Maven Job Trends in the South West

Apache Maven
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Maven skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 183 196
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +54
Permanent jobs citing Maven 5 17 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.100% 0.39% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.97% 3.41% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 21
10th Percentile - £54,000 £45,000
25th Percentile - £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +8.39% +0.82%
75th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +29.17% -20.00% -6.25%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 254 499 677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.07% 11.51% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 170 302 566
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,530 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +0.93% +5.56%
75th Percentile £74,688 £72,188 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Maven job vacancy trend in the South West

Maven
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Maven.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Maven

Maven
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dorset +9 5 £80,000 - 4
Maven
England

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (40.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Gradle
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
1 3 (60.00%) TestNG
2 2 (40.00%) Checkstyle
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) ESLint
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Mockito
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (40.00%) JavaFX
2 2 (40.00%) JWT
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (40.00%) OpenAPI
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (40.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Static Code Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (40.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk