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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 111 135
Rank change year-on-year -39 +24 +12
Contract jobs citing Maven 4 19 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.91% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 7.34% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 4
10th Percentile - £351 £417
25th Percentile - £360 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £438 £456
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -3.95% +2.36%
75th Percentile - £488 £513
90th Percentile - £500 £558
England median daily rate £550 £537 £510
% change year-on-year +2.47% +5.25% -21.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
England median hourly rate £95.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.59%

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 424 259 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.64% 12.35% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 161 290
10th Percentile £331 £316 £356
25th Percentile £360 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £582
90th Percentile £613 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £510 £535
% change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 21
10th Percentile £39.43 £46.59 £45.88
25th Percentile £45.46 £49.06 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.88 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +38.32% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.56 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £82.50 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 12 February 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
Manchester -31 3 - - 1
Cheshire -25 1 £402 -
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 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Micro Frontends
2 2 (50.00%) API Design
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle