Maven Contracts in the West Midlands

Apache Maven
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 108 126
Rank change year-on-year +26 +18 +38
Contract jobs citing Maven 15 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.15% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.33% 1.43% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £410 - £506
25th Percentile £421 £410 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £420 £540
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% -22.22% +8.54%
75th Percentile £538 £430 -
90th Percentile - - £553
England median daily rate £520 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +3.95% -20.00% +1.09%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Maven in the West Midlands

Maven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Maven in the West Midlands

Maven
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Solihull - 7 £420 -
Birmingham +21 5 £455 +8.33% 6
Shropshire - 4 £525 - 3
Maven
England

Maven
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (26.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (20.00%) Route 53
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
1 2 (13.33%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
1 2 (13.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (60.00%) JUnit
3 7 (46.67%) Git
3 7 (46.67%) Mockito
4 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (20.00%) DbUnit
4 3 (20.00%) Gradle
4 3 (20.00%) jMock
4 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (13.33%) GitLab
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (6.67%) Ant
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
1 11 (73.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Spring
2 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (40.00%) JPA
3 6 (40.00%) REST
3 6 (40.00%) RESTful
3 6 (40.00%) SOAP
3 6 (40.00%) Web Services
4 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (33.33%) Bootstrap
4 5 (33.33%) Spring Batch
4 5 (33.33%) Spring Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (20.00%) PowerMock
7 2 (13.33%) Apache Camel
7 2 (13.33%) LDAP
7 2 (13.33%) YAML
8 1 (6.67%) J2EE
8 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) CentOS
2 2 (13.33%) Debian
2 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) TDD
3 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 8 (53.33%) Microservices
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
5 5 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Kanban
6 3 (20.00%) Open Source
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
7 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
7 2 (13.33%) Log Aggregation
7 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Grafana
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (13.33%) Nessus
2 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 1 (6.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Sophos
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase