The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Maven over the 3 months to 22 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank - 47 65
Permanent jobs citing Maven 0 38 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 5.588% 0.442%
As % of the Development Applications category - 27.34% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 0 22 2
Average salary - £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +9.37%
All Development Applications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
63 139 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 13.64% 20.44% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 59 118 58
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Maven
North West

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Maven Jobs Demand Trend

Maven
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Maven across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside Maven Salary Trend

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Maven.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) JUnit
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Struts
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 3 (60.00%) Ant
3 3 (60.00%) Servlets
3 3 (60.00%) Apache
3 3 (60.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) JBoss
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) Java EE
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) JSTL
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Multithreading

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Maven. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) Struts
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Servlets
3 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (40.00%) Java EE
3 2 (40.00%) JSTL
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) EJB 3.0
3 2 (40.00%) JMS
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) JDBC
3 2 (40.00%) EJB
4 1 (20.00%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) Ant
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (40.00%) Kanban
1 2 (40.00%) AOP
1 2 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) SOA
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Ruby
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle