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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 106 133
Rank change year-on-year -20 +27 +35
Contract jobs citing Maven 15 16 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.61% 0.69% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.00% 5.99% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 4
10th Percentile £273 £350 £476
25th Percentile £313 £358 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.13% -21.95% +1.51%
75th Percentile £368 £469 £536
90th Percentile £561 £488 £567
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.38%

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 375 267 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.24% 11.45% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 155 273
10th Percentile £313 £314 £350
25th Percentile £358 £358 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £537 £551 £600
90th Percentile £630 £638 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 36
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.62 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £63.40 £47.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.47% +2.86% +2.62%
75th Percentile £73.24 £53.13 £67.19
90th Percentile £81.85 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in the North West over the 6 months to 28 November 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 28 November 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 -16 9 £340 -
Manchester -15 6 £575 +37.31% 2
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 6 (40.00%) JBoss
1 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (6.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (33.33%) Apigee
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) Datadog
3 5 (33.33%) GCP
3 5 (33.33%) GitHub
3 5 (33.33%) Loggly
3 5 (33.33%) Route 53
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) PaaS
4 4 (26.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 5 (33.33%) MySQL
2 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (33.33%) Redis
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Git
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (73.33%) Gradle
3 9 (60.00%) JIRA
3 9 (60.00%) JUnit
3 9 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (53.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (33.33%) SonarLint
6 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (26.67%) Selenium
7 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (20.00%) GitLab
7 3 (20.00%) Mockito
8 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
8 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
8 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Java Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
3 5 (33.33%) Technical Architect
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
6 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 6 (40.00%) SOAP
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
3 5 (33.33%) Dropwizard
3 5 (33.33%) J2EE
3 5 (33.33%) JWT
3 5 (33.33%) Micronaut
3 5 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
4 4 (26.67%) Celery
5 3 (20.00%) CSS
5 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (20.00%) HTML
5 3 (20.00%) Jest
5 3 (20.00%) JPA
5 3 (20.00%) Node.js
5 3 (20.00%) React
5 3 (20.00%) Redux
6 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Microservices
2 11 (73.33%) Design Patterns
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 8 (53.33%) TDD
5 6 (40.00%) MVC
5 6 (40.00%) OOP
6 5 (33.33%) AI
6 5 (33.33%) API Design
6 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 5 (33.33%) CQRS
6 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 5 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) OWASP
6 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 5 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) COBOL
6 1 (6.67%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 5 (33.33%) Gigya
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Veracode