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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 364 392
Rank change year-on-year -117 +28 -40
Contract jobs citing Maven 153 148 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.90% 3.63% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 119 81
10th Percentile £329 £270 £363
25th Percentile £447 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% -4.42%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £685
90th Percentile £675 £621 £850
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +1.05% -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 5,271 4,077 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,819 2,812
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
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 £632
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 237 95 169
10th Percentile £34.79 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.80 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 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 15 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 -100 64 £510 +0.49% 118
Midlands -23 47 £550 +28.21% 10
West Midlands -22 44 £563 +12.50% 9
North of England -74 35 £507 +26.12% 16
Yorkshire -19 27 £500 -3.80% 5
North West -60 7 £519 +44.83% 11
South East -62 7 £270 -53.85% 11
East Midlands -20 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -51 2 £300 -45.45% 14
North East -40 1 £520 +11.83%
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 21 (13.73%) Confluence
2 8 (5.23%) Camunda
2 8 (5.23%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.92%) Apache
4 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.65%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 87 (56.86%) AWS
2 44 (28.76%) Azure
3 36 (23.53%) GitHub
4 34 (22.22%) GCP
5 19 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
7 15 (9.80%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (8.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (6.54%) AWS KMS
10 10 (6.54%) Kong
10 10 (6.54%) OpenShift
10 10 (6.54%) Route 53
11 9 (5.88%) OCI
12 7 (4.58%) Apigee
12 7 (4.58%) Cloud Run
13 5 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
2 2 (1.31%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) Multicast
3 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.37%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 23 (15.03%) SQL Server
4 13 (8.50%) DynamoDB
5 12 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (7.84%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.19%) Metadata
6 11 (7.19%) NoSQL
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (4.58%) MySQL
9 6 (3.92%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.27%) Flink
10 5 (3.27%) Hazelcast
10 5 (3.27%) Redis
11 3 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.96%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.31%) Pinecone
12 2 (1.31%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 98 (64.05%) Git
2 96 (62.75%) Jenkins
3 63 (41.18%) JUnit
4 62 (40.52%) SonarQube
5 57 (37.25%) Gradle
6 45 (29.41%) GitLab
6 45 (29.41%) Mockito
7 26 (16.99%) JIRA
8 19 (12.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (9.15%) Bitbucket Server
9 14 (9.15%) REST Assured
10 13 (8.50%) Selenium
11 12 (7.84%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.23%) Artifactory
13 7 (4.58%) DbUnit
13 7 (4.58%) Gatling
14 6 (3.92%) jMock
15 5 (3.27%) Postman
15 5 (3.27%) Snyk
15 5 (3.27%) TestNG
General
1 39 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.26%) Finance
3 28 (18.30%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (16.99%) Public Sector
5 24 (15.69%) Banking
6 10 (6.54%) Publishing
7 6 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Front Office
9 2 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (56.21%) Developer
2 72 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 34 (22.22%) Senior
4 26 (16.99%) Senior Developer
4 26 (16.99%) Senior Java Developer
5 24 (15.69%) Java Engineer
6 17 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.19%) Lead
8 10 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.54%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Lead Java Developer
9 7 (4.58%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.27%) Architect
11 5 (3.27%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (3.27%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (2.61%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (61.44%) Spring
1 94 (61.44%) Spring Boot
2 53 (34.64%) REST
3 50 (32.68%) JPA
4 37 (24.18%) RESTful
5 36 (23.53%) Kafka
6 33 (21.57%) Hibernate
6 33 (21.57%) Terraform
7 27 (17.65%) React
8 26 (16.99%) HTML
9 25 (16.34%) ActiveMQ
9 25 (16.34%) AngularJS
9 25 (16.34%) SOAP
10 24 (15.69%) Node.js
11 23 (15.03%) Web Services
12 22 (14.38%) CSS
13 21 (13.73%) Spring Cloud
14 15 (9.80%) JSON
14 15 (9.80%) OpenAPI
14 15 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (13.07%) Cloud Native
3 16 (10.46%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.19%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.23%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (5.23%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.27%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.31%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
11 1 (0.65%) Equities
11 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.65%) Synthetic Data
11 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.92%) Linux
2 13 (8.50%) Unix
3 2 (1.31%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (67.97%) CI/CD
2 84 (54.90%) Microservices
3 82 (53.59%) DevOps
4 80 (52.29%) Agile
5 57 (37.25%) Scrum
6 56 (36.60%) Containerisation
7 51 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 47 (30.72%) TDD
9 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (19.61%) Clean Code
11 28 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (18.30%) Event-Driven
11 28 (18.30%) Software Engineering
12 27 (17.65%) Front End Development
13 26 (16.99%) Code Quality
14 23 (15.03%) User Stories
15 21 (13.73%) Kanban
16 20 (13.07%) Computer Science
16 20 (13.07%) Performance Tuning
17 19 (12.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 145 (94.77%) Java
2 72 (47.06%) SQL
3 35 (22.88%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.30%) Python
5 20 (13.07%) Shell Script
6 18 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.50%) Groovy
8 8 (5.23%) Scala
9 6 (3.92%) Bash
10 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (39.87%) Security Cleared
2 55 (35.95%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.38%) Degree
4 19 (12.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.31%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.99%) QA
2 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) SEPA
4 4 (2.61%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.61%) PSD2
5 2 (1.31%) WCAG
6 1 (0.65%) ITGC
6 1 (0.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (52.94%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Postfix
3 3 (1.96%) GridGain
4 2 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (49.02%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.18%) Grafana
3 28 (18.30%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.54%) Kibana
5 9 (5.88%) Argo
6 8 (5.23%) Ansible
7 6 (3.92%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.65%) Istio
9 1 (0.65%) Podman
9 1 (0.65%) Puppet
9 1 (0.65%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (18.30%) Oracle
2 11 (7.19%) Sonatype
3 10 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.88%) Google
4 9 (5.88%) IBM
5 8 (5.23%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (5.23%) Splunk
5 8 (5.23%) Veracode
6 7 (4.58%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.27%) Sybase
8 4 (2.61%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.61%) Solace
9 2 (1.31%) Adobe
9 2 (1.31%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.31%) Checkmarx
9 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.31%) SAP
9 2 (1.31%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.65%) Red Hat