Maven Contract Job Trends in the North West

Apache Maven
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Maven skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 112 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +31
Contract jobs citing Maven 22 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.01% 3.56% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 6
10th Percentile £268 £347 £483
25th Percentile £318 £356 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £360 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -29.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £393 - £533
90th Percentile £506 £467 £656
England median daily rate £475 £545 £588
% change year-on-year -12.84% -7.23% -9.62%
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 - - +46.34%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 366 225 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.00% 9.52% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 138 234
10th Percentile £313 £325 £335
25th Percentile £366 £375 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -11.00% -0.48%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £619
90th Percentile £635 £616 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 33
10th Percentile £66.70 - £45.88
25th Percentile £70.04 £37.55 -
Median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%
75th Percentile £76.88 £49.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £51.00 £77.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the North West

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the North West

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Maven

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Cheshire -9 12 £340 -
Manchester +6 10 £434 +20.42% 2
Maven
England

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (31.82%) JBoss
1 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
2 4 (18.18%) Confluence
3 2 (9.09%) CICS
3 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 2 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) GCP
2 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
3 6 (27.27%) Azure
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon EventBridge
4 5 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (22.73%) Apigee
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (22.73%) AWS Step Functions
4 5 (22.73%) Datadog
4 5 (22.73%) GitHub
4 5 (22.73%) Loggly
4 5 (22.73%) Route 53
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 4 (18.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) NoSQL
1 7 (31.82%) Relational Database
2 6 (27.27%) MySQL
2 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (22.73%) BigQuery
3 5 (22.73%) DynamoDB
3 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
3 5 (22.73%) Redis
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (9.09%) DB2
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Jenkins
2 18 (81.82%) Git
3 14 (63.64%) Gradle
4 12 (54.55%) JIRA
4 12 (54.55%) JUnit
5 11 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (45.45%) SonarQube
7 6 (27.27%) GitLab
7 6 (27.27%) Selenium
8 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
8 5 (22.73%) SonarLint
9 4 (18.18%) Bitbucket
10 3 (13.64%) IntelliJ
10 3 (13.64%) Mockito
11 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
11 2 (9.09%) Eclipse
11 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
12 1 (4.55%) HP UFT
12 1 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (4.55%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Java Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Java Technical Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Technical Architect
4 3 (13.64%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Developer in Test
6 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (77.27%) Spring Boot
2 10 (45.45%) Spring
3 7 (31.82%) REST
3 7 (31.82%) SOAP
4 6 (27.27%) Dropwizard
4 6 (27.27%) J2EE
4 6 (27.27%) RESTful
4 6 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (22.73%) Hibernate
5 5 (22.73%) JWT
5 5 (22.73%) Micronaut
6 4 (18.18%) Celery
6 4 (18.18%) Node.js
6 4 (18.18%) React
6 4 (18.18%) Spring MVC
7 3 (13.64%) CSS
7 3 (13.64%) HTML
7 3 (13.64%) Jest
7 3 (13.64%) JPA
7 3 (13.64%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Cloud Native
1 5 (22.73%) N-Tier
2 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 2 (9.09%) VSAM
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Android
3 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Microservices
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Design Patterns
2 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) MVC
4 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 6 (27.27%) OOP
5 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) BDD
6 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
6 5 (22.73%) CQRS
6 5 (22.73%) OWASP
6 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Shell Script
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.09%) COBOL
6 2 (9.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Gigya
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Veracode
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central