Maven Contracts in the North West

Apache Maven
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 131 140
Rank change year-on-year +25 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Maven 21 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.00% 0.15% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.98% 1.44% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £268 £417 £484
25th Percentile £318 £418 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% -9.66% -2.38%
75th Percentile £369 £506 £680
90th Percentile £402 £525 £699
England median daily rate £475 £490 £620
% change year-on-year -3.06% -20.97% -0.80%
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 - - +32.02%

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 301 277 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.27% 10.05% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 194 257
10th Percentile £322 £350 £323
25th Percentile £366 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% -6.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £515 £567 £600
90th Percentile £602 £649 £656
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 £64.65 £30.86 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.12 £37.55 £38.70
Median hourly rate £73.75 £45.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.75% -0.65% -38.43%
75th Percentile £77.81 £67.13 £54.26
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.45 £61.99
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Maven in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Maven in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Maven in the North West

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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 6 July 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 - 13 £340 - 2
Manchester +15 8 £400 -13.61% 8
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 (33.33%) JBoss
1 7 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 5 (23.81%) Confluence
3 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
3 4 (19.05%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (9.52%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (19.05%) npm
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) DB2
4 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 16 (76.19%) Git
3 13 (61.90%) JIRA
3 13 (61.90%) JUnit
4 11 (52.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (47.62%) Gradle
6 9 (42.86%) GitLab
7 7 (33.33%) Selenium
8 5 (23.81%) Cucumber
8 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
9 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
9 4 (19.05%) IntelliJ
10 3 (14.29%) Mockito
11 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
11 2 (9.52%) CA Release Automation
11 2 (9.52%) Eclipse
11 2 (9.52%) HP UFT
11 2 (9.52%) NetBeans
11 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
11 2 (9.52%) Subversion
General
1 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Developer
2 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Automation Tester
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Developer in Test
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) Spring Boot
2 11 (52.38%) Spring
3 7 (33.33%) REST
3 7 (33.33%) SOAP
4 6 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 6 (28.57%) Node.js
4 6 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (23.81%) Spring MVC
6 4 (19.05%) CSS
6 4 (19.05%) HTML
6 4 (19.05%) React
7 3 (14.29%) Jest
7 3 (14.29%) JPA
7 3 (14.29%) Kafka
7 3 (14.29%) Redux
8 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 2 (9.52%) J2EE
8 2 (9.52%) Spring Integration
8 2 (9.52%) Web Services
9 1 (4.76%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.52%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Unix
3 4 (19.05%) Android
3 4 (19.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Microservices
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (52.38%) DevOps
4 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (38.10%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) Design Patterns
6 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (23.81%) MVC
9 3 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
9 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
9 3 (14.29%) TDD
9 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
10 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
10 2 (9.52%) API Development
10 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (9.52%) Scenario Testing
10 2 (9.52%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) COBOL
5 2 (9.52%) JCL
6 1 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Istio
4 3 (14.29%) Puppet
5 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.76%) Ansible
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
6 1 (4.76%) Graylog
6 1 (4.76%) Packer
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Veracode
4 2 (9.52%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (4.76%) Atlassian