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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 354 394
Rank change year-on-year -131 +40 -20
Contract jobs citing Maven 154 148 139
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.54% 0.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.91% 3.62% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 121 82
10th Percentile £329 £270 £363
25th Percentile £428 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.84% -8.40%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £685
90th Percentile £650 £615 £861
UK median daily rate £480 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +1.05% -11.63% -0.46%
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 5,288 4,094 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.93% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,830 2,789
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 92 169
10th Percentile £24.62 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.94 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £77.50 £74.00
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 22 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 22 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 -89 64 £495 -4.58% 92
Midlands -26 51 £575 +32.09% 13
West Midlands -16 48 £575 +15.00% 12
North of England -77 31 £514 +27.94% 25
Yorkshire -35 23 £514 -1.11% 6
South East -61 7 £270 -53.85% 10
North West -66 7 £519 +44.83% 16
East Midlands -23 2 £335 -1.47% 1
South West -41 2 £300 -45.45% 11
North East -37 1 £520 +11.83% 3
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 (13.64%) Confluence
2 8 (5.19%) Camunda
2 8 (5.19%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.90%) Apache
4 4 (2.60%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 92 (59.74%) AWS
2 42 (27.27%) Azure
3 35 (22.73%) GCP
4 32 (20.78%) GitHub
5 21 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (11.04%) Amazon S3
6 17 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (9.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (6.49%) AWS KMS
9 10 (6.49%) Kong
9 10 (6.49%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.49%) Route 53
10 9 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.84%) OCI
10 9 (5.84%) Serverless
11 7 (4.55%) Apigee
11 7 (4.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.95%) Firewall
2 2 (1.30%) SSL
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.65%) Internet
3 1 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (29.87%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 16 (10.39%) SQL Server
4 14 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 13 (8.44%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (8.44%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 10 (6.49%) Metadata
8 9 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (5.19%) MySQL
10 6 (3.90%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.25%) Flink
11 5 (3.25%) Hazelcast
11 5 (3.25%) Oracle Database
11 5 (3.25%) Redis
12 3 (1.95%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.95%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.95%) Weaviate
13 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 99 (64.29%) Git
2 91 (59.09%) Jenkins
3 72 (46.75%) JUnit
4 63 (40.91%) SonarQube
5 58 (37.66%) Gradle
6 54 (35.06%) Mockito
7 51 (33.12%) GitLab
8 25 (16.23%) JIRA
9 16 (10.39%) Cucumber
9 16 (10.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
10 14 (9.09%) REST Assured
11 13 (8.44%) Selenium
12 7 (4.55%) DbUnit
13 6 (3.90%) jMock
14 5 (3.25%) Postman
14 5 (3.25%) Snyk
14 5 (3.25%) TestNG
15 4 (2.60%) Bitbucket
15 4 (2.60%) Gatling
General
1 38 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (18.18%) Finance
3 25 (16.23%) Public Sector
4 22 (14.29%) Banking
5 10 (6.49%) Publishing
6 6 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (55.84%) Developer
2 71 (46.10%) Java Developer
3 31 (20.13%) Senior
4 28 (18.18%) Java Engineer
5 23 (14.94%) Senior Developer
5 23 (14.94%) Senior Java Developer
6 17 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Lead
8 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (6.49%) Lead Developer
9 7 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
9 7 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (3.90%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Backend Developer
11 5 (3.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (3.25%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.60%) Architect
12 4 (2.60%) Senior Backend Developer
13 3 (1.95%) GCP DevOps
13 3 (1.95%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (66.23%) Spring
1 102 (66.23%) Spring Boot
2 58 (37.66%) REST
3 56 (36.36%) JPA
4 38 (24.68%) Kafka
5 36 (23.38%) RESTful
6 34 (22.08%) Hibernate
7 31 (20.13%) Terraform
8 29 (18.83%) SOAP
9 28 (18.18%) React
10 27 (17.53%) HTML
11 26 (16.88%) ActiveMQ
11 26 (16.88%) AngularJS
11 26 (16.88%) Node.js
12 25 (16.23%) Web Services
13 23 (14.94%) CSS
14 21 (13.64%) OpenAPI
14 21 (13.64%) Spring Cloud
15 16 (10.39%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (9.74%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 21 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (11.04%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.19%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.25%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.30%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Equities
10 1 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.78%) Linux
2 11 (7.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.30%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.30%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 86 (55.84%) Agile
2 86 (55.84%) Microservices
3 81 (52.60%) DevOps
4 62 (40.26%) Scrum
5 57 (37.01%) Containerisation
6 53 (34.42%) Test Automation
7 49 (31.82%) TDD
8 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (20.78%) Clean Code
10 29 (18.83%) Front End Development
11 28 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 27 (17.53%) Event-Driven
13 26 (16.88%) Code Quality
14 22 (14.29%) User Stories
15 21 (13.64%) Computer Science
15 21 (13.64%) Kanban
16 20 (12.99%) BDD
16 20 (12.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 146 (94.81%) Java
2 72 (46.75%) SQL
3 35 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.53%) Python
5 22 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 19 (12.34%) TypeScript
7 13 (8.44%) Groovy
8 7 (4.55%) Bash
9 6 (3.90%) Scala
10 3 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.65%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 62 (40.26%) Security Cleared
2 57 (37.01%) SC Cleared
3 23 (14.94%) Degree
4 21 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (12.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.60%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.30%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.23%) QA
2 8 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.25%) SEPA
4 4 (2.60%) ISO 20022
4 4 (2.60%) PSD2
5 2 (1.30%) 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 77 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.25%) Postfix
3 2 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 71 (46.10%) Kubernetes
2 37 (24.03%) Grafana
3 28 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 15 (9.74%) Kibana
5 9 (5.84%) Argo
6 8 (5.19%) Ansible
7 3 (1.95%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
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 27 (17.53%) Oracle
2 11 (7.14%) Sonatype
3 10 (6.49%) Google
4 9 (5.84%) IBM
5 8 (5.19%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (5.19%) Splunk
5 8 (5.19%) Veracode
6 7 (4.55%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.90%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.30%) Adobe
10 2 (1.30%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.30%) Checkmarx
10 2 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.30%) SAP
10 2 (1.30%) Sybase
11 1 (0.65%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.65%) Solace