Maven Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apache Maven
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Maven skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 117 125
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Maven 4 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.79% 5.50% 7.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 23
10th Percentile £473 £424 -
25th Percentile £506 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% +13.61% -12.20%
75th Percentile £575 £676 £471
90th Percentile - £685 £554
England median daily rate £475 £539 £588
% change year-on-year -11.83% -8.30% -9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +46.34%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 224 382 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.35% 14.42% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 184 279
10th Percentile £310 £406 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £673 £675 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 60 52
10th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £56.49
Median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £71.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the South West

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 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
Gloucestershire +13 3 £550 +7.58% 2
Wiltshire - 1 £475 -
Maven
England

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) CentOS
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle