Maven Contracts in the Midlands

Apache Maven
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Maven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Maven over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 130 153
Rank change year-on-year +40 +23 +46
Contract jobs citing Maven 21 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 0.11% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.14% 1.16% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 9
10th Percentile £278 - £506
25th Percentile £326 £410 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -22.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £430 -
90th Percentile - - £553
England median daily rate £520 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +3.95% -20.00% +1.09%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the Midlands

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the Midlands

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the Midlands

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +26 15 £493 +17.26% 11
East Midlands - 6 £311 - 4
Maven
England

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
2 4 (19.05%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 3 (14.29%) Route 53
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DHCP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
1 2 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (9.52%) SAN
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
1 2 (9.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
4 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.76%) Aerospike
6 1 (4.76%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 14 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 13 (61.90%) JUnit
3 9 (42.86%) Mockito
4 7 (33.33%) Git
5 6 (28.57%) JIRA
6 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
6 5 (23.81%) GitLab
6 5 (23.81%) Gradle
6 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
7 4 (19.05%) Selenium
7 4 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (14.29%) DbUnit
8 3 (14.29%) IntelliJ
8 3 (14.29%) jMock
9 2 (9.52%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (9.52%) HP UFT
9 2 (9.52%) NetBeans
9 2 (9.52%) Subversion
General
1 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
1 14 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Junior
4 1 (4.76%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.76%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) Spring
1 12 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 10 (47.62%) Hibernate
3 8 (38.10%) JPA
3 8 (38.10%) Web Services
4 7 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 7 (33.33%) Bootstrap
4 7 (33.33%) REST
4 7 (33.33%) SOAP
4 7 (33.33%) Spring Integration
5 6 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (28.57%) RESTful
6 5 (23.81%) Spring Batch
7 4 (19.05%) CSS
7 4 (19.05%) HTML
7 4 (19.05%) Node.js
7 4 (19.05%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (14.29%) J2EE
8 3 (14.29%) Kafka
8 3 (14.29%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) CentOS
2 2 (9.52%) Debian
2 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Microservices
3 11 (52.38%) DevOps
3 11 (52.38%) TDD
4 8 (38.10%) Scrum
5 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (23.81%) BDD
6 5 (23.81%) Open Source
6 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
7 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (14.29%) Kanban
8 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
9 2 (9.52%) Business Analysis
9 2 (9.52%) MVC
9 2 (9.52%) Pair Programming
9 2 (9.52%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Java
2 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Grafana
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
1 4 (19.05%) Puppet
2 2 (9.52%) Nessus
2 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Veracode
3 2 (9.52%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (9.52%) Sophos
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Sybase