 (75.00%) Apache
3 6 (75.00%) Tomcat
3 6 (75.00%) Eclipse
4 5 (62.50%) QA
5 3 (37.50%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Dojo
7 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
7 1 (12.50%) MVC
7 1 (12.50%) CMS
7 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (12.50%) TDD
7 1 (12.50%) Alterian
7 1 (12.50%) Struts
7 1 (12.50%) XML
7 1 (12.50%) DOM
7 1 (12.50%) XSLT
7 1 (12.50%) UNIX

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 8 (100.00%) HTML
2 7 (87.50%) J2EE
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) JSTL
3 6 (75.00%) JSP
4 3 (37.50%) Spring
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (12.50%) Dojo
6 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
6 1 (12.50%) Struts
6 1 (12.50%) XML
6 1 (12.50%) DOM
6 1 (12.50%) XSLT
6 1 (12.50%) Java SE
6 1 (12.50%) MooTools
6 1 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Apache
1 6 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Subversion
1 6 (75.00%) Ant
1 6 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Web Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Scrum
1 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) MVC
1 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (12.50%) TDD
1 1 (12.50%) OO
1 1 (12.50%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Alterian
Java Developer - 6 months - Java, J2SE, Spring
West Midlands
Experience of the following is required: Java J2SE 6.0 Spring Hibernate JavaScript HTML JSP Build tools including Ant or Maven Unit Testing (JUnit/TestNG) You will also...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
Java Developer - J2EE, Spring, HTML - 6 Mnths
West Midlands
Experience of the following is required: Java J2SE 6.0 Spring Hibernate JavaScript HTML JSP Build tools including Ant or Maven Unit Testing (JUnit/TestNG) You will also...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
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