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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 111 110
Rank change year-on-year -62 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Maven 9 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% 0.95% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.47% 5.92% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 6
10th Percentile £475 £295 £345
25th Percentile £488 £333 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £358 £360
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -0.56% -29.76%
75th Percentile - £400 £423
90th Percentile - £517 £447
England median daily rate £510 £495 £538
% change year-on-year +3.03% -7.91% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 365 355 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.18% 16.14% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 286 145
10th Percentile £374 £313 £314
25th Percentile £409 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £522 £551
90th Percentile £650 £633 £621
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £48.76 -
25th Percentile £30.72 - £37.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £63.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +37.29% -
75th Percentile £77.00 £70.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £70.10 £76.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Maven relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Maven job vacancy trend 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
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 10 October 2026. 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 -7 5 £537 +57.94% 2
Manchester -52 4 £475 +9.57% 15
Maven
England

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Camunda
1 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) npm
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (77.78%) GitLab
3 6 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (55.56%) Gradle
4 5 (55.56%) JUnit
4 5 (55.56%) Mockito
4 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
5 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (44.44%) JIRA
5 4 (44.44%) REST Assured
6 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Banking
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Military
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (55.56%) HTML
2 5 (55.56%) JPA
3 4 (44.44%) CSS
3 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 4 (44.44%) Kafka
3 4 (44.44%) React
3 4 (44.44%) Redux
4 2 (22.22%) REST
4 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 2 (22.22%) Spring
4 2 (22.22%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) JSON
5 1 (11.11%) OSGi
5 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) OO
4 5 (55.56%) OOD
4 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Clean Code
5 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Task-Oriented
5 4 (44.44%) TDD
5 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (44.44%) User Stories
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Runbook
6 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
6 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) IBM
1 4 (44.44%) Veracode
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP