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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 159 288
Rank change year-on-year -61 +129 -68
Permanent jobs citing Maven 5 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.060% 0.15% 0.051%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.33% 1.69% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £48,325
25th Percentile £56,250 £74,870 £50,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,810 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.04% +21.71% -29.75%
75th Percentile £58,750 £82,751 £78,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -

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 377 295 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.56% 8.97% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 248 187 759
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,261 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 11 July 2026. 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 -5 2 - - 1
Gloucestershire - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £57,500 -
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Gradle
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Law
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (40.00%) JPA
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) React
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) API Design
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) SOA
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
2 2 (40.00%) logstash
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus