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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 +27
Contract jobs citing Maven 10 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.98% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.13% 4.35% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £384 £347 £483
25th Percentile £401 £356 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £360 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -29.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £555 - £533
90th Percentile £585 £467 £656
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 163 115 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.03% 9.76% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 77 148
10th Percentile £336 £324 £361
25th Percentile £400 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -15.82% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £620
90th Percentile £650 £575 £684
North West median daily rate £430 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -7.63% -11.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £70.75 - £50.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £46.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £78.38 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Maven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Maven 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 17 September 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 and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (50.00%) Apigee
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (50.00%) Datadog
4 5 (50.00%) GitHub
4 5 (50.00%) Loggly
4 5 (50.00%) Route 53
4 5 (50.00%) Serverless
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (40.00%) PaaS
5 4 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (50.00%) Redis
2 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) Gradle
2 7 (70.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (50.00%) SonarLint
4 3 (30.00%) GitLab
5 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (20.00%) JIRA
5 2 (20.00%) JUnit
5 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (10.00%) gulp
6 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Java Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Java Technical Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 6 (60.00%) Dropwizard
3 5 (50.00%) J2EE
3 5 (50.00%) JWT
3 5 (50.00%) Micronaut
3 5 (50.00%) RESTful
4 4 (40.00%) Celery
5 3 (30.00%) Spring
6 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 1 (10.00%) Express.js
7 1 (10.00%) Kafka
7 1 (10.00%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (10.00%) Mongoose
7 1 (10.00%) Node.js
7 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (10.00%) React
7 1 (10.00%) REST
7 1 (10.00%) Sequelize
7 1 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Android
2 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Design Patterns
2 7 (70.00%) Microservices
3 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
3 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (50.00%) API Design
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) BDD
4 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (50.00%) CQRS
4 5 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (50.00%) MVC
4 5 (50.00%) OWASP
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
4 5 (50.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Gigya
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle