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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 373 420
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 -183
Contract jobs citing Maven 148 157 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.49% 0.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.44% 3.67% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 92 118
10th Percentile £283 £363 £411
25th Percentile £364 £434 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £545 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -2.29% -14.19%
75th Percentile £576 £685 £725
90th Percentile £639 £863 £745
UK median daily rate £485 £538 £544
% change year-on-year -9.77% -1.15% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £65.13
25th Percentile - - £70.31
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £73.75
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +40.48%

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 4,300 4,282 5,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 13.45% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,975 2,681 3,799
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 158 233
10th Percentile £36.10 £41.01 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.43 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.84%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +3 77 £520 -5.45% 21
North of England -15 31 £363 -9.38%
Midlands +6 28 £458 -38.89% 4
North West -6 20 £358 -0.56%
West Midlands +4 18 £500 - 3
Yorkshire -13 11 £497 +10.53%
East Midlands -4 10 £340 -54.67% 1
South East +10 8 £475 -20.83% 12
South West -6 7 £550 +7.58% 2
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 12 (8.11%) Confluence
2 10 (6.76%) JBoss
3 9 (6.08%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.70%) CICS
4 4 (2.70%) OpenStack
5 3 (2.03%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.35%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.68%) Apache
7 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.95%) AWS
2 45 (30.41%) Azure
3 29 (19.59%) GitHub
4 23 (15.54%) GCP
4 23 (15.54%) OpenShift
5 22 (14.86%) Amazon SQS
6 21 (14.19%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 14 (9.46%) Route 53
10 13 (8.78%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (8.78%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (8.11%) AWS Fargate
11 12 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (8.11%) Serverless
12 11 (7.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (7.43%) npm
13 10 (6.76%) Apigee
13 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) AMQP
2 2 (1.35%) Calico
2 2 (1.35%) DMZ
2 2 (1.35%) Internet
2 2 (1.35%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.35%) MQTT
2 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (0.68%) Multicast
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (22.97%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (13.51%) DynamoDB
4 18 (12.16%) SQL Server
5 17 (11.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (11.49%) Relational Database
6 14 (9.46%) MongoDB
7 12 (8.11%) NoSQL
7 12 (8.11%) Oracle Database
7 12 (8.11%) RDBMS
8 11 (7.43%) Redis
9 7 (4.73%) MySQL
10 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.38%) DB2
11 3 (2.03%) Big Data
11 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.03%) HPCC
12 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (1.35%) InfluxDB
12 2 (1.35%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 91 (61.49%) Git
2 75 (50.68%) Jenkins
3 62 (41.89%) JUnit
4 54 (36.49%) Gradle
5 50 (33.78%) GitLab
6 47 (31.76%) SonarQube
7 45 (30.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 32 (21.62%) Cucumber
9 30 (20.27%) Mockito
10 29 (19.59%) JIRA
10 29 (19.59%) Selenium
11 19 (12.84%) Postman
12 16 (10.81%) REST Assured
13 15 (10.14%) Bitbucket
13 15 (10.14%) IntelliJ
14 11 (7.43%) Artifactory
15 10 (6.76%) Cypress.io
16 9 (6.08%) Eclipse
17 8 (5.41%) Subversion
18 7 (4.73%) jMock
General
1 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.59%) Finance
3 27 (18.24%) Banking
4 19 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.08%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.73%) Front Office
8 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.35%) Retail
10 1 (0.68%) Aviation
10 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (55.41%) Developer
2 65 (43.92%) Java Developer
3 19 (12.84%) Senior
4 16 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) AWS Developer
6 12 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (7.43%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (5.41%) Architect
9 8 (5.41%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.41%) Lead
10 7 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (4.05%) Java Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Java Technical Architect
12 5 (3.38%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.38%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (45.27%) Spring Boot
2 65 (43.92%) Spring
3 41 (27.70%) REST
4 34 (22.97%) JPA
5 30 (20.27%) Hibernate
5 30 (20.27%) RESTful
6 28 (18.92%) SOAP
7 27 (18.24%) HTML
8 23 (15.54%) Spring Cloud
9 22 (14.86%) Web Services
10 21 (14.19%) AngularJS
10 21 (14.19%) CSS
11 20 (13.51%) Kafka
12 19 (12.84%) React
13 18 (12.16%) Node.js
14 17 (11.49%) Bootstrap
15 16 (10.81%) JSON
16 15 (10.14%) J2EE
17 13 (8.78%) ActiveMQ
17 13 (8.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.38%) N-Tier
5 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.70%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.70%) VSAM
7 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.03%) Clustering
7 3 (2.03%) Derivative
7 3 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.03%) IVR
8 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.35%) Equities
8 2 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.35%) IoT
8 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.08%) Linux
2 30 (20.27%) Unix
3 9 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.70%) CentOS
4 4 (2.70%) Solaris
4 4 (2.70%) Windows
5 2 (1.35%) Android
5 2 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.35%) CI/CD
2 68 (45.95%) Agile
2 68 (45.95%) Microservices
3 61 (41.22%) DevOps
4 50 (33.78%) TDD
5 42 (28.38%) Containerisation
5 42 (28.38%) Test Automation
6 31 (20.95%) Design Patterns
6 31 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (16.89%) Mentoring
8 22 (14.86%) BDD
8 22 (14.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (14.19%) Scrum
10 20 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (12.84%) Code Quality
11 19 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (12.84%) SDLC
12 16 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (10.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (81.76%) Java
2 45 (30.41%) SQL
3 39 (26.35%) JavaScript
4 33 (22.30%) Python
5 24 (16.22%) Shell Script
6 13 (8.78%) Bash
6 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 9 (6.08%) Groovy
8 8 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.38%) C
10 4 (2.70%) C++
10 4 (2.70%) COBOL
10 4 (2.70%) JCL
11 3 (2.03%) C#
12 2 (1.35%) Go
12 2 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.35%) Rust
12 2 (1.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.03%) Degree
5 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) OCP
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) QA
2 11 (7.43%) WCAG
3 8 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) Def Stans
System Software
1 76 (51.35%) Docker
2 6 (4.05%) Postfix
3 2 (1.35%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 52 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (18.92%) Terraform
3 25 (16.89%) Grafana
4 22 (14.86%) Prometheus
5 19 (12.84%) Ansible
6 9 (6.08%) Puppet
7 6 (4.05%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.38%) Istio
8 5 (3.38%) Podman
9 4 (2.70%) Argo
9 4 (2.70%) Kibana
10 3 (2.03%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.68%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.68%) Control-M
11 1 (0.68%) logstash
11 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (21.62%) Oracle
2 15 (10.14%) Splunk
3 12 (8.11%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (6.08%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.41%) Solace
6 7 (4.73%) Atlassian
6 7 (4.73%) Google
6 7 (4.73%) Veracode
7 6 (4.05%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.05%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (3.38%) Gigya
8 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.70%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.70%) Sybase
10 3 (2.03%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.03%) Refinitiv
10 3 (2.03%) VMware
11 2 (1.35%) IBM
12 1 (0.68%) Adobe