Maven Contract Job Trends in England

Apache Maven
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Maven skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 365 390
Rank change year-on-year -135 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Maven 139 152 133
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.56% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.66% 3.73% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 121 80
10th Percentile £358 £270 £363
25th Percentile £458 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £539
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -11.83% -0.92%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £685
90th Percentile £680 £615 £851
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,225 4,074 4,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.90% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,822 2,811
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £637
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 92 173
10th Percentile £37.25 £46.38 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +0.48%

Maven
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Maven job vacancy trend in England

Maven
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven

Maven
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Maven in England over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Maven in England

Maven
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Maven

Maven
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Maven within the England region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -95 58 £525 +3.96% 100
Midlands -41 42 £550 +26.35% 9
West Midlands -22 39 £563 +12.50% 8
North of England -78 35 £507 +26.12% 10
Yorkshire -26 27 £500 -3.80% 3
North West -71 7 £519 +44.83% 6
South East -73 5 £270 -53.85% 11
East Midlands -23 2 £335 -1.47% 1
North East -44 1 £520 +11.83% 1
South West -47 1 - - 12
Maven
UK

Maven
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 18 (12.95%) Confluence
2 8 (5.76%) Camunda
3 7 (5.04%) WebLogic
4 5 (3.60%) Apache
5 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.72%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.72%) nginx
7 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (57.55%) AWS
2 42 (30.22%) Azure
3 35 (25.18%) GitHub
4 31 (22.30%) GCP
5 18 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (12.23%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 13 (9.35%) Amazon S3
9 12 (8.63%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (7.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (7.19%) AWS KMS
11 10 (7.19%) Kong
11 10 (7.19%) OpenShift
11 10 (7.19%) Route 53
12 9 (6.47%) OCI
13 7 (5.04%) Apigee
14 5 (3.60%) Cloud Run
14 5 (3.60%) npm
15 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 2 (1.44%) SSL
3 1 (0.72%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.72%) Internet
3 1 (0.72%) Multicast
3 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (27.34%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (18.71%) Relational Database
3 22 (15.83%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.35%) DynamoDB
5 11 (7.91%) Metadata
6 10 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (7.19%) MongoDB
7 9 (6.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (5.76%) NoSQL
9 6 (4.32%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.60%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.60%) MySQL
10 5 (3.60%) Redis
11 4 (2.88%) Flink
12 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
14 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
14 1 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 90 (64.75%) Jenkins
2 85 (61.15%) Git
3 58 (41.73%) SonarQube
4 57 (41.01%) JUnit
5 49 (35.25%) Gradle
6 43 (30.94%) GitLab
7 40 (28.78%) Mockito
8 22 (15.83%) JIRA
9 19 (13.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (10.07%) Bitbucket Server
10 14 (10.07%) REST Assured
11 13 (9.35%) Selenium
12 10 (7.19%) Cucumber
13 8 (5.76%) Artifactory
14 7 (5.04%) DbUnit
14 7 (5.04%) Gatling
15 6 (4.32%) jMock
16 5 (3.60%) Postman
16 5 (3.60%) Snyk
16 5 (3.60%) TestNG
General
1 34 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Finance
3 24 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.27%) Public Sector
4 23 (16.55%) Banking
5 10 (7.19%) Publishing
6 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.16%) Front Office
8 2 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (56.12%) Developer
2 64 (46.04%) Java Developer
3 32 (23.02%) Senior
4 25 (17.99%) Senior Developer
4 25 (17.99%) Senior Java Developer
5 20 (14.39%) Java Engineer
6 17 (12.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.19%) Lead
8 9 (6.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.47%) Lead Developer
9 7 (5.04%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.32%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (4.32%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (2.88%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (58.27%) Spring
1 81 (58.27%) Spring Boot
2 44 (31.65%) JPA
3 42 (30.22%) REST
4 34 (24.46%) Kafka
5 33 (23.74%) Terraform
6 32 (23.02%) RESTful
7 28 (20.14%) Hibernate
8 24 (17.27%) HTML
8 24 (17.27%) React
9 23 (16.55%) Node.js
10 22 (15.83%) ActiveMQ
11 21 (15.11%) SOAP
12 20 (14.39%) AngularJS
12 20 (14.39%) CSS
12 20 (14.39%) Web Services
13 19 (13.67%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (10.79%) JSON
15 14 (10.07%) RabbitMQ
16 13 (9.35%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.95%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (12.23%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.76%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.76%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Synthetic Data
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.71%) Linux
2 8 (5.76%) Unix
3 2 (1.44%) VMS
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (66.91%) CI/CD
2 78 (56.12%) DevOps
3 77 (55.40%) Microservices
4 66 (47.48%) Agile
5 51 (36.69%) Scrum
6 47 (33.81%) Containerisation
7 46 (33.09%) Test Automation
8 42 (30.22%) TDD
9 30 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (19.42%) Event-Driven
11 25 (17.99%) Clean Code
12 24 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (16.55%) Software Engineering
14 22 (15.83%) Code Quality
15 20 (14.39%) Front End Development
16 19 (13.67%) Design Patterns
16 19 (13.67%) Performance Tuning
17 18 (12.95%) Kanban
17 18 (12.95%) Observability
18 16 (11.51%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 131 (94.24%) Java
2 64 (46.04%) SQL
3 32 (23.02%) JavaScript
4 28 (20.14%) Python
5 19 (13.67%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.35%) Groovy
6 13 (9.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.04%) Scala
8 6 (4.32%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.72%) R
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (40.29%) Security Cleared
2 51 (36.69%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (12.23%) Degree
5 14 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 8 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) SEPA
4 4 (2.88%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.88%) PSD2
5 2 (1.44%) WCAG
6 1 (0.72%) ITGC
6 1 (0.72%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (50.36%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) Postfix
3 3 (2.16%) GridGain
4 2 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (49.64%) Kubernetes
2 34 (24.46%) Grafana
3 25 (17.99%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.47%) Argo
4 9 (6.47%) Kibana
5 8 (5.76%) Ansible
6 6 (4.32%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.44%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) Podman
8 1 (0.72%) Puppet
8 1 (0.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Oracle
2 11 (7.91%) Sonatype
3 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.47%) IBM
5 8 (5.76%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (5.76%) Splunk
5 8 (5.76%) Veracode
6 7 (5.04%) Atlassian
7 6 (4.32%) Google
8 5 (3.60%) Sybase
9 4 (2.88%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.88%) Solace
10 2 (1.44%) Adobe
10 2 (1.44%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.44%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.44%) SAP
10 2 (1.44%) TIBCO
11 1 (0.72%) Databricks
11 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft