Maven Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Apache Maven
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 76 102
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 +28
Contract jobs citing Maven 9 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.85% 0.61% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.84% 5.51% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £380 £348 -
25th Percentile £400 £357 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £360 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -29.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £583 £390 £528
90th Percentile £586 £422 £534
North West median daily rate £358 £360 £513
% change year-on-year -0.56% -29.76% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 154 127 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.53% 11.03% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 78 162
10th Percentile £335 £322 £363
25th Percentile £387 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £438 £511
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -14.43% -7.05%
75th Percentile £597 £561 £600
90th Percentile £647 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -30.91% -1.79%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £54.43 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +17.86% - -38.43%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Maven job vacancy trend in Manchester

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in Manchester

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Maven

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (22.22%) WebSphere
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 6 (66.67%) Azure
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (55.56%) Apigee
4 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (55.56%) Datadog
4 5 (55.56%) GitHub
4 5 (55.56%) Loggly
4 5 (55.56%) Route 53
4 5 (55.56%) Serverless
5 4 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (44.44%) PaaS
5 4 (44.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (55.56%) BigQuery
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
1 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
1 5 (55.56%) Redis
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Git
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (77.78%) Gradle
3 6 (66.67%) SonarQube
4 5 (55.56%) SonarLint
5 2 (22.22%) GitLab
5 2 (22.22%) JIRA
5 2 (22.22%) JUnit
6 1 (11.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (11.11%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Java Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) Dropwizard
2 5 (55.56%) J2EE
2 5 (55.56%) JWT
2 5 (55.56%) Micronaut
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) Celery
4 2 (22.22%) GraphQL
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
5 1 (11.11%) JavaFX
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) SOAP
5 1 (11.11%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
1 5 (55.56%) N-Tier
2 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Android
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (77.78%) Design Patterns
3 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 6 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) AI
4 5 (55.56%) API Design
4 5 (55.56%) BDD
4 5 (55.56%) CQRS
4 5 (55.56%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) MVC
4 5 (55.56%) OOP
4 5 (55.56%) OWASP
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) TDD
4 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
4 5 (55.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Gigya
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle