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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 365 384
Rank change year-on-year -107 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Maven 163 150 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.02% 3.52% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 122 87
10th Percentile £334 £288 £363
25th Percentile £447 £368 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -7.91% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £685
90th Percentile £650 £640 £863
UK median daily rate £495 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +2.06% -7.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 5,389 4,257 4,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 15.25% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,416 2,963 2,694
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £51.01 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -86 70 £498 -4.33% 73
Midlands -22 51 £575 +21.05% 10
West Midlands -21 48 £575 +12.20% 10
North of England -60 32 £520 +40.54% 19
Yorkshire -25 22 £515 -0.99% 4
North West -61 9 £537 +50.00% 14
South East -68 6 £270 -43.16% 7
East Midlands -19 2 £335 -1.47%
South West -36 2 £300 -45.45% 6
North East - 1 £520 - 1
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 23 (14.11%) Confluence
2 12 (7.36%) WebLogic
3 9 (5.52%) Camunda
4 5 (3.07%) Apache
5 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.23%) CMS
7 1 (0.61%) nginx
7 1 (0.61%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 95 (58.28%) AWS
2 43 (26.38%) Azure
3 38 (23.31%) GCP
4 35 (21.47%) GitHub
5 19 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
5 19 (11.66%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (9.20%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.75%) OpenShift
8 11 (6.75%) Serverless
9 10 (6.13%) Kong
10 8 (4.91%) npm
11 7 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.29%) Apigee
11 7 (4.29%) AWS KMS
11 7 (4.29%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.45%) Firewall
2 2 (1.23%) SSL
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.61%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (29.45%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (23.93%) Relational Database
3 19 (11.66%) SQL Server
4 13 (7.98%) MongoDB
5 11 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (6.13%) DynamoDB
6 10 (6.13%) MySQL
6 10 (6.13%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (4.29%) Metadata
8 6 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 6 (3.68%) RDBMS
8 6 (3.68%) Redis
9 5 (3.07%) Hazelcast
10 4 (2.45%) Flink
11 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.84%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.84%) Weaviate
12 1 (0.61%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 100 (61.35%) Git
2 94 (57.67%) Jenkins
3 77 (47.24%) JUnit
4 60 (36.81%) Gradle
4 60 (36.81%) SonarQube
5 59 (36.20%) Mockito
6 58 (35.58%) GitLab
7 28 (17.18%) JIRA
8 20 (12.27%) Cucumber
8 20 (12.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (9.20%) REST Assured
10 13 (7.98%) Bitbucket Server
10 13 (7.98%) Selenium
11 5 (3.07%) DbUnit
11 5 (3.07%) Snyk
11 5 (3.07%) TestNG
12 4 (2.45%) Artifactory
12 4 (2.45%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.45%) Postman
12 4 (2.45%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.86%) Finance
3 31 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (15.95%) Banking
5 25 (15.34%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.91%) Publishing
7 6 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.84%) Military
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Back Office
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (55.83%) Developer
2 75 (46.01%) Java Developer
3 32 (19.63%) Senior
4 29 (17.79%) Java Engineer
5 20 (12.27%) Senior Developer
5 20 (12.27%) Senior Java Developer
6 18 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (7.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.75%) Lead
9 10 (6.13%) Lead Developer
10 8 (4.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 7 (4.29%) Lead Java Developer
12 6 (3.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Backend Developer
13 5 (3.07%) Software Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) Architect
14 4 (2.45%) GCP DevOps
14 4 (2.45%) Python Engineer
14 4 (2.45%) Senior Backend Developer
14 4 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (63.80%) Spring Boot
2 102 (62.58%) Spring
3 59 (36.20%) REST
4 57 (34.97%) JPA
5 40 (24.54%) RESTful
6 38 (23.31%) Kafka
7 34 (20.86%) Hibernate
7 34 (20.86%) Terraform
8 32 (19.63%) HTML
9 31 (19.02%) React
10 28 (17.18%) SOAP
11 27 (16.56%) AngularJS
11 27 (16.56%) CSS
12 26 (15.95%) Web Services
13 25 (15.34%) ActiveMQ
14 23 (14.11%) Node.js
14 23 (14.11%) OpenAPI
15 17 (10.43%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (10.43%) Spring Cloud
16 15 (9.20%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 19 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (10.43%) Product Ownership
4 13 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (6.75%) Data Structures
5 11 (6.75%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (4.91%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.07%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.45%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 1 (0.61%) Derivative
12 1 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.61%) Equities
12 1 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.31%) Linux
2 14 (8.59%) Unix
3 4 (2.45%) macOS
4 3 (1.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (66.26%) CI/CD
2 95 (58.28%) Agile
3 88 (53.99%) Microservices
4 81 (49.69%) DevOps
5 64 (39.26%) Scrum
6 63 (38.65%) Containerisation
7 58 (35.58%) Test Automation
8 49 (30.06%) TDD
9 41 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (20.86%) Clean Code
11 33 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (19.63%) Front End Development
13 29 (17.79%) Software Engineering
14 26 (15.95%) Code Quality
15 24 (14.72%) User Stories
16 23 (14.11%) Computer Science
16 23 (14.11%) Event-Driven
17 21 (12.88%) Design Patterns
18 20 (12.27%) BDD
19 19 (11.66%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 153 (93.87%) Java
2 76 (46.63%) SQL
3 41 (25.15%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.79%) Python
5 28 (17.18%) Shell Script
6 20 (12.27%) TypeScript
7 11 (6.75%) Groovy
8 8 (4.91%) Bash
9 6 (3.68%) Scala
10 3 (1.84%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (42.94%) Security Cleared
2 63 (38.65%) SC Cleared
3 25 (15.34%) Degree
4 23 (14.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (12.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.29%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.34%) QA
2 9 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.45%) PSD2
3 4 (2.45%) SEPA
4 2 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) ITGC
5 1 (0.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (47.85%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) Postfix
2 3 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (47.24%) Kubernetes
2 33 (20.25%) Grafana
3 24 (14.72%) Prometheus
4 16 (9.82%) Kibana
5 10 (6.13%) Argo
6 9 (5.52%) Ansible
7 3 (1.84%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.61%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.61%) Istio
9 1 (0.61%) Podman
9 1 (0.61%) Puppet
9 1 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (20.25%) Oracle
2 13 (7.98%) Google
3 10 (6.13%) IBM
4 9 (5.52%) Veracode
5 8 (4.91%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.29%) Splunk
7 6 (3.68%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.07%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.07%) Jaspersoft
9 4 (2.45%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.84%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.84%) Checkmarx
10 3 (1.84%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.84%) Red Hat
11 2 (1.23%) Adobe
11 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.23%) SAP
11 2 (1.23%) Sybase
12 1 (0.61%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.61%) webMethods