The first table below looks at the demand for Maven skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Maven
Rank 153 143 141
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Maven 46 47 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.915% 1.018% 0.737%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.360% 7.484% 7.317%
Number of salaries quoted 45 30 30
Average salary £37,500 £43,750 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £36,350 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £58,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +9.37%
All Development Applications
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
625 628 410
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 12.43% 13.61% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 572 551 366
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
Maven
England

Maven
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands Maven Salary Trend

Maven
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Maven across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Maven Salary Histogram

Maven
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Birmingham +10 30 £40,000 -5.88%
Warwickshire +2 12 £32,500 -25.71%
Staffordshire -15 2 £32,500 -23.52%
Maven
England

Maven
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 63 (84.00%) Java
2 56 (74.67%) Spring
3 47 (62.67%) SOAP
4 45 (60.00%) Subversion
4 45 (60.00%) Hibernate
5 41 (54.67%) Oracle
6 40 (53.33%) Eclipse
7 34 (45.33%) Agile Software Development
8 29 (38.67%) SQL Server
8 29 (38.67%) Ant
9 28 (37.33%) JMS
9 28 (37.33%) Scrum
10 27 (36.00%) Ajax
10 27 (36.00%) Java EE
10 27 (36.00%) Tomcat
11 26 (34.67%) MVC
11 26 (34.67%) Degree
11 26 (34.67%) TeamCity
11 26 (34.67%) ActiveMQ
12 25 (33.33%) Selenium
12 25 (33.33%) XML
13 24 (32.00%) JBoss
13 24 (32.00%) SQL
13 24 (32.00%) JMX
13 24 (32.00%) FitNesse
13 24 (32.00%) Spring MVC
13 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
13 24 (32.00%) JasperReports
13 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2005
13 24 (32.00%) Apache Continuum

Maven
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 56 (74.67%) Spring
2 47 (62.67%) SOAP
3 45 (60.00%) Hibernate
4 28 (37.33%) JMS
5 27 (36.00%) Ajax
5 27 (36.00%) Java EE
6 25 (33.33%) XML
7 24 (32.00%) JMX
7 24 (32.00%) Spring MVC
8 22 (29.33%) XSLT
9 21 (28.00%) JDBC
10 20 (26.67%) J2EE
11 12 (16.00%) .NET
12 7 (9.333%) J2SE
13 6 (8.000%) Velocity
14 5 (6.667%) HTML
15 4 (5.333%) JSP
16 3 (4.000%) CSS
16 3 (4.000%) JSON
17 2 (2.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 27 (36.00%) Tomcat
2 26 (34.67%) ActiveMQ
3 10 (13.33%) Alfresco
4 6 (8.000%) Confluence
5 2 (2.667%) MQSeries
5 2 (2.667%) Apache
6 1 (1.333%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.333%) CMS
6 1 (1.333%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.67%) SQL Server
2 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 24 (32.00%) JasperReports
2 24 (32.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 16 (21.33%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (14.67%) MySQL
4 11 (14.67%) NoSQL
5 10 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 10 (13.33%) CouchDB
5 10 (13.33%) Jackrabbit
6 4 (5.333%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.333%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.333%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 45 (60.00%) Subversion
2 40 (53.33%) Eclipse
3 29 (38.67%) Ant
4 26 (34.67%) TeamCity
5 25 (33.33%) Selenium
6 24 (32.00%) FitNesse
6 24 (32.00%) Apache Continuum
7 21 (28.00%) Hudson
8 17 (22.67%) JIRA
8 17 (22.67%) Jenkins
9 12 (16.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (9.333%) Bugzilla
11 6 (8.000%) CruiseControl
11 6 (8.000%) ClearCase
12 4 (5.333%) Git (software)
13 3 (4.000%) JUnit
13 3 (4.000%) Mercurial
14 1 (1.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (24.00%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 7 (9.333%) Marketing
4 2 (2.667%) Games
4 2 (2.667%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (65.33%) Developer
2 39 (52.00%) Java Developer
3 15 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 15 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 15 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) QA Tester
6 8 (10.67%) Tester
7 6 (8.000%) ScrumMaster
8 4 (5.333%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (5.333%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.000%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.000%) Build Manager
9 3 (4.000%) Release Manager
9 3 (4.000%) Release Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Software Manager
10 2 (2.667%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
10 2 (2.667%) Senior J2EE Developer
10 2 (2.667%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.67%) Firmware
2 14 (18.67%) Computer Science
3 10 (13.33%) Social Media
3 10 (13.33%) Digital Media
3 10 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (12.00%) iSeries
5 7 (9.333%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.333%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.333%) Statistics
6 1 (1.333%) Open Source
6 1 (1.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Linux
1 22 (29.33%) UNIX
2 20 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (5.333%) Solaris
4 1 (1.333%) Android
4 1 (1.333%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.333%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (45.33%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (37.33%) Scrum
3 26 (34.67%) MVC
4 18 (24.00%) TDD
5 17 (22.67%) OO
6 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
6 16 (21.33%) Multithreading
7 12 (16.00%) Automated Testing
7 12 (16.00%) Configuration Management
8 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (10.67%) Manual Testing
10 6 (8.000%) Release Management
10 6 (8.000%) Requirements Analysis
10 6 (8.000%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.667%) OWASP
12 3 (4.000%) E-Commerce
12 3 (4.000%) Change Management
12 3 (4.000%) Software Engineering
12 3 (4.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 63 (84.00%) Java
2 24 (32.00%) SQL
3 16 (21.33%) Ruby
4 13 (17.33%) Scala
5 10 (13.33%) Clojure
5 10 (13.33%) Erlang
6 9 (12.00%) C#
7 7 (9.333%) C
8 6 (8.000%) Python
9 5 (6.667%) JavaScript
10 4 (5.333%) PowerShell
11 3 (4.000%) T-SQL
11 3 (4.000%) VB.NET
12 2 (2.667%) PHP
13 1 (1.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 26 (34.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.333%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (8.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 41 (54.67%) Oracle
2 24 (32.00%) JBoss
3 6 (8.000%) HP
3 6 (8.000%) AccuRev
4 3 (4.000%) Remedy
4 3 (4.000%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.667%) IBM
6 1 (1.333%) Apple
6 1 (1.333%) Alterian
6 1 (1.333%) Google
6 1 (1.333%) Rackspace
Rugby, West Midlands
Strong Java, XML/XSLT and SQL/JDBC skills are essential, with previous knowledge of, or exposure to, a variety of platforms and operating systems (Windows, UNIX flavours, Linux)...
Novate IT
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Rugby, Warwickshire
Java Software Engineer - Java, XML/XSLT, SQL/JDBC... Strong Java, XML/XSLT and SQL/JDBC skills are essential, with previous knowledge of, or exposure to, a variety of...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013