Maven Contracts in the North of England

Apache Maven
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 172 187
Rank change year-on-year +38 +15 -14
Contract jobs citing Maven 34 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.02% 0.17% 0.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.56% 1.55% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 8 24
10th Percentile £340 £412 £487
25th Percentile £392 £418 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £436 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.65% -16.95% -
75th Percentile £516 £489 £700
90th Percentile £575 £508 -
England median daily rate £488 £475 £603
% change year-on-year +2.63% -21.16% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +16.14%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 518 515 690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.50% 10.90% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 362 519
10th Percentile £350 £368 £332
25th Percentile £400 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £645 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 11
10th Percentile £52.13 £37.55 £37.80
25th Percentile £65.55 £45.88 £38.70
Median hourly rate £73.75 £47.59 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +54.97% -8.71% -25.53%
75th Percentile £77.81 £70.31 £56.19
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.77% +5.69% +22.75%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the North of England

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Maven in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Maven in the North of England

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the North of England

Maven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Maven in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the North of England

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
North West +26 15 £384 -17.17% 24
Yorkshire +20 15 £520 +19.76% 24
North East - 4 £465 - 5
Maven
England

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (17.65%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 4 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.88%) CICS
3 2 (5.88%) JBoss
3 2 (5.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Kong
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
3 4 (11.76%) GitHub
3 4 (11.76%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) npm
4 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) NoSQL
2 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.65%) MySQL
4 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) DB2
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (79.41%) Jenkins
2 25 (73.53%) Git
3 19 (55.88%) Selenium
4 17 (50.00%) GitLab
5 14 (41.18%) JIRA
6 13 (38.24%) IntelliJ
7 12 (35.29%) Cucumber
7 12 (35.29%) JUnit
8 10 (29.41%) Postman
9 9 (26.47%) Gradle
9 9 (26.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (23.53%) REST Assured
11 7 (20.59%) Artifactory
11 7 (20.59%) SonarQube
12 6 (17.65%) HP UFT
12 6 (17.65%) JMeter
13 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
13 5 (14.71%) gulp
13 5 (14.71%) TestNG
14 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Developer
1 9 (26.47%) Tester
2 7 (20.59%) Automation Tester
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Mainframe Tester
7 1 (2.94%) QA Manual Tester
7 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) Spring
2 10 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 8 (23.53%) Node.js
4 7 (20.59%) Hibernate
4 7 (20.59%) Kafka
5 6 (17.65%) AngularJS
5 6 (17.65%) Apache CXF
5 6 (17.65%) Dropwizard
5 6 (17.65%) JAX-RS
6 5 (14.71%) Express.js
6 5 (14.71%) MEAN Stack
6 5 (14.71%) MERN Stack
6 5 (14.71%) Mongoose
6 5 (14.71%) Playwright
6 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (14.71%) React
6 5 (14.71%) Sequelize
7 4 (11.76%) Spring MVC
8 3 (8.82%) REST
9 2 (5.88%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Android
2 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Test Automation
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (35.29%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) API Testing
4 10 (29.41%) Microservices
5 9 (26.47%) TDD
6 8 (23.53%) Open Source
6 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 7 (20.59%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (17.65%) BDD
8 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
9 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven
9 5 (14.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (14.71%) Operational Stability
9 5 (14.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 28 (82.35%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 8 (23.53%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) Shell Script
5 5 (14.71%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) COBOL
6 2 (5.88%) JCL
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Terraform
2 6 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Istio
4 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Ansible
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) Graylog
6 1 (2.94%) Packer
6 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 4 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media