Maven Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Apache Maven
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 53 67
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Maven 8 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.93% 0.92% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.35% 8.06% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £431 -
25th Percentile £463 £440 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £455 £420
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £549 £470 £430
90th Percentile £562 £479 -
West Midlands median daily rate £542 £425 £420
% change year-on-year +27.41% +1.19% -9.68%

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

Maven falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 126 62 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.67% 11.44% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 40 52
10th Percentile £340 £362 £259
25th Percentile £425 £409 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £542 £578 £454
90th Percentile £607 £654 £524
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -0.82% +8.67% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £25.13 - £55.13
25th Percentile £25.33 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £55.63
75th Percentile £26.43 - £55.94
90th Percentile £26.72 - £56.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.88
% change year-on-year -17.73% +1.10% -

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Maven relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Maven job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Maven

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
2 6 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 6 (75.00%) Route 53
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (75.00%) DynamoDB
1 6 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 8 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (75.00%) Git
2 6 (75.00%) JUnit
2 6 (75.00%) Mockito
3 4 (50.00%) DbUnit
3 4 (50.00%) jMock
4 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Node.js
2 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (75.00%) JPA
2 6 (75.00%) REST
2 6 (75.00%) SOAP
2 6 (75.00%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Batch
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Cloud
2 6 (75.00%) Spring Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) PowerMock
4 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (25.00%) JSON
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) SLSA
4 2 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) BPMN
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Biometrics
4 4 (50.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Database Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (25.00%) Sonatype