Maven Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Apache Maven
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 107 111
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +61
Contract jobs citing Maven 11 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.89% 1.06% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £521 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £547 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -0.64% +3.38% -18.15%

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 380 189 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.81% 11.30% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 129 100
10th Percentile £363 £362 £319
25th Percentile £429 £426 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +12.00% -11.05%
75th Percentile £568 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £708 £656
England median daily rate £500 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -4.40% -4.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £43.50 - £57.16
25th Percentile £54.75 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £68.00 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +18.26% -13.65% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £73.70 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Maven job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 22 December 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
Shropshire - 6 £540 -
Worcestershire - 5 £575 - 1
Maven
England

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure AKS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Datadog
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (45.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 5 (45.45%) npm
2 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
2 5 (45.45%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) GitLab
1 11 (100.00%) JUnit
2 10 (90.91%) Git
2 10 (90.91%) Selenium
3 6 (54.55%) Mockito
4 5 (45.45%) Artifactory
4 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket
4 5 (45.45%) CircleCI
4 5 (45.45%) Cucumber
4 5 (45.45%) Cypress.io
4 5 (45.45%) Gradle
4 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (45.45%) Postman
4 5 (45.45%) Snyk
4 5 (45.45%) SonarQube
4 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (45.45%) webpack
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) JSON
2 6 (54.55%) JPA
2 6 (54.55%) REST
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
3 5 (45.45%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (45.45%) Gherkin
3 5 (45.45%) GraalVM
3 5 (45.45%) HTML
3 5 (45.45%) JDBC
3 5 (45.45%) OAuth
3 5 (45.45%) OAuth2
3 5 (45.45%) OpenID
3 5 (45.45%) Playwright
3 5 (45.45%) React
3 5 (45.45%) YAML
4 1 (9.09%) .NET
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Microservices
4 5 (45.45%) Coaching
4 5 (45.45%) Configuration Management
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) OO
4 5 (45.45%) OOD
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 5 (45.45%) Software Delivery
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (45.45%) Task Automation
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) Go
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (90.91%) Grafana
3 6 (54.55%) Kibana
4 5 (45.45%) Ansible
4 5 (45.45%) Podman
4 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
4 5 (45.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (45.45%) Puppet
4 5 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle